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

[BennyAndSwoon]

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

I think she looks fab

Good on her

Is she really that colour?

i like her but dont like pic.size of model on the cover doesnt make a difference when i chose a magazine.

She is a fantastic, fantastic woman.

But at the risk of a flaming, she really shouldn't be posing nude, even massively airbrushed.

It really isn't attractive as she is overweight, but I would say the same thing about a very underweight woman.

Does he think it "empowers" women? Nah, it doesn't.

my eyes, my eyes, my farkin eyes

She look quite different in the flesh

I agree with AnyFucker.

She is morbidly obese imo and sorry, it's not a good look.

Too skinny lollipop heads also not good.

I look differnet in my wedding photos to the ones taken of me at the party after about 2am - what's your point?

I can't help feeling they've shaved a few inches off her for that picture actually. The natural ones found via google seem to show her to be larger. Either it's a very flattering pose or she's lost more than her nipples and healthy skin tone.

theres nothing flattering about it

Is that to me, Minxie? If so, I'm sure your cellulite didn't disappear and reappear between your wedding photos and the ones at 2am.

SoupDragon - kind of to you, but not only you. The pic is airbrushed but all covers are so it's not unique. Posed photos are always going to look differet. The one in your exapmle, is taken when she's on stage sweating and singing her heart out. Anyone would look rougher in those circumstances.

Also what's this normal rubbish - she is normal. Normal comes in a variety of shapes and sizes. I just don't understand all the awful comments, saying she's hideous and so on. Where's the sisterhood? Personally I think it's sad that women are so critical of how another woman chooses to look. I think in some cases it's jealousy - not of her body but of her attitude. A lot of women slave to look good and when confronted by someone who doesn't care, their whole calorie counting existence is shaken!!

It is a striking photo, clearly airbrushed as other have said.

I also agree that it isn't any better to show this than to show super skinny women. Now, if it was an average sized woman, I might feel better, but going form one extreme to anothe isn't the answer.

i actually said 'it's hideous' the picture is awful, tons of make up.

as a performer don't really have any opinions of her, apart from she bawls a bit.

I think what was meant by 'normal' was in terms of being within the normal weight range for her height, which she clearly is not.

She is almost definitely putting her health at risk by being so overweight.

I agree that all covers are going to be airbrushed as this one is, but it is still a shocking picture to me.

Yes, I do know all such photos are airbrushed. I actually think they've airbrushed a few inches off though.

She may be "normal" but it is just as unhealthy as the size 0s. I don't think being an unhealthy weight/size at either end of the scale is something to be celebrated.

I like the image. I love all the serpentining curves. But she looks all pale and vampirish.

Not empowering for women as someone already said. Never quite understood that argument

As a piece of art, the photo is good though.

even porn mags arent allowed nips on the front cover, that is the only reason they are not there

Um, no, it is not empowering for women. Wtf?

southeastastra - you actually said that's hideous but my comments aren't being directed at any one person, there are lots of people on lots of boards saying really nasty things.

I'm curious now - what shocks everyone about it? I'd genuinely like to know.

I find it disturbing that women who are underweight are routinely shown on covers and there is no reaction like this! I'm an avid supersize v superskinny watcher, the underweight women often have no periods, are en route to brittle bones and often have excess hair to cover their cold, emactiated bodies!

I just don't see why this pic is SO SHOCKING

Spell checker anyone?

Oh, but I am horrified by pictures of very skinny women on magazine covers. That's why I don't buy them.

I too dislike the prevelance of size 6 models. However BD is not an 8, 10, 12, 14 or 16 either. She is overweight and it is no more healthy than being a size 6 and no more positive an image.

unhealthy.

and where are the nipples!?

I think images of so obviously unhealthily overweight people are just as bad as those of obviously unheathily underweight people.