Paul Marciano Quotes

The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and... that's not good.

But if you are young and want to work in the fashion industry and are not naturally skinny - which most girls are not - then you are forced to be unhealthy.

In Los Angeles there's, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don't think it's attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It's not healthy.

We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

It actually makes perfect sense why women in Hollywood get so skinny: because it's a way of controlling how people see you.

Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.

The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.

Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

The way I looked when I started modelling - I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra. I wasn't trying to be that thin; I was perfectly healthy, but still - that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20. Fashion has a lot to answer for, doesn't it?

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for the clothes, but it's not what you want in real life.

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.

I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.

The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

I was my thinnest when doing 35 fashion shows a week in different countries because I didn't have time to eat. I've never bought the idea that models in fashion magazines cause readers to have anorexia and bulimia. And you can't be a model if you've got those conditions anyway, because you'll get acne and hair all over your body.

Size doesn't equate to beauty. I don't understand why that's a thing. Well, I do, because the media has told us thin is beautiful. But is it?

I don't believe in the concept of size zero.

I think size zero is extreme. Even if I starve and stop eating, I don't think I would ever reach size zero in life.

I couldn't identify with the images in 'Elle' or 'Vogue' or 'Harper's Bazaar.' Nobody in the world we're walking around in actually looks like that.

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in ... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?