Vogue Italia Pulls Karlie Kloss Photo for Being Too Thin

There's skinny. There's model skinny. And then there's Karlie Kloss. 19-year-old supermodel Karlie Kloss is runways newest IT-girl and a recent Victoria's Secret angel, but now she's come into controversy for her nude photoshoot with Vogue Italia. 

The spread features some clothed shots and other nude shots, but the image that's come under serious pressure is one of her wearing unbuttoned hot pants and a cropped leather jacket that features the model contorting her body in such a way that shows off her protruding hip bone and nearly emaciated frame. The picture has popped up on pro-anorexia sites that use the photo as "thinspiration." 

"Thinspiration" is this thing were mostly young girls on pro-anorexic blogs post photos of usually photoshopped images of really skinny models and tag the pics as #thinspo, #thinspiration #anorexic and #pro-ana. Recently, the Vogue Italia Kloss editorial had been featured prominently on many of these thinspiration blogs.

After Vogue Italia found out that this image was popular on these blogs, they pulled the photo from the spread, and Franca Sozzani, Vogue Italia's editor has been very vocal against pro-anorexia sites. 

"Vogue Italia, the magazine par excellence that deals with and promotes aesthetics and beauty, has decided to make use of its authority and its readers on the web to battle against anorexia and collect signatures with the final goal of shutting such sites down," Franca posted on her blog. 

Karlie has defended her 23" waist in interviews plenty of times, claiming she's skinny due to her sports and ballet background. Her agency, Next Models recently issued this statement, "Karlie is a role model and trained hard for this shoot as an athlete and the results show positive women taking control of their bodies and being strong and healthy."

However, some people didn't really find her hip bones and protruding clavicle very "healthy."

Lynn S Grefe, President and CEO of the National Eating Disorders Association is glad the image is removed from the mag, "I think it's great that [Vogue Italia] pulled it," she said, "If they recognized that it was a bad mage, that it was having a bag effect...I'm sorry they put it up there in the first place, but good for them for pulling it."

Sadly, and in an ironic twist, this editorial spread is providing fodder for women suffering from anorexia, but Vogue editor Franca says she's working hard to dispel the rumor that fashion inspires anorexia. 

"Fashion has always been blamed as one of the culprits of anorexia and our commitment is the proof that fashion is ready to get on the frontline and struggle against the disorder," says Franca.