Ralph Lauren model Filippa Hamilton: I was fired because I was too fat!(weighs 120 pounds)

[ccharles000]

Ralph Lauren's clothing company fired the model whose body looked emaciated in a touched-up ad because she weighed too much, the woman told the Daily News Tuesday.

Filippa Hamilton - whose hips appeared slimmer than her head in the recent altered ad - said her contract was terminated in April because she was too heavy.

"They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn't fit in their clothes anymore," she said.

The 5-foot-10, 120-pound stunner was amazed to see her body digitally distorted for Ralph Lauren Blue Label.

"I was shocked to see that super skinny girl with my face," she told the Daily News. "It's very sad, I think, that Ralph Lauren could do something like that."

Hamilton, 23, worked for Ralph Lauren since about 2002 and considered the company like a second family - until she was bounced.

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2009/10/14/2009-10-14_model_fired_for_being_too_fat.html

[Renew Deal]

1. I have to say that based on that picture, she should have been fired.

Female models shouldn't have beards.

:evilgrin:

[DJ13]

3. .....

:spank:

[lapfog_1]

2. They fired a 5' 10" model that weighs 120 lbs

and who looks like this:



because she was TOO FAT???

I think Ralph Lauren jumped the shark.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Well can't you see, she is OBESE

this is yet one more argument to actually regulating how we create impossible goals for our teens to reach.

[kenny blankenship]

6. I knew a guy who was the same height, couldn't weigh more than 135!

It's murder. We would go to dinner and he'd order a salad and just watch me eat.

[Chulanowa]

4. The altered picture is just BIZZARE

On top of everything else wrong with it - which i'm sure more eloquent people than I will put to words - It's just horribly, horribly done. Whoever the cover design editor is needs to be fired, and Adobe needs to rescend all future rights for him to ever use a photo editing program again!

[KansDem]

7. So she got one of these?

[appamado amata padam]

8. That photo is just BIZARRE -

How many people had to see that, and approve it, before it finally made it to print?

If that is considered attractive, or sexy, we are a bunch of sick puppies...

[kestrel91316]

9. Don't they hospitalize women 5'10" and 120 lb due to risk of death from anorexia??

[LostInAnomie]

10. I always find it funny when models and celebrities that have contributed to unreal body images...

... finally fall into the trap they've made. This model, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, etc. Over the years they have all contributed to the warped ideals that women have for their own bodies, but when it finally catches up to them the world comes to an end.