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"Last night&amp;#x27;s episode of The City had me on the edge of my couch, wondering what would come out of Mean Boss Lady Kelly Cutrone&amp;#x27;s mouth when she met Whitney&amp;#x27;s new &amp;quot;friends&amp;quot; for the first time (full disclosure: I know Kelly and she&amp;#x27;s kinda awesome). But even I wasn&amp;#x27;t expecting what went down... &amp;quot;Are you okay?&amp;quot; Kelly asked Allie Crandell, a complete stranger, within the first five minutes of ever laying eyes on her. &amp;quot;You just seem so skinny.&amp;quot; Allie, who models for a living and does look a wee bit on the scrawny side, is completely offended. In fact, she makes a quit exit rather than have to deal with the inquiring mind of the People&amp;#x27;s Revolution boss (who again, truth be told, spends an awful lot of time with models and probably knows danger signs when she sees them). I&amp;#x27;m not sure Kelly chose the appropriate venue (&amp;quot;Happy Birthday to me! Now please, please, please eat a cupcake!&amp;quot;), or the right approach, but it seemed to me like her intentions were coming from a genuine place. Allie spends the rest of the episode defending both her health (by going to Dean &amp;amp; Deluca for smoked salmon and asparagus--&amp;quot;See, I eat!&amp;quot;) and her ability to let Kelly&amp;#x27;s comments roll off her back (I wasn&amp;#x27;t as convinced of this one...). She reasons that if her agency, One Model Management, thought she was too skinny, they&amp;#x27;d let her know. She&amp;#x27;d be losing jobs instead of landing them, and Kelly is just an insecure person who doesn&amp;#x27;t know diddly about the modeling business, right? As the always-sensitive Olivia so tactfully puts it, &amp;quot;This is fashion. We can&amp;#x27;t have Shamu coming down the runway!&amp;quot; What do you guys think? Is Allie too skinny? Is she putting forth an impossible-to-achieve ideal, as Kelly accused her of at the episode&amp;#x27;s end? Or is she just your standard model with a slim frame and a careful tendency to watch what she eats? Should she continue booking jobs at her current weight, or would you prefer to see her pack on a few pounds before continuing her career as a mannequin? Discuss! Is Allie from &amp;quot;The City&amp;quot; too skinny to model? ( surveys) Photo: Courtesy of MTV Networks"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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