Plus size wars anyone?

[Lardylassnomore]

On channel four plus one at the moment

[FujimotosElixir]

yea i watched it ...surprised not more posts

[Lardylassnomore]

I know. I did a search and nothing !

[FujimotosElixir]

had a mate message me saying 'how can all these women be bigger than me and look better....and then proceeded with saying im pretty and reminded her of me!" it's like because they are naturally pretty? people dont pass comment on skinny less attractive people ...im a big lady and it annoys me. .'how dare you be remotely groomed/pretty and be fat!".

[sassytheFIRST]

I watched it. Thought it was interesting and there is no denying that some of those women are really gorgeous. I quite like their feisty attitude too. The Californian blogger was especially ballsy - and stunning too. But they are storing up a lifetime of pain/health problems and this really shouldn't be underestimated IMO.

[WindMeUpAndLetMeGo]

Bit late to but just watching it now, love their confidence but not liking the seriously hairy pits!

[Sidge]

I watched it, some beautiful women but I do wonder if some of those bloggers are normalising obesity. The woman who was exercising and had lost some weight to be a little healthier (her words) was vilified by other large ladies.

I don't care what size someone's clothes are but I do worry that some of these very young women are heading for diabetes and heart disease.

[WindMeUpAndLetMeGo]

I'm struggling with some of their sizes, the one at the agency who said she had just bought a size 14 dress, I know tv is meant to make you look bigger but .........

They probably are leaving themselves open to problems later on, but bowing to the pressure to be thin doesn't always end well either, like the girl who just died from slimming pills this week

[BunnyLebowski]

I haven't watched and probably won't.

I just can't get behind the Fat Acceptance movement and think it's a very dangerous and irresponsible phenomenon.

[goodasitgets]

The agency one is that size, I have bought dresses from her, and chat to her a lot. I can assure you she is very honest about her weight, size and measurements!

[WindMeUpAndLetMeGo]

Goodas I didn't mean it bitchy, I was just surprised. I'm a 14 but 5ft 1, we all carry it differently.

It's not about accepting fat/obesity, it's about accepting people for more than appearance. I will never be a size 10 again, I accept that, it's just a shame others don't

[goodasitgets]

Oh I get that
I'm not quite sure when it was filmed so she may have lost a bit more weight. She is v v hourglass figured (not jealous here!)

[WindMeUpAndLetMeGo]

In fairness she's working out at the moment (watching it recorded) and looks a lot slimmer, must have been camera angle.

I personally couldn't be as big as most of the girls on here, a 16 is the biggest I've been after having DCs each time

[FujimotosElixir]

i said that about georgia horne, 'shes not a 14!" she genuinely had a very sexy Jessica rabbit type body though.

[ageingdisgracefully]

I dunno.......I'm torn. On the one hand, it's great to see these women's body confidence. But everyday life must be so bloody hard for them. It's fab to look good, but it must be a pain to lug around all that flesh all day, every day. And they're young now: what about in 10 or 20 years' time, tho?

[WindMeUpAndLetMeGo]

Ageing I agree, must be hardly to day with so much extra weight.

Tess Munster has so much confidence, and while I think that's good, part of me still thinks she should be doing something about the weight as it clearly isn't healthy.

[BrennieGirl]

That American girl is beautiful but, and I say this as fat person myself (5'3 size 16) she is too big. I don't think her body looks attractive at all. I agree with the poster above, every day life must be difficult for people of that size. But kudos to her for being so feisty about it and obviously making a successful career for herself.

I also noticed that a lot of the bloggers featured had quite a few tattoos. Is that a blogger thing or a plus size thing or just a coincidence?

[BunnyLebowski]

Tess Munster lives on Delusion Avenue, LaLa land.

She wails "Eff your beauty standards" but then doesn everything in her power to conform to said beauty standards (pinup girl makeup, hair, tattoos of Marilyn) except put any effort into having a healthy body.

She's a bloody horrible "role model".

[WindMeUpAndLetMeGo]

Brennie I'm not sure on the tattoo thing either, does seem quite common among big girls to want to make themselves stand out more so than they already do. Not the point but if they were to loose a lot of weight the tattoos would be horrendous!!

[WindMeUpAndLetMeGo]

Bunny size shouldn't stop her dressing fashionably, size effects her health, not her taste in clothes!

[specialsubject]

the American girl has a stunningly beautiful face which won't be doing her any harm. But the rest of her is a waddling health problem.

let's have some common sense here. The right weight for height is a range, not an absolute; but you CAN be too thin or too fat. She is way, way too fat and that is a gross abuse of a healthy body.

how she looks (the scribbles) is her call, but selling this kind of health-wreckage as a 'role model' is not good. Now THAT is an immoral way to make a living.

so sad to see the blue-haired girl delighted to meet her idol, who instantly blanked her at the end of the oh-so-sincere hug and moved on to the next person. Blue-hair girl also apparently has no aspirations beyond lots of selfies, for which the reaction is either praise or abuse. No job aspirations, no self-improvement mentally - so, so sad.

[WindMeUpAndLetMeGo]

Unfortunately a lot of girls grow up with no real aspirations these days other than to be famous - at any cost

[Sidge]

That's true specialsubject. I appreciate social media is a huge factor in young peoples' lives but if some spent more time being active than posing for pics and posting them on Instagram for scrutiny and adoration then they may not be so obese.

I don't subscribe to the "everyone must be a size 10" ideology but I think aiming for a healthy body is important. And whatever way you package it being a size 18/20/24 is not healthy.

[ArcheryAnnie]

There's a lot of concern-trolling on this thread. It's very possible to be unhealthy and thin, but amazingly enough people don't usually say so with the kind of glee they reserve for saying it about fat women.

Anyway, what I was startled by (and I say this as a fat woman with little interest in fashion - and I had little interest when I was thin) was that for young fat women the only style they aspire to is the '40's pin-up look. Now, Amy Lame rocked this back in the day, but it's a bit samey if it's all that is on offer as a "look" if you are fat.

Also, all the women featured were white, and there's a lot of big BME women out there with a lot of style. Would have been nice to have seen some of them.

[FujimotosElixir]

im a size 24 , tall but still need to loose a lot of weight, i agree the only gorgeous body on there was georgia hornes. i appreciate what these girls are doing, i do have the right to nice clothes, bloggers may normalise fat but plus size shops never , ever will because its still deemed separate to the norm. i felt they were missing the point, larger people ..women especially just need to left alone.... to exist as a human who is entitled to exist without being objectified by the size of bum, hips, stomach, etc ....it isn't a health worry when people are cruel to larger ladiez unless they are equally so to skeletal women. Im not denying its unhealthy at all, but I can insult mine or anyone elses intelligence by suggesting the prejudice we face is anything to do with concern. we have the right to be left alone, to mind our own buisness, to not have other people's judgments/fetishism inflicted upon us, we aren't a seperate species, we are entitled to life, life without constant objectification , media propganda ....sticking your half naked self on Social media to 'change people's opinion' people are entitled to opinions , but they have to stop using those opinions to abuse, why dont we put our clothes back on and say "we dont exist to make you comfortable, we dont need to justify ourselves" its just *sigh ...well meaning fetishism, were still missing the point arent we? ...

[WindMeUpAndLetMeGo]

Archery this thread isn't about thin people and the programme was about plus sized models so it's not really relevant