Emily Ratajkowski's Latest Photoshoot Has the Internet up in Arms

glamour.com:

are perfectly fine. There is one, however, that’s getting a big ol’ “No, thank you” from the internet at large. In this pic, posted to her IG grid, EmRata stands in a pair of jeans and holds the large waistband out to the side, as if to better show how very thin she is in comparison to the pants she’s trying to wear.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.If you’ve ever seen any kind of , you've probably seen those pictures of a recently thin person standing in their now much-too-large old jeans to demonstrate the inches they’ve shrunk using whatever cleanse, dietary supplement, medication, exercise routine, etc., that they’re trying to sell you.

It’s an image now widely associated with the heyday of cultural fatphobia, which is why it’s an especially yikes choice for a fashion editorial shoot.

And yet, that is exactly what Ratajkowski did.(You may remember that Ratajkowski once wrote an entire book about body image, beauty standards, and the pressure society places on women’s bodies titled, appropriately, .)The commenters had an absolute field day with what many view as a tone-deaf and retrogressive fashion shoot. , for instance, on Ratajkowski's post, “I’ve been looking for those jeans in the second photo if you could just please return them that would cool.

Tysm.” But it's not just celebrities who took issue with EmRata’s post. Another person wrote, “Designers won’t make plus sizes unless it’s for a photo opp where a thin person can be quirky.” Quipped another IG user, “body shaming but make it fashion?