Healthy, fat, or skinny?

DalekBrittany
DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
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I recently came across this article on Yahoo:

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/h-m-uses-plus-size-model-to-showcase-swimwear-collection-and-the-skinny-girl-backlash-175911707.html

Basically, TL;DR, H&M is using a "plus sized" (probably about a size 8-12, but plus sized for modeling standards) model for their new campaigns, and not labeling her as plus sized. Basically saying more people are defending "healthy" sized women (they name Adele, Kim K, and Christina Aguilera) and backlashing against "stick thin" women.

What do you think? Do you think these women are healthy sizes and weights, or do you think they are still too thin, or too chubby?

I think that while all these women are very beautiful in their own right, saying that they are all healthy is just false. We have no idea if they are healthy, and I'm sure according to some doctors, some of them would be considered overweight. I like the idea of showing off most body types in magazines, but I wish we could do away with phrases like "stick thin/too thin" and "plus sized" for people that wear like a 10. I would say that's more of an average size than plus sized or too thin.

Thoughts?

ETA: I titled it using wording that the article uses, I obviously realize there are more choices than those three.

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  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    Personally, I would like to see them using a range of model types for a campaign. Because that would give a wider range of women a more realistic idea of how the clothes would look on their own body type.

    It doesn't matter how thin, or fit I get - I will never have the body type of the average model, so the photos of the clothes bear little resemblance to how they would look on me. *shrug*
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    Personally, I would like to see them using a range of model types for a campaign. Because that would give a wider range of women a more realistic idea of how the clothes would look on their own body type.

    It doesn't matter how thin, or fit I get - I will never have the body type of the average model, so the photos of the clothes bear little resemblance to how they would look on me. *shrug*

    This! You worded it better than I :flowerforyou:

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