Rise Of the Real People

OMG PEOPLE!!!! Thin does not equal healthy!!!! If you are anorexic, you may look gorgeous and "healthy," but in reality my anorexic and bulimic clients suffer from osteoporosis and they are in their mid-teens, their pulse is in the low 40's, their hair is slowly falling out, their teeth are starting to rot, they have ruined their ability to have children, they are on the verge of congestive heart failure, their kidneys are about to give out, etc etc etc. Thin does not equal healthy. You cannot generally tell how healthy someone is just by looking at their body!!!

It just seems like this argument trades one bad habit for another. Real women come in all sizes and I certainly don't want to see it that much reality on the runway. I want to see women with optimal bodies, meaning great tone, minimal obvious life experiences (stretches and scars), non bouncing parts shaking up the garments and perfect smiles. As a designer, I also wouldn't want to use that much more expensive material and larger accessories on a larger bodies all the time so would employ the body type that displayed my item the best for the best price.
We have to begin using our heads to support our bodies and stop looking to the models on the catwalk to make us feel good about our everyday selves.

Most women unfortunately cannot achieve the Victoria Secret look or the Sports Illustrated look. And it sucks that we can't, as a society, say that people are ok as they are. The ideal should be women saying "I'm going to live a happy life, eat healthy, take care of my body." For some women, this will mean thinness, and for others, maybe not. We can't spend our lives trying to fight our genetics, it doesn't make any sense. I take care of myself, I belly dance, surf, lift weights, eat healthy. Am I a Sports Illustrated model? Not by a long shot. Can I do anything about it? Maybe if I starve myself.

Some People tend to be big, some people tend to be small. Either way it best to eat sensibly and exercise. Doing cardio is good for you even if you are not getting small it strengthens your heart. I am in the middle I am 5'2" and 118 and I have to workout and eat smart or I will gain weight. I think that models are fine if they are naturally thin. Not all men play football like Brett Favre. But we don't but him down and say let's just put some regular guys in. That is stupid.

Fat people are less attractive. It's a fact of life. I've seen people who constantly complain that they cannot change and are the way they are and they say they have "medical issues". Granted, some of these people may, but most do not. My mom lost 40 pounds this year. She went to weight watchers. They teach you not to diet. Dieting is stupid. Just lose weight. It's a LIFESTYLE change. We should all try to achieve whatever our genetics will allow us.

Nobody told anyone that we expect the average women to look like this!! Men like skinny women because they are more attractive than fat women. Beautiful will always be better than average. Want to be beautiful? Be better than average. Can't? Stop wanting to be beautiful. Anything else is a lack of self respect on your part. Go do something else with your life, and find an unattractive mate who loves you for you.

More of the Political Correctness. Fat, pear shaped ugh!!! i hate looking at such It's bad enough watching fat women stuff themselves . Now On the runway? Bad eating and bad genetics and beauty don't mix Soon we will beable to reto-fit the genetic code so why embrace uglyness? I design everthing and look for the beauty of form and function. But, to have this shoved down my throat, another unhealthy. signpost on the way. I am a male who like candy on his arm not pig!1 I know what diabetes and othe diseases look like and it is not pretty. If our art-design -really was worried about our health then vegatable would be 15 cents a pound. We as a people do not put our money and our tax dollars to work for us. Medical estabilshment with half trained doctors ( yes medicine and engineering,need to come together. Plastic surgery is good if done right and being able to eat really wholesome food cooked right is where to start.

OMG.. i love plump girls.. i love to send them to tuckafold.com

This is about health. not beauty standards!

What I fear is that a 5' 8" 190 lbs woman will be "empowered" by this silly assault on skinny models (I like "Zaftig women too) and blow off losing extra pounds. That will be very PC and self-affirming - until they are 57 years old, 50 lbs overweight (after years of bad eating habits and no exercise) and on heart medication with incipient diabetes. If skinny models are "pushing" girls to eating orders, then the opposite will be true. Fat models will "push" girls to be even fatter than they are, and men will follow. 30% or Americans are very overweight and the leading cause of death is heart disease - connect the dots!

By the way to the person who is 5' 9" and 184 lbs, I mean no offense and I do sympathise (I struggle with weight too) but I think your BMI may be too high for your health, I would check that again, a BMI of 27.4 s too high and halfway to obese.

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.

the one good thing about proffesional nice looking model's, is that it take's you away from the grim reality of a world of greedy self absorbed obese Americans, who do nothing but eat, and sit, and eat some more.. And quite frankly if any man tell's you he like to look at fat women, (except for those who buy those fatty erotic magazine's) in a bathing suit he's lying, but leave it to the USA instead of losing weight, create a market to accomadate it. yuck !!!

Marilyn's measurements were 35-22-35 (dressmaker's claim) or 37-22-36 (studios) at about 5'5 1/2". According to 2008 Banana Republic size chart standards, she'd be size 6-10. But since Banana sizes generously, she's more likely to be a 4-8 (I'm "SUPPOSED" to be size 2 at Banana, but I can be as small as 00!)

many of my clients were chubby as children, and then a doctor told them they were fat, and now they are almost killing themselves by self starvation. there isn't anything wrong with a chubby kid. it doesn't necessarily mean anything. many kids who are chubby, will grow up totally healthy, as long as no one puts them on a diet.

I do have women near and dear to me and I respect them as people, not objects. I also love them enough to want them to have a long, healthy and active life. Just as my wife takes the dessert out of my hand and makes me put back the extra serving, I hope that she makes choices about her body based on health, not image (as I love her in whatever shape she is).

However, if you love a diabetic enough to tell them not to eat sugar, why can't you do the same for an obese person? The alternative to a 200 lbs woman is NOT a 99 lb model - it's a healthy adult with a BMI under 25. Americans have a genius for two things: self-indulgence and self-deception, and nowhere is this more evident than in the country's dietary and exercise choices.

those photos are just disgusting long live the waif!

we are supposed to celebrate overweight unhealthy people now? fashion models as they exist are too thin, everyone agrees on that. but a size 10-12 women is disgusting to look at too. how about people that take care of themselves?>

those photos are disgusting....if i saw that on a beach i would look away. get to a gym and eat some lettuce! long live the waif!

Everyone is going to have their own opinion about what looks good. Haha, and there's obviously a lot of shallow people here. 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 maybe need to make changes to the sizes of the mannequins.