A cover girl who isn't size 6? I actually like the pic

[BennyAndSwoon]

here

I had to search around to find a link that isn't DM

I think she looks fab

Good on her

How are you fat at a size 10, Benny? That sounds normal to me, not fat.

My BMI is 21 and i am a size 12

But her weight is actually working for her, setting her apart in an industry where image counts and she's challenging it, quite successfully too. Kerching.

< delayed wave to Benny >

i feel cynical that setting her apart will be her selling point though. this cover has already proved that.

does she have a new song out, what is it?

'Not healthy' is just code for 'yuck, a fattie, how DARE they show themselves in public'.

Lots of celebrities and people who are considered beautiful aren't healthy. But people I've never seen a thread where people have been so insulting towards Hollywood actresses, even though many of them are underweight and on a starvation diet.

And there are plenty of other celebrities who probably don't live a healthy lifestyle. But I've not seen threads slagging off those who don't eat their five a day. The 'healthy' line is just an excuse for people who want to give their prejudices an airing without admitting that they are prejudiced.

Yeah - but Ria - you are MUCH taller than me (and you look good in a blue overall - I could never pull that off)

I am size 10 - and that is a bit baggy at the mo, apart from breasts

but I am short and I weigh 10.5 stone plus

in all the BMI stuff I im BIG

stray 'people' left in there when I re-wrote my post!

She's not going to be around long so she may as well have her 15 minutes and make a rake of dosh.

She's bound to have a song out, it would all tie up nicely, big airbrushed mag cover and song to push.

sod that Benny you look fab!

get a slendertone belt - thats my not so secret!

agree edam.

btw, just to briefly return to the mm thing. it does say on snopes that she didn't wear a US size 16, but did wear a UK one, according to an auction of her clothes.

what the hell is a slendertone belt?

some naff belt that gives me a flat tum after lots of bairns!!!

i should get commission!

last time I used one of those I ended up in hospital with appendicitis

lol at blue overall Benny - just remembered!!

You looked like a very very professional decorator

lol!

I aim high career wise!

Well you are a very very professional decorator. You just never get paid for it

Just like you never get paid for most of the other stuff you do well

I really should go to bed
I have decluttering to do as we are moving darn sarf to aylesbury

you lucky thing!

I have a 'visitor' tomorrow!

oh

you know

While it's good to see an overweight/curvy woman presented as attarctive and desirable there's still the thought that she does look airbrushed.

Do ANY of these magazines how how women REALLY look, unairbrushed, with flaws and all?

It surely can't be that shocking to see a woman looking 'natural'? Otherwise the human race would just die out!

Riaparkinson-Does the slendertone actually work?