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To: SmoothSail who wrote (184623)	10/15/2009 2:41:00 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 225578

Ralph Lauren model fired for being 'too large' By VERENA DOBNIK The Associated Press NEW YORK — A former Ralph Lauren model whose image in a roundly criticized advertisement was digitally slenderized said Wednesday that the apparel maker did not renew her contract because she was "too large." Polo Ralph Lauren is contending it dismissed Filippa Hamilton because of a contract dispute and that the photo was mistakenly released. "They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn't fit in their clothes anymore," Hamilton, 23, who had worked for the company since she was 15, told the New York Daily News. The company acknowledged the image of Hamilton that appeared last week in a Tokyo mall had been digitally altered. She went public after the photo surfaced. Hamilton, a New York resident who is half-Swedish and was raised in France, has been looking for another job since she was let go in April, said Jesse Derris, her spokesman at Sunshine Sachs & Associates. She has not decided whether to sue, Derris said. The photo's emaciated depiction of her, with hips about as narrow as her head, could make young women "think that it's normal to look like that — and it's not," the 5-foot-10, 120-pound model told NBC's "Today" show. "I saw my face on this superextremely skinny girl, which is not me; it's not healthy; it's not right," she said. Polo Ralph Lauren claimed she "was too large," she added, saying that she's a size 4 and that her weight has remained constant during eight years as a model for the iconic American brand, which has dressed U.S. Olympic teams. In recent years, designers have typically sought models that fit into clothes that are a size 4, 2 or 0. The company said the "very distorted image of a woman's body" — Hamilton's — was displayed in the Japanese department store. 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. seattletimes.nwsource.com