Why are fashion models so skinny?
Note: Click thumbnails to see large pictures. Female models come in many forms: bodybuilders, fitness models, glamour models, high-fashion models, etc. High-fashion models have the highest status among female models, and, in this regard, their looks are curious. For instance, the facial features and skinny physiques of many high-fashion models bear an uncanny resemblance to those of adolescent boys. Regardless of whether high-fashion models approximate the looks of boys in their early adolescence, their features tend to be masculinized: they usually have male-typical height, and possess a high frequency of robust and high cheekbones, angular jawlines, a protrusive nose, robust nasal bones, a masculine nasoglabellar profile, a robust facial skeleton, flat or near-flat breasts, near-flat buttocks and broad shoulders. Explaining the typical looks of high-fashion models is easy. The top ranks of the fashion business are dominated by homosexual men (read details).(1) This is no secret: a ma
