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April 10, 2009 at 10:57am
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inthefade:

davislove:

robot-heart:

zatoism:
Plus sized models look amazing … even they don’t look like “real” women. How do you get to be so thick and curvy and still so smooth and fit? No fairs!
If this is plus sized then I’m plus sized…and at 110 lbs., I’m definitely not. I wouldn’t even argue this woman is exceptionally “thick” or “curvy.” She looks more normal than regular models, although I would still argue that she’s a slender person. I think it’s sad that by today’s standards completely normal (and I use that term knowing it is alienating—I just can’t think of a better word for it), even slim, women qualify as “plus sized.” It shows you how skewed our perception of what a female body is supposed to look like has become.

Thank you.

If this is plus size, then I’m size MOOOO.
I’m glad I learned to be comfortable with who I am and what I look like, despite society/the media telling me at every turn that I’m less than desirable.

This is not a plus-sized woman. This is a plus-sized model. Get it? This is not reality in the same way that the size 2 models meant to represent “normal” women are not reality. She’s also been photoshopped all to hell and back to make those curves nice and smooth. Her own mother probably doesn’t recognize her.
I buy fashion magazines to look at fashion and to appreciate a well-composed photograph. The models have all become background noise to me. I don’t compare myself to them and neither should any of you gorgeous creatures.
We owe it to ourselves to be able to look at a photograph like the one above and simply appreciate it as an artistic collaboration between a photographer, a team of assistants, the re-toucher, and yes, even the model. What this photograph is not, is a reflection of us. This photo is not a rebuke directed at how we eat, exercise (or don’t), dress or comb our hair.
Stop giving these images so much power, ladies. We’re better than that.

This woman should be teaching adolescents somewhere. Bookmarked to show my future daughter some day.

inthefade:

davislove:

robot-heart:

zatoism:

Plus sized models look amazing … even they don’t look like “real” women. How do you get to be so thick and curvy and still so smooth and fit? No fairs!

If this is plus sized then I’m plus sized…and at 110 lbs., I’m definitely not. I wouldn’t even argue this woman is exceptionally “thick” or “curvy.” She looks more normal than regular models, although I would still argue that she’s a slender person. I think it’s sad that by today’s standards completely normal (and I use that term knowing it is alienating—I just can’t think of a better word for it), even slim, women qualify as “plus sized.” It shows you how skewed our perception of what a female body is supposed to look like has become.

Thank you.

If this is plus size, then I’m size MOOOO.

I’m glad I learned to be comfortable with who I am and what I look like, despite society/the media telling me at every turn that I’m less than desirable.

This is not a plus-sized woman. This is a plus-sized model. Get it? This is not reality in the same way that the size 2 models meant to represent “normal” women are not reality. She’s also been photoshopped all to hell and back to make those curves nice and smooth. Her own mother probably doesn’t recognize her.

I buy fashion magazines to look at fashion and to appreciate a well-composed photograph. The models have all become background noise to me. I don’t compare myself to them and neither should any of you gorgeous creatures.

We owe it to ourselves to be able to look at a photograph like the one above and simply appreciate it as an artistic collaboration between a photographer, a team of assistants, the re-toucher, and yes, even the model. What this photograph is not, is a reflection of us. This photo is not a rebuke directed at how we eat, exercise (or don’t), dress or comb our hair.

Stop giving these images so much power, ladies. We’re better than that.