Heartbroken, Lucresia Linton decided to turn to the internet. She believes that if God gives you lemons, then you must order your very rude child to make you a pitcher of lemonade and go find an audience elsewhere!
“They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn’t fit in their clothes anymore,” 23-year-old Filippa Hamilton, who worked for the company since she was 15, told the Daily News.
Polo Ralph Lauren acknowledged in a statement that the image of Hamilton that appeared in a Tokyo mall had been digitally altered. On Tuesday, Polo Ralph Lauren released a statement that read: “We take full responsibility. This error has absolutely no connection to our relationship with Filippa Hamilton,” who is a “beautiful and healthy” woman. According to their spokesperson, her contract ended last April “as a result of her inability to meet the obligations under her contract with us.”
It is a crying shame, when we have young people coming up behind us who struggle with distorted images that the media provides. I ain’t pulling glasshouses here, I too struggle, but I have the “adult capabilities to go up and beyond the pain, a lot of young people don’t.
Altered photo can be found here: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/29/ralph-lauren-opens-n.html
I am sorry, but that looks waay to skinny, to even look human!
It is upon see the photo Ms. Hamilton decided to speak up.”I saw my face on this super-extremely skinny girl, which is not me; it’s not healthy, it’s not right,” she said.
According to Ms. Hamilton, Polo Ralph Lauren claimed she “was too large,” she added. She is a size 4 and her weight has remained constant during eight years!!!!
She hasn’t decided if she will sue.
p.s. Is it me or do you notice that the size of her plentiful breasts are still intact??
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