'Top Model' producer: Transgender model to help "redefine" beauty

[Natasha]

'Top Model' producer: Transgender model to help "redefine" beauty

http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/top-model-producer-transgender-model-help-redefine-beauty-7698.php
Christopher Rocchio
8/22/2008

"We want to redefine what beauty is," Mok told ABCNews.com in a Friday report. "You can be tall, you can be short, you can be plus size, you can be transgender; you don't have to be what the modeling industry says you have to be. That was one of Tyra's original missions."

[tekla]

Transgender model to help "redefine" beauty

By boldly sticking to the same old standards.

[sarahb]

By boldly sticking to the same old standards.

Haha, exactly.

[tekla]

Big tits, small mind, easy virtue, and anything to get people to look at you - yeah, a brave new departure there

[Keira]

Since models have often been accused of looking like tall lanky young boys (which if you look
at runway models, you'd sort of agree with, I find this soooo funny.

Look, models have high cheekbones (male trait), tall (male trait), little body fat
and generally small breasts (male trait),
shoulders large for a women (male trait), strong jawline (male trait), longer legs
in proportion (male trait)

Actually, a transgender women starts with kind of big advantage on the average women :-).

So, no, I don't see anything different here.

As for models being dumb or whatever, that's kinda of a stereotype.
If you could make 16M $ a year just on your looks, you would!
Many models actually have quite decent after career, better than
the post-career of professional athletes for sure.