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Model retouched to look emaciated: I was fired for being too fat
It seems size 4 is the new fat.
Fashion model Filippa Hamilton tells the New York Daily News she was canned because she is too fat.
“They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn’t fit in their clothes anymore,” Hamilton said.
The interview with the newspaper comes a week after Ralph Lauren was forced to apologize for retouching an ad featuring the slender Hamilton.
The ad makes her look deadly skinny.
Click here to see the horrifying retouch.
Hamilton, a Ralph Lauren model since 2002, is a fatty indeed … in bizarro world.
The alleged lardo is all of 120 pounds and 5 feet 10 inches.
Me thinks she could stand to eat a Whopper or three.
In a statement to the New York Daily News, Polo Ralph Lauren called Filippa a “beautiful and healthy” woman.
The relationship ended “as a result of her inability to meet the obligations under her contract with us.”
In other words, they fired her because they thought she was fat.
What do you think?
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By flipper
October 14, 2009 11:56 AM | Link to this
I’d rather be emancipated than emaciated. Ralph Lauren is an a$$.
By null
October 14, 2009 1:29 PM | Link to this
The body depicted in that ad is grotesque. If this is what the “beauty standard” is for designers, no wonder teen aged girls have eating disorders and terrible self esteem.
By danielle
October 14, 2009 2:18 PM | Link to this
she should have stayed within her contract so its her fault
By danielle is an idiot
October 14, 2009 2:29 PM | Link to this
What were the terms of her contract, danielle? How do you know she broke them? Is it not possible that Ralph Lauren is lying?
By e
October 14, 2009 3:16 PM | Link to this
How much you want to bet that Danielle is fat!? Not to mention dumb….
By Karie
October 14, 2009 4:15 PM | Link to this
Who cares! They have shtty clothes at shtty prices. The only reason why they want their models like stick figures is because straight lines is all they know how to sew. Anyone who is a real deisgner & seamstress knows how to sew a curve or two and can make clothes that fit real people. I think all their crap is way overrated along with their pompus attittudes.