Why are rail thin models considered attractive?

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I've never found that attractive, and most of my guy friends don't, and people in the media make fun of it, so what population out there decides that being anorexic-thin is hot? Is it not a sexual thing, but more turning them into an art form? <--- That last question probably won't make sense. I can't figure out how to word it.

Nor do I find them attractive, but I'm not pretending to understand the fads of the modelling world... But I think I agree when you say 'turning them into an art form', like, it seems to be just in certain magazines and on the runway, I know that in my high school (well, old high school now, I graduated around a week ago) 'popular' and 'attractive' girls weren't that kind of thin. Due to my eating disorder (now mainly recovered, hurrah!), I got quite underweight, and I know nobody considered me at all attractive when I'd hit that point...

Thin models are the result of cost for fabric. The thinner the model is, the less fabric the clothing requires.

I suppose people got used to seeing that, and decided it was the ideal.

Because society has a twisted way of looking at things.

They... aren't. Guys' ideal BMI for women tends to fall around 25 (IIRC).

Some people look good really thin, others look like cancer patients. Models are display racks, and clothes by designers are made to drape properly around malnourished women for some odd reason.

I don't find them attractive; I think they look hideous, and are destroying themselves over some fabled 'ideal'.

Give me a woman with a bit of meat on her any day.

I'd be lying if I said rail thin people were physicly and sexualy beautiful to me. They aren't attractive to my eyes. Healthy people are more appealing.

Personally I think the worst "trend" out there today is photoshopping models to give them a "more desirable" figure. Go pick up something like a Victoria Secret's magazine. They're all stretched and twisted like puddy. I don't see how anybody finds that attractive. They're like aliens with human heads.

Like this: http://blogs.cofc.edu/thelilitheffect/2 ... p-scandal/

Obviously, this one is really bad and easily recognizable, but there are just so many of these photoshopped figures in clothing magazines today! It borders on false advertising, in my opinion. They're advertising an altered image of a product.

This is making me crave potato crisps.

Most of those rail-thin models need to eat a cheeseburger. Or two. Or twenty.

Is there a heterosexual male fashion designer?

I suppose the fashion industry tries to tell people that super ridiculously thin is hot, though I don't find it attractive and I've yet to meet someone who does.