Alexandra Michael Is About 28 Pounds Too Fat For Modeling

Moe — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:00:00 EDT

We used to play a little game called "Arm or Leg?" with the limbs of some of the models in Teen Vogue. (Such as this one.) But today on the Today show, Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Amy Astley announced the magazine's pro-ana days are over. Astley was moved by the story of 17-year-old model Alexandra Michael, who joined her this morning to talk about how she was sent home from Paris for being too fat, but she's okay with that since her hair is no longer falling out after she packed on 30 pounds in eating disorder rehab. And who does Amy Astley blame for the industry's deleterious emaciation obsession? "I think it's cyclical," she says. Ha ha ha, tell that to the kid who didn't get her period for a year!

'Teen Vogue' Reverses Position On Food Consumption

Moe — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:59:10 EDT

Teen Vogue touts an interesting new pastime in next month's
issue: eating! Ohmygod, Why????

It turns out your parents aren't kidding when they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day.... According to a study published in the September 2005 Journal of the American Dietetic Association, girls who didn't eat breakfast had a higher body mass index than those who regularly did.

Hmmmm! We'd say we don't buy it, but if it took them two whole years to actually write about this study, maybe all that starving does make people sluggish and lazy. Still paranoid? "Morning Anchor" (page 177) writer Jane Shin Park advocates the use of sugar-free jam (only 15 calories a serving!) and delaying food-avoidance until the PM hours. And lest you feared the magazine had started to abandon everything it ever stood for, we conducted a rigorous flip-through—they're still really into nepotism.

Earlier: Teen Vogue Panelists Tell It Like It Is

Jezebel: bones brigade

Alexandra Michael Is About 28 Pounds Too Fat For Modeling

'Teen Vogue' Reverses Position On Food Consumption