Filippa Hamilton

Nicholas Rocke

Tweet: Model Filippa Hamilton is the centre of a ridiculous photo-shopped image and then gets fired for being overweight.

Painstaking exercise and abstinence from food is common practice among the young female population in modern society. Stop for a second, have you ever looked in the mirror yet you actually didn’t want to. Seen those sensational models and super-skinny celebrities only to sigh in envy, and want. Filippa Hamilton, the Swedish-French supermodel certainly has. The stunning 23 year old, who weighs only 120 pounds was not always so unsure of herself though.
She got a job with Ralph Lauren, one of the fashion world’s biggest designers when she was only fifteen. Yet, she was the recent subject of an appalling photo-shopped picture for a Ralph Lauren advertisement. Tempers rocketed over the picture of Hamilton and her ravaged image. The company admitted to ‘have learned’ that they were responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted representation of Hamilton’s otherwise healthy image.I don’t understand how we live in a society where women, beautiful women, need to be manipulated by modern technology to look ‘right’. Young girls flock to magazine stands all over the world absorbing with eyes wide shut all that the parading glossy mag’s have to offer; brainwashing themselves into taking unnecessary action. Hamilton informed the world that she had been fired, six months prior to the release of the image, for being too fat. Mr Lauren jumped around the bush in a further statement, saying that Hamilton was let go “as a result of her inability to meet the obligations under her contract with us”. So what, basically she couldn’t fit into the clothes anymore? It is a tremendous pity that such sages arise in the modern fashion world, yet all is not lost; with foreign countries banning models too skinny from their shows and plus-size models being promoted in women’s magazines perhaps there is hope!? I simply wish the unhealthy representation and ridiculous depiction of models—and women—would come to an end entirely. Do you think the day will ever come?
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