Coco Rocha Now Told She's 'Too Thin' To Model (VIDEO)

We haven't been frequent viewers of Anderson Cooper's daytime show "Anderson," but today our interest was piqued when the silver-haired host had Coco Rocha and Carré Otis (now a model-turned-author) in the hot seat.

Talk immediately turned, of course, to Coco's weight (we can tell you from experience: if you ask, she's got a lot more interesting things to talk about!). Anderson was incredulous that the slender model is too big but Coco reassured him: these days, she's deemed "too thin."

Oy. Luckily, Coco and Carré are both extremely articulate on the issues models face, from body size to age limits (or lack thereof). We hope someone from the industry was watching.

WATCH:

Comments

[Raging Cajun]

12:29 AM on 10/14/2011

No sympathy towards these women from me. Anyone silly and trivial enough to choose modeling as a career cannot complain about being "objectified" or being "forced" to be a certain weight. Go to college, learn something worthwhile and choose a vocation with a little more substance. Then I will take you seriously.

[ArtsyJane]

07:44 AM on 10/13/2011

Carre Otis sort of ruined her face with plastic surgery. The irony is- here she is talking against the pressure of the fashion industry on young girls to look a certain way. Well, to judge from what she's done to her face, she's not immune to the pressure herself. Anderson could have found someone less gullible to speak on that issue.

[ArtsyJane]

07:37 AM on 10/13/2011

Young ballet dancers and young athletes undergo the same pressures since a very young age, and the same dicipline. The only difference here is that in the case of models, it's objectified and sexualized. And that's what bothers a lot of people- the pressure on minors to keep a certain weight so that they could become a sexually desired object. Not great dancers or great athletes.

[Wistfulslinking]

08:02 AM on 10/13/2011

Models are pressured to maintain thier weight to sell couture while wearing sample size 2 on a runway, not to be sexually desired.

[ArtsyJane]

08:20 AM on 10/13/2011

That's what they say. But if it were true, they could simply make size 6 sample clothing. There's a reason why they don't.

[rjrjg]

05:47 AM on 10/13/2011

gross

[onasphere]

11:23 PM on 10/12/2011

The average 20 year old girl is 29 lbs heavier than in 1960.

[ArtsyJane]

07:39 AM on 10/13/2011

In America. There are underage models elsewhere, where they don't have obesity problems.

The avarage American is possibly over 60 to 100 pounds heavier today than he/she would have been 50 years ago.

[Wistfulslinking]

07:48 AM on 10/13/2011

The average woman is 40-60 pounds heavier

[Leon Engelun]

10:10 PM on 10/12/2011

If she stood sideways and stuck out her tongue she would look like a zipper

[Brasileira]

06:34 PM on 10/12/2011

Oh man, Carre Otis... what did you do to your face?! Ugh. How sad.

[mialma Teve]

03:07 AM on 10/13/2011

Agree. What is that, look like a one of the actor from star wars....

[ArtsyJane]

07:39 AM on 10/13/2011

I know, it shocked me too. Why do women keep doing this?

[Max Shaw]

05:13 PM on 10/12/2011

Then eat something.

[RationalRadioJack]

04:13 PM on 10/12/2011

Whiney overpaid models...........who gives a flying f*c*? Go visit a home for seniors and worry about their weight. Rich people problems are NOT my problems.....

[ArtsyJane]

07:41 AM on 10/13/2011

Wow, you completely missed the point. And if you want to read about homes for seniors, why did you visit the hot fashion model article page in the first place? Because of the attractive photo?

[ubatuba]

03:52 PM on 10/12/2011

This is no different than an athlete pursuing his/her sport at an early age. There is a lot of pressure on body weight/shape/strength, etc. Are we to regulate age of sports as well as modeling? have unions to protect athletes, actresses, models, etc. At a young age...isn't the 'union' your own family? Some kids are prepared to do this, some aren't. Don't enforce a blanket regulation...

[quicksilver55]

02:46 PM on 10/12/2011

I can't believe he is so uninformed about the fashion industry, especially given that his mother is Gloria VanderBilt. (I didn't know that until a couple of weeks ago when I saw an article about her appearance on his show). I did not see this show, so I do not know if he got any input from his mother.

[Martha66]

04:32 PM on 10/12/2011

For the record, as a size 16 female, the most comfortable jeans I have found always seem to be from the Gloria Vanderbilt line. Over the last 15 years as my size went up and down, her line of jeans were ALWAYS comfortable and well-fitting. My hats off to her for addressing women in my size.