A Reality Competition For Disabled Models?

Think modeling is just a thing for “perfect” girls, those with long legs, slender arms, and fantastic bodies? Think again. A British modeling competition gives way for disabled women to win a modeling contract and a photo-shoot in top British magazine.

Britain's Missing Top Model is a reality show that is patterned to America's Next Top Model, only that model wanabees are disabled. It highlights the lives of eight (8) disabled beautiful women which includes a woman with one arm, a model on wheel-chair due to a degenerative neuro-muscular disorder, and a deaf.

The modeling competition serves as an opportunity to have a glimpse on the lives of the inequality models (both disabled and able-bodied) and also gives a picture of how the fashion industry – “normal” models, fashion editors, photographers, and agents really feel about models with disabilities.

In terms of recognizing the struggles of these disabled models, it is possible that the reality competition will make an impact (at least for sometime). But whether this contemporary show changes the face of the appearance-obsessed, perfectionist fashion industry, that is where the real question lies.