I was alarmed when I saw this Australian girl competing for the Australian finals of the Miss Universe pageant. Stephanie Naumoska, 19, eventually could not make it as the winner. With her 31-25-35 measurements, she seemed to have trouble filling into her already skimpy bikini, though by the pageant and modelling standards, she had the ideal height — 5ft 10in.However, she has a Body Mass Index of 15.1 — and that, by World Health Organisation standards, means she is malnourished. Experts say her BMI should be between 18.5 and 24.9 to fall into the ‘average’ category.
I’m really glad she did not win the contest, because that would have meant her becoming an unhealthy role model for all the young girls out there in the world. But more than that, I have a question for the organisers of the contest: if all the details were out there, right in front of you, why did you let her contest in the first place?
Any answers, anybody?
2 comments:
that's the grim reality, people forget to draw line between healthy and unhealthy living, overdose of anything is always bad, in this case overdose of lack of food :(
As a human being I detest this thin trend among models. But as a journo, I respect a model's thin-point-of-view. The analyst in me has a suggestion: those aspiring to shed so much must be packed off to Africa. Perhaps UN can have an exchange programme with Africa!
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