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Record W4411251048 · doi:10.1177/02601060251345675

Is it couture or a sickness: A narrative review on eating disorder behaviors in fashion models

2025· review· en· W4411251048 on OpenAlex
R Paoli, Sanjeev Sockalingam, Mario Di Fiorino, Carrol Zhou

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Bibliographic record

VenueNutrition and Health · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicEating Disorders and Behaviors
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoNorth York General HospitalCentre for Addiction and Mental Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativePsychologyEating disordersFeeding behaviorDevelopmental psychologyMedicinePsychiatryArt

Abstract

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BackgroundThe modeling industry idealizes extremely low body mass, which may lead to the development of eating disorders (EDs) in models.AimsThis review examines the impact this has on model body habitus, disordered eating behaviors and ED diagnoses in models, and the mental health of fashion models.MethodsIn February 2023, search terms "fashion models" and "eating disorders" were used on PubMed, EBSCO, Embase, Scopus, Research Gate, Springer Access, Science Gate, and Google Scholar. Published peer-reviewed studies were included. Exclusion criteria included non-English articles, case studies, non-peer-reviewed articles, and non-relevant studies. Nineteen papers were selected and categorized into three subtopics: Physical characteristics of models, unhealthy weight control behaviors in modeling, and ED diagnoses in models.ResultsModels have significantly lower body mass index than controls and many engage in dysfunctional eating. There is mixed evidence on whether models have higher rates of EDs than non-models, though studies show a significantly higher rate of subclinical ED behaviors in models.ConclusionThere is likely an increased risk of subclinical disordered eating behaviors in models. Couture manufacturers need to reflect on how it can protect the health of the professionals who popularize their products.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.774
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.160
GPT teacher head0.492
Teacher spread0.332 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it