These woman are beautiful! Brava!! :-D

The so called “plus” size model in these pictures is hardly a plus. I would do just about anything to be her so called “plus” size. I seriously can’t believe that people are being led to believe that a “plus” size is a 6! Sick! We’re creating a generation of women who have TOTALLY unrealistic views of their bodies. I want to see women who are size 16, 20, 26, etc… these are REALISTICALLY sized women. And I don’t want to see the ones that are all 6 feet tall either. Women come in all shapes, heights, sizes and COLORS. Let’s start representing the upper end of the scale too….literally.

I read this article elsewhere and I did not get in any of it that anyone is calling 6 plus-size. That said, Kasia is hot, hot, hot and all the fatties moaning all the time about the skinny models should just shoot for that. That would be a vast improvement. Not to be mean, but people (other than overweight people looking for coddling) don’t *want* to see 16, 18, 20s. It’s OK to be that way if you like it. It’s OK to be happy and comfortable with yourself, but advertising is about ideals and shining things up to look good. Extreme thinness is not about health, but being a 14, 16, 18, 20 when you’re average height isn’t exactly healthy either. I think there’s more of a problem with obesity than anorexia in the U.S.

Size 16-20+’s are not realistic, they’re typically unhealthy and we shouldn’t be venerating those body shapes/weights/sizes either. I like to be able to see the clothes and thinking omg, that woman looks like she’s going to stroke out any second detracts from the fashion aspect.

I think a size 4-6 in great physical condition (ie thin naturally and/or eating healthy, working out) should be the model industry standard. Not the size 00 that eat 600 calories a day to stay marketable. That is disgusting, abusive to all the halfway towards anorexic models, and visually repulsive to most people. Then a plus size model is a size 12-14, since most stores carry size 0-12 and plus sizes start at 14 I think. That’s what makes sense to me, but the whole thing is bonkers anyway.

Magazines and modeling and fashion is about money. Selling clothes. Who is buying those clothes? Women. Most women are larger than the models used to sell to them. I think designers, clothiers, and magazines are failing to respond to the growing demographic of plus size women. Why they are plus, if it’s good that they’re plus, if we like it that they’re plus, or if people think they’re all lazy fatties is really irrelevant. They are customers with money to spend on clothes, and they are not being adequately served by clothing companies.

I used to be the only fat kid, now they are everywhere. Are kids not mean anymore about weight?

I hardly feel those were lesbian images. If the article is what it says it is, it is showing the difference between the size of a regular person and a model. I believe the images were included to show an actual depiction of the size difference and had no lesbian agenda.

Please stop the bs. Stop making women feel like crap. Fellow women, you are beautiful no matter what size you are! I am a size 16 but working towards a healthier me…for who??? ME! Not for the fashion industry, I don’t care if they say size 6 is plus size, I know it isn’t. I don’t like seeing models who look like holocaust victims, that to me is NOT sexy, but to each their own. Curves are sexy, T and A are sexy, long legs….sexy. I have skinny friends and chunky friends and they are all beautiful inside and out. If you don’t want to see a size 14, 16, 18 etc, look the other way. I am 5’10 1/2 and will never weigh 100lbs and I’m happy with that, I don’t want to, I’d look sickly.While I do believe for health reasons everyone should be at a healthy weight level that doesn’t mean everyone will weigh or look the same, thank God. Variety is the spice of life!!

u know they r saying size 6 is now plus size. maybe in the fashion world of new york and cali yeah…. i was reading a magazine that featured the real housewives of Atlanta in it saying that they all enjoy having lots of curves and being “vuluptuous”(cant spell sorry guys!) well it went on to tell what size they were and how much they weigh. the girl Kandi, said she wears a size 5 but she weighs 160 pounds. i dont think so. i weigh 125 pounds and wear a size 7! and im 5″5! Also Pheadra also said she is a size 5. im sorry but there is no way that my butt is bigger than hers! ( im not saying these girls r fat either yall!)If i put her pants on me they would probably fall right off. I think they r saying size 6 is plus size because in the big fashion cities size 6 is way different from our size 6. and idk if this ad is trying to say the girl in the picture is a size 6 but not she is deff not, again im not saying she is fat, she has curves she is beautiful and she knows how to embrace it! now the skinny model, yes she looks like she could use a cheeseburger or 50!

You can be a bigger girl and be healthy. I am a size 14-16, I used to be a size 26. I bike to work, frequently (at least when the weather isn’t downright miserable), and that is about 30k of biking a day. I am still fat, but I am active. Even with the poor weather I still get out and walk for over an hour a day. Even at my final goal weight I will still be considered over weight, but it is the ideal weight for me. I have a lot of muscle and could never get down to the BMI that is supposedly perfect for my height because to get down that small I would have to loss some lean mass. People that try to fit into others peoples ideas of ideal need to stop for a moment and take some time to figure out what the ideal is for you, period.

What everyone has forgotten or may not know, is that the sizes of clothes has changed. What once was size 10 is now a 14, which is why nothing fits anymore! Ladies you are not really a 20+, you are probably only a 16 or realistic 14. Also, the more money you pay for women’s clothes, the smaller the sizes.

This is a great article and the visual comparisons between the models is astonishing. Everyone with a daughter should share these pictures with them. I once had arms like that poor model and looked like I had been in a concentration camp. This should not be considered normal or perfect. It is sad and awful and bad for your health.

I thought these pictures were beautiful. I would really like to see more “plus size” models out there. I am now obese. The ways these woman look now is how I want to look, not like the skinny models, but healthy. My biggest complaint is the clothing selection for plus size women. Like we have no fashion sense or something. If I pick out one more shirt or dress that has an nondetachable necklace, or as I call them cow bells cause that’s how I feel with them on, I’m going to scream. It would be nice to see what nice looking clothes would look like on a size 18, so I have an idea of what it may look on my size 22-24 frame.

Size and weight shouldn’t matter anymore, period. The BMI is an old, flawed weight calculation that doesn’t show level of fitness, only a number that has been labeled. There are quite a few people who are in great shape (strong heart, good blood pressure, etc.) that are “overweight” according to the BMI, and people who are in horrible shape but called “healthy” by the BMI. What should matter instead is how strong your heart is, body fat percentage, blood pressure, and cholesterol. Then it doesn’t matter if you have curves or don’t, are a size 18 or a size 2, because if you’re eating in a healthy way and exercising to feel good, your body is the shape it naturally needs to be in. We women tend to forget that sizes in clothing for us is NOT uniform like mens clothing, so just wear what fits correctly and stop focusing on a number. And while I understand what PMM is trying to do, I agree with Bunnytwenty that we shouldn’t be pitted against each other, but embracing all sizes we women come in. THAT would be the best role model for girls to grow up with.

just had a look at the plus mag its fab can i get it in england to buy really would love to be able to chill out reading it am very impressed well done nothing else like it around well done

OH and one more thing if i had a daughter i would not let her be sucked into the fashion world where a size 0 is what u should look like as long as she was healthy and not obese i would give her all the confidence in the world to express that she is beautiful the way she is! This is not a positive influence for our younger girls who look up to models and aspire to be like them one day!!! The modeling industry needs to be overhauled and redesigned to be able to reach all shapes and sizes and promote healthy body weight with their clothing, not brainwash girls to try and be as thin as they possibly can be it is unethical and unhealthy physically and mentally!!!!!!

I was and still am livid after reading this. I used to weigh 317 pounds, size 28 women’s. I am now size 4-6 and weigh 134 pounds and am stick thin. I am 5 ft 9″ tall too. Excuse me, I am NOT plus sized whatsoever! I USED to be, and worked damn hard to get to where I am at now. And last time I looked at the store, my clothing size was NOT in the plus sized section of the store or on that rack.
I am not going to weigh 84 pounds and get to a size – zero to look like some anorexic freak. This article definitely puts out the wrong message to women and girls alike. If you are not this size, then you are fat. You know in the media, women will always be judged on their weight, size, but you never see that happen to men! Real women are healthy, height to weight appropriate and do the best they can to maintain their weight and feel and look good about themselves. I struggled with dieting for years, and no longer do. But many do and feel they are judged every day of their lives because of their size. This just isn’t right.

Humans make the mistake of looking to models for ideas of beauty. Males begin to attach sexual excitement to certain shapes and looks; pornography has turned many young men into the worst nightmare–only truly satisfied with the unrealistic women on the computer screen. Raw sexual appeal is preferred over the woman who is truly feminine. Sadly they may never know the excitement of being attracted to the way a woman curls one side of her mouth when she laughs, the cute pony tail she uses when she is doing housework, the touch of her hand, the smell of her hair, and that naughty sparkle in her eyes that she shared only with you. I would trade a perfect model for a woman who has mystique, any day. Womanhood is an art that only a woman can perform and it is capable of enrapturing a man. Sadly, both women and men fall into believing the lie that raw sexuality and physical perfection are the most important.

Those photos are not attractive or appealing but that is just my opinion which I am entitled too and whatever I think should only matter to me… Two facts which seem to be lost on most Americans these days! “Pin Thin” as this article seems to suggest could not and should not be attractive couldn’t be further from the truth for myself (and, unfortunately for this article with its many commenters, the majority of my male friends tend to agree with my taste in attraction) again this is just my opinion and no one can nor should tell me what or who I should be attracted to! Nor will I tell anyone that celebrating exposed fat rolls is disgusting and wrong! People should have their own opinions and taste in attraction and people need to stop worrying about what other people are doing with their lives and what they find attractive! If you are fat and happy then good for you but stop trying to tell me that I should find you attractive and stop trying to convince me that anyone with self control and a great work ethic is unhealthy! If anything lack of self control, binge eating, obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and lack of exercise seem to be way more unhealthy then “Pin Thin” but hey thats just my opinion!!

I don’t hate skinny girls because they’re skinny. I hate skinny girls because they starved themselves to get skinny, and they did it on purpose. No one gets fat on purpose. I didn’t wake up one morning and decide to gain 100 pounds, and I didn’t start eating 20 meals a day to purposely get fat. Problem is, people assume all fat people are just lazy and purposely have no self-control or self-respect, but that skinny people must have all the self-control in the world. News flash! Anorexia is a compulsion, it’s not self-control!

what matters is, are you healthy for your weight, do you feel good, or are you tired all the time, and feel like your hauling around a tone of bricks on you? And I believe the average women in the US is size 14, that can be healthy and sexy, as long as she is at least 5’5 , but I wouldn’t get any bigger for that height, it puts your health at risk. If I where 5’0 that size would be too much, probly unhealthy, If I where 5’7 and size 6, I would be anorexic, and even If I was healthy would still keep an eye on my health, and if I where 5’0 size six would probly be a good healthy looking size with low health risk. Its all about health, and whats good for you. and thats what the fashion magazines should promote.