Gemma Ward Retires From Modelling After Comments About Weight

by Blaine Metzgar | November 10, 2009 at 10:33 am

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After being declared the youngest "it girl" in the modelling industry at merely 16 years-old in 2003 by Vogue, Gemma Ward has decided to retire from the industry after media reports jeered her for gaining weight. The now-former model, who celebrated her 22nd birthday last week, announced via her agent that she has no intentions of returning to modelling.

"Gemma hasn't committed to returning to modelling any time soon,'' she said, adding that Ward had the agency's full support.

Photographs of Ward, a former-flame of the late Heath Ledger, wearing a leopard-print trench, horizantal-striped tee, shorts, and biker boots paired with some questionable copy by notorious fashion blogger Bryan Boy were posted onto his personal blog inciting a stream of comments both hounding and praising the model about her fuller-figure.

I think it's very sad that Gemma gave up on modelling. She's a very beautiful woman and I think she could make a name for herself in the plus-size niche. You know, give Crystal Renn a run for her money. I would love to see curvier girls in fashion and Gemma Ward represents curvy women like no other.

What do you think? Were Bryan Boy's comments passive aggressive or wrongly taken as a satire of Ward's new figure?