I am currently pretty chubbed out (but working on it).My weight has always fluctuated drastically, with no apparent catalysts, so it's not as if I'm a "skinny person in a fat person's body"...I straddle both sides, with the accompanying double wardrobe.
Ideally (on my skinny days) I am a perfect sample size 8, but today (this week, this month....this year) is most certainly not a skinny one.
Being a size 10 [cou-12-gh] while working in a world of size 8 samples is frustrating. I can only imagine the pressure felt by those in the size 2 print and runway fashion world.
As a tribute to "non-waifs" (because, seriously, these girls seen on the street would not bring to mind the words "fat" or overweight in a million years), I've compiled a little spread of the Plus-size model.
Most of these photos are of Crystal Renn, the anorexic turned plus size model, who is one of the only accepted mainstream print "non-waifs" (she is only a size 10 mind you).
Even cute, chubby Marilyn at her heaviest Some Like it Hot weight (which was immediately after a miscarriage) was probably only a whopping size 6.
It helps put things into perspective when you are trying desperately to zip up that dress you are able to fit into only on your skinniest days.
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