She’s too “Rexy” for this blog
OK, so this has been all over the place lately: Apparently Kate Moss, that nymphish little waif who became famous for being so skinny you could see her bones and, more recently, lived up to the phrase “heroin chic” by being caught on camera with drugs, has been heard using a new word: REXY. It’s a fusion of “anorexic” and “sexy” and according to various reports, the supermodel and her friends just love it.
“Rexy” is a good thing, according to those who use it in this way - a compliment. It means you’re lanky and ultra-slender, that you’re all Size 00 and hanger-like. According to the UK’s Daily Mail, Moss has been seen steadily drinking hot water mixed with green leaves to help her stay slim.
I really don’t even want to write anymore about this because I feel like it’s wasting too much of my precious time on a dimwitted loser. You can read more about it here if you care to. Or any other of the tens of thousands of sites that have picked it up. For me to talk about how turning a serious mental illness into a cutesy saying is disturbing and disrespectful (to say the least) seems obvious and a waste of typing. But if you’re a parent, do keep your ears perked to ensure your kids aren’t using this dangerous term, which will no doubt start emerging in pop culture, from magazines to SNL skits. Actually, it’s been around since long before Kate Moss used one of her brain cells to start lipping off (if, indeed, the articles are true -- if not, my apologies to Kate.) But when a celeb of her stature starts spewing catchy phrases (“That’s hot,” anybody?”) it’s bound to catch on.
On a positive Kate note, anyone catch Kate Dillon posing in the buff in the final (sadsadsad) issue of Jane this month? She, along with Serena Williams, Evan Mendes, Lili Taylor and others got nakesters to raise money for the charity Clothes of our Backs. Kate, who use to model for high fashion European runway and had an awful eating disorder, is now a plus-sized model (and by plus-sized I mean nearly sixe feet tall and something like 170 pounds. Scoff.) They all look beautiful.
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OMG! I saw this story too, and it's just yet another reason why I think Kate Moss is such a poor role model. I'm still pissed about her getting the UK "Model of the Year" soon after her "caught on film" drug scandal. Makes me wonder and cringe when I think about the values of the fashion industry, and the companies who hire someone like Moss to hawk product.
last issue of Jane? WHAT?!
yes, I sorry I have to be the bearer of bad news, but Jane has folded. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/07/is_jane_so_over.html I loved that mag...
Even if Kate is naturally skinny, it doesn't mean she should be promoting the word "Rexy", doing so she in some ways promotes anorexia and maybe inadvertently, bulimia. Because its used as a compliment by supermodels it glorifies the disease and makes it chic. Someone with a healthy mentality may be able to shake this sort of fad off, but its VERY triggering to the over 5 million people in the U.S who have bulimia or anorexia, and that's not right. And although most of America's population is overweight we need to start focusing on reality, itâs not OK to be too overweight, but at the same time that doesn't mean you have to be super skinny, or strive to be unnaturally skinny for YOUR body. it seems like in America your either obese, or a size zero, what ever happened to wanting to be at ones healthy weight?? You know, somewhere in the middle? I mean I'm fit and muscular, I'm a size 5, I'll never be a size 2 so I guess I'll never obtain the rexy appeal, and that should be OK.
What a shame, on of the few really positive women's magazines (not to mention really...cool) -- low circulation huh? What does this say about what women like to read?
