It seems that more and more European magazine/editorials are embracing the “plus-sized” figures. First, French Elle, featured model Tara Lynn on the cover followed by French Glamour’s editorial piece on plus-sized fashionista bloggers.
Speaking of Tara Lynn, she is back on an Italian magazine, D del Donna, and blonder than ever!
Aw, she looks so doll-like and angelic here!
Channeling her inner “Playboy” bunny?
She’s definitely rocking that blonde short look – very fitting for her!
What do you guys think of her magazine spread?
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Her face is so pretty. Her body–sorry, kinda ew.
lily / 5148 posts
@scarletchord@xanga - PLUS size models…not skinny “I can see your ribs” models =) remember that.
she’s beautiful ^_^
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I’m so tired of these kinds of posts.
Yes, she’s beautiful. I do like the spread. It has NOTHING to do with her weight – she rocks the pictures, plain and simple.
dahlia / 2382 posts
I think she’s pretty!
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She’s beautiful but she might not just be curvy, that last picture proves that. There is a difference between naturally thick vs. being fat.
daisy / 570 posts
she has such a baby face !
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She is incredibly sexy, despite the extra weight.
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I like her better with her brown hair.
ranunculus / 3285 posts
She looks beautiful. =D
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It’s not because of her weight….but I just don’t find these pictures flattering to her. =/
ranunculus / 3457 posts
I hate the first pic… and the rest are mediocre. Beautiful girl but I don’t like it.
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She’s stunning but I don’t really like the spread.
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@Hinase@xanga - I don’t even like super skinny models. But she’s obviously not just “thick,” but she’s fat. I’m not saying she’s not beautiful, she totally is, but I don’t think her body is attractive.
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i don’t find her attractive, and i don’t think the shoot is flattering – especially that bunny picture and the first one.
rose / 960 posts
the spread’s kind of blah…her face is babydoll-ish and kind of scares me…
lily / 5148 posts
@scarletchord@xanga - She seems just fine to me….I don’t see how fat she is..or thick..who cares? What’s the difference anyhow?
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Better than some “plus-size model” spreads to date. Some of them are just horrid.
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Beautiful!
rose / 785 posts
she looks exactly like those little cherub figurines.
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wow.. she really is not that pretty.. (and not just because she’s not skinny “see-my-ribs”)
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Gorgeous woman!
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She is pretty and looks unique. But id still think she needs to go on diet
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I don’t really consider her pretty. And I think there are a lot more “plus-sized” models out there with much better bodies.
p.s. first picture is definitely a no-no!
sunflower / 396 posts
I think the whole “this magazine has a plus sized model” post thing is getting old.. like we get it fat chicks are getting recognition. woo.. This girl isn’t as pretty as the other ones. She just looks awkward the other girls just look tastefully curvy and have amazing faces. This chick just looks fat and ugly. and the blonde hair isn’t helping. She’d probably look like an average looking fat chick with brown hair.
sunflower / 389 posts
Gorgeous!
She looks like she’s lost weight since her last shoot though. Either way, her figure rocks.
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The first thing I thought when I saw the pictures were, “Tasteful, beautiful, 50′s playboy-esque, I love it.”
All of you who are saying she’s fat, her body is ew, and she needs to go on a diet.
Maybe you should go on a diet. If you don’t like her body, who cares. Love your own, and stop worrying about others’ bodies. Jesus, fat and ugly. Get a fucking life.
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Her eyes just look a little creepy. Ruins it a little for me. Her hair is amazing.
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She is pretty. I think she deserves a more interesting spread. These pictures were boring.
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she’s kinda pretty, but she’s a little TOO big. plus size is great, but maybe not so good to glorify being overweight. i prefer the more curvier, natural meat-on-the-bones models over the fat ones with beer guts and a bad dye job.
daffodil / 1622 posts
woah prettyyy
daisy / 571 posts
Aw, she’s cute.
hydrangea / 92 posts
why must models always be so EXTREME? either they are stick-skinny or they are overweight like the girl above — neither of which are actually attractive. where are all the normal average girls who the rest of us can relate to?
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Wow. She is so beautiful.
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@chipshmunk@xanga - Like you should talk.
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these pictures suck. the white out/no colors but her eyes thing? it looks like shit.
cant we praise better pictures?
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I think it’s mediocre. The first picture is not flattering at all.
daisy / 557 posts
Wow she’s gorgeous ! She’s kinda odd looking but in a good way and she has a nice figure; the first picture isn’t too showing off that thou. It’s nice that the big name fashion magazines are showing that women of all sizes can model & look damn good ! lol
rose / 807 posts
it’s not healthy – but whatever…she’s still pretty hawt.
i go to the buffet 10 times. lol.
daisy / 696 posts
you know, i’m all for embracing plus sized models (as i am plus sized myself) but this spread is wack… i don’t like it very much.
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@ohletitbe@xanga - Yeah, the last thing I thought of her in these pictures is her chubster size and how she needs to lose a bit. Who knows maybe she’s a nutritious eating gal who happens to be big.
Anyways, I think she’s beautiful as well. I find her face structure to be lovely. I like her second last and last pictures best. I wouldn’t mind having her as model, I’d paint her.
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Me like. =3
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i just threw up a little in my mouth
daisy / 723 posts
In the first picture, she looks like a plastic doll ( cheap sex toy for men…)
There is something strange, as if she wasn’t of our times (colors,
haircut).. Like a girl from Monroe’s période. DOn’t like the style of
those pictures.
She has a pretty face. She is not sexy, not attractive(my own opinion. She is “plumpy” and… where is her celulite ??? Airbrushed ?
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@Ailean@xanga - ditto.
orchid / 225 posts
to you people who don’t think her body is beautiful– you are crazy. she is the kind of woman who ancient artists painted and sculpted. this woman is a fox.
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I think she’s pretty.
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@Hinase@xanga - The difference is. Thick women have beautiful bodies. They have curves in all the right places and they can be very, very attractive. But this woman isn’t just thick, she unhealthily fat. You can tell in her arms and legs ( and you know these photos are retouched heavily already ) that she’s unhealthy. I have no problem with other people thinking that she’s fine the way she is, but I personally don’t find her attractive because she is unhealthily fat, not just curvy.
cherry blossom / 49 posts
i think the first picture is terribly unflattering.
daisy / 555 posts
what the heck? I am so sick of these “plus size” model spreads.
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she’s so pretty *-*
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I love the idea of plus-sized models making covers but like others are saying, it is getting kind of old. I’m hoping the modeling industry goes back to the superskinny ladies.
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fugly. her fingers look like sausages.
lily / 5148 posts
@scarletchord@xanga - maybe the retouching confuses me..she does look like she has some curves..I can’t normally tell when someone is air-brushed. O.o I don’t read a lot of magazines..
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She has a beautiful face..and nice hair..and skin…but her body, not so much.
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Her eyes are beautiful.
orchid / 169 posts
I don’t like how she looks. I don’t mind plus-size models, but I just think she isn’t very attractive at all. The blond hair also looks terrible on her and she she sucks at modeling.
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So, they could’ve chosen some more interesting poses that didn’t come off so inexperienced and childish, such as the bunny one. But that’s really not the issue(s) at all. The so-called issues are: Is she “model material”? Is plus-sized modeling okay? And I think the answer to both of those is, absolutely yes. She’s gorgeous and if women have enough courage and fully love themselves enough to put themselves out there like that, well, that’s amazing.
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The colours, everything is so beige.
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Why don’t we have NORMAL-SIZED models?
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@wideopenskies@xanga - agree 100%
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@scarletchord@xanga - The average American and UK woman looks like that. Sorry you’re disgusted by the human body. 0.o
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She looks kinda weird. It’s not because shes plus size either cause I see the other plus size models and they look fine..she ljust looks eh…
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She’s gorgeous!
And me and her have the same name! Except my middle is only “Lyn” one ‘n’ :p
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She’s not too “plus sized”; I’d fuck her.
I glad – it means that people are learning to look past weight and see that someone can still be beautiful without being ridiculously skinny.
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she’s extremely beautiful, and not even that fat. absolutely gorgeous. <3
daisy / 630 posts
why doesn’t she have eyebrows?
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The first picture looks like something high school girls take in their bedroom when they are trying to find their “sexy.” I’d be insulted if I were her. Carpet on a bean bag with a baseboard? Also, even “skinny” models know their angles. She doesn’t know her angles. Or, is this what this post is saying? She shouldn’t HAVE to find her angles? I think, as a model, it is a job to know your angles. She held her butt up so it wouldn’t squish, but she should angle her hips and put on leg out further than the other. The first one just looks truly unprofessional.
The third picture is pretty, tasteful.
The last picture is also unprofessional… Looks like she had a drunk night out and her friend got a shot of her when she said, “hey!”
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@scarletchord@xanga - I’m all for plus size recognition (not unhealthy overweight, of course), but the body is kind of….normal, ew, and nothing spectacular.
Models should have a certain presence about them. Maybe if her undies in the first picture actually fit instead of squeezing like their a size too small she’d look a bit better. Plus size models can be pretty, but no one likes a muffin top created by too small clothing :/
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I need to be comfortable in my skin and allow myself to be sexy…this is inspirig to me
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Gross. That first pose is not attractive at all.
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Man FAT is NOT good for your health!!!!!
Why is everyone so so so contented with this?
Yes to be healthy means to have a healthy life and BODY.
Her face looks like others,which is ok…
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I don’t like the styling of this photoshoot at all. In these pictures her face doesn’t look very appealing. She looks SO MUCH BETTER as a brunette. The lack of color in her face/hair in these pictures makes her look weird. Her eyebrows are dyed so light that it almost blends into her skin, making it look like she doesn’t have eyebrows at all! But she does have a beautiful face if you look at the French Elle.
As for her body, I don’t really like it. However, I think the point of magazines featuring plus-size models is (1) because they sell a lot of copies, (2) using plus-sized models improves their reputation usually and (3) to prove that larger women can be beautiful too. Honestly, the size and shape of a model has nothing to do with my purchase decisions. I can appreciate beautiful clothes on large and small women the same! So it doesn’t really matter if a model is plus-sized or anorexic.
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Yeah. I’m going to have to say no. She just looks kind of dull and listless in all the pictures–and, frankly, I don’t find her very attractive.
But who cares if she’s plus-sized, though, really? It’s not like a big deal. Drawing attention to it only makes it stand out as unusual more.
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i wish all beauty magazines did this
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She’s a strange kinda pretty. Her shape is kind of too bulky in her mid section..(the muffin top is a bit too overly baked, as much as it pains me to say that) but it’s not sooo bad.. I just would not have made her uncover it in the first photo.
I like her face for some reason. It’s young and supple, kind of like Rihanna’s is when she’d made up, only with 80% less forehead (not that I mind Rihanna’s 5-head). This model’s eyes are the strangest and hardest part to accept because I can’t decide if they’re pretty or creepy.. they’re walking that line, to me… but, overall, it’s a pretty face.
She also has nice skin on her face and body, it seems. It probably isn’t her real skin texture, though. It’s probably got a crap-ton of skin tone makeup and air brushing to make the photo magazine ready (i.e. covering up blemishes, cellulite, stretch marks etc that probably would be present in the pictures if she weren’t made up and the preliminary exposures weren’t digitally refined). In fact, I’m certain of it. There should be stretch marks all along that exposed waist, where the skin on a normal human stretches faster than the skin cells can multiply and fall in.. leaving marks of keratinized dermal cells (aka stretch marks) where the stretching occurred in the epidermis’s continuing effort to encase the entire body in skin in lieu of rapid internal demand that it accommodate more mass.
Yet there isn’t a single ripple or dent on her. Unless she bathes in Shea and cocoa butter for 4-8 hours a day, it’s unnatural to the point that it takes away from the photo’s authenticity.
Her breasts represent themselves nicely. Only someone her size could have such a nice endowment to offset the extra bulk below. She does the best modeling the single piece clothing, though! As long as her midsection isn’t just bare, she’s pretty nice looking.
Her spread could have been less exposure prone and more presentation prone because her shape is not that good that so much skin and obscenely exposed curve need be shown. There are plus size models with nicer shapes than her, so it’s not because she’s big.. but because her body lacks even very basic definition.
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she’s so cute, and i like the spread!
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I dont think the pictures flatter her. She looks like a playboy bunny reject. And sexy? She is all washed out and in awkward poses.
I believe I will find women attractive in ANY size but how you set that model up is everything.
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I don’t like plus size modeling. But I also don’t agree with super skinny models either. Neither are ‘model’ bodys for women. Why don’t they focus on healthy and stop worrying about size.
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I love the muted look. I love the colors and the poses too. Its nice to see someone who doesn’t look like an alien in a fashion magazine.
she looks very sweet and feminine.
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i think it’s a pretty unflattering shoot. Well, mostly just the first shot. And I find the colour of her hair unflattering, which has nothing to do with her size. I just can’t get past the first picture and how awful it is. And the last one.
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She is enticing!
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the first picture i not a good one. she is quite beautiful in the rest though.
rose / 855 posts
I love these models. She is definitely sexy in my opinion, but I love women of all shapes and sizes. yummy….
dahlia / 2103 posts
The washed-out color could be a cool effect but I’m not sure I dig it here. She totally works the Monroe blonde though, it’s cute.
And to everyone that made a comment that she’s fat or you ‘threw up a little’ or something equally stupid…pretty sure the question was “What do you guys think of her magazine spread?” Nowhere did I see anyone ask “Do you think she’s fat and/or ugly, and if so, please describe why?”
Jesus, it’s like being in a 7th grade lunchroom listening to a popular clique talk about the fat girls. GROW UP ALREADY!
@ferociousfruitbat@xanga - Thank-you for proving my point.
dahlia / 2103 posts
@ohletitbe@xanga - A M E N thank-you! Starting to think I was the only one that thinks comments like that are incredibly immature and unnecessary.
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Gorgeous.
daffodil / 1607 posts
i don’t like it
her face is very pretty, though
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ew…
peony / 1 posts
Good for you Tara,I hope all is well for you.Love you Sylvia friend Cindy.
peony / 1 posts
I think Tara Lynn is beautiful from head to toe. Her face AND her body. I bet she has a good heart also. Her size shouldn’t be an issue. Beauty is beauty. And Tara has BEAUTY. Beauty comes in all sizes and shapes and colors and ages. My husband and I would be honored to meet Tara in person one day if she ever travels through Texas. OR we would love to get an autographed photo of Tara if that’s as close as we can get to seeing her. yellowrosealj@aol.com