Comments on: I’m Going to Pose Naked For Glamour Magazine

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By: Plus Sized « Will Work For Peanut Butter

Plus Sized « Will Work For Peanut Butter — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:02:36 +0000

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By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:48:41 +0000

I have so many thoughts about this and I can’t even begin to wrap my head around most of them. Don’t get me wrong – all of those women are beautiful, but guess what? They are still models. Their waist and hips may be larger than the size 0 models we see on the pages, but I’m starting to think there’s so much more wrong with this than there is right. Maybe I’m being cynical, but oh well. I see a few “rolls” but I don’t see any cellulite, which Glamour is always giving us wonderful tips on how to banish. Oh, the absurdity! Plus, why can’t we see these women on the COVER and not pushed halfway through the magazine? Thanks so much for posting this! Hopefully you gave a lot of people some stuff to think about.

By: B

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:31:32 +0000

The ad agencies have poisoned society by what they believe to be “perfect bodies” or “perfect faces.” How dare they tell me what is beautiful and what is not. I find it insulting…I will make up my own mind. They don’t know what I’m thinking. I am a true believer that a person needs to be beautiful on the inside first…I don’t care how beautiful you are on the outside (and I have known many of those people), if you don’t have it within your heart to be a kind, caring person….the ugliness will reveal itself.

Women need to stick together and fight all of this B.S. about “perfection”! If I see one more ad for plastic surgery, liposuction or Juvaderm, I’m going to vomit.

By: Lois

Lois — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:27:14 +0000

I’ve always been a fan of plus-size models! There’s a great site with many images of plus-size models here:

http://www.judgmentofparis.com/

They’re all gorgeous.

The site’s forum also has thought-provoking discussions about body image and the media.

By: Veggie Booty

Veggie Booty — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:03:35 +0000

I think that you’re overall point – that we need to promote comfort in our own bodies, whatever that body may look like! – is the most important one. We can spend as much time we want discussing whether these women are actually “plus-sized” or “normal” or “average” or “beautiful” (yeah, they’re stunning), but that doesn’t get us anywhere. You can slap whatever “positive” label you want on their looks, but it’s still a label. Until we stop trying to make people fit into these categories in our heads (”overweight,” “anorexic,” “ugly,” etc.) and accept people for *who they are,* nothing will change. We can all be labeled as beautiful on the outside, and we all need to be!, but it doesn’t change what’s in your head or your heart. That’s where our focus needs to be.

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:26:46 +0000

I don’t get that these ladies are all that plus sized. They look pretty much normal to me. Maybe they need to do a little lifting

It’s such a hard balance between accepting yourself and being the healthiest you can be for the right reasons.

By: Jody - Fit at 51

Jody - Fit at 51 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:46:54 +0000

I saw this & thought some of your same thoughts. In fact, I was going to do a post next week on it sometime. Again, like you, why was the pic in the BACK of the magazine…. put them on the cover! Also, they did not look PLUS to me. I think of very very heavy when I think of plus size models. They looked great! Also, the fact that size 6 & up is plus size.. OMG!!!!! F’in craziness!!!! Yes, I want to look fit & healthy BUT saying that a size 10 or 12 is plus size is nuts!!!! And if you are tall, my god, should you be wearing the same size as me at 5′1″.

Very good post!

Annabel, today is LIVESTRONG Day 2009…. you can make a after note on your post OR if people want to come to my site, I have some info there too. Let’s beat cancer!

By: Maggie

Maggie — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:16:50 +0000

Awesome post. I think that it’s important to have more “normal” sized women, but I really don’t like how overweight people use fat acceptance to justify being unhealthy. There is nothing healthy about being a size 20 unless you are 8 feet tall. As a society we are far too self righteous. We should promote healthy, normal bodies – not overweight, not underweight – normal and healthy! The so-called “plus size” models look pretty darn normal to me, but calling them plus sized is ridiculous. Now it makes people who truly are overweight/plus-size think that it’s okay, and it makes women who are actually normal and healthy (the same as the models) think of themselves as plus size. It’s sick. We need to stop making such a big deal about size and focus on the underlying issue – HEALTH.

P.S. I don’t read those crappy magazines either. I used to read them before I became aware of my own health, and honestly I wish I hadn’t – they just made me long to be a size 0.

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:59:14 +0000

I’m with you on the points you made. I wish it were possible to just help girls feel comfortable in their own skin, without there having to be a “representative” of them in the media. That’s why I love Caitlin’s Operation Beautiful.

I’m tired of it being about fat/skinny/pretty/ugly and that’s why girls feel bad. I think it’s not that. Girls/women (and boys/men) have internal struggles that get externalized into being about fatness or uglyness. Like when I hate myself for being fat, it wasn’t really that, it’s that I didn’t like who I was on the inside, or I didn’t think other’s did.

I think we need to find a way to promote general self-esteem and stop externalizing all these insecurities in people. We need to let girls know there’s more to self acceptance than body acceptance.

I don’t know if this comment made sense. But…. maybe I’ll delve into it more on my blog.