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

The 'fit model' a designer uses for his/her collection is a size 8.

Not a size 0. Not a size 4 or 6.

But an 8.

Some even use a 10.

Because we're talking about very tall women here.

I agree with whoever said she looked better naked than clothed. All those curves, like some primive earth mother. I thought it was an arresting picture. But take a 'fat' woman and put her in clothing that is simply sized up from that designed for 'normal' women and she will will either look like a blow up mattress or a tent.

Not true that models aren't size 6 or even less. I modelled in my teens (at the time I was 8.5 stone, size 8, 5'11). I was one of the bigger girls! I was regularly told to lose weight, too. Size 10 would be the absolute upper limit for a model and that would mostly be for girls doing beauty work, teen mags or catalogues, not high fashion. The bigger designers want completely androgynous 'coat hanger' bodies on the whole. Even breasts are seen as a bad thing. it's all sick, really.

Anyway, I digress, but just wanted to say...

Minxie1977 I was meaning in terms of magazine covers, advertising etc. They are never going to use normal women, the women on the street (even Dove and their Real Women campaign picked toned, moderately sized attractive women)

So instead of using these anorexic stick insects or trying to be controversial and edgy by using obese women, why not juse use healthy toned women in a range of normal sizes?

And I don't know if the images I linked to are photoshopped or doctored - I just Googled them. But I have seen women looking just as ill for real - there was a programme on Sky a while back and some of the models looked skeletal.

Photoshopped

To my mind the before photo's are not much of an improvement!

Agree

bet you she does a dahl and loses tons of weight now shes the "it" girl of the moment!..... now sophie was far prettier before she turned into a twig lost weight!

Ronaldinhio, most women aren't Beth Ditto's size.

Dahl's career went to hell after she lost all that weight.

Sort of like Jennifer Grey after she had a nose job.

I think she looks awful.
I know I'm supposed to be PC and say it's great she has curves and suchlike but she doesn't have curves, she's fat and she looks fat and I find it disgusting to look at.
I guess that pic is better than the real life one with the added cellulite though.

Great that she loves her body though and I hope she embraces it.
She shouldn't need the likes of me to like it.

Check out this ad from Dove to see what the advertising industry do to a 'normal' model.

This may have been shown to death in the UK, apols if you have already seen it

I can see what you mean avacado. I think it's very sad.

It's an arty magazine and an arty photo, it's not meant to be an accurate account of what she looks like naked. If someone has a portrait painted you wouldn't expect the artist to paint a huge spot on their face (unless that was the look they wanted).

Like most art some people like it some don't which is fine but the digital enhancement is part of the process!

really shocked that so many of you are so squicked by some rolls of fat, that's pretty depressing imo.

im a size 24
i weigh about 20 stone.

i have photo's on my profile...none are airbrushed or particularly great pictures (i think they were taken by my kids)

i have had HUNDREDS of compliments from Mners.

being fat doesn't make you ugly.

If i were asked to pose naked (in a similar way to BD, rather than playboy) to promote the fact that larger women shouldn't feel ashamed of how they look then i would do it.

FM you are indeed gorgeous

fm - you are indeed gorgeous! I'm half your size and nothing like as lovely

thank you.

though be reassured that there are a great number of photo's on facebook that show that im not

My word - you should be modelling. But you are lucky to be a very striking woman - good hair, skin etc (oh let's say it, fantastic tits!) . If you are not so lucky (like me, for instance) then it looks better to be a bit plain and also smaller!