Crystal Renn has admitted she buckled under the pressure of being a ‘plus-size’ model and Coco Rocha is furious at a magazine for its liberal use of Photoshop on her cover photo.
The 25-year-old beauty has seen her weight fluctuate over the years and despite being very successful when she was at her heaviest, she admits the pressure became too much.
Crystal – who is now an Australian size 10 – said, ”I think that by placing a title on my head, which is ‘plus-size,’ and then the picture that these people have created in their mind about what plus-size actually is, I’ve basically failed you just with that. Because I couldn’t possibly live up to that, and at this point in my life I would have to actually have another eating disorder to live up to that expectation.”
As well as her figure changing, Crystal dyed her hair platinum blonde and said she was ”excited” by her transformation.
She recently revealed, ”People can’t believe the transformation. I had black hair and now I have white hair.
”That’s what’s so exciting. I wanted to do something different. I wanted to show up as a different canvas at a shoot. It’s a very extreme look but very beautiful. Though it’s nothing conventional.”
The stunning model appears on the front cover of Elle Brazil in a plunging skin-tight dress, which reveals lots of skin and cleavage.
However, Coco claims she was wearing a body suit under the dress to protect her modesty but it had been edited out and she took to her Tumblr account to speak of her upset.
She wrote, ”As a high fashion model I have long had a policy of no nudity or partial nudity in my photo shoots. For my recent Elle Brazil cover shoot I wore a body suit under a sheer dress which I now find was photoshopped out to give the impression of me showing much more skin than I was, or am comfortable with.
”This was specifically against my expressed verbal and written direction to the entire team that they not do so. I’m extremely disappointed that my wishes and contract was ignored. I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed.
In 2011, Coco starred in a Photoshop-free campaign for Canadian fashion retailer Jacob stating on her blog at the time that she hoped the shoot would ”balance the scales a little by pulling so far back from what has been the current trend of total digital model manipulation”.
