Fat Pride Burns My Hide
A magazine for “plus size” women (aka. fat girls) Plus Model Magazine, featured an editorial in this month’s issue that made me both angry and sick to my stomach. While you fat lovers out there (we know you come here too!) are going to have lots to say defending this, most of you skinny gurls need to be prepared for what you’re about to see.
I’m not sure what is more disgusting – the pictures or the statistics they are using to make their point – some of which are incorrect.
The editorial throws around lots of statistics trying to make the point that models are too skinny and no longer portray the “average” woman. Well – sorry to burst your bubble – but:
- Fashion models aren’t supposed to portray the average woman – they’re supposed to be aspirational.
- The “average woman” nowadays is a fatass!
Instead of putting these images in a gallery, I am going to show them one by one, because I have lots to say about each! Hope you enjoy my added captions – which if you haven’t guessed, are in black and pink. The original captions from the magazine are the white ones, obviously. 
This is the first time I’ve ever seen a skinny girl and a fat girl posing together naked – and I’m hoping it’s the last, because it’s really gross and a little scary. This reminds me a little of those pictures where a big killer whale is about to devour a beautiful little seal. When I see this picture, I just want to yell “RUN, RUNN!! IT’S NOT YOUR FRIEND, IT’S GOING TO EAT YOU!”
But anyway, their caption says most runway models meet the BMI criteria for anorexia. Well, there is no such thing as a “physical criteria for anorexia.” Anorexia is a mental disorder, and can be diagnosed at any weight. Nice stat for shock value, but unfortunately a complete lie. You cannot diagnose anorexia by a person’s size, and no professional would ever do so.
I’m really glad I can’t read the number on that measuring tape.. eww…can we say fat rolls!? Do you have any idea how much someone has to eat to look like this? Look, I am not saying she is a whale or obese, but she’s definitely fat and if I looked like that I sure wouldn’t be a> naked and b> in front of a camera. But to the caption: I wonder if these writers ever considered the, um, larger part of the equation: that the average woman in the western world has gotten much, much fatter over the past twenty years. Today the average fashion model weighs so much less than the average woman because the average woman is significantly overweight. In the US, for example, the average woman is 40 lbs overweight; 2/3 of women are overweight and 1/3 of women are obese. This is for one reason and one reason only: because they eat too much.
What’s wrong with your body? Really?! I don’t even know where to begin, but there’s a lot. And it makes me mad that you’re probably going to break those nice heels – LoL!
Other statistics used in the editorial:
“50% of women wear a size 14 or larger, but most standard clothing outlets cater to sizes 14 or smaller.”
“Ten years ago plus-size models averaged between size 12 and 18. Today the need for size diversity within the plus-size modeling industry continues to be questioned. The majority of plus-size models on agency boards are between a size 6 and 14, while the customers continue to express their dissatisfaction.”
Well, ten years ago there wasn’t a significant market for plus-size models because society as a whole wasn’t as fat as we are today. Do you really think an overweight person aspires to look overweight? In most cases, I bet the answer is no. We know the majority of overweight people wish they were smaller, whether it be smaller by 5 lbs or 50lbs, if they could push a button and make it happen, they would. Pushing that button is way easier than the hard work that it really takes to lose those pounds…much easier than exercise or eating right. My point is that most want to picture themselves as a smaller person and what does a fat person have to aspire to or imagine themselves looking like if they are looking at these overweight models in ads? Nothing! Because the overweight person wants to fantasize about being slimmer and sexier and that’s why there’s a billion dollar industry around advertising and why it is dominated by models a size 6 or slimmer.
Editor-in-chief Madeline Figueroa-Jones discusses the editorial in further detail on their website, there you will also find the rest of the images…do you dare?
The whole “fat pride” movement is irritating because plus-sizers want to tell us “big is beautiful” and it should be represented more in the modeling industry. I say it’s the opposite: if big really was beautiful, and most people wanted to be big, and wanted to see big people, don’t you think we’d see a lot more fat people modeling? I do. But we don’t – because it isn’t.
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[Image and quote source: Victoria Janashvili, Plus Model Magazine]
the obesity epidemic is out of control, and anyone who promotes it in any shape or form is just negligent and sick. its not pretty its not healthy, its sick and lazy and gluttonous. Now us skinny girls get scrutinized everywhere we go, we must be sick anorexic on drugs etc etc we get bullied now its totally backwards and so wrong
thanks for the anti-thinspo. how could you not care about your health and life and body? its just disgusting and so lazy :p
Skinny Gurl, I love your website, you, and this post, which made me both ROFL and nod my head agreement. However, one correction- there IS a physical requirement for anorexia-you need to have a BMI of under 17.5, unfortunately, and if you don’t meet that BMI but have the other components you are usually diagnosed as EDNOS (though they may be changing this in future DSM editions because anorexia is definitely a more mental than physical disease). However, I completely agree with you on your statement that “anorexia is a psychological condition…not a size, shape, or weight.” It’s ridiculous to compare models who are naturally slim because they are young and have good genes to those who keep themselves that size because of a mental disorder-like comparing Olympic athletes who have a low fat mass to eating disordered individuals. The size you are is such a small component of anorexia (and argued irrelevant by opponents of the current DSM criterion) that using that as a forefront example of “why skinny models are bad” is just a logical fallacy by the magazine used to garner support by Americans who would rather eat than think critically.
”Fat pride” – are you kidding me?!?!?! God, this is so so bad.
People shouldn’t be proud that they’re fat, not because they’re NOT SEXY, but because it’s UNHEALTHY to be overweight. Who cares about sexy – that’s really subjective. But being proud of being FAT?
We know people can be very very slim WITHOUT disordered eating, but can you be OVERWEIGHT with healthy eating behaviour? umm, no.
Actually you can be, but I suppose it’s rare. There are many conditions that can cause obesity however I think the majority of obese peoples simply overeat and don’t exercise enough. I don’t understand how they let themselves et that way… What’s puzzling though is that there are so pro athletes who win nation and world wide competitions that are wayy fat. How can they be so fit and still be fat? They must eat A LOT to counteract any activity they are doing.
If we said ok, let’s start putting fat models in magazines, lets not allow thin normal models to model clothes, you know what would happen? people would get fatter, get heart disease, strokes, and contenuie to gain more weight because if they see these fat fucks in magazines, they’ll think “OH IT’s OK THAT I’M FAT-SO ARE THE GIRLS IN THE MAGAZINES!” If you look at ANY other country besides the USA, NOONE is that fat! It’s only in this country where its considered “normal” to be fat!! Doesnt anyone see that hmm when youre fat, you get all tyoes of desieases that are associated with being fat and being fat only?!!! Or do they wanna brush that under the rug becasue they don’t wanna get their lazy fat asses off the couch and go to the gym and stop eating pasta by the pound? What is this country coming to?!!!!
If 2/3 of women are overweight and 1/3 are obese that equals 100% of all women.
It’s really hard to take you seriously when you can’t do simple arithmetic.
Um, aren’t 100% of obese women overweight?
Don’t worry, hun – with any luck, once you finish 5th grade you’ll be able to think of stuff like this all by yourself.
xo
HA, I was just about to say that.
Try again, Darling.
Your comment was, “In the US, for example, the average woman is 40 lbs overweight; 2/3 of women are overweight and 1/3 of women are obese.”
2/3 + 1/3 – 3/3 or 100%
By your math, there are only overweight and obese women in the USA.
Make all the snotty comebacks you want, the error is on your part, not mine.
You absolute dope. That statistic clearly states that 2/3 of all women are overweight and that 1/3 of all women are obese. Ergo: half of all overweight women are obese. That comment does NOT say that 2/3 of all women are overweight and that the additional 1/3 of women, who are not overweight, are obese.
God. Seriously?
2/3 = overweight
1/3 = obese
ERGO, you fucking idiot: 1/3 of women are not overweight, 1/3 of women are simply overweight, and 1/3 of women are obese. Which equal 100%.
I get it and I got it from the start BUT admittedly that is a confusing way to state the whole thing. You could just say 2/3 of the population of women in the USA are overweight and 1/2 of the overweight people are obese.
To say 2/3 are overweight and 1/2 of them are obese is way more confusing and wordy.
Esp. when compared to the self explanatory 2/3 are overweight and 1/3 are obese…
Rather than debating endlessly about statistics, can we all just agree that there are way too many fat women in America. That seems like a good starting point!
Um, you do know that the 1/3 of obese women are part of the 2/3 of overweight women, right?
Or are you fat, dumb AND stubborn?
ok listen fatty, gripe about something else besides the math…how about instead of going on this website you get your self loathing fat ass off the couch and go for a run…and don’t even try to tell me you aren’t fat, we all can tell you are based on the rant you just went on about incorect math…. we all know deep down you hate you fat stomach and wish you were skinny, but are too lazy to do shit about it. So if you don’t like the website, don’t visit it just to gripe- I don’t go to your neighborhood Mcdonald’s and bitch about you holding up the line while you order 3 cheeseburgers supersized.
Right on, Lana!!!
The statistic actually says:
Percent of adults age 20 years and over who are obese: 33.9% (2007-2008)
Percent of adults age 20 years and over who are overweight (and not obese): 34.4% (2007-2008)
Which means that 40% of Americans have a BMI of 24.9 or under.
Because you have to be overweight before you can be obese, many news outlets report that 2/3 of America is overweight, when it’s reall 1/3 overweight and 1/3 obese.
I hate this kind of thing.. It’s not “real beauty” or whatever, it’s just lazy and unnatural. These people don’t know what it means to be at your full potential.
I wish we all paid taxes and medical insurance per lb of body weight. I swear there would be no fat people in the world.
ahahaha!!!! I TOTALLY agree! lol But I think that might just promote eating disorders… lol But still! Its not like insanely obese people are any healthier to be honest so really, what does it matter?
Well, we do, sort of. Thin girls usually don’t pay for joint replacement surgery, diabetes medication, heart surgery, etc. They do pay more. It doesn’t help.
I’m totally agree with your opinion, anyway oversize girls aren’t beautiful but also aren’t HEALTIER than the super skinny girls, if someone want to lose weight, with a natural and very complete low calories diet you can starve and be healty at the same time, but these girls in the magazing, are just being more and more fat with the pass of the years.
I’ve been saying it all along: If you don’t want models to be skinny, making them fat isn’t going to help.
“Women have curves” not rolls! >:|
Ummmm, I’ve been lurking for a while and I just wanted to say something. Although I do love and agree with the perspective you’ve given these pictures with your hot pink captions, I also believe that it’s possible to go too far in the other direction. Although I don’t think that obese is healthy at all and I don’t feel that being PROUD of it should be an agenda that is pushed by anyone, I also don’t feel that there is any pride to be felt for having your chest ribs showing or for having a muscular body either, for that matter. I think that the reality is that we each get the body we get and should strive to treat our bodies as well as we possibly can. We should each be allowed to feel happy and satisfied with what our bodies can do and appreciate our bodies for that. That girl in that last picture seems to be more flexible than most skinny girls I know. I certainly would not call these women’s bodies aspirational but I wouldn’t call the emaciated supermodels you so want to look like aspirational, either. Just because they are skinny does not make them healthy (there is such a thing as “skinny/fat”) and just because the ladies on this post are overweight does not automatically mean they are UNhealthy. I am most certainly above my ideal weight but I can assure you that I have absolutely no trouble getting out of bed in the morning and can, in fact, outrun a good half of my skinny friends. My blood pressure is perfect, my cholesterol levels are low and I always have a good amount of energy. I prepare my own (organic and healthy) meals, I don’t overeat and I’m not a sweets/sodas person, I enjoy outdoor excercise and get out every opportunity I get and yet here I am, lingering in the overweight but not obese category on the BMI scale. Am I consistently bettering myself and slowly getting lighter? Sure, but I certainly am in no rush to look like a sack of bones covered in skin. Skinny girls, I absolutely feel for you and how people treat you for being skinny. It’s not fair at all, in fact, it’s downright cruel. No one has the right to tell you how you should eat, or feel about your body. No one has the right to tell you to go eat a cheeseburger because you’re thin but isn’t that what you do to “fat” girls? Say they need to take the cheeseburger out of their mouth as you look at them in disgust? Post pictures of women who were under what is considered a healthy body fat percentage for a woman and call them “fat” when they gain 10 pounds… 10 pounds which ironically bring them into what the medical community would consider a HEALTHY body weight. Every single body is different. Some women truly are incredidly skinny naturally no matter what they do, some are just muscular, some are apple shaped and some are pear shaped. No one wants anyone telling them how they should look, including you. Maybe take that into consideration next time you’re so hard on your less than skin and bones sisters. The truth is, MOST women are not NATURALLY boney, including many of you. Which is why you visit sites like this and need “Starvation tips of the day”. If you have to force your body into starvation mode to FORCE it to use your muscle mass for sustenance so that you, too, can have a gap the size of the Grand Canyon between your thighs or “Xylophone” chest then I hate to break it to you, but you are more than likely not at ALL as healthy as you think. I don’t knock it, it’s your body and it’s your choice. I just don’t think it’s fair to criticize others or feel superior to anyone else for not conforming to type of self cruelty for a look that YOU think is ideal. Just some food for thought from a “fatty”.
Genius!!!
Wendy,
First of all – it is true that being overweight (not obese!) – does not automatically mean being unhealthy. There are numerous legitimate medical studies to this effect, and our bodies being the amazing, wondrous miracles as they are – are being able to function at a level very close to normal even under significant stress that the extra fat and weight means.
In addition – YES. There IS something called skinny/fat, which happens when, at a low BMI, a person’s body fat levels are higher than normal. It is quite deleterious to one’s health, and is definitely not something to aspire for. In fact, it is usually seen from studies that being overweight is often less terrible than being skinny/fat with a low BMI.
However. This is a free country. This site is made for women (or girls, in however spelling one would wish to use) who aspire to be NOT something that is normal or common, but something that is rare and extraordinary in our everyday society, and are willing to work very hard for it.
If you, personally, have a different ideal – then – best of luck – but you most definitely are on the wrong site.
This is not a pro-anorexia site. It is one dedicated to being *thin* – not skin-and-bones-sick-and-out-of-whack – but THIN. While anorexia is a horrible, complicated disease, and should be treated – no one “catches” it from a site – and most girls that develop it do not do so out of the desire to “lose a few”. I can argue that the sites like this can be a triggering factor – but so can be someone’s unthoughtful remark, an image, a heart broken by someone, and so on.
The responsibility to stay sane and healthy lies upon the individual, and to some degree – upon their loved ones, parents and etc in case of the underaged. It would be a serious affront upon the freedom of everyone else, if any site deemed dangerous, or even mildly triggering would be in danger of critique from people that neglected to watch themselves, their children and their friends.
Anyway. This reply is turning into a wall of text of its own, so i shall wrap it up by saying – live and let live. If this site rattles your soul – GO ELSEWHERE.
The world wide web IS wide. Leave us to starve in fucking peace, thank you.
That was genius, not wendy’s run-of-the-mill “we are who we are” shit. I mean, come on, why come to this site to tell us we’re wrong? Do you think we’re just gonna suddenly have an epiphany because of your oh-so-wise words? Ha!
Ooooh, so angry. You know, a lot of people get really testy when they’re hungry. Maybe you should eat something, might make you feel better
. Might make you more likable, you know? I hear women look prettier when they’re happy, true story. 
I’m not trying to change you. No big epiphany. Just an opinion that differs from yours and some facts to settle some erronious beliefs. I can see how that would be hard for you to swallow, kind of like food… Oooooooohh!!! Just kidding!! Sort of. I have my moments of wisdom but I take responsibility only for what I write, not what you understand… Or don’t for that matter.
This is now way, way off-topic. Take it to the forums, please.
THANK YOU GOD! You said it all, everything I thought when I saw this. <3
Keep in mind this material was written for a magazine FOR fat girls. They are writing what their userbase wants to hear, not cold, hard truth that they don’t want to hear. I doubt this magazine would be selling well to plus sized girls if the magazine was called “Fat Cow Magazine” and the article went on to make fun of overweight people.
no no, you’re being the dumb one, “?”. it’s 2/3 out of 3/3 is overweight. and then 1/3 out of 3/3 is obese. you don’t frackin add the fractions…. so it’s saying the LEFTOVER 1/3 of the population is normal/underwight or what have you. and don’t call ppl “darling”, it’s obnoxious, sweety
I love how on the site it says to “support companies that market to you”. Translation: Give us money. LOL
this post makes me wanna puke……….i feel so sorry for the skinny model who had to pose with fattie……
These images are so photoshopped. It’s quite hypocritical for them to say all this stuff and then photoshop the plus size model to look smaller. People just don’t get that ALL models (plus size, straight size, athletic models etc) are smaller then the people who they’re selling products to. What I really wish for is more diversity of skin colors not body types.
Agree. I’m terribly white but still find many of the advertisements boring. The most striking ad I ever saw was a very dark, dark model with a shaved head, wearing a host of gorgeous diamonds and nothing else. I still remember that years later. And I’ll always believe that many Indian women are more beautiful than many white women could hope to aspire to…so yeah. Skin diversity = gorgeous; body diversity….there should be limits.
Fat Pride makes me sick!!!! I am proud to be super skinny. In fact, I feel SUPERIOR to fat people! I AM better because I am thin!
No, you’re not superior. You may be thin but you’re also an idiot for saying something so ignorant, they cancel each other out.
As intolerant as it sounds, she has a point – she is not self-destructing. Personally, I feel that, yes, if you are thin you are less likely to die early and have a host of awful, expensive, and debilitating diseases. People who work to be thin have made a damn smart life choice that will help them live better and longer, with better self-esteem. Plus they’re less likely to cause their family fear and misery in case they have heart attacks or develop diabetes. And a mother’s diet directly affects the children she has; a great example is my classmate, who lives on fast food and feeds her increasingly fat baby soy formula, and the baby is in and out of the hospital with ear infections and fevers. Being fat and making terrible food choices is fucking stupid and destructive.
Lots of skinny people make terrible nutritional choices. Some are naturally skinny and eat just as much junk as some fat people and some skinny people are skinny because they deprive themselves of their nutritional needs while still getting little or no exercise. Some skinny people eat lots of junk but play sports. Thin people can have health problems too. Being skinny makes you better than no one. It just makes you skinny.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/07/09/eat-less-live-longer.html
The amount of food you eat – i.e. the amount of time your body spends breaking down food and digesting it as opposed to reconstructing/healing itself – is directly proportional to long life, more so than the type of food you eat (although I still make the choice to live mostly on vegetables).
I would also argue that being thin makes you a better example for children, cousins, siblings, or relations. How many obese parents do you know whose children are slim and healthy?
Weight affects more than just the amount of space you take up.
Sohara, you are so wise and right on the money. It is true that obesity is an extremely expensive epidemic for society, so people can be as proud as they want about their obesity, but the FACTS are: if you are fat, you are guaranteed to be sicker. That is indisputable fact. Because I am thin, I will have a better chance at a longer, healthier, and therefore a better life. Being proud of being fat will not protect people from the devastating health consequences of overweight.
Wendy, I respect what you are saying, but the fat model still looks completely hideous. BTW, I am a highly educated healthcare professional. I am certainly not an idiot and I would certainly not call anyone an idiot on this site merely for expressing her opinion. I am confident enough in my own beliefs that I would not be threatened by someone else’s.
It was my opinion that your opinion that your are BETTER than all fat people was stupid and that you thinking that it’s OK to say something like that out loud made you an idiot. I wasn’t threatened by your opinion at all. You see how that one little thing formed my entire opinion of you as a human being? Because I now think you to be an idiot I can say that makes me better than you (it doesn’t). The fact that you are a “highly educated healthcare professional” makes it even worse, since that statement is extremely ignorant. The fact that you would never call someone an idiot if you thought them to be one doesn’t make you better than me either, BTW. The truth is, I’m not better than you and you’re not better than me. You’re not better than any fat person merely for being thin, since that is only 1 of the many things that make a person who they are. I don’t think that model is hideous and I don’t think she’s hot either. I don’t believe in “fat pride” but I don’t believe a thin person to be better than a fat one merely for being thin. Overweight people are more at risk for certain illnesses but thin people get sick, too. Especially those who are thin as a result of poor nourishment. I don’t criticize anyone who prefers to be thin. But never in a million years will being thin make you better than any fat person.
Wendy,
You are angry. That is so obvious. Is it because you are FAT? You hate me because I am thin and you are fat. I deal with this every day. Fatties hate skinny chicks. That has become a sad reality. I am sad for you (NOT!!!!). No, kidding aside, lol, I am better than you because I am thin. That is a fact. You should lose a few pounds. It would likely do wonders for your mood.
I’m not angry at all. Not even a little bit. It’s impossible to be angry at someone you pity. I’ve never hated a skinny person in my life since I don’t define myself by my weight. The belief that being thin makes you better is ignorant, that doesn’t make me angry, it just makes me wonder where the disconnect from reality happened in your mind. When you actually started to believe that thinness is the only quality that matters in a person. I have no problem with my size, I can lose the weight any time. Your issues, on the other hand, are a lot harder to fix. It’s impossible to cure stupid.
Getting way off-topic here. Please take such discussions to the forums. That’s why they exist.
listen fatty, ;et her feel how she wants to feel. im happy, skinny, and if debbie is, let her be happy! you should probably join a pro fatty website so you can vent your fruatration elsewhere. Thanks for your input!
Ok! I’m hopping on my Lollerskates and heading over there right now!!!
What about this new phenomenon that I call “FAT SISTERHOOD?” It goes beyond fat pride and is almost cult-like. It it so pervasive in my work place. All of the women I work with are fat and I am the only thin one. Talk about exclusion and discrimination! If you are fat, and the fatter the better, you are automatically part of “the club.” If you are thin, you are OUT! All special privileges and promotions are given to my fat co-workers. It is so frustrating and hurtful. I would like to buy a fat suit to wear to work so that I can fit in. The discrimination and verbal abuse is becoming more than I can bear.
Hah, I deal with this sort of garbage all the time – except I’m in an MFA acting program, and I’m certainly the thinnest one in the group. Ergo: I’ve had leads far more often than any of the other girls because, hello, I fit the type. Hatorade’s fun stuff! (Yeah, it’s really uncomfortable.)
That is disgusting behaviour! They are only putting you down honey to make themselves feel better. Just be careful not be within height distance of them as one may fall on you and break your wrist. It happened to me. No joke.
Why would you want to be part of that club? I understand you have to work with these women, but you have to realize it’s a defense mechanism. They bond over being fat, over not being noticed, over having a difficult childhood and being ignored. They don’t want you in their pathetic “club” because you are a direct threat to them. If you were in the club, snd say went out with them after work-who do you think would be payed attention to-you or them? Screw them!
hmm, the one who wrote in the article that 50 years ago average model used to weigh… and so, has simply forgotten that 50 years ago normal women were eating about half what they do today! the fact that the measurement of the waist has increased over the last 25 years dramatically and dangerously, is quite an evidence!
this article is simply inappropriate and socially incorrect! in the world, where one of the biggest health issues is obesity, in the world where the future generation is suffering under this epidemy, promotion of such sorry, for the rudeness, “fat ass” is simply a crime!
by the way, it is considered that by next 25 years, the number of the deaths, related with the overweight related health issues, will be on the first place in the world?
and did you know, that during last 15 years, the amount of overweight people has not only equaled with the amount of starving people, but even gotten slightly bigger!
so next time, when we’ll be going to help ourselves for an extra bite, let’s think! do we want to be overweight? do we want all the related health issues?
i think, being skinny is not a diet! it’s a lifestyle! a healthy lifestyle!
From your article:
Despite the positive results of this study, caution is advised before jumping into the CR diet. “You need to make sure you do things properly,” says Bonnie Taub-Dix, registered dietitian and national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, who says issues of malnutrition are a concern. “Even then, it’s not a guarantee of living longer. Some people eat lousy diets and have great genetics; others take good care of themselves but have poor genetics. One plus one doesn’t always equal two.”
Being thin doesn’t make you a better role model, leading a healthy lifestyle with a nutrient packed diet and plenty of exercise does. Lots of skinny people I’ve known eat LOTS of junk, they eat like horses but are still skinny. Some skinnies are malnourished which, by definition means they are guaranteed an early and unhealthy death. My father has calorie restricted his whole life and my brother has always been skinny despite eating only crap and lot of it. They’re great people, they’re just not better than anyone else. Neither is Debbie. Neither are you. Being skinny doesn’t make you better, it just makes you thin.
I loveee your website skinnygurl!!! I agree 100 percent about this article. There are too many fat people in the US. and it’s their own fault!!! They are hating on skinny people because they made themselves fat hahaha. And that’s TRUE.
I understand people not being ashamed of their big bodies. Like. Not everyone has to hate their body. What I dont understand is living under the pretense that you’re body is perfect. I mean. If you’re like 5’4″ and you weigh 140-150 which is average, how can you live life thinking you need no improvement!? Everyone can always use improvement. Whether they personally think they need it or not! And it’s not even dangerous! It’s actually fun to excersize and eat well even if it’s not for weight loss and just for health it’s ALWAYS A POSITIVE.
Great post, “plus size” models make me sad and a little bit sick.
Natalie K,
You are so right, you can be skinny and healthy. It is easy if you are not stupid.
I hate this article too. There was a similar one in the Evening Standard a couple of days ago. Saying “Bigger girls are fashionable too”. Apparently they need more of a range in clothes shopping. I had a major problem with this article. First off English and American women are not that tall. I do not know anyone who is naturally above a size UK 12. The girl I do know who is naturally a 12 is 6 foot. Very tall indeed. I have friends with rather large breasts and they do not wear bigger than a UK 10. I think it promotes bad health which tax payers in the UK end up having to pay for their operations and gastric band. It is outrageous. We have such an obeseity problem. So why the hell do we continue make clothes for those who are a drain on society? Who do not respect their bodies and health? Seriously there is no point. I mean they clearly do not care about their appearance, so they do not need nice clothes right? Eurgh, rant over. (Just to inform others on UK sizing. A UK 6 is a US 2.)
Giovanna,
Have you tried eating catabolic foods regularly and snacking on them? That would speed up your metabolism like crazy. And sports.
ahahahah skinny girl, i love your coments. These photos are gross
So now they want to promote fat women? How about a healthy and fit women?
That fat women in the pic really grosses me out with her rolls. If I were her, well actually I’d never let myself get fat ever.
Deirdre,
That was a great reply. I’m going to reply to your reply because of how defensive your tone got right in the middle.
1. I at no point mentioned the word anorexia in my post. I accused no one of being anorexic and I did not even hint at such a belief. I used the word “starvation” because it’s the word you all use. I also never implied that it was a disease that can be “caught”. I know what anorexia is, please don’t make me sound ignorant. I’m fat, not stupid.
2. I understand what your ideals are, I’ve been coming here long enough. I wasn’t criticizing them, I was just saying that your ideals don’t actually make you better than anyone else, they just make you unique and desirable to those who SHARE your ideals.
3. Since you just said it’s a free country, it kind of hurts my feelings that you’re kicking me out (Us fatties are weak and sensitive like that).
4. Nothing I said was meant to be an attack… Would smilies have helped in making my post sound less critical?
5. I think I’ll stay. Just because I don’t have the same ideals doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate how sassy and determined all you ladies are. Besides, fresh perspectives spark interesting dialogues. I have a different yet non-judgemental perspective from you, that could be fun.
6. If any of this bothers you, I’m sorry, I can’t help it that I’m a bad-ass motherfucker.
See you on the forums!