![]() ![]() Eventually someone suggested I become a plus-size model. "I did everything: I didn't eat, I exercised, but I couldn't make myself the shape they insisted on. I was obsessed with losing weight, but my body just wouldn't do it," she said. "When I reached 18, I was 5ft 11in and still a size eight, but they wanted a US size 0. She was spotted by the Women Agency in New York when she was 15 and a natural UK size eight. "High-fashion models remained as thin as ever," she said.īut now, Renn says, fashion has finally begun – slowly and grudgingly – to change. But, said Renn, the immediate change was "nil". Spain banned models weighing less than 8st 11lb from Madrid's Fashion Week. ![]() The Council of Fashion Designers of America recommended that runway models be aged over 16. In a matter of months models Luisel Ramos and her sister, Eliana, and Ana Carolina Reston and Hila Elmalich died after starving themselves to death in their attempt to be thin. The real public relations crisis hit in 2006. ![]() "Starting in the early 1990s with the rise of Kate Moss and of heroin chic, the fashion industry fell in love with depressed-looking, emaciated girls." "When I started modelling in 2002 – and to a slightly lesser degree, today – the look of the moment was nearly skeletal," said Renn. At 14, Renn was smaller than a US size zero and secured a three-year, $250,000 contract and moved to New York. When she was spotted by a modelling agent at the age of 13 she was told to lose five stone: more than 42% of her then body weight. Renn says that while "crazy town still loves to gawp at the ultra-slim" there is a growing appetite in the fashion world for "the natural shapes a woman's body takes when it's not being deprived of food". ![]()
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