Rise Of the Real People

I can't wait untill the REAL MEN models come out. That will do wonders for the Calvin Klein underwear ads

ah, most people do NOT have an hourglass figure, when curvy, patrayceluvdance2007. Many are pear-shaped, as is the fate of most women in my family. Some are more apple-shaped. An awful lot of this talk is giving this size 3/4 gal, who is an hourglass a complex. There IS NO STANDARD for the female body! Let US WOMEN decide what we are, want, and should be - NOT MEN. And we have chosen: variety!

This is silly if you ask me. As long as your happy with your body...thats all that counts. If people have insecurities about themselves....then they need to do everything in their power to fix that. But I don't think that models should be banned from their jobs because their TOO skinny. But i do agree, that their should be a mixture of all shapes and sizes on the runway. I'm 5'6 and 148 pounds. So I'm a curvy women and I'm not ashamed about it. Because I love myself and it's who I am. And if being skinny is what these models are...then they should be accepted like everyone else.

My wife works hard to have a healthy, slim body... and thus earns the undisguised disdain of innumerable perfect strangers who feel they have the right to point and sneer at her in restaurants, in stores, on the street, etc. Almost all of these astoundingly rude people are female...and are never themselves healthy and slim... but are usually clinically overweight and unkempt. But, they triumph by their very numbers. Theirs is now the ideal. My wife -- in shape, clean, well groomed and totally unassuming -- is ripe for ridicule and scorn. As a society, we can certainly celebrate.

that isn't exactly my struggle, thank god i am naturaly thin and a model. sorry. http://www.spymac.com/details?2335998

its not my struggle, thank god i'm a natural model. http://www.spymac.com/details?2335998

Well said, tim, about making workouts and good eating an important part of a person's life. People who are very fit tend to make it a priority. I run 50 miles a week and eat almost exclusively vegetarian, am 5'8 and 115 lb. You get out what you put in--the harder you work, the more results you will see.

While all of the comments below are interesting I think that we still negate the fact that this isn't about fat or thin. This is about fashion and what sells. In my opinion if I see an over weight woman on a run way showing off clothing its not going to inspire me to buy a design. That is what this industry is about... INSPIRATION. To be better, to look better, and feel better about your self. If we start putting over weight models on the run way what does that say about our standards in this generation. Does this mean that we stop striving to look good, and take care of our bodies? That maybe we stop caring about physical health? Because, after all, being fat means you are perfectly healthy right?

There are certain things that cant be helped. Example: being a certain height, having small boobs, even being made a skinny person. I truly believe that being overweight is a sign of the laziness we have started excepting as a cultural must have. There are certain conditions that can also cause being overweight (ie: PCOS, Diabetes, Cushings syndrome), but allot of things can be prevented from a healthy lifestyle. If working out or eating well isn't a lifestyle for some people, and they just want to be fat and happy then maybe it isn't a good idea for them to be a role model for my children and me.

Its fine me by if we want to get people out there modeling who aren't the standard 5'11" to 6'1". It would also be nice to see people who aren't trying to make themselves into skeletons, but if they are made that way and they are healthy then why not! Maybe give the 5???4???ers a shot. Being fat isn't being made a certain way its a lack of trying. Lets try to keep our role models people who try. Those are people I look up to.

I think that every woman out there should be proud of who they are no matter the size. Self esteam is a big issue. And seeing that someone in this world wants to make it possible for anyone to be a model no matter there size is awesome. Let's face it a size 0 isn't the typical american girl. I was a model once and I gave up on the industry. I hated being probed at and told I need to lose weight when I only weighed 135 lbs at 5'7. I was tired and let the industry go because my self esteem went on a downword spiral. I hope that more of these modeling agencies will see just how much there hurting girls who are any size. I just want you all to know that your beautifull in your own way and don't listen to anyone that wants to critisize you.

this "rise of the real people" doesnt mean for fat people to jump and rejoice(probably cant jump anyway), it isnt about you. quit looking for reasons to feel satisfaction in being fat and nasty....and unhealthy and disgusting. imagine if you just lost some weight, you would "feel" healthier and want to be active. fat people die faster, no need for debate, that simply is whats up. slim, active, healthy people who can actually use their bodies actively will outlive you. plain and simple. being fat is a choice, choose not to stuff your face, it wont make you prettier, it just adds more jelly to your already gelatenous, fat, nasty body. basic review of what we just covered: fat is nasty, quit stuffing your face, get a gym membership, fat is not cool, its disgusting. so the moral of today's discussion: im glad im thin and desirable and not fat and nasty. peace! or for you fat people, piece...of cake! lol..ha ha...whoo...good times, good times...ok im done this time. PEACE!

i think fat people in general need to realize how many resources they are using and how lazy they are and finally should be eradicated through a sort of "ethnic cleansing" . who needs fat lazies?

ewww. these women are chunky lol. Have obesity and stretch marks become the silent justifiable comforter of desperate fatties?
For christ sake "big and beautiful", "Real women have curves" etc etc are just emotional massage(s) most fat women use to comfort their own disgust. these models are NOT even real models. Sexy, graceful, inspiring all things these fatties are NOT. Any moron can pick up another snickers rather than pick up the keys to drive to the gym.
You want to be fat, fine but try and rub it off as "your intention" or your "pride". Its just as disgusting to Jack and Jill as it is to Tom and Harry.

And to add - I was a model for Marshal Fields in Chicago, and lied about my weight because I'm a perfect size 3/4. I've been modeling since my 20s, but weigh 125 lbs, at 5'6" tall. I work out, and that's how I kept the slim look, though I am more of a fitness model. virginian is correct - people think they have the right to scorn because of jealousy. I am either called fat, or anorexic, depending on whom you talk to! I'm just me - and I don't eat junk food, because it makes me sick. I personally tell people, hey, have a drink for me - I'm Hypoglycemic, so I have to be careful what I eat every day.

I also am against the pre-teen look of models, because that seems like it must contribute to Child Pornography.

You don't have to eat junk to be curvy. I eat very healthy and am curvy. I'm 5'5" 135lbs and am very happy with my nice round behind and naturally large breasts that all my girlfriends tell me they wish they had. My husband loves it too. Thank goodness, we're all ready to see a change in the industry for the better.

By Nature, there IS a beauty standard, which is the standard of the voluptuous woman, a standard which YOU, NoPatience, have NO CHOICE but to accept and respect, or else you go *** yourself and bury your dumb half-brained stupid body-phobic head in the gutter! But, NoPatience is too f*#%king stupid to begin to understand this! NoPatience is so stupid to actually think that this kind of rational talk is fascist. This kind of talk is NOT fascist. It's REALISTIC!
You call yourself "NoPatience"? Yeah, it's actually the rest of the intelligent, mature, and educated people in the world who have NO PATIENCE for idiots like you! What are you, one of those sick crazy degenerate woman-haters that don't respect the physical beauty of the woman's body?? You sound like one of those filthy subversive religious woman-hating idiots who foully disrespect women by rejecting their natural physical bodies and refusing to recognize their physical beauty for some seriously wrong and psychologically disturbing reason, then pretend to be noble by only addressing what's on the inside of the person, a false degrading concept fueled by low crass sleazy non-physical and non-sexual pseudo-spiritual abstract bullshit!! The highest form of showing respect for women and of measuring the true value in women is clearly by looking, acknowledging, admiring, and accepting the natural physical beauty of their bodies, and the more devoted and more passionate the admiration of the woman's body is, the better your sanity, because that is the only thing that is truly REAL, and there is NEVER any "foisting", any fabrication, nor any negative "misogyny" when it comes to passionately admiring a woman's body!
There is medication for sick demented woman-haters and body-rejectors like you, NoPatience. Go visit a psychiatrist, NoPatience, before you dig yourself a hole you can never get out of.
Apparently, NoPatience is NOT physically or sexually attracted to women, which is part of where he developed this disturbing psychological disease of hatred against women and rejection of the woman's body, which also points to the fact that he is probably attracted to other men physically and sexually.
Like I already said, the only problem here is that the models are too goddamn THIN, and not voluptuous and curvaceous enough, the way it should be, the way the REAL beauty standard is measured by! It's not whether they're thin, or plush, or anything else. Being thin or being more plump or otherwise are NOT all the same thing, and one would have to be really goddamn stupid to think so, because there are differences in how people's bodies are designed! There IS a beauty standard, and the industry is finally understanding what the real one is, the one that is beautiful and healthy at the same time!

Please Ornot-
You'd make me laugh if I didn't know you were serious. A lot of my friends are all under size 8. However, unlike you, they actually accept people who are large. The world isn't doomed to obesity, it's doomed to be cursed by narrow minded idiots like you. I'm a size 18, I don't look it, I don't even look my weight. There is a difference between being unhealthily overweight, and just being overweight. I can gaurantee you that I eat less and healthier than you, but due to a hereditary thyroid condition, I stay overweight. I played sports in school, I remain active to this day. And yet, the first thing people like you think when they see me, is something like, 'OMG! She's huge!" I'm also beautiful, I have a brain, and I have feelings. Being called disgusting by the likes of you is no longer as hurtful as it was in high-school. Instead, I pity you.

You don't get it ,What good is it to appeal to people who want to be seen the same as they are? Being thin and good looking is something to strive for not reject as being un-normal.Overweight is not good for you and too thin is not good ,but attracting people to a product is business.Who would buy a product endorsed by Roseann or Rosie Od,if it made made you look like them? If your child is over weight you need to do something about it when I went to school there was a fat girl or boy in class but not a class full of them,where has PE gone in school we went 3 times a week ,no whinning and no excuses for not participating in sports everyone did it.

Rosa, you are spam

When I see a model, I want her to be beautiful, healthy and fit. If you're not any of those things, that's fine, but then you probably shouldn't expect to be a model.

I'm a 37-year-old male, and for as long as I can remember, women have been complaining that models are "anorexic" and that fat is normal. Ever since then, Americans have been getting more and more obese, yet we still hear about how "unfair" it is that people are attracted to beautiful, fit, healthy-looking people. I always have to roll my eyes at the people who see an actress or model and say "OMG, she's anorexic!". It's not about personal taste, it's about how humans are biologically programmed to be attracted to normal, healthy and attractive mates. If you're overweight, you diminish your own attractiveness.

I can't believe that in this age of widespread fatness in America that we're still having this conversation about how awful it is to like beautiful, healthy people. American need to put away the sodas or rich coffee drinks and stop perpetuating this myth that overweight is normal.