Is The City’s Allie Crandell too skinny?

Is The City’s Allie Crandell too skinny?

Whitney Port’s former boss, fashion maven Kelly Cutrone, caused a stir on MTV’s The City when she told 5-foot-8 model Allie Crandell she looked “so skinny.” But now Allie and her modeling agency are fighting back. “Having just met Allie two months ago, I’d mentioned that I thought she could put on some weight,” Scott Lipps, Allie’s boss at One Management entertainment company, tells Life & Style. “She has proceeded to put on 6 to 7 pounds since my meeting with her, and I’m happy to say she looks great and healthy today.” Here’s what Kelly and Allie have to say for themselves:

Kelly says, “TV puts weight on you. If you think she looks thin on TV, imagine her in real life. It’s shocking. She’s not a tall girl. If you look at Adriana Lima, she has a knockout body — skinny but a lot of muscle and definition. With Allie, it’s like, ‘Get a trainer and build muscle.’ She’d still be thin, but there’d be a strength or radiance about her. It was an energy thing. She just didn’t have it.”

Allie says, “My weight easily fluctuates, and with work, travel and stress, it’s sometimes hard to maintain it. The past episodes of the show caught me at my lowest point, but since then I’ve gained back the 6 to 7 pounds I lost earlier. There is nothing more important to me than my health, and I feel great.”