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Twitter'Britain's Missing Top Model': Pretty challenging
"America's Next Top Model" just wrapped up a season where all the models were 5-foot-7 or shorter, which in the fashion industry is considered a liability.
The short girls of "ANTM" have nothing on the contestants of "Britain's Missing Top Model."
The show, which premieres Tuesday on BBC America (it aired in the U.K. last year), is a modeling competition in which all eight contestants have disabilities. Some of the models are missing limbs, others are deaf and one, Sophie Morgan, is paralyzed from the waist down. Here she is on the runway:
"Missing Top Model" says it wants to challenge ideas about beauty, in addition to giving one of the models a chance to break into the fashion world via a cover shoot with the British edition of Marie Claire. Also among the competitors is Debbie Van Der Puten, who lost her right arm in a bus accident at 19 but has since gone on to a modeling career that's included a Playboy shoot.
What do you think? Does this kind of show appeal to you?
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Photo credits: BBC America
The short girls of "ANTM" have nothing on the contestants of "Britain's Missing Top Model."
The show, which premieres Tuesday on BBC America (it aired in the U.K. last year), is a modeling competition in which all eight contestants have disabilities. Some of the models are missing limbs, others are deaf and one, Sophie Morgan, is paralyzed from the waist down. Here she is on the runway:
"Missing Top Model" says it wants to challenge ideas about beauty, in addition to giving one of the models a chance to break into the fashion world via a cover shoot with the British edition of Marie Claire. Also among the competitors is Debbie Van Der Puten, who lost her right arm in a bus accident at 19 but has since gone on to a modeling career that's included a Playboy shoot.
What do you think? Does this kind of show appeal to you?
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Photo credits: BBC America
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Um, I feel like the name of the show is mildly offensive...
Anyone else?
I at first thought the name was a comment on how these people are not represented in the top model shows. After seeing your comment I realized (depressingly) that it was more likely a reference to people with 'disabilities' being somehow incomplete.
So yeah. offensive.
No I don't think it's offensive,
I'm on the show and yes offcourse we might be missing a limb, are in a wheelchair, are deaf etc, but the fashion world is also missing something and that's us!
Watch the show and You'll see that the show's title is perfect!
Here are my thoughts about it:
http://blog.ina-mar.com/?p=218
This is what I hate people that have not even seen the show the make comments