14 DAY TRIAL // Crystal Renn is now a plus-size model, after having struggled with severe anorexia for three entire years and risking her life for a career as a size-0 model, which she saw as the only possibility available in the fashion industry. A few weeks ago, Renn modeled for Karl Lagerfeld and seemed a bit thinner, which, understandably, got tongues wagging.
Some even set out to say that, now that the entire fashion industry was paying attention to her thanks to her book, “Hungry,” in which she revealed the chilling details of her life as a size-0 girl, she started losing weight on purpose. She might be trying to make a comeback, they said. Far from it, actually, a representative for Renn says for People magazine and, if she’s lost any weight, it’s down to being more active and not starving herself.
“When plus-size supermodel Crystal Renn walked the runway for Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel cruise show in St. Tropez several weeks ago, tongues began wagging that she was losing her signature curves. Not so, says Renn’s agent. ‘She is not trying to lose weight at all,’ her Ford Models agent tells People. ‘She fluctuates between a 10 and a 14’,” People writes. Granted, she’s lost some weight, but it’s not because she’s doing it on purpose, the rep further explains: it just happened.
“At the moment, she seems to be on the lower end of that range, in part, her agent says, because she’s been so active recently. ‘She went hiking in Patagonia for three weeks over the holidays and she firmed up and got a little smaller,’ he says. ‘She has also been traveling like crazy and tends to be smaller when that happens.’ Renn, 24, has been an outspoken critic of the modeling industry and chronicled her battle with anorexia in a 2009 memoir, Hungry,” People further writes.
As we were also telling you in September last year, in the book, Renn reveals how she was pressured into losing weight by the industry, as she was told she was too “fat” to be a model, though she did have the other necessary qualities. In almost no time, she had switched from a healthy diet to one consisting of a few lettuce leaves a day, plenty of diet Coke and chewing gum. She would work out for up to eight hours a day and started to lose her hair and be unsteady on her feet, which is when she realized she needed help.