Teen Vogue Gives Summer Olympians A Sliiight Makeover

Moe — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Although we were so very heartened to see Teen Vogue editor Amy Astley take the evil fashion industry to task for perpetuating unrealistic body ideals on the Today show, we admit we were skeptical! Just how was this new focus on health going to manifest itself in the pages of her theretofore anorex-positive magazine, hmmm? Now we know! Just in time to celebrate the Genocide Olympics, the July Teen Vogue is celebrating female athleticism in a 12-page fashion spread. (This is in stark contrast to its big sister Vogue, which only last month ran an entire "body issue" celebrating male athleticism by pairing male athletes with female…supermodels.) Such independence and spunk, that Teen Vogue! Catch the mag's take on fencing, beach volleyball, ping-pong, and leaning against a balance beam looking vaguely malnourished in a Berhard Willhelm cape and vintage Indian headdress,after the jump. See girls, you can be "athletic" without sacrificing your ACL. — or your BMI.

No we can't tell you the price of Sigrid's Just Cavalli jacket. If you have to ask you probably think sprinting in a snakeskin motorcycle jacket and bangle bracelets is a good idea but it will probably only make you die from dehydration and Teen Vogue likes to look out for its readers.

This is ping-pong, "their way." The Etro scarf and Leekan necklace are unpriced and we'd say they're pretty optional anyway, but those yellow Louise Goldin goggles are obviously an imperative so why can't we get a price on that? In other news, that cuff is $439.

Perhaps you always thought beach volleyball players, so ripped and bronze and well-adjusted, exemplified some sort of platonic sportsgirl ideal…

But you would be forgetting the critical necessity of a $225 metallic swimsuit so high-cut you can't wear it without matching booty shorts!

And finally, fencing. Who knew donning puffy white astronaut garb and swordfighting with nerds could be sexy?

Why…Veronique Leroy! Who obviously designed these platform shoes — no we can't tell you the price — with your epee in mind.

Earlier: Vogue's World's Best Bodies
"Girls Hurt": The Soccer Story That Will Pain Your Pretty Little Head
Teen Vogue Message Boards: "I Gained Alot Of Weight Over The Summer. It's Disgusting"
Alexandra Michael Is About 28 Pounds Too Fat For Modeling

Teen Vogue Message Boards: "I Gained Alot Of Weight Over The Summer. Its Disgusting."

Moe — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:00:06 EST

It has long saddened me that I was never granted entrance to VIP threads of RingsWorld, the New York Times of pro-ana message boards, but you know what they say: "information wants to be free," and no one ever said "except for the 'thinspiring' tales and laxative how-tos of a demented subculture of teenage girls who are actually warped enough to try and attain the standards of beauty perpetuated by magazines like Teen Vogue." And would you believe it? It seems message boards on the website of Teen Vogue are well on their way to displacing RingsWorld's as the leading online community of the anorex-positive! Like on Monday, user vaVA_Vume posted:

lets get skinny!

Posted: Nov 13, 2007 9:23 PM

today i hade lemon zinger tea with one packet splenda 0 cal and water and took my meds...then during the day i just kept taking sips of hot tea to fil me up.... so far ive had o calories total!!! whooohooo...

To which poster BUH-bye added:

height:
5'7
weight:
120
I gained alot of weight over the summer. its disgusting.
I want to be 98

and also

I also love the feeling of hunger. I feel so clean and light and empty.

Etc. etc. etc. Oh, and there is so much more — ha ha, so much more striving to be so much less! — where that came from, but I am lazy and I have the feeling we've posted on Teen Vogue and anorexia before, but I wanted to give them a shout out here. It's really nice that the magazine has taken it upon itself to provide this forum this for the poor girls too fat to make it into the regular pro-ana forums. It's like, so aspirational of them.

Jezebel: anorex-positive

Teen Vogue Gives Summer Olympians A Sliiight Makeover

Teen Vogue Message Boards: "I Gained Alot Of Weight Over The Summer. Its Disgusting."