Does case of fired model send a bad message to young girls?

She got fired. So what? Get over it.

This is unbelievalbe! I have a 9 year old & her size is appropriate & healthy for her age. She has made comments at times that she's fat, which is not true, but all I can do reassure her she's normal for her height & age. It is ads & companies like this that affect the way our daughters & the way women in general think they should look. I am glad that I don't wear RL Brand, if I di I would discontinue my business with them. Of course she's hurt she got fired, we all would be. I don't think she's doing it for attention & if she is so what! Something like this should be brought to the public's attention.

Why anyone would want to be wafer thin is unthinkable as it is unatural. Icwas a 4 for years and asked by doctors to gain weight, I was 5'8 and 115lbs. Now I am a size 8 and enjoy a better quality of life because it is a more natural weight. Who does Ralph Lauren think he is by having a contractual stipulation on being a 2 or a 4. women are naturally a size 8 or more nowadays. It is not a sin to be bigger than a 2. If you value Phillippa so much after many years together then accomadate her new size. I am a avid buyer of Ralph Lauren, Salvatore Ferragamo, Gucci etc... but I will no longer support Ralph Lauren in any way no matter how much I like the designs etc... I hope other women feel this way and show the company our superpower by boycotting the company.

I would like to see Ralph Lauren wear a size O!!! I don't care if this is her work - what is wrong with these people? We have fake stories by journalists and fake pictures by fasion designers - it all boils down to money and greed - less material makes more money - the True sizing is gone forever. Where is reality in this society? We even have fake tv shows and stars and celebrities who are famous for nothing - i feel sorry for children today - especially girls.

I will never buy a designer piece of clothing again and not that anyone cares but it makes me feel better about myself! It makes me sick that we are losing truth slowly but surely - and don't say that is the way it has always been - just because it "is" doesn't make it right -

This not right, all women young & old are beautiful no matter how they look. If the fashion world wants "skinny" then " those corporate exec. s" are not true to thier nature. Just how FAT are they? Do they fit the thier idea of skinny?

Well theres the other side too.... while I don't deny being too thin is dangerous, why is there never an outcry over all the overweight people on TV - sitcoms etc. It is a FACT that being overweight is unhealthy and even just an extra 5-10 lbs carries increased risks of heart disease etc... yet apparently its OK to promote this... why? Because the vast majority of people are overweight and they all want to be made to feel better about themselves and their lazy/unhealthy habits. I am made to feel a freak most places because I am a healthy normal weight person with normal healthy weight kids who all eat heathy and exercise.

Stop with the double standards people - unhealthy is unhealthy on BOTH ends of the weight spectrum and as overweight is 70+% of the populatio, thats a way bigger problem that needs addressing NOW!

This definately gives the wrong impression to our youth. This is why we all need to be responsible parents and teach our kids what truely is important in life. Things like this don't worry me to much because my kids know better then this. I worry more about paying their upcoming college bills. I've luckily came across a site that give me a bunch of free things each month. http://www.theguiltfreeshop.com/free/nosurveyfreesamples.aspx

It is not a good precedent to set for young girls. Everyone is built differently, everyone's ideal weight is different. Young girls, myself included, will do anything to get the "perfect" body. There is no such thing. I starved, never ate a carb, took diet pills, anything I could do except bulimia. I finally realized I was not going to be a size 0, 2, 4. I am a size 8, eat healthy and finally accepted the fact that I am not ever going to be a rail and be healthy.

At  5'  10"  and  120  pounds, a woman ain't got no teats. 

Well theres the other side too.... while I don't deny being too thin is dangerous, why is there never an outcry over all the overweight people on TV - sitcoms etc. It is a FACT that being overweight is unhealthy and even just an extra 5-10 lbs carries increased risks of heart disease etc... yet apparently its OK to promote this... why? Because the vast majority of people are overweight and they all want to be made to feel better about themselves and their lazy/unhealthy habits. I am made to feel a freak most places because I am a healthy normal weight person with normal healthy weight kids who all eat heathy and exercise.

Stop with the double standards people - unhealthy is unhealthy on BOTH ends of the weight spectrum and as overweight is 70+% of the populatio, thats a way bigger problem that needs addressing NOW!

She was not fired for being too fat.....she was fired for being too large...there is a difference.....move on little girl....I am surprised anyone would want any woman who was 5'10"....I would wake up depressed everyday if I were that tall. Be greatful for what you had and move on.

You bet your sweet a$$ this sends a VERY bad message.

How many more of our young girls/women are going to starve themselves to death just because the media and LaLa Land tell them they're too fat??  How many more anorexic and bulemic cases are doctors going to have to treat?!

What's next...I guess making the little girls forced into the pageant world by their overzealous mothers think THEY'RE 'too fat', too.

All of the 'adults' have NCS syndrome...that would be NO COMMON SENSE.

i think this does send a bad message to young women and teen girls i think if they see that with out Filippa Hamilton input. that would make them think they had to be that small to be noticed from teenage years to early adult hood girls look at the photos in the book on the shelf and want to look like that and do thing to get smaller size not saying all of them do but some do and it seems to me that the people that make the clothes want the girls to feel bad as well because there makeing pants and shirts smaller and smaller ever year and at a teenage year they could think they are getting bigger when there not getting anybigger at all.

This is definately giving the wrong impression. This is why it is important to teach our children what truely is important in life. I worry more about the college bills that are going to be coming in soon. Luckily I've been getting a bunch of free samples from http://www.theguiltfreeshop.com/free/nosurveyfreesamples.aspx that help me save each month

Don't buy Ralph Lauren products. Period. Boycott the business.

I think most models I see look too thin and anorexic. I have three daughters who are confident in their bodies but this took a conscious effort on my part to instill in them what a normal woman's body looks like. I have always thought I was too heavy or not pretty enough because I was looking at what the media thought a woman should look like.

I am very proud of Fillipa for speaking up and taking a stand for girls, someone has to!

I suggest that everyone give their feedback to Ralph Lauren directly at

https://www.ralphlauren.com/helpdesk/index.jsp?display=store&subdisplay=contact

Shout out to AJA118...that is so the truth. I go to the stores trying to find something to wear only to find that my size 8 is always gone...no one wears 2 and 4 and feels okay...i have so many friends that are a size 2 and 4 and are always complaining about their lack of curves and how there men cheat on them with curvier girls. the truth is...reak women have curves and we are beautiful. Fuk the media..lets starve them

Get real people, it is unnatural for a women to be a 2 or a 4. Phillippa is a 4 so what! I wasa 4 now I am an 8 and much happier. I am an avid buyer of Salvatore Ferragamo, Gucci, Hilfiger and Ralph Laurn. But I will definitely boycott Ralph Lauren now over this. Statistically it has been proven most women in America are a size 12, Ralph get with the program. R. Lauren should accomadate Phillipa's size since it is only a 4 and they said they value her so, then show it otherwise stick it!

Ralph Lauren and the like are dehumanizing women by putting dangerous and unrealistic expectations upon females.

Ladies, I say we make a stand and boycott R. Lauren! I am sending this article to all my friends.

This is nothing, soon the governmnet is going to control the price of insurance by your weight and or the shape your in. This country is obssessed with size and weight and the control of it. It was smoking at first and now it's weight. People have enough problems making it in the world withput adding more to it. We are already drowning in over priced products without adding more on to it. I also beleive the model is just trying to sue like a lot of people in this country do to make a living. Like I said she should just get on with her life.

I shop for my clothes at Wal-mart, they don't care if I 'm fat!

This is so strange because Ralph Lauren seems happy to sell clothes to customers who are much larger (I am a size 10) but to fire a model who has worked for them for so many years because the sample outfits are now done in smaller sizes makes no sense. There has got to be an entirely different reason and neither party is admitting it. Maybe she wanted too much money, maybe they were just tired of her face. If you like her look, YOU MAKE THE SAMPLE OUTFITS LARGER!!! Duh. My mother was a model on 7th Ave in NYC. They cut and sewed their outfits to fit her and she walked them down the runway, smilled, met the buyers eyes and made you want to buy their line. That's the model's job. These sick looking girls that bounce their hips down the runway with messy hair and a look on their face like they just ate bitter lemons do not sell clothes. And some of those clothes are so weird they are unwearable. Ralph Lauren has always made classic American clothing, I'll continue to buy from him but claiming a model no longer fit into their samples is kind of dumb.

that is so sad. Why have a super skinny model modeling clothes that more than half of America can't even fit into?She has the perfect body type that many of us only dream of having and she doesn't need to be any skinnier than she is now.She's perfect. I'd like to see Ralph Lauren in a size 2 pants and put his picture of the front of a magazine. It's rediculous. Girls these days think that not only America but also most men want extremely skinny women. If a man wanted a woman with the body of a 12 year old boy then they can date a 12 year old boy! Women shouldn't have to suffer to think they are beautiful.Everyone is beautiful in their own way

Ralph Lauren definitely sent the wrong message here and overstepped a pretty huge boundary. We're starting to pick up magazines where they put "real women" in their issues, yet there's still a four page spread on how to make your ass tighter and smaller. Why isn't it enough to just be healthy? You have all these people saying that we need to lose weight to be healthy, then they take it too far and get that skinny, being that skinny is just as dangerous. She is obviously upset that she was fired but at the same time, she isn't doing this for sympathy, she's doing it because the picture of her that was mechanically manipulated is grotesque and looks like a cartoon. It's destructive to her career and her image. She's a beautiful girl and by no means too fat. If you go into a Ralph Lauren store, you will find sizes bigger than 4, so as far as I'm concerned, models are not too fat if they can fit into any sizes that Ralph Lauren carries. Even if she were a size six, that size is carried in the stores, and realistically, probably the average size of the person wearing the clothing for there. So why not put a natural looking size 6 girl in the photo and show how the clothes are actually going to look on the average person instead of fabricating a picture of a girl whose head is bigger than her hips....I think it's time for a reality check for the industry as well as the woman buying magazines with these girls in them. By buying the magazine with the skinny girl, you are supporting the image.