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New York, Oct 15 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A Ralph Lauren model, Filippa Hamilton was fired due to the reason that she was now over-weight and couldn’t fit in their clothes anymore. She had worked in one their advertisements recently, and then since she looked ‘fat’, the advertisement was digitally altered.

The company acknowledged in a statement that the image of Hamilton that appeared last week in a Tokyo mall had been digitally altered, to make the image ‘thinner.’

Polo Ralph Lauren said it sacked Filippa Hamilton because of a contract dispute and that the photo was released mistakenly.

Hamilton, a New York resident who is half-Swedish and was brought up in France, has been looking for another job since she was dismissed in April, said Jesse Derris, her spokesman at Sunshine Sachs & Associates. “I have no idea. They said I can’t fit in the clothes any more,” said Filippa Hamilton.

The photo’s emaciated depiction of her, with hips about as narrow as her head, could make young women “think that it’s normal to look like that – and it’s not”, the 5ft 10in 8st 8lb model told NBC’s ‘Today Show’. “I saw my face on this super-extremely skinny girl, which is not me; it’s not healthy, it’s not right,” she said.

In a statement, the company said the “very distorted image of a woman’s body” was “mistakenly released” and displayed in the Japanese department store.

On Tuesday, Polo Ralph Lauren released a statement saying: “We take full responsibility. This error has absolutely no connection to our relationship with Filippa Hamilton”, who was a “beautiful and healthy” woman.