Plus size model - yeah right!

[CeliaFate]

Australian Vogue uses a "plus size" model. If she's plus size, I'm morbidly obese at size 10-12!

Haven't read the whole article, I'd guess she's a 14? She's just normal size, I think, neither particularly fat nor thin.

She's an Australian 14, which is a UK 12.

Reckon she's a tall size 12-14 - so still slimmer than the majority of us.

Gawjuss woman

She will be super tall though, I am 5.10 and a 12-14 and have a roughly similar shape and size, allbeit with some extra tummy.

She is very striking.

She's 8 foot.

She is absolutely stunning - she has a really lovely womanly figure compared to the normal stick-thin models you see used, and a really beautiful face too.

I think she looks normal. But compared to the skinny usual models she is quite chunky. But in a good way.

Don't think she is beautiful though.

It seems that any model who is over size 6 is "plus size" .

I bet some of the supermodels from the late 80s and early 90s - Cindy Crawford for example - would be called "plus size" now.

Plus size model doesn't equate to plus size human being, why do we make these extrapolations? We wouldn't moan if she was referred to as plus size for a high jumper, men don't look at boxers and moan about themselves therefore being heavy weight/ feather weight because they are not boxers. Model criteria is currently tall and thin (changing that is a different issue), so for a model she is plus size - that is no reason for any other woman to beat themselves up. I would be a "mammoth size" jockey, "short arsed" high jumper, "fragile, tiny" sumo wrestler - still overall a normal person of healthy size.

yep. Sorry, but looking at her curves, she's definitely a "plus size"

I think it's all about height - she might be a size 12, but that means a very different thing at say 5'11 than it does if you're 5'2" like me. Don't know how tall she is of course, but models aren't usually short!

She has a lovely figure, certainly not thin though, even for her height.

lovely but obese for a model

'Plus-size' models start at a size 12-14. So doesn't bear a large relation to what the high-street refer to as plus-size ie. 16+. But as someone who is busty, it's nice to see what clothing looks like on something other than a boyish figure.

lol at 'obese for a model' - do definitions of obesity (ie. a medical condition) change according to one's profession? Is she 'anorexic for a darts player' as well?

She is very lovely.

I was very cross to discover recently that models are using padding so that they can pretend to be plus-size (a 12 or 14, not talking a size 20). Why not just find someone who is the right size and shape to start with?

Wow what a heifer

(lol at anorexic for a darts player)

She is plus size - for a model!

wails. wails some more.

she is plus size? oh my god. she looks like i did about 10 years ago when i was a size 10-12....

now im a 14. i most certainly do not look quite so slim....plus size my arse.