Posted on 09/09/2009 6:51:42 PM PDT by Saije
Lizzie Miller is considered too large to model plus-size clothes. Is the reaction that followed the publication of this picture going to change that?
'It's a photo that measures all of three by three inches," gushes Cindi Leive, editor of US Glamour in a post on the magazine's blog, "but the letters about it started to flood my inbox literally the day Glamour hit newsstands." The picture in question, illustrating a story about body confidence, has generated more than 700 comments on the site, and featured on the US Today morning TV programme. What does it show? A beautiful, creamy-skinned naked model . . . with a small roll of stomach fat.
Lizzie Miller, the 20-year-old model in question, agrees that it's astonishing that, at 5ft 11in and 12.5 stone she's considered a "plus size" model. *****
One wouldn't have thought this would be news. As Miller says, "pretty much every picture in a magazine or ad is airbrushed . . . I don't think the public understands how much smoke and mirrors are involved in making women look like that."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
I thought mine was bad............ Holy crap.
Yikes, she’s got quite a stomach flap there! 175 lbs is not obese but it’s a bit hefty. I know a woman who weighs exactly that.
This model’s pose actually hides some of the the ‘heft’.
I still don't know much
A woman who is nearly six feet tall and weighs 175 lbs, well, it says right here she need not worry all that much if she chooses to order a sandwich.
Hey, she’s within my tolerances!
I have never understood why models are always so skinny they look starved.
A few years back I worked in an office with a modeling agency on the floor above. At least once a month an ambulance would show up to take one of the girls to the hospital. They’d pass out. They’d get dizzy and fall. They’d get nosebleeds that wouldn’t stop.
That gal may need to tone up a bit, but then, so do I.
I’n not casting any stones.
Guilty.
Cocaine will do that to a person.
She’s flabby, but not particularly heavy for her height. To be honest, she looks kind of like me, only I’m 5’3”, 145 lbs., 43 years old, and I’ve had nine children.
I actually thought she was 40 something. 20 huh?
somebody needs to tell her that it doesn’t get any easier over the next 20+ years.
It is only in the last 40 years or so that anorexia became fashionable. Before that, women were soft and curvy. See example below.
Screw the New York/Hollywood machine. Ruben's models were beautiful, healthy and very sexy women, not bulimic skeletons that the 'Fashion Mafia' keep trying to shove on us.
ditto, Ditto... tasteful pictures and intelligent thought.
yep, that’s fat all right.........rme.
+1
Lizzie Miller
..... NOT EVEN FOR EATING CRACKERS......
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.