We don't need no anorexia

Considering how I feel about the media's unhealthy portrayal of women, I applauded when I saw this story. Germany's most popular women's magazine, Brigitte, is no longer going to use professional models and will use atypical women instead with normal bodies.

Complaining that they've had to Photoshop the girls to make them look bigger, the editor said readers complained that they had no connection with the women depicted in fashion features and didn't want to see skeletons anymore. The magazine will call on German women to offer themselves up as models, whether they be known or not - for the same money no less.

Some critics of the move say they understand the issue surrounding underweight models but doubt that readers really want to look at ordinary women in a fashion magazine. I say - that may be true, but who started the trend that made the thin look desirable in the first place? The same people who must now undo what they've been doing over the decades. I will say that even though Brigitte has made the move to dismiss thin models, the double standard is that the models will still have to meet a certain standard of beauty. Who gets to decide that?