Model Ulrikke Hoyer says she was turned away from her Louis Vuitton cruise show in Kyoto on the 14th of May for being “too big.” She posted a photo and caption about the incident on Instagram earlier today.
Ulrikke says after being told by Ashley Brokaw’s caster that there had been problems related to “bloating” during the fitting, she was “urged to starve herself” with the statement: “Ulrikke needs to drink only water for the next 24 hours.”
The 20-year-old model is a size 34-36.
In her post Ulrikke says she had been awake since 2am and “was extremely hungry” but only “had the absolute minimum” at breakfast before Alexia Cheval, the casting director for Louis Vuitton, arrived. Ulrikke says Cheval “was checking if [she] had been eating food.”
I just returned from Tokyo/Japan, where Louis Vuitton held a beautiful cruise show in Kyoto, I just never made it to Kyoto cause I was canceled for the show due to being ‘too big’. (I’m a size 34-36) Ashley Brokaw’s caster Alexia had said that there had been some problems during the fitting. According to her I had “a very bloated stomach”, “bloated face”, and urged me to starve myself with this statement “Ulrikke needs to drink only water for the next 24 hours”. I was shocked when I heard it. I woke up at 2am and was extremely hungry. The breakfast started at 6:30am – I had the absolute minimum. I was afraid to meet Alexia so my luck she didn’t arrive until 8am, when my plate was taken off the table. She said good morning to me and the other girls and looked at me, then down on my non-existent plate and up at me again. She was checking if I had been eating food. At 7pm my mother agent from Denmark called my to tell the sad news that Louis Vuitton had chosen to cancel me from the show without the refitting and that I was going to be sent back home. Not only did I have a belly, my face was puffy now also my back was a problem. I am glad I’m 20 years old with an elite sports background and not a 15 year old girl, who are new to this and unsure about herself, because I have no doubt that I would then have ended up very sick and scarred long into my adult life. TO READ THE FULL STORY CLICK IN MY BIO!!!!!!! #LVCruise2018 #mistreatmentofmodels #AshleyBrokaw #thefutureisfemale #sowhyeatingdisorders #youknowitstrue #shareifyoucare #jamespscully
A post shared by Ulrikke Hoyer (@ulrikkehoyer) on May 18, 2017 at 7:17am PDT
This comes one week after France’s law banning excessively thin fashion models went into effect. Fashion models in France now need a doctor’s certificate to prove they are healthy. BBC reports there’ll be a specific focus on a model’s Body Mass Index.
While no woman in the fashion/modeling industry should be facing discrimination for size, we’ve seen it before, and we continue to see it now.
Ulrikke says she was shocked to hear them talk about her in that way. In a Facebook post today she wrote: “What should have been a truly amazing and unique experience ended up being a very humiliating experience.”
“This is not about me being canceled from a show — you win some and you loose some that’s the game. But I cannot accept the ‘normality’ in the behavior of people like this. They find pleasure in power over young girls and will go to the extreme to force an eating disorder on you.”
She arrived back home in Copenhagen, Saturday the 13th.
We’ve reached out to her, as well as the agency for comment.
Read her status in full here.
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