Celebrating Real Looking Bodies in Women’s Magazines
Glamour magazine has broken ground by including a photo of plus-size model Lizzi Miller in next month’s magazine (September ’09). Readers are writing in impressed that Glamour would have “real” looking women, rather than the unreal, ultra-thin, digitally touched up models that we’ve come to expect over the past two decades. They are relieved and pleased to see a naked woman who is beautiful and imperfect … like real women are.
I am including the link to the article as well as the comments that I left on the Glamour site. Check it out and see what you think….
How crazy is it when we have to celebrate a REAL looking body in a magazine read by real women. That Lizzi Miller is called a plus-model says far more than the fact that Glamour has included her in next month’s issue. In a world where the ultra-thin ideal has generations of girls and women battling with their body-image and self-worth, we can’t simply applaud this magazine (which has, by the way, helped contribute to the eating disorder epidemic in our country). We must ask Glamour to go further and raise the hard questions about addressing the harms created by demeaning and criticizing normal, healthy, beautiful women’s bodies. It is lunacy that Lizzi Miller is categorized as a plus sized. What we can learn from this is that Glamour is learning more about what real women feel while the fashion industry goes further out on a limb trying to make size 12 women now feel that they are too large to be categorized with the other “normal” appearing women. PLEEZE! janeshure.com/blog
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