I think he probably was.

Agreed, however, I don’t think Kendall is really thought of as a supermodel in the same sense. She’s a model, who happens to be famous, but she isn’t famous for being an extraordinary model. If she weren’t famous, she could do well in print work and that’s about it. Probably everyone but her inexplicable fans know…

I wonder if designers feel the same way about Kanye jumping the queue in the fashion world, where people struggle for decades to be recognized, and then calling it racism when his work isn’t celebrated.

Why would they, she took lessons for years before going another way- probably because she got so tall.

I cannot stand to watch fictional chefs pretending to cook (or people who cook well at home call themselves chefs) but it isn’t appropriation. It is annoying and not enjoyable for me to watch as entertainment, but it isn’t really offensive. Everything that I don’t like is not an affront on me.

This the equivalent of a kid banging on a keyboard and saying “Look at me, I’m playing the piano!”

Naomi had ballet training before becoming a model so she knows a thing or two about a thing or two.

Agreed. I think she mostly just looked clumsy and graceless. Like a little girl playing ballerina and pirouetting in her bedroom. No shame in that- we’ve all done it. Hell, I still do it with some regularity.

Ive never paid much attention to this Kendall Jenner, but holy Zeus, she’s awful. This is what passes as “supermodel” these days? Linda Evangelista is crying in her Manolos.....

I’d say pretending ballet is a racial or cultural identity that could even be “appropriated” is also pretty embarrassing.

“I had to grow up fast.”

Robert Kardashian seems like he was a wonderful father.

Can you even appropriate something like “ballet culture?” It’s something a lot of little American and European girls are familiar with and is pretty entrenched in (white, middle class) imaginations. It’s a mainstream thing.

I find her quite “meh” as a model, on the whole.

I seriously think I’m missing something here.

The tinfoil.

Wait, what the heck is “keep the shiny side up”? Shiny side of what?

Not for all. I was hiking 20+ miles a week and doing Pilates as well. I changed my diet to low fat, low carb. I don’t use sugar. I don’t use artificial sweetener other than stevia. I don’t drink soda. And I eliminated alcohol. I was still steadily gaining weight.

It’s important to note that this shit is also genetic. I know few people who workout as consistently and as hard as my husband. (He does that crazy ladder thing for 40+ MINUTES!) We eat healthy, we don’t have junk food in the house, he only drinks water/seltzer, etc. He’s not a small guy, never has been. Technically…

Was going to reply with the same message, but you said it much better than I could have! For many, a healthy diet and exercise will not result in a skinny body. “Fat” (however society defines that) does not equal unhealthy. Skinny does not equal healthy.