to think it's rediculous that

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this woman is considered a plus size model?

She's normal ffs. What does this say to young girls if someone this size is considered to be plus size?

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she's the one at the front btw

well quite getorfmoiland, my late sister was under 5ft and very petitie and used to wear teenage girls clothes and she had a bust and was by no means anorexic. it is a red herring. Plenty of slim tall women will be a size 16 and people would perceive them as a 10-12

with all that airbrushing it's hard to tell how big she is at all tbh

They air brush the fat ones more because people don't like to see them as they really are. Size 16 is not that thin in the UK (12 in sUS sizes) so not really sure what they are going on about. Most mumsnetters know a size 10/12 looks better than 16/18 particularly if you're average height.

'I am 6 foot and a size 8-10'

Sod it getorfmoiland you really are destroying my mental image of you - when I read your posts I like to picture you short and broad with wellingtons, a shotgun and a 3-legged sheepdog guarding the road to Poughill.

Snap with the cottage cheese stomach though. Don't remember it arriving but it looks like it's here to stay.

lol seen loads of people on MN say that with my name they imagine me as looking like Clarissa Dickson Wright!

She can't possibly look like that facially. What a ridiculous amount of airbrushing.

Oh and agree with you about the weight, but then tis nothing new. If you pick up any girlie magazine these days, it's full of celebrities who have apparently let themselves go. Most are a size 12 and look healthy for the first time in their lives.

No wonder anorexia is such a problem these days.

i watched that series of ANTM and she is a beautiful woman, however, i wouldnt be happy that size. she is large for a model. most models are the size they are to make the clothes look good. thats their job. not to be role models.

tbh i get fed up that you are only considered a "real woman" if you are a size 12 or over. what am i? chopped liver?

Supercherry sorry didn't mean they meant she was unattractive at all, she is attractive but very thin. She actually strives to be this way as she does 200 sit ups to get a flat stomach and doesn't eat until later in the afternoon. She is also about 5'10 and a size 8.

Before I had DS, I was always very thin. At school people would ask me if I was anorexic which I found upsetting. I would eat loads and not put any weight on.

That's OK Detectivepotato- like I said, I know people don't mean to offend. I got that at school too- along with 'stick legs' 'ironing board chest' etc etc. Can laugh about it now.

I think often, people feel they are entitled to make comments about you're appearance if you're skinny when I doubt they'd make the same comments to someone overweight. Then some women see it as a positive thing- my DH says she is too skinny, wouldn't fancy her etc etc, when really it's just not nice is it?

The women in my ex's family do this. They are all slightly overweight, but feel it's OK to comment on my sister's weight saying she is too thin etc. My sister is gorgeous- think they may be a little jealous.

Definitely. Being called skinny and teased for it is just as bad as being called fat etc.

There was a woman in the paper a little while ago who had something wrong with her (can't remember what) and she looked like she was very badly anorexic but when you looked at what she ate, it was all fattening and junk food but she could not put any weight on. I bet she had a fair few comments too.