Are Black Models Under More Pressure To Be Skinny Than White Models?

A research paper was published recently by the Perception Lab at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, entitled: “African and Caucasian body ideals in South Africa and the US.” In it, they found that African fashion models in South Africa are skinnier than their white counterparts. The researchers, lead by Vinet Coetzee, head of genetics at the University of Pretoria, collected weight and height data on 572 black African and white fashion models working in South Africa and the US for their research. 
The guys over at iFashion wanted to know if this was the experience of fashion editors working with both black and white models in this country - and why they thought it could be true.
I contributed to this fascinating piece and hope we can all work together in the future to ensure the health of all our models in this country. We need them!
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