Gisele Bundchen is an idiot

Gisele Bundchen demonstrates why she is a supermodel, and not a rocket scientist.  In an interview with O Globo newspaper, she says the following:

“I never suffered from this problem (anorexia), because I had a very strong family base. Parents are responsible, not the fashion industry.”

“Everybody knows that the norm in fashion is thin, but excuse me, there are people born with the right genes for this profession.”

According to Wikipedia, Bundchen's mother encouraged her to begin modeling when she was only 13 years old.  Gisele left home at 16 to move to New York to begin her modeling career in earnest.  Gisele points to the fact that her classmates called her "Olive Oyl" to demonstrate how skinny she has been all her life and to assert that genetics play a role in her continued thinness. 

At 5'11" and 127 lbs, Gisele has a BMI of 17.7, which means she would be considered underweight by NIH standards, and this would exclude her from modeling in Madrid or Sao Paulo.  Fortunately for Gisele, all it would take is a hamburger and fries (i.e., two more pounds) and she'd have a BMI of 18. 

Who knows if Gisele is lucky to be both underweight and healthy.  However, for her to assert that eating disorders exist solely because of family influence is ignorant and absurd and contrary to the opinions of experts on eating disorders.  It is even contrary to what the CFDA believes.  She has been called selfish and arrogant, and these criticisms seem warranted.