ASOS tells super-skinny models to fatten up if they want more work
Source: The Sun (22nd January 2018)
It seems the public is becoming increasingly self aware lately, as the media has come under fire recently for various acts of discrimination that have been apparent for decades. Better late than never. Recently, a modelling company by the name of ASOS was chastised for using extremely thin models, and they have begun attempting to hire bigger models in the efforts of gaining good publicity. This is very reminiscent of the Oscar's in 2016 which was accused of being 'whitewashed', leading to the 2017 awards being very obviously biased towards minorities, specifically black people. Any action is better than none at all but it's shameful that it's taken this long for the general public to begin lashing out against the media, and even more shameful that they're only taking action to try and fix their shattered image so their sales don't drop.
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