I got my Fitness Magazine - November 2006 issue - (which is strange, since I have not received my October issue yet!) in the mail on Saturday, and I just got the chance to read through it …on the first few pages it reads: You Asked. Do Models Eat? Do they work out?

** umm, ever heard of airbrushing?**

This issue’s cover model is Daniella Van Grass…her favorite butt shaper is Squats, although she ‘absolutely hates them, they really work.’ It is also important to note that she doesn’t ‘obsess over a little post-pregnancy cellulite and a few stretch marks … Afterall, her ‘body created a person!’

In the meantime, A British television station plans to screen a documentary featuring women who volunteer to slim down to super thin sizes. Britain’s Channel 4 will show “Super-Skinny Me: The Race to Size Zero” early next year, as a group of female journalists film their attempts to drop to a size 2, equivalent to a U.S. size 00.

This is an attempt to expose the health dangers of excessive dieting. “This documentary will highlight the dangers of aiming for a super-skinny look, and expose the serious health risks of extreme weight-loss methods, all of which are already in the public domain,” said a Channel 4 spokesman. Two recent British studies found the average woman in Britain is a British dress size 14, equivalent to a U.S. size 10. “The documentary will also look at how the super-skinny American fad is spreading to the U.K. and question whether it is spawning an extreme, collective eating disorder,” Channel 4 said in a statement.[Source]

It’s nice to know that Fitness Magazine wants to know what we would like to see on the cover… A mode who is … an athlete? Larger than a size 10? A woman of color? Showing her abs? Wearing jeans? A woman who hasn’t been airbrushed?