Truemors
is reporting from
Member
NP Rank:
NP Rank:
Miss Universe Australia model too skinny?
Share:
by Barbara McPherson | April 24, 2009 at 08:57 am
1936 views | 50 Recommendations | 5 comments
Videos
5 "11 inches tall and 108 pounds,Miss Universe Australia Is She too skinny ???
sourced by Barbara McPherson
One of the finalists in an event that promotes 'healthy, proportioned bodies' set off controversy with her very lean body. The Miss Australia Universe set off controversy over one of the finalist's anorexic appearance. Her body mass index was well below what is considered healthy -- 15.1. 18 is considered the limit below which a body is malnourished and a score of 20 is considered the healthy limit.
Australia's Miss Universe contest was thrown into controversy on Thursday with doctors and dieticians complaining a leading finalist was "skin and bones" and dangerously malnourished.
Health professionals said Naumoska, who is 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) tall and weighs just 49 kg (108 lbs), had a body mass index of just 15.1, well under the official 18 benchmark for malnutrition.
Miss Naumoska managed to beat more than 7 000 other hopefuls with her skinny body. She placed second.
Australian Medical Association president Rosanna Capolingua was quoted:
"The most unhealthy part about it, though, is the image it is showing other young women who may view this as normal, when clearly it s not,"
Advertisement
NowPublic on Facebook
What is NowPublic?
NowPublic lets people work together to cover news events around the world.
Crowd Power
Barbara McPherson
Nanaimo, Canada
Most Recommended Stories in Health
Recommendations (50)
Amy Judd
Vancouver, Canada
jjenet
Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom
Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke
Redwater, Alberta, Canada
Rachel Nixon
Vancouver, Canada
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (5)
at 10:48 on April 24th, 2009
She's 5ft 11" and only 108 pounds!? That's really kind of sick...
at 11:10 on April 24th, 2009
if she truly is naturally skinny it shouldnt matter. There is always distributions of different weights, a percentage will always be at the tail ends. If her appearance is so bad then her scores should reflect that.
at 12:06 on April 24th, 2009
Sad part is if the woman ever got sick she would have no reserves to reach back to. I just watched a friend waste away on colon cancer and he only hung on for a year because he had some substance before it started. Even in these contests there has to be happy medium.
at 17:59 on April 27th, 2009
i am a tall skinny guy and have been all my life. yes, i was slightly malnourished growing up. i started high school at 5'11 130lbs. i started running cross country n track in the 7th grade. once i started drinking and eating junk food (worked at pizza hut my junior yr.) my body fat shot up to 13% AS AN ATHLETE... FAT! my waist went from 30 to 34" i was the fattest runner on the team and unhealthy. whenever i ate right and worked out, people would say i looked "bad" and "sick." everyone thought i used drugs, THEY WERE WRONG. i never exercise anymore and my body is unhealthy at 180lbs 17% body fat and people tell me i look great. when i started running a little, i dropped to 163lbs 13% body fat and everyone got suspicious again. if i were healthy at 8 or 9% and only weighed 147 or whatever, i would just be above the "healthy" 18.5 bmi. my point is, we work with what we have. nothing can reverse my low calorie puberty. if i stay healthy, people hate on me . my ex gf went from a zero to 14 in two years of hamburger helper when i topped out at 213lbs... i could only guess my fat was well over 25%. being a fatass wont save u from cancer or the #1 killer HEART DISEASE when your ticker stops early. - so stop hating. i think shes so fine, but i prefer (wife n family material) bigger (6'+ 180+) women due to my own shortcomings.
at 18:16 on April 27th, 2009
my point is if i had stayed healthy during my 7 fatty years, i would fall well below 18.5 bmi. would i be an anorexic, sick person?