America's Next Thin Model

Thin is always in on America's Next Top Model. Diane, the thin-skinned thick sista on the show, found herself cut tonight.
The judges deemed her not bubbly enough for the show, though I think her wide thighs and bountiful chest had more to do with her losing this cut-throat competition.
After all, what makes this reality show, with all the fake drama, fascinating and disturbing is its inside look at a barely skin-deep modeling industry.
I can always improve my writing, but these women are judged on their looks, scrutinized on their muscle tone, their foreheads, their ears, their butts, their breasts, everything.
Some are said to be too thick in some places but never too thin, for being thin is somehow beautiful.
I have never understood that. Why is looking like some starving child in a third-world country considered a standard of beauty?
Too much of modeling, as this show exemplifies, is empty, only surface, for it is about presenting a facade that entices but never illumines. There's no meat, literally, and when you see Kate Moss snorting cocaine, you see that modeling can be soul-draining since how you look becomes more important than who you are. It's all about the right makeup, the right image, the right clothes, and never is it about the right you.
No doubt, Tyra Banks is fine and she has had enough sense to move beyond modeling to do other things, like host her own show. But what about the mostly pale faces young girls see in magazines that are supposed to be examples of beauty? Or those faces really beautiful or are they hiding something ugly and toxic underneath?