Rise Of the Real People

go to europe and look at the "real people" they average about 25 lbs lighter then the "average" dorito munching ghoul in this country.

I'm fine with different shapes and sizes of models up to a point as long as they're fit--the last thing i want to see on the runway is jiggling fat or thighs rubbing together. Looking at 'real' people, well, most people are fat (sorry, it's true). I honestly don't care what size someone is until they start whining and complaining about it (if they're happy that's all that matters). But, when they start crying that models are so thin, that actresses are so thin and I see them eating take-out every day for lunch, it gets irritating. If you're not happy with your size, do something about it instead of complaining about those of us who are very thin.

This article sends the wrong message to women that it is okay to be large. I returned from Europe a few years back. European women took care of their figures by eating right and exercising; they took pride in their figures. I returned to Northern California after being away for 11 years to notice that the women no longer look like those in the David Lee Roth video ???California Girls???. I was surprised at how large the women had become. I didn???t recognize some of my former friends because they had gotten so large. I go to restaurants and notice the amount of food that women are eating. At time their portions are much larger than mine with fried and greasy food. The guy next to them is usually thin and the woman large.

I used to be a body builder type, lifting heavy weight for size. I was 235 lbs at 6???1???. I used to eat at buffets a lot yet I was still able to keep from having a gut due to cardio. I decided to drop down in weight to 225. It was fairly easy. I started eating better, stopped lifting the heavy weights and doing the body sculpting type classes at the gym. I was still doing the same amount of cardio. We need to stop making excuses. Don???t go home and look at television and eat. Join a gym by cutting back on some of the restaurant food. Watch television while walking on the treadmill or some other cardio machine.

Yes some of the runway models are paper thin. We need to stop using that excuse to get large or making others. I feel that only 5 % of the women have medical problems which keep them large. However, 85 % or more of them are large.

"...that excludes, divied, or creates competition among women"? What the heck is that supposed to mean?? That phrase makes NO sense! If it creates competition, then what is it excluding or diving??
There IS NO misogynist excercise, and there IS NO sexual control! NoPatience, you're yapping and blabbing a bunch of mumbo-jumbo bullshit! Maybe the "thin" beauty standard is a fabricated excercise, but the real beauty standard of voluptuous and curvaceous women is simply called Nature, something you're obviously too stupid and moronic to even begin to understand, let alone rightfully accept.
NoPatience is a woman-hater and a body-rejector, and there is nothing more disgusting! There is nothing more sick, more disturbing, and more repulsive than a low life scum of the Earth who hates women, and who deliberately rejects the beauty of the woman's physical naked body. A putrid scum like this can never be functionally intimate with a woman or ever have a successful relationship with any woman.

To Absynthe: I am strongly IN FAVOR of the pre-teen look of models, because in reality, it does NOT contribute to child pornography in any way whatsoever, so you are clearly wrong right there, Absynthe! That's the stupid sexually oppressive American media advertising sex-negative false information in order to put sex-negative crap into people's heads and limit their sexual choices in society, as well as to rob the awareness and education of sexuality from children growing up, which results in making them wrongfully view sex as something negative and something to be afraid of, again, a sex-negative fabrication of the American media to brainwash adults into believing that a harmless depiction of pre-teen cuteness contributes to child pornography. What a load of bullshit. But of course, the degenerate Puritans always over-react at just the tip of the hat!
School-girl skirts, lolly-pops in the mouth, and pig tails are NOT child pornography! Child pornography specifically means one thing: Persons under the age of 13 indulging in real sexual activity in front of a camera to be recorded and distributed publicly for viewing. If that is not happening, then it is NOT child ponography.

Everyone is going to have their own opinion about what looks good. I'm more concerned about what is being sold in the stores than what is on the runway. At a lot of the stores that most of us can afford to shop at, the clothes are made really really small. I think that's what gets to the teens more than the pictures they see. Maybe instead of changing the sizes of the runway models, or in addition to, they also need to make changes to the sizes of the mannequins.

That is gross! I have to look at an over weight woman every night I go home. My only joy in life is hitting the sheets with my wife while the image of some anorexic model is still fresh in my imagination ; )

Thin women are not the root of all evil, and they are as real as curvy women. A little underweight to a healthy weight would be a good body type. Heavy men and women don't tend to inspire others to think at first glance, "Wow, those fat rolls are amazingly sexy!" They may have great personalities, but in modeling, people are only going to be looking at the clothes and the skin-deep beauty on the runway. I like the exotic looks of the models. It's more eye-catching than seeing the regular-looking people that you see every day. If you want to sell a product, you need something that grabs people's attention. Resorting to the mundane would seem rather boring. If an overweight girl is modeling clothes, it doesn't usually look flattering. It makes me wonder if the clothes are going to look good at all. I tend to not purchase items if the only thing I have to go by is a girl in a badly-fitted outfit.

Here's something you don't see: I'm 22 and ex-ballet dancer, gymnast, and high school jock. I spend two hours daily at the gym doing cardio based exercises as well as weight training. I eat a healthy balanced nutritionist approved vegetarian diet devoid of sweets with proper portion control. I drink water, and once a week one glass of 100% no sugar added fruit juice. I am still a size 12/14 and doomed to be that way because of a medical condition that reared its ugly head in college that I am doing everything I can to keep under control. I don't hate skinny people or models, yes some are extreme looking in their thin-ness but that is the industry and as a photographer I understand that. What I want is to be able to walk out of the mall without tears in my eyes because I couldn't find one damn thing that fit. I don't want to have to think about the comments sneered at me by skinny pre-pubescent girls who haven't had a chance to even get to know who they are, but read their fashion magazines so they know all about life. Most of all I want to stop feeling like I am hideous because designers (even main stream ones) don't care to design for sizes beyond the ideal European body types they are so use to servicing while the American body type has been shifting drastically away. I don't think it's too much to ask to see a few real models thrown into the mix every once in a while.

That's just unfortunate that clothes will no longer look as enticing as they do now. Don't get me wrong; I'm a size 5 and though that may "seem" small to you, I barely stand a little over 5 feet so I'm not thin-looking.. The day that happens is the day people will stop having some sort of an inspiration to eat well, exercise and treat their bodies well. Sad. We'll be surrounded by .. yeck. I can't even imagine that day coming. God forbid. God forbid.

What a relief ... the fashion world has begun to look at Average America! But ... let's not relax and over-indulge in junk food and gluttony. Stay HEALTHY ... BE WISE. The people featured in the article are focusing on those of us who are not size 0. But in the same sense, it's obvious they're not looking for size 16, either.