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

im not saying that its a good thing to be fat. i would give anything to be a nice healthy weight.

BUT if there were more realistic looking women in the media then we wouldn't have women getting themselves so worked up about dieting and instead they could fall into a healthier eating pattern.

i honestly belive that women would be a lot slimmer and healthier if they just stopped dieting

oh yes, very much a feminist issue etc. i worry for my dds growing up now, with even sensible adult women squueeeeeing over a bit of fat.

That's true, dieting is just one more thing to be sold to you in our crazy society - also I think the emphasis in schools should be finding a physical activity you like and teaching how to warm up and down properly and things like that. Perhaps it's better now, but when I was there it was a case of run round the hockey pitch from a cold start and stuff you if you don't like it.

I find her skin tone most disturbing, too corpse-like imo.
Other than that I quite like the image but I'd agree that she is both airbrushed and also not a good role-model for a healthy body.

"even sensible adult women squueeeeeing over a bit of fat"

rofl. Well yes.

fattiemumma you are gorgeous! and those boobs (wowzers!!)

why is an overweight woman on a magazine cover any better than an underweight woman?

I hate the notion that Beth Ditto is a good role model. It's not good for you to be this big the same way it's not good to be super skinny - both have health implications.

i agree purplemonkey.

i don't think she should be held up as a role model, but i am saddened that people are so shocked by the image of her naked body.

good lord fattiemumma, you are a goddess..

are you sure you are 20 stone?? your scales might be faulty

i thikn that seeing different body sizes in public will surely help

not every woman can or should be a size 10

but nor should every woman be a a size 20

but i think if more overweight women were seen publicly on show, as it were, it would be less shocking

Lulu - im probably a little over the 20st.

I was quite surprised and saddened by the "yuk" responses.

I didn't post the link as a "she is a role-model and publishing this is a step forward for feminism"

I just thought it was refreshing to see a different body shape.

And I thought it was an interesting image, almost like she is a statue. I like the picture. I think she looks good in it.

And it made me think of rubens, when a larger body was seen as desirable (because it showed you were well off I guess)

i once had an admirer who told me i was "rubenesque"

at the time i thought he was calling me fat, i now agree with him.

you are rubenesque, which is a wonderful compliment.

i do think that acceptance of women as having different body sizes and shapes is vital

because breasts and bottoms and bellies differ in shape and size, pre and post children

pretending all women are taut , toned , long limbed , stretch mark free, airbrushed clones helps no-one in hte long run

Gosh what a mixed bag of responses.

I like the photo. I know the make up is too much and her skin tone is perculiar BUT it is not a snapshot, it is a posed, stylised photograph.

I too, am astounded by the number of OMG she's a hideous whale type comments. Jesus, some of you folk must have real problems in RL what with the sheer number of fatties walking the streets, how do you cope ? LOL

she's not a role model, she's a singer.

is that at me Aitch?
I didn't post it saying she is a role model

well, I personally wouldn't aspire to look like her

but it's only really in the last decade or 2 that there has been such pressure on women to conform to an airbrushed, photoshopped picture of a gaunt looking, fake-tanned idea of womanhood....in past times being that thin meant you were too poor to afford food and having no child-bearing hips made you an unattractive choice of wife...
how times change eh?

no, you twit. to purplemunkey, who said that she wasn't a good role model.

oh ok then

As arty image I quite like it.

But I don't like seeing images of naked or semi-naked women to sell magazines.

I also agree with expat (somewhere further down!) re finding it hard to believe so many models are really a size 6.

I am a size 6 and about 5'3" and am stick thin even at that height.

MN really suprises me sometimes with its viewpoints. Whatever happened to sisterhood hey?

this isn't about sisterhood

my feelings would be the same if this was a pic of a morbidly obese man

but that wouldn't happen would it, because we are all so obsessed with body size in women

and tbh, as much as I like this lady's attitude, I fear she just buys into the media's obsession with it just by posing in the nude

rolls of fat, or no rolls of fat

She is confident and that's fabulous, that despite the world we live in she can be confident enough to pose nude.

but imvho she's unattractive. Just my opinion, but she looks caricatured iykwim.

Agree AF

(I wasn't sure whether to post 'I agree with anyfucker')!

but salmon, don't you find it a teeny bit patronising

< points finger >

"oohhhh, look at that fat lady, isn't she brave...."

leaves a bad taste in me gob, tbh