Point 1

Kids these days generally are not skinny. Overweight kids (boys and girls) far outweigh the small numbers who have anorexia. Shifting the population bell curve towards the slim end would not be a crisis.

Point 2

I find the idea that skinny Parisian catwalk models are responsible for teenage anorexia to be garbage. If you look at a teenager’s role model it is more likely to be a TV or movie actress or a pop star (or a sports figure), than some skeleton in New York wearing a dress that looks like a cake.
These pop stars are all generally fairly fit, well proportioned people. Most pop stars these days perform dance routines (not so many pale goths in teen culture these days) and if a teenager with half a brain cell wants to look like their role model they know it will take 200 sit ups and some running, not starvation.
So if there are anoprexic kids, it’s isn;t coming from skinny models.

It is the adults around them, and the advertising, that messes kids up. Regardless of target weight, the problem is the prevalence of ideas that
a) self esteem is inseparable from looks
b) changing one’s body shape is caused by dieting, not a change in exercise habits. This is the predominant dietary message of all advertising that is targeted at the teenager’s mother.

If kids eat proper food and do the hour a day of proper exercise they need, the amount they eat won’t actually be an issue.

Back to the original post….

I have not yet understood for certain whether the original photoshopping was done by Ralph Lauren (RL) or was part of the parody. I assume the latter, so has anyone located the original ?

I’d have thought that showing the parody without making it clear this was photoshopped (and not by RL)was defaming RL (implying RL condoned skinny models).
But DCMA ? It’s a transformative work, surely.