14 DAY TRIAL // At just 19, Karlie Kloss got to see any model's dream come true: she became a Vogue girl. The latest Italian issue of the fashion bible comes with a photospread by Steven Meisel, but readers might notice a difference between the online and the print issue.
One photo is missing from the former, the Daily Mail informs. You can see it attached to this article – and you probably know already why it's been pulled, after a single look at it.
Showing the model from a weird angle, with her body twisted in an unnatural manner, the photo makes Kloss look frighteningly thin, with her hip bones jutting out and her abdominal muscles very visible.
It's no wonder then that it's being used as “thinspiration” on pro-ANA and pro-MIA websites: in other words, it's being used as a model to aspire to by anorexia and bulimia sufferers.
However, the moment the photo surfaced online on these websites, it was pulled from the official Vogue website, the Mail writes.
“Its appearance on so-called 'pro-ana' sites is an alarming development, especially given that the magazine's long-standing editor, Franca Sozzani, is a passionate campaigner against the sites, which advocate eating disorders,” the British publication further says.
Various groups offering support to eating disorder sufferers are already applauding the promptitude with which Vogue acted, though they also point out that the photo shouldn't have been published online in the first place.
“I think it’s great that [Vogue Italia] pulled it,” Lynn S. Grefe, President and CEO of the National Eating Disorders Association, says, as cited by the aforementioned publication.
“If they recognized that it was a bad image, that it was having a bad effect… I'm sorry they put it up there in the first place, but good for them for pulling it,” Grefe adds.