I'm tired, cranky now I read Kate Upton is fat?!
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She's not fat, but I do find her weight average and that's not good enough for a model.
We need more average models. These really thin, airbrushed ones we have are the reason why so many girls have eating disorders.
What do we need average models for? We have average people everywhere. Models are supposed to represent a FANTASY. We can't handle the fact that we aren't perfect so we have to make art that's mediocre? C'mon.
Modeling is art now?
News flash-- most models aren't meant to be healthy or attractive, they're meant to be clothes hangers in pretty much every sense.
Models are not art. Photography and fashion design are art. Models bodies are props that are used in a careful composition. Deal with it. If I'm trying to create a specific image, I'm not going to sacrifice that image by using a model that doesn't fit just because I don't want to hurt someone's feelings. Peoples' feelings are irrelevant in aesthetics. If Kate Upton is useful as a model it's because some fraction of the population is comforted by seeing the image of a fatter woman. That's fine. It's also pandering.
Ten minutes ago I did not know who Kate Upton was. Now I do. The issue (if there is one) is not about people being pandered to, or comforted. The girl is freakin' gorgeous. She's hot. Men (and women) find her incredibly sexually attractive. She looks healthy. She looks fertile. That's what we are programmed to see as attractive.
Most men and women do not find catwalk models sexually attractive, because they usually have no sexual features. They are clothes hangers, and they do a job. But it is not being attractive. I'd rather look like Kate Upton than all the catwalk models I have seen who look like they would fall over in a breeze. This is not pandering because I am overweight. It's because I want to look strong and healthy.0 -
[ Get over it. My kids' self esteem is my responsibility as a parent, not some athlete, model, or anyone else for that matter.
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Yes... Yes... yes.... this quote.....0 -
Body shaming at its best.0
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She's not fat, but I do find her weight average and that's not good enough for a model.
We need more average models. These really thin, airbrushed ones we have are the reason why so many girls have eating disorders.
What do we need average models for? We have average people everywhere. Models are supposed to represent a FANTASY. We can't handle the fact that we aren't perfect so we have to make art that's mediocre? C'mon.
Well models should also represent health while they're at it. Nothing wrong with fantasy models, just not enough average ones out there. Everywhere you turn you see size 0 models. No wonder girls who are Kate's size think they're fat..
I totally agree. We need more average models like we need more average intelligence doctors and physicists. All those smarty pants types giving people of average intelligence low self esteem. It's just not fair.
Oh there are plenty of average intelligence doctors.0 -
This picture is the answer to the question of what do you do for work?
"Ab-so-lutely nothing."0 -
She's not fat, but I do find her weight average and that's not good enough for a model.
We need more average models. These really thin, airbrushed ones we have are the reason why so many girls have eating disorders.
What do we need average models for? We have average people everywhere. Models are supposed to represent a FANTASY. We can't handle the fact that we aren't perfect so we have to make art that's mediocre? C'mon.
Well models should also represent health while they're at it. Nothing wrong with fantasy models, just not enough average ones out there. Everywhere you turn you see size 0 models. No wonder girls who are Kate's size think they're fat..
I totally agree. We need more average models like we need more average intelligence doctors and physicists. All those smarty pants types giving people of average intelligence low self esteem. It's just not fair.
Oh there are plenty of average intelligence doctors.
Can I just add that intelligence can be quantified while beauty is subjective, and therefore, the analogy of models to doctors is apples to oranges.0 -
Kate Upton is a gorgeous woman with an enviable body. Yep she is a different look than what we are used to seeing on the runway . Very low body fat, seems to be the aesthetic. Terms like fat, skinny, curvy, fit, skinny fat all get tossed around with no seemingly consistency. Best to ignore all the noise.0
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She's not fat, but I do find her weight average and that's not good enough for a model.
Excuse me? WHAT is good enough to be a model? It's this kind of attitude that causes us as a society to be so self-consumed.0 -
Can't believe nobody have posted this yet
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OK so I live under a rock apparently, but I was looking up my girl crush, Kate Upton, and read she is considered fat.
Who said this and in what context?
She has higher bodyfat % than most female models who take their clothes off.
She has higher bodyfat % than most male models who take their clothes off.
She's still hot.
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Well models should also represent health while they're at it. Nothing wrong with fantasy models, just not enough average ones out there. Everywhere you turn you see size 0 models. No wonder girls who are Kate's size think they're fat..
Models are not making a public service announcement. They are selling ****.
You seem to have a rather shocking lack of understanding of how the media influences individuals. Wow. Just oh wow!
The media influences individuals who can't wrap their heads around that fact that it's a fantasy. That's my whole point. Let the fantasy be the fantasy that it is. Don't conflate it with reality and get all bent out of shape because the two don't measure up. They aren't supposed to. That's why it sells. You're the one who doesn't seem to understand.
Yes. Advertising is such a waste of time! We are obviously not affected at all by the media! Especially not teenage girls. *eyeroll*0 -
Can't believe nobody have posted this yet
This is what caused me to fall in lust with her. My boyfriend understands that if she ever wants to pitch for the same team he has to accept her. As someone else stated I guess I'm a chubby chaser.0 -
Can't believe nobody have posted this yet
I keep waiting for a nipple to pop out and it never does. I won't lie. I'm disappointed.0 -
When I saw her on the cover of sports illustrated, I was like, "Wow; they put a plus size model on the cover. That's progressive." She's not "fat" for a person walking on the street, but she certainly has at least 2 times the body fat of a standard model. Why does she get paid for that? I think models should have to work for it... Their job is to look good... That's all they have to do. And she doesn't bother to work out? That's just lazy.
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...to try to understand how body fat is correlated with laziness.0 -
Can't believe nobody have posted this yet
That is one hot mama!0 -
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When I saw her on the cover of sports illustrated, I was like, "Wow; they put a plus size model on the cover. That's progressive." She's not "fat" for a person walking on the street, but she certainly has at least 2 times the body fat of a standard model. Why does she get paid for that? I think models should have to work for it... Their job is to look good... That's all they have to do. And she doesn't bother to work out? That's just lazy.
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...to try to understand how body fat is correlated with laziness.
well, its like this. I used to work like 4 horus a week but still got paid for working 50+ hours. I would literally get paid to play World of warcraft at work. I got fat. I was lazy. I got paid.
I can't really pin point but I think theres a corelation there somewhere...0 -
Can't believe nobody have posted this yet
See your Kate Upton .gif and raise with Kate Upton and a cheeseburger.
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When I saw her on the cover of sports illustrated, I was like, "Wow; they put a plus size model on the cover. That's progressive." She's not "fat" for a person walking on the street, but she certainly has at least 2 times the body fat of a standard model. Why does she get paid for that? I think models should have to work for it... Their job is to look good... That's all they have to do. And she doesn't bother to work out? That's just lazy.
In...
...to try to understand how body fat is correlated with laziness.
well, its like this. I used to work like 4 horus a week but still got paid for working 50+ hours. I would literally get paid to play World of warcraft at work. I got fat. I was lazy. I got paid.
I can't really pin point but I think theres a corelation there somewhere...
IDK some of those raids can get pretty intense you have to be on your A game if you want get a decent rank.0 -
Can't believe nobody have posted this yet
That is one hot mama!
Oh, wow, this is so adorable. I take it back, Kate! I
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When I saw her on the cover of sports illustrated, I was like, "Wow; they put a plus size model on the cover. That's progressive." She's not "fat" for a person walking on the street, but she certainly has at least 2 times the body fat of a standard model. Why does she get paid for that? I think models should have to work for it... Their job is to look good... That's all they have to do. And she doesn't bother to work out? That's just lazy.
WHAT? She looks better than 99% of the walking sticks on the runway!! Curves, feminine, beautiful. She doesn't need to change an ounce.0 -
When I saw her on the cover of sports illustrated, I was like, "Wow; they put a plus size model on the cover. That's progressive." She's not "fat" for a person walking on the street, but she certainly has at least 2 times the body fat of a standard model. Why does she get paid for that? I think models should have to work for it... Their job is to look good... That's all they have to do. And she doesn't bother to work out? That's just lazy.
In...
...to try to understand how body fat is correlated with laziness.
well, its like this. I used to work like 4 horus a week but still got paid for working 50+ hours. I would literally get paid to play World of warcraft at work. I got fat. I was lazy. I got paid.
I can't really pin point but I think theres a corelation there somewhere...
IDK some of those raids can get pretty intense you have to be on your A game if you want get a decent rank.
US top 10 guild at one point. (Gentlemens Club). Had to keep a pee bottle when new patches/expansions came out.0 -
I see your cheeseburger and raise you a boob adjustment!Can't believe nobody have posted this yet
See your Kate Upton .gif and raise with Kate Upton and a cheeseburger.
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When I saw her on the cover of sports illustrated, I was like, "Wow; they put a plus size model on the cover. That's progressive." She's not "fat" for a person walking on the street, but she certainly has at least 2 times the body fat of a standard model. Why does she get paid for that? I think models should have to work for it... Their job is to look good... That's all they have to do. And she doesn't bother to work out? That's just lazy.
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OK so I live under a rock apparently, but I was looking up my girl crush, Kate Upton, and read she is considered fat. What the freakers? She's fat?! If she's fat then there's no hope for the rest of us. The epitome of femininity and she's considered fat, wow... :grumble:
I was already tired and cranky and now I'm po'ed.
Who considers her 'fat' and what have you invested in the opinions of these people?0 -
Definitely PHAT!0
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When I saw her on the cover of sports illustrated, I was like, "Wow; they put a plus size model on the cover. That's progressive." She's not "fat" for a person walking on the street, but she certainly has at least 2 times the body fat of a standard model. Why does she get paid for that? I think models should have to work for it... Their job is to look good... That's all they have to do. And she doesn't bother to work out? That's just lazy.
please tell me you're not serious...
I know right??^^^
I didnt know you had to be RAIL THIN with hollow legs in order to be models. This is pure BS if you ask me. Kate looks great, and yes she is average but why are you hatin' on that? Uh, really. I do everything in my power to teach my daughter that those models and celebrities are not who she should want to be. She should want what is best for her health.... but I would MUCH RATHER my daughter see KATE as a model which shows her hey its okay to be 'normal' than my daughter use hollow legged models as her role models for body image.
go kate! we love you.
The Irony of this is so delicious, I'm salivating!0 -
Mondays, eh?0
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Can't believe nobody have posted this yet
I keep waiting for a nipple to pop out and it never does. I won't lie. I'm disappointed.
At first, I thought she was going to remover her top. I am disappoint.0
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