Grains for breakfast, vegetables for lunch, smoked salmon for dinner. No wheat, no dairy, no sugar; 45 minutes of exercise every day. It’s a draconian and unbalanced regime even for someone with a sensible reason to lose excess weight. If you’re a 21-year-old who weighs eight stone, it’s clearly both unnecessary and profoundly unhealthy. And yet this was Rosie Nelson’s daily intake and expenditure of energy for four months back in 2014, as a result of a visit to one of the country’s most powerful modelling agencies.
Nelson had started modelling work at the age of 18, when her body was still developing. When she moved from her native Australia to Britain, her intention was to continue. And the agency in question liked her look – except for the fact that she was, they said, too big. Specifically her hips, which were around the 37- or 38-inch mark, but needed to shrink to 35.
I ask Nelson, now 24 and still modelling, what that moment felt like. “You get sucked into thinking that what they say is the only way to be,” she replies. “They control your life. They’re getting you your jobs, they’re providing you with your income, and you become like a slave to it. The industry’s so consuming that you forget about the real world. In the real world I’m incredibly thin, but in the modelling world I’m still too big. So when they asked me to lose weight, I accepted it.” But worse was to come. Grains consumed, exercise taken, social life shunned, she slimmed her hips down to 35 inches and went back to the agency.
“They said, just lose more weight – get down to the bone,” remembers Nelson. “They pressed on my hips and I just sat there thinking, no, I can’t. I can’t physically lose more weight. I was in shock. I didn’t know what to say.” Full story...
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Nelson had started modelling work at the age of 18, when her body was still developing. When she moved from her native Australia to Britain, her intention was to continue. And the agency in question liked her look – except for the fact that she was, they said, too big. Specifically her hips, which were around the 37- or 38-inch mark, but needed to shrink to 35.
I ask Nelson, now 24 and still modelling, what that moment felt like. “You get sucked into thinking that what they say is the only way to be,” she replies. “They control your life. They’re getting you your jobs, they’re providing you with your income, and you become like a slave to it. The industry’s so consuming that you forget about the real world. In the real world I’m incredibly thin, but in the modelling world I’m still too big. So when they asked me to lose weight, I accepted it.” But worse was to come. Grains consumed, exercise taken, social life shunned, she slimmed her hips down to 35 inches and went back to the agency.
“They said, just lose more weight – get down to the bone,” remembers Nelson. “They pressed on my hips and I just sat there thinking, no, I can’t. I can’t physically lose more weight. I was in shock. I didn’t know what to say.” Full story...
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