Model mania: glp-1s fuel a new era of extreme thinness in the fashion industry

The runways are shrinking, and the whispers in the industry are growing louder: a disturbing trend fueled by GLP-1 weight-loss medications is reshaping the faces of fashion.

A generation of ‘fat shaming’ returns?

Samantha Benjamin, a former model who navigated the brutal realities of the industry in her teens and twenties, recalls a time when ‘extreme weight-loss’ was the unspoken currency. From shared cramped apartments to fleeting casting gigs, models traded illicit Adderall and starvation diets – even parasite ingestion – to achieve the coveted size zero. Now, at 27, she’s blunt: