Most women I know feel under pressure to be slim, look slim and/or diet to be slim while fatness, its polar opposite, is deemed ugly, bad and/or undesirable, writes Clea Myers

While health professionals know that eating disorders, like anorexia and bulimia, are not caused by skinny models on the pages of Vogue, we all know that these skinny models provide an insidious template for what is deemed physically attractive.

Personally, my own addiction to crystal meth - a supersonic synthetric speed - was directly connected to the significant weight loss that happened without effort, or seeming consequence, within my early period of use.

My natural body shape is a healthy UK size 12, but while living in LA, I had absorbed the LA 'thin is beautiful' mentality that made me think I looked stunning as an American size zero (UK size 4). In reality, I was a lolly-pop head on emaciated limbs. Even so, two Model Agents suggested I lose a few more pounds!

And I did, but by that point I was insane, scabby and completely unreliable. Hence, I am thrilled that Alexander Shulman has finally taken high fashion designers to task over their minuscule creations.

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