"Plus sized" model??

I guess what I am thinking is Marilyn Monroe was beautiful and sexy. My generation has been raised on Twiggy. Before her, the models were size 8s and 10s (1950s size 8-10s) which I now understand to be smaller via patterns and such.

we cant argue that humans are not larger now than in the 30s. I see pix of my mom's family and my auntie who was around size 10 was huge compared to the other classmates. Of course they were all starving from the depression (at least in that neck of the woods they were)

I take issue in my daughter thinking she is fat because she is in size 7s and the models are size 0. smoking, doing drugs and not eating.........is not healthy.

I just wish a more realisitic image of woman was portrayed in glamor mags.

a little to add into that statement......In HS kids can be a lot more toxic and a lot more mean than any magazines (talking from experience on that one)

a little to add into that statement......In HS kids can be a lot more toxic and a lot more mean than any magazines (talking from experience on that one)

Oh yes. Middle school aged kids too. My childhood was miserable. It wasn't even for being overweight b/c I wasn't. It was what I wore. Where my mom could afford to buy my clothes. My hair. Chicken pox scars. The gap between my two front teeth. My mom when she started dating again after my parents split.

That like Tyra Banks she said when she finished high school she went straight to Paris to model and she was only 17 still not coming into her womenly figure yet. And she said a few years later the head of her modeling agency sat her and her mother down (who is her manager) and said that over the past few months Tyra has gained weight and that it was getting harder and harder to book her for shows and shoots.

So she said she thought her career was over and she was ready to do all types of stuff to be what they wanted. She did not say what stuff but I take it surgeries, or just being very unhealthy.

Anyway she said her mother told them take her like this or don't and when the left the meeting she said her mother said well lets go find someone who wants a woman to look like a woman and not a 12 year old boy. And they came back to the states.

She said after several covers and some shows she signed with Victoria Secrets and when she retired from Vicky's is when I heard this story and she said the best thing about working for them they never once told her to lose weight.

And if you ever saw Tyra do a Victoria's Runway show that girl giggled from start to finish. Even with her flat stomach she had thighs and butt and breast. To me that is sexy not the bones and ribs they all want us to look like.

curves are awesome!!!....i knew a lot of run way models and they were told they had to drop 10lbs in a week!!! WEEK!!! and these girls are already thin as paper......but some of them were saying they made the run way models do it because the designers and what not didnt want to spend extra money on material for the clothing....because its expensive and they cant sell it after the show......to me thats crazy crazy crazy and i truely think kate moss changed the whole runway model revolution atleast in some places

Personally I would love to see models of all shapes and sizes in these mags.
The idea of having models at a healthy weight is great but then the message seems to be the same it always has been... you have to be this size to be beautiful.
I want to see models of everyday people You have all types of women out there. You've got skinny, athletic, average, overweight, obese, short, tall, young, middle aged, elderly, light skinned, dark skinned... and the list goes on. I think the message in the media needs to change to be proud of who you are but know that change is possible if you want it rather than making people feel like they have to.

I'm not saying change isn't a fabulous thing when you have a goal in mind as everyone here has one including myself but I want to set those standards for myself and not have the media tell me what I should and shouldn't feel proud of.

My personal opinion is that it isn't okay to be morbidly obese. I'm not say we should purposefully make people feel bad for, well anything, but at the same time I don't think we should support the idea the obesity is okay and right when everyone has to pay for it.

And lets face it, as much as it sucks and it isn't right, people want to look a beautiful people. In general people are more likely to be nice to the tall healthy woman than the morbidly obese woman.

I think theres going to be a new take over of the look on the run way in the upcoming years...... because of victoria's and maxim.....but here is the simple reason why the skinny and perfectly shaped women will always been seen on tv and in mags versus the avg looking woman.....a few decades ago the media took over and realized SEX sells......and guys along with women want to see pretty people or "daydream" about that person or just oogle at them.....its sad but thats how it goes....and the media doesnt care enough about people to think it isnt real and a lot of young kids and even adults are hurting themselves trying to look like that model.....they only care about the profit.....as sad as it is it will always stand true

awwww so my baby only loves me because i'm pretty? lmaoooooo JK JK JK :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: i haddddddd to throw it in there lmao sorry :laugh:

I think the being in your belly for 9mo is part of it. Although, that fact that you're HOT helps.

:laugh: :laugh: babies are weird...if someone locked me into a cramped tiny space filled with water and no real food for 9 months i think i'd come out pissed as all hell :laugh: :laugh: and awww schucks Jmax u know how to make a girl :blushing:

I think the being in your belly for 9mo is part of it. Although, that fact that you're HOT helps.

:laugh: :laugh: babies are weird...if someone locked me into a cramped tiny space filled with water and no real food for 9 months i think i'd come out pissed as all hell :laugh: :laugh: and awww schucks Jmax u know how to make a girl :blushing:

Their just playing in their own private pool doing some flips in the nice warm water just chillin' while someone else does all the work. Doesn't that sound horrible?

She may be a 12-14, but looking at her sitting on that couch, I still think...grrr, she's so skinny, I hate her.

lmtrue and its kind of creepy if u think of it....a human has actually claimed your body as their home :laugh: :laugh:

Not mine. Happily my body has only been home to me. Though it seems you like the humans that have claimed your body as home.:bigsmile:

lol oh yes.......lol although i dont think they've realized theyve been put into the world.....and the house is their home yet....they still act like they own my body :laugh: :indifferent: :ohwell: :laugh:

lmao i ate breakfast late because i thought my 9month old would eat it all....soo i ate at 8:30-9:00 today and then lunch came around and both my kids were asleep!!! i made a tuna sandwhich (w/ very little mayo) sure enough soon as i sat down to take a bite my 9month old woke up and ate all my food lmao i had to make another one :grumble: