To think only thin people can be graceful and glamorous

[musesky]

I've always wanted to look graceful, but no matter how hard I try I know I don't. The glamorous people I see are always slim, tall and well groomed, and it's made me think it's hard to be glamorous if you're short, curvy and big breasted!

I've accepted I'll always look a clumsy mess

Agree with most posters, I don't think being slim has any bearing. I'm tall, size 8/10 and have about as much grace and glamour as a dead warthog!!
My Aunt who is 70 is not slim but I think of her as glamorous, its just an aura that she carries.

Ashley Graham. (end of argument) I love her

Yabu. Take a look at Queen Latifah in a dress... Elegance personified

I think fat women are often really glam.

Graceful, not so much.

YANBU My friend has recently lost lots of weight, I'd think an 18 to an 8. Her style hasn't changed but she looks taller and far more glam. Still rushes through the playground after her kids but looks boho rather than scruffy. Its hard to articulate, but the weight coming off has made a massive impact

I've never seen an overweight person walk in a graceful manner. Glamorous, sometimes.

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Ashley Graham is sooo Glam

Christ, that pic of Serena!! Glamour and grace in buckets. Stunning.

It’s interesting That in that picture of Ashley Graham (who I’ve never heard of before this thread) she doesn’t have the face of someone who is larger. Normally someone with her body proportions would have a bit of extra weight around her neck and face. I wonder if that’s the difference between looking glam and not?

I struggled to find a photo, but in real life I think Joanna Scanlan is stunning. Exceptionally strong and graceful.

You need to believe in yourself.

Yes Ashley Graham has a beautiful angular face I stead of triple Chinns and chunny cheeks

Ollivander84 beautiful 😊

My old ballet teacher was a size 16/18, she was graceful, glamorous and terrifying in equal measure!

DM is a size 14 (so just a bit chubby I guess) and she’s very graceful from yoga.

I agree that dancers have a natural grace. It is the coiled strength and poise and effortless fluid movement.

To be elegant, you need to be thin and fairly small chested.

Any shape or size can be glamorous.

Glamorous and graceful has absolutely nothing to do with body size

I really take offence at certainly not a stick. That's exactly the same as criticising someone a size 16+ and calling them a pig.

I'm naturally slim - I absolutely am glamorous when I go out and turn heads - as does my sister who is a size 16.

YABVU to make this kind of generalisation. Lots of fat girls are fiercely glamorous and confident. Gracefulness as nothing to do with size. I think you need to work on your self esteem.

It’s a load of nonsense that elegance is only for tall waifs.
Here is a picture of Australian fashion icon Maggie Tabberer - yes tall ( former model who didn’t lose her elegance just because she became larger.)

5f3 Ditta Von Tease can be elegant.

It’s unrealistic that women now will ever be as elegant as Grace Kelly, it’s a different era and a totally different headspace. However, I believe it’s possible to not be rough and to dress classy. It’s effort and it’s down to attitude, this is how you want to present yourself to people. I think quality fabrics, clothes that are tailored/ fit well and flatter and are more the classic style lend to elegance. DH believes elegance is all about how you move and wearing flowing clothing. I don’t view myself as rough, I have my moments of knowing how to dress and carry myself elegantly, despite not being tall or thin. However, I’m in my 40s now and my days of having Grace Kelly as my style icon are over. For one, I have been dressing too old for years ( time to get hip and funky!) and secondly, I have a confidence that comes with getting older. My days of trying to be perfect are long gone. The 20 something’s can knock themselves out! I’m happy in my skin, DH thinks I am the most beautiful women in the world ( in his eyes). However, glamour, I love glamour, I’m going to start indulging in sparkle and glitz, now I don’t have the shy ‘ don’t look at me’ days of my youth. I’m too lazy to be fabulously glamourous all the time though! Again that’s an attitude as well.

Size is nothing to do with grace necessarily - I've always been a size 8-10 and I'm clumsy and ungainly has hell. I have seen a theatre production where a size 20+ woman has practically glided across the stage beautifully!