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Fashion and health were theme of discussion

(Photo: Daniel Sorrentino)

On Thursday (25), the editor of session Viver Bem from Gazeta do Povo, Danielle Brito mediated the debate about Excessive Thinness. The nutritionist Bianca Araújo de Oliveira, the top model Juliane Compagnoni, the coordinator of PBC Paulo Martins, the booker Aguinaldo Campos Cardoso, the psychologist Mariana Garcez Pereira de Almeida, specialist of alimentary disturbs, the fashion photographer Antonio Wolf and the stylist Karina Kulig participated from the talk.

To Paulo Martins, the obsession for perfect body make part of our cultural process of nowadays, which values a lot the image and less content. “All people want to be celebrities and for do it, is necessary be accept for the public, and have to attend the beauty standard established”. On the occasion, Paulo said that generation oh his mother, for example admired famous women, but they do not wish be equal them.

It needs to be skinny and high to have top model career are not novelty. “The model has to attend the standard of her job. She does not have curves, because can deviate the attention of clothes”, said Paulo. The coordinator of the event alerts that theses standards are one physical necessity of work of models and can not being follow such as stereotype.

The psychologist Mariana Garcez Pereira de Almeida, specialist in alimentary disturbs, explained that is necessary to know when thinness is heath, or disease. “Each person has her own genetic and this have to be taking in consideration”. According to her, health problems, and the searching for thinness can generate many psychologist traumas, not just on top model, but on her family too. “When they did not get thin and lost opportunities because of this, all emotional is shaky”.

Danielle said that in Europe is impost a thinness standard more rigid that Brazilian. The model Juliane Compagnoni, who has international experience, confirms. “I have passed by that. The top model goes out from the airport to agency and there they are waiting for her with tape measure. The hip has to be 88 cm. The pressing is big and constant”.

Paulo Martins said that, such as producer, he always looks for thinness models, but healthy. “We dress always 38, not less than this”.

Danielle Brito ending the debate with the phrase: the best relationship that you can have is with yourself.