Has Size Zero Met It's Match?

On several occasions we have tried to convey the differences of what mainstream fashion pushes as normal and what is reality for the rest of us. In this open letter to the Daily Beast, Tyra Banks praises Vogue's recent decision to ban models that appear to have an eating disorder from it's magazines.

Tyra Banks is considered by many to be one of the sexiest women in the world and to think that she would be considered "too fat" by today's standards of modeling at a size 4, her size at the height of her runway career, is unimaginable by most.

As she states in this Good Morning America interview that she received a list of designers that no longer wished to work with her because of her size. View the interview below.

The industry has set the size of samples at 0-2 and in most cases no larger than 4. The average women in America is 14 and larger. An enormous gap to say the least. It is true that the fashion world is a bit like Hollywood in that it creates a fantasy world. The problem with that is movies are truly fantasy. Using camera tricks, special effects and 'Hollywood magic', they create a fantasy. Whereas fashion is real. The girls on the runway are real. The clothes are real and the problems backstage are real. And the only real trick is how the girls stay standing on little to no food in them.

It is wonderful to see that those in the industry are beginning to see the dangers of size 0 and taking action. Let us hope that more and more will do the same.