I feel sorry for plus-sized models. When they’re at their normal weight, they get scorned for being plus-size. But then if they lose pounds, they also get gossiped about and maybe even risk losing their “plus-sized” status.
When it-girl Crystal Renn walked the Chanel runways a few weeks ago, tongues started wagging that she had lost a lot of weight. Her Ford Models agent had to go on record, telling People:
“She is not trying to lose weight at all. She fluctuates between a 10 and a 14.
She went hiking in Patagonia for three weeks over the holidays and she firmed up and got a little smaller,” he says. “She has also been traveling like crazy and tends to be smaller when that happens.”
So we complain when models are overweight, then stick our noses in their business if they shed a few pounds.
What’s going on with society, Lovelies?
daisy / 651 posts
confusing, huh.
daisy / 636 posts
You feel sorry for her? Psh, bitch is doing just fine. Sure she’s making more money than ever and is living it up.
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I’m the same height as her, and I have to say, a size fourteen is usually big for someone of 5’9″. Twelve’s alright. I’m a ten myself, and still want to shed a few pounds. It depends on the body, but as I said, fourteen is GENERALLY a bit big for that height. So good for her if she firms up! Why is she getting flack for being healthy?!
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She looks way prettier now
sunflower / 302 posts
If she is known for being a “plus-size” model, well, she had better be plus-sized. If she sheds a few pounds she loses what made her in the industry. But she is still nowhere near a size 2, so she can’t be a “normal” model. Since there is no middle-ground in the fashion industry, it seems, I can understand why she is getting criticized. If you make your name in a niche, well, goddamn stick to it.
daffodil / 1975 posts
Such is life.
daisy / 693 posts
People just need to shut the fuck up and worry about their own lives and careers
Everyone thinks they know about everything now a days it’s just bitchy
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People just love being nosy rosies.
daffodil / 1622 posts
meh
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The same people who complain about her being too heavy are NOT the same people who complain about her losing a few pounds. Just for the record. There are two completely separate groups at work here.
sunflower / 389 posts
Hmm, what’s going on in society is that people need to start SEEING PEOPLE AS HUMAN BEINGS instead of bitching about how fat or skinny they are.
Their bodies, their business (and no one said you HAD to look at someone elses fat, or lack of). Make YOUR body YOUR business. There’s more to life than sit-ups and calorie counting, so why the f*ck can’t we let people, ya know, LIVE?!?!
And for the record, Crystal Renn rocks no matter what she weighs.
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Like I’ve said before, WE HATE EVERYTHINGGGGG.
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People are just hard to please. Live for you and yourself alone.
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girl can hike for 3 weeks and go down 4 sizes? that’s pretty impressive. people in this country should hike more often.
lily / 5148 posts
@MissPixieGlitter@xanga - i think there was more to that..than just hiking..if that was the case then ALL women would be hiking and dropping four sizes. I don’t buy it. She had to be doing something else..
that’s the industry…
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I’m pretty sure she does what most model’s/celebrities do when people start talking shit.
Ignore them.
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People need to focus on their own lives and quit sticking their ass into everyone else’s. Give the girl a break!
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Well as she’s becoming more popular and working harder, going hiking, I’m sure that will make anyone loose weight.
Big/Average/Small she looks good to me.
dahlia / 2103 posts
What’s up with society is that it’s completely retarded and people can’t leave each other alone about stupid shit that doesn’t matter.
BUTT OUT! God. She looks fine, and I’m sure by now she’s figured out that ignoring everyone is the best policy. Works just fine for me!
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Those were my thoughts. A friend of mine was saying, “I bet she purposely tries to gain/mantain a heavier weight for her job.’ NO! Anyone who read her book knows she eats her favorite foods, usually organic and locally grown for the enviornment, and got into plus-size modeling so she could mantain what’s natural for her body.
Even if she looks thinner in this shoot, she still have no place in the straight-size industry. At least not today.
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@soulfuric - 13 is sometimes considered “an honorary mention” in plus-size clothing. But generally, at least in the U.S., 16 is plus-size. So she was never really “plus-size” by those standards.
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I think what we need are more “normal” sized models. That way, it’s not a big deal if models gain weight (the skinny ones) or lose it (the plus sized ones). I mean, the modeling industry doesn’t help the self-esteem of girls who aren’t stick skinny or plus sized. I don’t know why we insist on not being able to hire “normal” sized girls as models. It’s a little ridiculous in my opinion.
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@soulfuric - what she said. she is in an industry where people make a living on their image. if she is a plus-sized model, she is expected to be a plus sized model.
As for the question tacked on by lovelyish, society has bigger problems than the fashion industry.
hydrangea / 78 posts
@Erika_Steele@xanga - Society has bigger problems than the fashion industry?! You do realize that the weight pressures from the fashion industry trickle down to the rest of society and contribute to the increasingly growing number of eating disorders and self-hatred problems? So many of society’s problems are focused around food, whether it’s eating too much or too little or not nutritiously that you cannot say that society has bigger problems than what happens in the fashion industry. Let’s look at some statistics:
In Argentina, the prevalence of anorexia and bulimia is over three times what it is in the United States, so that would be over 3% of the population suffering from an eating disorder.
In China the number of eating disorders is on the rise because of the diet products and fad diets in advertising, WHICH STEM FROM THE FASHION INDUSTRY.
Nearly half of all Americans personally know someone with an eating disorder, whether it is diagnosed or not. On top of that, eating disorders are the most fatal mental disorder and the mortality rate of girls with anorexia is 12 times higher than the mortality rate of ALL CAUSES OF DEATH for girls 15-24.
In the US, around 400-600 advertisements are seen a day while one in eleven has a direct message about beauty, not counting the indirect ones.
I would say that the fashion industry contributes to MASSIVE social problems.
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@recoveringforme@xanga -Yes, I am very aware of eating disorder statistics. I am aware that people die from eating disorders. I know people with eating disorders, and in the not too distant past I used to be one of them. I just think that there are more significant problems than the fashion industry that affect more than 3% of the population. Society’s problems focused around food is completely separate from the fashion industry. Women’s (or men’s) self-esteem are problems, but that don’t extensively belong to the fashion industry. The fashion industry could declare that from this day forward size 26 is the ideal and people are still going to have self esteem problems. The fashion industry and their idea about beauty is finicky and no matter what is en vouge some one is going to feel left out.
I also think that people need to take more personal responsibility. Just like people can not blame the fast food industry for their weight issues, people can not blame the fashion industry for their eating disorder. I do understand the desire to be thin, to feel beautiful etc because of the images you see (only to a certain extent because I do not feel this way personally). I do understand that it can make people feel unworthy etc but in the end it is still not the fashion industry that is responsible for controlling people’s self esteem. Self acceptance is something people have to learn for themselves. Women (men, people) need to stop comparing themselves to others and just be happy with what they have. If someone looks at an ad and says I don’t look like that, I don’t have those things etc. they need to make adjustments to their own lives and their own values.
When I was active in my eating disorder I had all kinds of reasons, excuses, causes, justifications or whatever you want to call them. I certainly felt helpless to fight against it but in the end no one was holding a gun to my head and making me not eat. The power to decide to like myself, hate myself etc was always within myself and no one else.
orchid / 133 posts
i would never want to be a plus sized model. Crystal Renn is gorgeous & i never considered her plus sized to begin with but imagine having that title when “normal” models are constantly being called too fat. It would make any woman want to lose weight.
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That’s what happens when you exercise/hike/traveling/running to shows….you lose weight. Big shocker.
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as usual, we just expect people to stay in their little labeled boxes.. or else we’ve got no idea how to deal with them
*sigh*
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meh!
sunflower / 290 posts
I love how she has a perfectly normal body which looks not a bit overweight in that photo yet we think of her as a plus-sized model rather than a normal model, when the normal models are the ones who are anything but normal compared to the average woman’s healthy state