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Video of the Day: Glamour Magazine's Normal-Sized Models

Glamour Magazine will feature a pictorial of "plus-sized" models in their upcoming issue. Ellen invited four of the models to talk about their experience (and why anything above size 6 is considered "plus"), and then reveals the photo for the first time! Watch now.

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I can't believe you're not playing with me--that was so helfpul.

And I was just wonednirg about that too!

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I feel like many of us are missing the forest for the trees here. It doesn't matter what size the women on this cover are, or whether we call them "plus size" or "normal size" -- these women are NOT normal.

For one thing, they're much taller than the average woman. They have perfect skin and harmonious features. They don't suffer from any obvious disabilities. They have no cellulite that we can see (or maybe it's been retouched?).

These women are MODELS, and the modeling profession, like any other profession, has entry requirements. Glamour can claim it is committed to diversity, but it will never achieve that goal using only models because models have to fit the definition of beautiful -- yes, we can attempt to broaden that definition to include various races, for example, but ever notice that models of any race (and, as we see here, of any size, too) look like ... models?

Models are selected to meet standards set by a bunch of people whose job it is to make the majority of the world feel imperfect and incomplete -- so they'll buy things. Glamour and its editors fit in that category of people, so don't expect any real change from them.

I believe it was from this show but Ellen defined Beuty in her own words she said it was " all about being confident, compassion, and....."
(anyone know how it ended)
Thank-you Ellen for being so inspirational and helping everyone believe in themselves.


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I also find it upsetting that some people think that these models are unhealthy. As others have said, these people are not plus size (look at Burda, plus sizes start at 44 European). I am a size 12 for most of my life (or maybe a 10 or an 8 sometimes) and I am very healthy but I am not skinny.

I hear comments all the time from people who look at someone skinny and assume that they are healthy. I have never heard someone say that you can't be too poor or too fat but many people say that you can't be too rich or too thin. I have never heard someone say "Oh you look great, did you gain weight?" The "skinny" people who are commenting and may indeed hear occasional negative comments perhaps that is a backlash. Consider that other people may get constant negative comments, looks and behaviours and they are unfairly taking it out on you.

I would like to thank you for your posting. I have had the same comments made to me and have actually had people say very rude things. I would never comment on someone's weight. Yet, it is amazing to me that people find it okay to comment on being thin but people would find it very offensive to comment on being overweight. I have had people actually make angry comments towards me because I am thin. People assume because you are a size 0 you have to unhealthy. This is not true. I am extremely healthy and I do not have an eating disorder. Every woman has a different body type. We should all try to be happy with the body God gave us.

I'm a normal healthy size 1 or 3. Always have been, can't gain weight no matter what I've tried. But I am "normal" and "real". I'm 46.

CHECK THIS OUT. LET'S PLAY A SUBSTITUTION GAME: Skinny people hear:

"You're so skinny, are you anorexic?"
"You look gross being so skinny."
"Why don't you eat so you can look normal?"
"You must never eat to starve yourself."

OK, NOW THE FUN PART. All I've done is substitute "fat" words.

"You're so fat, are you a pig?"
"You look gross being so fat."
"Why don't you diet so you can look normal?"
"You must always eat to gorge yourself."

I've had complete strangers say the "skinny" comments to me. Customers at a mall store where I worked as a teen, and even professionals said them when I worked in the corporate world!

Imagine if Ellen had even implied any of those fat statements!! It'd be national news! Yet she had no qualms saying, QUOTE, "I would assume anyone that is a zero or something, that's an eating disorder". How about you non-thin / heavier women reading this? Can YOU imagine yourself saying the "fat" comments to a heavier woman? EVER? To a stranger no less? I'll bet not. How would you feel if someone said the "fat" statements to you? Not so good, huh? Why is it OK to say them to a healthy thin person? MANY thin people, probably MOST thin people are just that way and are healthy. I'm sure some heavy people are healthy too. So on both sides, thin and heavy -some are very unhealthy and should work at becoming healthy, and some are perfectly normal.

Another difference between heavier and thin women: Heavier women are considered "normal" and "real". Thin women are assumed to be sickly.

Difference: Heavier women have many stores devoted to just them, AND most stores at all price points have "Womens" depts devoted to just them; thin people have kid's departments or pricey online-only stores- (can't try things on). Good luck finding a business suit for the corporate world in a kid's dept!

I have noticed a lot of comments on the statements that the industry is calling 6 "Plus-size". I think they're only referencing the models they use for ads, and NOT what stores call plus-size. We ALL know that regular stores like Macy's, Walmart, all prices of stores, have sizes 4 or 6 through 14 or 16 on their REGULAR racks. The "Plus size" dept then usually starts at 14 or 16. So it's not the stores who are calling 6 "Plus-size". It's just referencing the models they use. The AD industry hiring the models calls the 6 models plus size.

Good to see all sizes shown, but c'mon. I think the magazines have realized they'll make more money by boosting the confidence of the "not skinny" people. What are a magazines' goal? To sell magazines and make $$$.

To the woman who doubts that a 34C is a size 0, I'm a 32C and size 0; and, yes, it is hard to find these sizes! I also wear a size 5-1/2 shoe. That usually has to be ordered on the internet. My mom is a size 4 shoe and is a very small lady.

I was unhappy to hear Ellen say that anyone that is size 0 has an eating disorder. I'm 5'1", a little under a hundred pounds. I used to wear a size 3 or 4 years ago, when I was the same weight I am now. Clothing manufacturers have made bigger clothes with smaller size numbers, which I've heard called "vanity sizing." I now struggle to find small clothes as I wear a 0 or 2, which are not always sold or cost much more. Come on Ellen, let's let "real women" mean all women, not just plus size.

Best interview ever Ellen!
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Want to see more photos of these inspirational women? Visit www.curvesmart.blogspot.com, a site devoted to beautiful photos of models over a size 10.

To those who think Ellen misspoke: considering her wife is one of those actresses who has chosen to suffer for her free wardrobe, she was likely speaking from personal experience and not on behalf of society so just take it with a grain of salt and compassion.

It's more important that YOU know the truth about your body than get upset that some TV host doesn't know it too. How could she?????

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I received my issue of Glamour and read that article and saw the pictures. But before I saw the pictures I thought.. plus size? I looked and half those women look like me. I am not plus size and I can't believe we are considered that. Sad..just sad. I guess having a booty is a bad thing. :(

Ellen,
This is part of our wonderful society...Hey for years they would not even dare show Cher's belly button now they are showing what they call PLUS-SIZE models. If I look like them I would be a happy woman. I must be a geometrically size model then LOL, Ellen you could do a makeover session for geometrically size woman. I would be more than happy to volunteer. :)

And who knows I just might find Mr. Right out there.
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Seriously skinny people, try living the life of a plus sized person. Deal with health issues and being overweight when it isn't related to food. Eat healthy and exercise and STILL be fat. Clothing doesn't fit. If it fits, it's horribly ugly. Cry more, you will still always be preferred and tolerated over the fat chick.

PLUS SIZED?!?!?!!? THAT is plus sized?? WTF is this world coming to?!


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