Model with flabby tummy shocks the world

[MmeLindt]

According to the Daily Mail

How sad is that? That we are so used to the airbrushed perfection of models that a tiny pic of a normal woman causes such a fuss.

She is 5ft 11in and 12 1/2st and is considered too big to model plus sizes

I think she looks fab. I have a wee tummy just like hers and she has made me feel much better about it.

I'm a francophile and I don't think she looks fat.

I've only read the last few posts on this thread but would agree with Talbot that in poorer areas of France and in rural areas (whether wealthy or poor) there are lots of overweight people.

Interestingly, I'm reading 'Suite Francaise' at the moment. It takes place in France under the occupation and the writer (who was brought up in Paris) keeps remarking how fat the countrywomen are.

Oh whatever. I think that model looks great, happy and glowing. As long as you feel good, eff what everyone else thinks.

Also, am never going to France. (makes note)

I haven't read what you're referring to but I assume Monkey is referring to Haussman's plan for Paris.

Was thinking of going to Paris but with all the fuss over niqab/hijab sisn't think it was a good diea about now. And of course, they might not let us blobbies in either

Eh... that tummy looks like what I had straight after giving birth... I am not keen on seeing that on a naked model tbh. Now shoot me.

Haussman was a busy bunny. Fuortunealy he didn't get let lose on the area round the Sacre Coer and monmartre. He'd of found it untidy

yes, Talbot, I was referring to Haussman, but that's all I really know about re Paris planning. Can't claim to be an expert. Montmartre is a bit untidy though, eh Riven?
Ooh I'm also halfway through Suite Francaise, Otherside, and yes I noticed that too.
Anyway, for the record, that model is not fat, just has a bit of a tummy, but most importantly looks healthy and fabulous!

My in-laws live in Limoge. There are loads of fat badly dressed women there. I think it might be just the posh bits of Paris where they actually make an effort clothes wise. In Limoge they seem to have an obsession with dying their hair ginger - it has the unfortunate effect of making them look like Coco the Clown.

The model isn't fat but she does look like she has had a baby. Maybe she has.

We were near Limoges. Crack is right lumpen women aplenty.

Must be all that foie gras- that oh so healthy food they seem to chuck on everything down there (along with the lardons).

Don't get me wrong I love France but this notion of superiority in architecture,food,clothes,wine,language,culture etc etc etc the French love to pedal does get a tad wearing at times.

This thread is bringing back soooo many memories of my (very rotund actually) rather haughty French penfriend. She seemed to be of the view anything and everything in Britain was rather inferior to all things French.

maybe they have exiled all the fatties to the countryside and Paris has a fat filter. You can't come in unless you can squeeze through a letterbox?

that model looks fab and I'd like her tummy - she's lovely.

Absolutely - plenty of places in France (Limoges being a prime example) are full of fat people with bad hair eating chips. This whole French chic thing is a complete crock.

Interesting.

I probably weigh about the same as she does and am 3 inches shorter! But you know, my doctor frequently tell me I'm extraordinarily healthy. (Fantastic blood pressure, low cholesterol and all that) Plus I eat well (except for those monthly dinner/drinks/dessert nights with the girls), get lots of sleep, and go on long hikes with DH/S and jogs with my dog. AND I'm happy, so there! Sure, I'm working on toning up, but if I never lose another pound, so be it. I just won't go to France!

Cheers to that model, I say.

Wow - I pointed out a pretty minor cultural difference between England and France and people have been so rude about France and French people. It's not that big a deal this cultural difference - it won't affect your quality of life, in fact it may improve it. No-one is going to measure as you enter the country and no-one is going to treat you differently because of it.

Talbot, I wrote about my experience based on five months living outside of Paris and frequent visits to rural France, where I often work and where DH's family live and my experience is obviously different to yours. Of course there are overweight people eating chips everywhere. France is the fastest growing market for McDonalds in Europe after all!

I am actually pretty sure BonsoirAnna that a dr would NOT tell her to lose weight, in any country. Perhaps you have a strange perception of bodies, you definitely seem to have a thing about mentioning Paris as if it is somehow a better place, whist making claims that if they were true, would make Paris a backward freak-show. You are entitled to an opinion on the women's body, but to claim you know what a dr would say about it when all the evidence is to the contrary, is....

i love how the articlewww.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/818459-Model-with-flabby-tummy-shocks-the-world blah blahs on about how wonderful to see a real woman and then has a huge add featuring the ghastly keira knightly looking emaciated and grim

i dont see whats shocking about it
people have tummies
and flab
and stretchmarks
so what!

fair play to her

flyingcloud, I don't think I have been rude about France and French people. I was just pointing out the obvious.

Wealthier women living in the nicest parts of Paris tend to be thin, well dressed and care about their appearance. This is also the case for the corresponding postcodes in New York, London, Moscow, Tokyo, Sydney etc etc. French women in the less well off rural areas tend to look pretty much like their counterparts all over the world.

Eleanora - you've missed the point, it's not an a paid for ad, it is being used as an example of how air brushing is commonplace in the beauty/fashion industry.

"Anna = you must wake up every day so thankful that you live in Paris. "

No surely, it is we that wake up every day thankful that BonsoirAnna lives in Paris

Unsure if it has been said before as there are soooooooooo many posts but she lost a huge amount of weight when she was 13 hence the tummy. I think she is fab and beautiful

Yes Mammy, she lost 60lbs, if that was a proper fat belly then surely she'd have rolls under her breasts too?
It is just excess skin.

Sorry Talbot - I didn't mean you were being rude in particular.

However I don't agree with your second point, based on my experience but my experience is pretty small so far and may change.

60 lb? How many stone is that?