plus size really??

[anubabs]

I like the models in this pic not the bony ones. How do they survive. Common..look  tyra banks now she looks way better to me. Skinny ppl just look ugly to me. U probably can't help it if u are naturally like that but don't try to make urself skinny purposely.

[shernajwine]

I guess this is what we are supposed to look like to be sexy?

[sflynt]

I'm a 9 too and darn proud of it. I love that i have hips and an a$$. If they want to call me plus size so what! Rock those curves ladies!

H3ll yes! Thats right!!  me too!! lol!!  

[Annella]

Sherene, that is just awful.  They actually look like they're sick with something.  It's sad.

[Cuppycake]

All you can do is try to raise your daughters with a "healthy" attitude concerning this.  The body is not made to be starved.  Health is much more important than how we "look".  There was a book out called "Fit or Fat", and it had some very good advice in it.

The body has to burn fuel from what we eat.  It's important to nourish ourselves.  This can't be done out of thin air (no pun intended).  Even people who work out all the time will tell you that you must eat good nourishing food. Not one body builder, or anyone that works out, or exercises regularly, looks like a stick.  Why, because they practice proper nutrition along with it.

That's why some of these models look horrible if you see them without all the trimmings (make-up, etc.).  They actually look sallow and haggard in their face and bodies.  Where the notion of being 30 lbs. under your natural body weight came from.....who knows?  We need more models walking the catwalk that are "normal" size.  After all, how many of us actually wear a size 0 among the masses?

It is true most of us are not a size 0. And that makes it EXTREMELY hard for people like my daughter who actually ARE a size 0. She has a very hard time finding clothes that fit!

[Annella]

All you can do is try to raise your daughters with a "healthy" attitude concerning this.  The body is not made to be starved.  Health is much more important than how we "look".  There was a book out called "Fit or Fat", and it had some very good advice in it.

The body has to burn fuel from what we eat.  It's important to nourish ourselves.  This can't be done out of thin air (no pun intended).  Even people who work out all the time will tell you that you must eat good nourishing food. Not one body builder, or anyone that works out, or exercises regularly, looks like a stick.  Why, because they practice proper nutrition along with it.

That's why some of these models look horrible if you see them without all the trimmings (make-up, etc.).  They actually look sallow and haggard in their face and bodies.  Where the notion of being 30 lbs. under your natural body weight came from.....who knows?  We need more models walking the catwalk that are "normal" size.  After all, how many of us actually wear a size 0 among the masses?

It is true most of us are not a size 0. And that makes it EXTREMELY hard for people like my daughter who actually ARE a size 0. She has a very hard time finding clothes that fit!

She wouldn't find in hard here in California.  Most shops carry only up to size 12-14, and you have to go to a plus size store to get larger sizes.  Some stores are finally getting a plus size department now.  My friend wears a size 1, but she isn't skin and bones.  She is petite though.

[Longoria11]

All you can do is try to raise your daughters with a "healthy" attitude concerning this.  The body is not made to be starved.  Health is much more important than how we "look".  There was a book out called "Fit or Fat", and it had some very good advice in it.

The body has to burn fuel from what we eat.  It's important to nourish ourselves.  This can't be done out of thin air (no pun intended).  Even people who work out all the time will tell you that you must eat good nourishing food. Not one body builder, or anyone that works out, or exercises regularly, looks like a stick.  Why, because they practice proper nutrition along with it.

That's why some of these models look horrible if you see them without all the trimmings (make-up, etc.).  They actually look sallow and haggard in their face and bodies.  Where the notion of being 30 lbs. under your natural body weight came from.....who knows?  We need more models walking the catwalk that are "normal" size.  After all, how many of us actually wear a size 0 among the masses?

It is true most of us are not a size 0. And that makes it EXTREMELY hard for people like my daughter who actually ARE a size 0. She has a very hard time finding clothes that fit!

She wouldn't find in hard here in California.  Most shops carry only up to size 12-14, and you have to go to a plus size store to get larger sizes.  Some stores are finally getting a plus size department now.  My friend wears a size 1, but she isn't skin and bones.  She is petite though.

yea i think California is RE-DONK-U-LOUS!! I am born n raised in california and out there every department store only have 0-12 and it sucked cuz my mom couldnt shop with me because of that

[bschumacher]

Look at 50's movies! Those women were GORGEOUS, and they were at least size 14.

[kcaution]

It's not bad to be plus-size, some people are just built larger. There's also nothing wrong with being called a "plus-size" if you're a size 9 or 11.

Also, I do think people these days tend to glorify an imagined past of large women being the norm, but it was simply never true in the modern era. What is considered beautiful is a direct result of what people who have money look like. Back when people who had money were the only ones who could afford to eat and stay out of the sun, being heavy-set and fair-skinned was "beautiful". Now that fattening food is cheap and people usually work indoors, being heavy or fair is considered less beautiful because the wealthy can afford to eat healthy food and to be outside long enough to tan. It's all a matter of class.

Anyway, while I do appreciate that nobody should be ostracized for any physical characteristic, you can't ignore that most people who are very large are that way for a reason (the reason usually being lack of proper diet and exercise). Bigger people aren't less beautiful, but they are usually less healthy, and I feel like when people talk about how it used to be that a size 14 was beautiful or that "real women have curves", they're only distracting from the plain truth that people these days are not living healthily, and it is a huge problem regardless.

Also, I find the phrase "real women have curves" incredibly offensive. Real women come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny to Amazon. Don't hurt the feelings of tiny women by removing them from womanhood.     

[shernajwine]

I agree with you kcaution about wealthy/beauty issue.

I think the "real women have curves" isn't meant to exclude smaller women, but is meant to promote the idea that curves are beautiful. Societies idea of what is beautiful has made many normal girls uncomfortable about their weight, when there is absolutely nothing wrong with them. The girls in Hollywood often get so stressed about body image they become anorexic looking and obsessed to the point, it is extremely unhealthy.

I agree though that smaller woman are just as real. The idea is that, you should love yourself in whatever shape you are. Our nation is unhealthy, and it's sad that the junk is what is cheap and so many people are victim to constant health struggles merely because of their income, but when you love yourself you make more of an effort to take care of yourself. If you believe you are a grotesque ugly stain upon the earth because you have some rolls around the middle or big badonka donk, well you will probably end up depressed and caught in a vicious cycle of overeating, guilt, and constant bad decisions regarding healthy choices.

I have been there, I know