VIDEO: It’s Not Easy Being a Model. This Is the Terrible Side-Effect of Super-Tall Heels

If you thought that models have it easy and all they have to do is pose and walk, then you were quite wrong. It’s not easy to make sure that you always have the perfect body according to the industry’s standards and when you have to sit in the same pose for hours things get quite tough.

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Still, walking the catway in full attire is definitely the worst part. This is because they wear uncomfortable shoes and clothes and have to look great while doing so.

The shoes are horrible and very tall and they put a strain on their feet and if you take a tiny step wrong you might end up falling and hurting yourself quite badly.

According to buzzfeed.com, many fashion shows make us worry about two things on the runways: boniness and shoes.

If the latter fail and a model takes a tumble, they’ve got a long way down being so tall; and then of course they don’t have the fleshy padding most of us do to protect our bones in those situations. In fact, runway shoes may be the industry’s top source of psychological turmoil, tears, and bloodshed.

Fashion’s fairy prince Kanye West, who totally hearts models, doesn’t care whether or not they can walk in his shoes.

After sitting front-row at Fashion Week for years and undoubtedly witnessing many dangerous shoe situations, he went ahead and put the models he calls his friends (like Karlie Kloss and Jourdan Dunn) in scary shoes. Dunn, even tweeted, “[Kanye’s] shoes are sexy as fuck but you can’t walk in them!”

Models are rumored to put sharp objects in their competitors’ shoes. Male model Lyle Lodwick, explaining how female models are much more competitive with each other than the dudes, told the Daily Beast, “I’ve heard horror stories of girls putting needles in a girl’s shoes so when she’s on the runway she’ll fall over.”

Explaining why on earth Balenciaga would do so bold and unexpected a thing as to include flats in the spring 2011 show, designer Nicolas Ghesquiere explained to Women’s Wear Daily, “The idea was to have this crazy casting with Gisele [Bündchen] and Amber Valletta and Carolyn [Murphy], and they said no for high heels.

They were not used to walking with heels anymore. Gisele was worried; she would not walk with my heels.” If the world’s best model refuses to wear your heels, you know you have a serious safety issue on your hands.

Models had panic attacks and cried backstage at a Prada show once, they were so afraid of falling on the runway. The show is probably one of the most famous in recent memory for model tumbles, in terms of the sheer number and intensity of the falls.

After a particularly nasty fall, Abbey Lee Kershaw sustained a bad knee injury. Kershaw fell in a Rodarte show, tore a ligament in her knee, and then had to take the rest of the season off to have surgery to fix it. She told an Australian television show, “Hopefully [the shoes are] going to come back down soon, because health and safety regulations have to come into play at some point.”

Model Lindsey Wixson sprained her ankle walking Versace’s runway. The then-17 year old tweeted that this fall caused her ankle sprain. Can you imagine if she took that blond model down in the process?

Donatella might have had a few injuries on her hands. And really, it’s only a matter of time before an especially perilous shoe causes a model to fall and take out a front row guest. Maybe then, the fashion industry will really consider fixing this problem.