Don't let them call you skinny

Martin Anderson

An ad featuring Raquel Welch from the time before hunger robbed modern stars of their critical faculties regarding the 'ideal shape'...

Published on Jan 10, 2009

There was a time when the emaciation currently fashionable in Hollywood (and, sadly, beyond) was a 'problem'. We should remember that this ad also comes from the age of Twiggy, that the anti-size-zero argument is not a new one and that this ad itself marginalises a different type of female body-shape. But it is food for thought. And food - in sensible amounts - might not be a bad thing.

Raquel Welch in a saner time for society

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