What do you think the size of a healthy woman would be?

healthy is as healthy does. It is not defined by the size stitched into your clothing.

Dress size is in no way an accurate portrayal of health. Also, while a size 10-12 might be around average, could still be very well into the "overweight" category depending on height. It's all relative and makes no difference. We can't cram every woman into a single category no matter the qualifiers.

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Size per se does not matter when talking about health. What does their blood panel show? Are they able to be physically active without too much pain and huffing and puffing? How much fat is around their internal organs (even skinny people can have really fatty organs)? I know that I for one was "healthier" when I was larger. Now that I've lost 130 pounds I feel weak and tired...I throw up all the time....I'm constantly getting sick...and my heart is not able to maintain a high enough blood pressure. I'm tired of seeing people equate weight with health...the numbers on the scale are not a good indicator of what is going on internally.

Dress size does not matter, fitness level does and this does not equate to those fab abs. I have muscle tone but will never have my abs showing through. Kids factor into it, but I also know I would never be able to eat as cleanly as I would need to for my abs to pop out. Go with what works for you, keeping health and fitness at the top of your list.

All women must be a size 6 to be healthy. Anything larger or smaller is unhealthy. Height and build make no difference. Everyone must conform.

I'm not sure about a specific size. My husband just says he prefers curves to a super thin woman.

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benefiting wrote: »

I did say I know it's no way to accutually tells one's health but what I am getting at is, what makes the woman a plus size when she's around the average of a healthy woman. Why aren't all models healthy sizes instead of size 0-6, etc?

So...you're saying that sizes 0-6 are unhealthy, while sizes 10-14 are healthy? 0.o

Yeah, caught that one too

there is nothing like healthy size. People of all sizes are unhealthy or healthy.

I don't give a *kitten* about a stupid number on a piece of cloth...healthy comes in all shapes and sizes, so beauty, so does confidence.

Like everybody else here said, dress size =/= health in any way. A short girl and a tall girl can be exactly the same fitness wise with very different dress sizes for example, and that's not even taking into account how unfit skinny girls can be and how fit larger girls can be: I once knew somebody decidedly in the 'overweight' category but she could run circles around me with zero effort while I was lying on the grass dying. Unless their bodyshape is at the extreme end of the spectrum health and bodyshape don't equate.

BUT you're talking about one model in particular, and asking why somebody of an average weight was considered plus size in the fashion world. The answer is that, in that particular industry, she *is* plus sized (by which I mean over the average weight) compared to the rest of the models. Fashion models have to be skinny because the designers prefer it when clothes 'drape' off them - it shows off the outfit better and draws more attention to it. This isn't true of all designers, brands or models, naturally, but it can't be argued that there's a huge amount of pressure to be skinny in that world. This has issues, models are the Chosen Ones of beauty, so if they're all well under average weight then surely that must be the ideal look, but these criticisms are well documented and have been explained far better than I ever can in a little forum post. It could easily be that the 'plus sized' models are healthier than some of their more extreme counterparts, but modelling simply isn't about promoting healthy looks or being an accurate representation of the population. It's about selling stuff.

I would like to point out to all the non-Australians in here, an Australian size 14 equates to about a US size 10.

@benefiting I was a little curious, are you talking about Robyn Lawley, or the Australian plus size models in particular? I know most of the City Chic 'plus size' models are usually a 14-16, and fit in an XS in their clothing lines.

My wife always fluctuated between size 6 when she was upset / depressed to size 10 when all is well with her life. So strictly from that barometer I would say size 10 - 12.

This is an unanswerable question because women are all shaped differently and fit different size dresses. My Thai friend has a very slight build and wears very small sizes. She would be big at size 4. Another friend is more Amazonian in stature and I am guessing a 12 when she is on point fitness-wise.

You can't measure health with a fashion yardstick.