Bar Refaeli Rails Against Skinny Models

Supermodel Bar Refaeli is sick of seeing stick-thin girls starving themselves in hopes of landing a runway modeling gig, so she decided to take a stand and rant to her Twitter fans.
According to
HollywoodLife, she tweeted, "I get so sad when I see 15-year-old pale extremely skinny models at the agency looking all shaky and hungry ... when will it end?!?!?"
The 5-foot-9-inch supermodel is represented by One Management in NYC.
Her rant comes just as the Australian federal government has begun implementing tougher restrictions and even
bans on ultra-thin models.
In 2006, the world's first ban on super-skinny models in a high-fashion show occurred in Madrid and caused outrage among modeling agencies.
Refaeli was the first Israeli model to appear in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and two years later, she was the cover model for the famed edition. Refaeli is also known for her on-again, off-again relationship with actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Bar Refaeli parades the catwalk during a fashion show in Mexico City on August 27. More photos >>
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Israel's Top Model Bar Refaeli parades the catwalk during a fashion show in Mexico City, Friday, Aug 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
Bar Refaeli Snapshots
Israel's Top Model Bar Refaeli parades the catwalk during a fashion show in Mexico City, Friday, Aug 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
Bar Refaeli Snapshots
Israel's Top Model Bar Refaeli parades the catwalk during a fashion show in Mexico City, Friday, Aug 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
Bar Refaeli Snapshots
Israel's Top Model Bar Refaeli parades the catwalk during a fashion show in Mexico City, Friday, Aug 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
Bar Refaeli Snapshots
Israel's Top Model Bar Refaeli parades the catwalk during a fashion show in Mexico City, Friday, Aug 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
Bar Refaeli Snapshots
Israel's Top Model Bar Refaeli parades the catwalk during a fashion show in Mexico City, Friday, Aug 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
Bar Refaeli Snapshots
Israel's Top Model Bar Refaeli poses for photos as she arrives to a press conference at a shopping mall in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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Israel's Top Model Bar Refaeli poses for photos in front of an enlarged cardboard image of herself, at a shopping mall in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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Israel's Top Model Bar Refaeli attends a press conference in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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Israel's Top Model Bar Refaeli poses for photos on a stairway as she arrives to a press conference at a mall in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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Bar is very pretty, but not a runway model. My daughter is a runway model and is 6ft and thin because she is 6ft. Taller girls are more graceful on the runway. Sorry Bar.
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Wait when did she get upgraded to supermodel status?
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i understand that there are some people who are naturally skinny and they can't help it, but i get what she is saying. there is a difference in the look between a naturally skinny girl and one who is starving themselves. but i am glad she is taking a stand.
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I wouldn't exactly consider her full figured. Sounds a bit hypocritical to me.
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Yea but she's not bone-thin. If you see a full photo of her, you can tell she's not that way by starving herself. She's a fuller kind of thin and not sickly looking.
Thank you Bar!!!!
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I can say one thing to Bar: Thank You. I have a daughter who plays college tennis and the pressure she is under to stay fit. She is big boned and 5'6 so she does have to watch what she eats but the tennis coach is constantly on her as well as the others to loose more weight. I feel as a medical professional that my word to the college is: Have nutri food available instead of the crap that you have there to eat. This is a small private college where the temptation is strong. My daughter is pretty good at her selections however will go over board at times. This model looks great and very healthy. I applaud you Bar!!
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A designer's sleek, slinky evening dress needs a long thin model to best present his product. After all,you wouldn't serve filet mignon on a paper plate.
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If I wanna'look at fat broads I can hang out at Mc Donalds
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There is a big range between bone thin and fat. It's called "NORMAL."
TO me models should be beautiful, and beautiful includes CURVES. I actually find the ultra-skinny types repulsive. As far as I'm concerned that is no different from putting a 12 year old boy in a dress and sending them down the runway. Where are the hips, the boobs, all the things that make a woman, well, womanly? What is the point in sending waifs out that barely outweigh the clothes they are wearing? Women should look like women, and I shouldn't feel like a gay pedophile for looking at someone on a runway. They should be over 18 and have bodies, not be skeletons with skin stretched tightly over them.
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I'm 99% sure she doesn't have a twitter account. just sayin'.
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easy for her to say. She's a VS model and makes a living off of her face and body.
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Carole Shaw,the founder of Big Beutiful Woman Magazine and the Plus Size fasion revolution said that desireability does not stop at size 12. This was as the magazine was launched in1979.Personaly,I prefer big women.However,Bar I applaud your stand on stoping this insanity with these emaciated so called 'supermodels'.Anorexia is almost a badge of honor in Hollywood and among young women today. This is the real health problem in America and throughout the world.The fashion industry has to GET REAL!
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Well, she's obviously not starving herself. Most of Hollywood has gone the skeletal route. Whenever I see Paris Hilton, I have to turn my head, because she's so rail thin. Victoria Beckham's another one I have trouble looking at. This country talks so much about obesity, but we say nothing when females look starved. We're sending out such horrible mixed messages to females of all ages, and I think it's high time people started speaking out against this!!!!!!
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WELL....CHELSEA HANDLER JUST USED THE WORD 'RE TARDED' WHEN DESCRIBING HER STAFF ON HER AUGUST 30TH SHOW, SO SINCE CHELSEA IS JENNIFER ANISTONS GOOD FRIEND, I GUESS ALL JENS FRIENDS USE THE WORD!!! SHAMEFUL! AND JEN STILL HASNT APOLOGIZED!!
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