一位超模的心路历程.doc

一位超模的心路历程
拥有完美身材与美丽面容的模特们一向是时尚潮流的风向标,也是千万女孩艳羡不已的对象,然而谁知道在光鲜的表面下又掩盖了多少的辛酸与压力呢?一位过去的超模向我们袒露了她曾经的心路历程,也告诉我们,只要健康、自信、爱自己,其实每个女孩都是一个天使。

So you want to be a model? With the size zero debate putting the fashion industry under increased 2)scrutiny, we talk to a former model and find out that the pressures were little different 30 years ago. Patti Lawrence, now 47, was a top model and winner of the “Most Beautiful Legs in Britain” competition in 1981. She has had a lengthy struggle against eating disorders.

Too heavy to be a model

Problems first surfaced when Patti was 13. A boyfriend announced he was 3)going on a diet and would eat only bacon sandwiches. The
4)waif-like Patti thought this was a good idea. Patti had already applied for a modeling course and been told that at her current weight, she would never be a model.
“I don’t know how or why it happened, but almost at once I was 5)obsessed by food and stopped going out,” she told Doctor. “I ate almost nothing. I have vivid memories of my anxious mother begging me to have a boiled egg, just for her. This went on from April till July, and then just as suddenly I was all right again.”
Patti’s attitude about food remained normal and her modeling career took off. Soon she was modeling for Vogue and other top fashion magazines, and did catwalk work in London, Italy and France.

Agency pressure

At 5ft 5”, she was tiny for a model, but looked taller because of her long legs. Her agency told her that her skin was bad and that she would have to lose weight.
“This had a reverse effect on me,” said Patti. “It made me eat more. I was always a strong person and resented being told what to do. I had no trouble resisting drugs, which were 7)rife in the lifestyle I was now in. Bei
ng told to reduce my weight really upset me. I went up to nine stone.”

Effect of mother’s illness

“Shortly after this, I returned to see my mother in Northern Ireland. She was ill and alone and had lost a lo