"My grape diet" - Confessions of a model. Part 1
 Models are literally dying to be thin. The former model and style director of MC Cleo Glyde (Cleo Glyde) recalls the days when six grapes were present for her feasting.

During the eight days before the start of the show «Bill Blass» I was on the grape diet (three bunches for breakfast, two - for appetizers and six for dinner). How else could I get into my skin-tight outfit? I was a model. But even with such a diet, I was strong enough and high (6'2 "), dressed in tiny outfits gave me no particular pleasure. There has been a regular event at the hotel" Chelsea »(Chelsea) in New York, I was finally exhausted and He was sent to the nearest hospital.

Previously, there were a lot of clothing sizes. Now, 15 years later, the debate is heating up: you went out of fashion tyranny of the super-thin silhouette? Last August, 22-year-old model from Uruguay Leisel Ramos (Luisel Ramos) died of heart failure (associated with loss of appetite) while changing costumes. Spanish authorities decided that the models with a weight below average you may need medical assistance: there was a decision that mannequin 5'9 "must weigh at least 125 pounds.

Three months later, a similar incident occurred with the Brazilian model. America's response? It's not like that in the near future will be banned emaciated appearance. Through thin celebrities like Portia de Rossi (Portia de Rossi), Kate Bosworth (Kate Bosworth), Nicole Richie (Nicole Richie), Teri Hatcher (Teri Hatcher) weight is still far removed from fashion trends. Most diets are bodily ketotsidozom, a dangerous condition that occurs when the emaciated body burns fat to save himself. It is no secret that introduced the new jeans size - 00.   Satirical news site «The Onion» came into this debate through a fictional young actress, which focuses on the campaign on the issue of loss of appetite, "I am appealing slim, but I do not think I'm slim because of malnutrition," - glad it .

"I became a model by chance. I noticed when I was 17, in Paris, where I was on an internship at the end of the 80s. Later, I got into the hands of a team whose job it is to convert me to the robotic goddess, which you can project the idea of ​​fashion. Of course, each new girl to be a novelty with bright red hair and huge growth.

Week shows - this ritual mini-Olympics, which define the fashion calendar. We huddled in line for auditions - craters that screen out anyone who does not look brilliant, "Show me the stormy Blonde"; "Show me her ugly"; "Show me the retro"; "Show me the gaunt, like a drug addict."   Fashion trends change every season, but one rule remains the same: you have to closely match the ideal body, which has to be taller and thinner than average. Lean Italian with thin necks and drooping heads focused on the clothes, not the woman. Fabrics looked great, but it concerns things. If you look well enough, you're out of the game. So we have a lot of smoke to knock down the appetite and squeeze yourself in the sauna. Of course, many models ate what they wanted, and just threw it all.

My problem - those pesky genes Celtic warriors who stop me to look like a "slender girl with Park Avenue." Some girls easily manage to be slim and slender. I watched as they eat hamburgers and cupcakes completely without gaining excess weight. They were painfully thin. At first it seemed to me that the rejection of caramel sweets will be enough. Dreams.

At some point, my photos were a godlike Italian designer. I was summoned to him, and forced to wear a pair of shorts Fine light as a feather, fabric. My heart sank when I saw my effeminate hips filled them, smoothing wrinkles, instead of letting them hang softly. Maestro said to his assistant: «molto» (much) without malice. But you do not have to read Dante to translate. I was crushed. Woman peach, such as I am, in the boy's way. "I began to hammer square pegs into round holes."

Why is that? I could not resist. Castings are very dynamic ("Take me, take me"), they can bring good luck to the young girls who just broke up with childhood and still reveal themselves. You are constantly going through the procedure of determining your values. As for the designers - they take one hand and the recognition of non-permanent allocate another superpower.

Attention, flattery, money, travel by city, permissiveness - just a little bit of a parallel universe that is constantly confirmed the normality of that, the less you weigh, the better. Behind the scenes, it has always been more cigarettes and champagne disgusting than eating. We perceived failure of the normal food as a sign of honor. My body has become a battlefield, where the struggle of willpower and genetic predisposition.   One day I noticed that made it easier to keep the weight when I discovered diuretics, which relieve you from the liquid - vital for the body. "

To be continued...