Catwalking - a tragic subject
I guess we've all seen them. The girls on the catwalk, showing off Haute Couture in cities like Milano, Madrid, New York and elsewhere. They have always been thin, at least since the era of Twiggy, but I guess it has been getting worse over the last decade or so.

Saw a docu on TV the other night called Catwalking. It was about what's really going on behind the stages of the fascion centres of the world. About those girls being nothing but skin and bones, looking more like they have been just let out of a concentration camp than off the spotlight of a fashion catwalk. And how more than half of them were considered having a bad case of anorexia.

There were stories about a Brazilian model who had died of malnourishment being only 21. And another, one year older who also died, in the middle of a show. Her kidneys had stopped working, due to constant malnourishment. About an Italian girl showing off her nude body – and in those pictures she looked more like an old old old lady than anything else. Haggard and worn and with her breasts – usually a young woman's pride – looking like empty tea-bags, like she had breastfeed half a dozen children.

One girl who had jumped off the carousel and wanted to remain anonymous told creepy stories. She told that she and her colleagues were not allowed to eat like normal people. How they were given pills to alter and postpone their periods so they should not accumulate water – and thus look fatter. And how they were spied at, and one girl who was caught eating at McDonalds became threatened that they might en her contract. What is that if not slavery?

It was dreadful all in all, and I wonder – who are the ones demanding that human beings should look like that. In whose interest is it done? At least I can't imagine any of us final customers demanding that.  But there were some lights in the dark, like Spanish authorities banning the size zero (smallest size of couture clothes, in comparison it can be said that "normal" women wear clothes between 8 and 14)