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Barbie, Catwalk Models Now "Too Fat"

A post by DoubleX writer Amanda Marcotte: 

It's increasingly clear that for many in the fashion world, there are two kinds of women: those about to die from starvation, and fat women. There's been a disturbing denouement to the controversy over Ralph Lauren's overzealous Photoshopping that led to a picture in which a model's hips were narrower than her head: The model in question, Filippa Hamilton, was fired for being "overweight." It took me a while to find a good, nonaltered picture of Hamilton so you can judge for yourself, but it seems to me that if you can call that woman "fat," it might actually be time for psychiatric intervention for your delusions ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX).