14 DAY TRIAL // She’s been criticized for her waif-like figure many a time and she had to deny starving herself just as many times, much against her will. However, Victoria Beckham insists that the fashion industry should not discriminate against size 0 models and that fashion designers should be free to use them on the catwalk if they deem it necessary, Metro writes, citing Posh herself.
Mrs. Beckham was invited back on The View just recently, where she talked about her latest fashion line and the items her husband David would never wear. Another topic the ladies on The View also touched upon was whether fashion designers should put size 0 girls on the catwalk to present their collections, given that Victoria herself has often been accused that she encourages this deadly trend with her extremely unflattering designs for the regular-sized woman.
“Most of these girls are naturally thin. And I don’t think we should be discriminating against someone because they’re too thin or too curvy or too large or whatever it is,” Victoria began by saying. Still, that’s not to say that she encourages models to live on nothing but lemon water or Diet Coke, but rather that the industry should not ban size 0 girls just because they happen to be slim. After all, they might be so thin because they’re like that by birth and not because they’re deliberately starving themselves until they’re skin and bones.
As proof that she’s campaigning for health and not size 0, Victoria has recently signed on to a new campaign by Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). “The CFDA have reached out to designers, stylists and casting directors not to work with underage models, girls that are too thin and to be more ethnically aware. And I think designers are listening. I had a casting last week and had some terribly thin girls come in and it wouldn’t have worked,” the star added.
The CFDA campaign is called “Health is Beauty,” the singer turned successful fashion designer further explained, and it focuses on encouraging designers to place more emphasis on the health of their models instead of how much they weigh.