Plus-size Models (1 Viewer)

[Brony]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it. Not that I give a hoot about whether she is hot enough or not, but I don't get the movement on big is beautiful too. We're supposed to be living in a time when obesity is unhealthy and people should want to strive to achieve a healthy weight. Seems like a double standard to celebrate curves.

Basically, I don't get women.

 

[rockaction]

You're so beautiful you could be a part-time model.

 

[Aerial Assault]

Enh . . . some people (men and women) have disabilities or other conditions, or generally irreconcilable lifestyle issues, that prevent them from being thin. That may mean that they don't meet your or my standard of sexual attractiveness, but that's your or my concern.

Not soapboxing here, but if a plus-size model feels good about herself and wants to pose in SI, and SI asked her to do so, who am I to disagree with that? Good for her.

 

[PIK95]

She is not really plus size IMO.

 

[Parrothead]

but can she predict where a storm is going to hit?

 

[shadyridr]

She looks hot! Plus size model <> plus size woman since "normal" models are usually sizes 0-2.

 

[Brony]

but can she predict where a storm is going to hit?

this is getting to the heart of the matter.

 

[bostonfred]

Is it Kate Upton?

 

[rockaction]

but can she predict where a storm is going to hit?

That took me a while.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

You're so beautiful you could be a part-time model.

You could be a waitress, you could be an air hostess in the 60s

 

[Brony]

Enh . . . some people (men and women) have disabilities or other conditions, or generally irreconcilable lifestyle issues, that prevent them from being thin. That may mean that they don't meet your or my standard of sexual attractiveness, but that's your or my concern.

Not soapboxing here, but if a plus-size model feels good about herself and wants to pose in SI, and SI asked her to do so, who am I to disagree with that? Good for her.

I don't blame the model, but I just don't like this direction in the country where obesity is something to be celebrated. I understand that some people have genetic conditions that make this difficult, but typically the models held up as role models aren't suffering from a thyroid syndrome.

 

[tdoss]

Enh . . . some people (men and women) have disabilities or other conditions, or generally irreconcilable lifestyle issues, that prevent them from being thin. That may mean that they don't meet your or my standard of sexual attractiveness, but that's your or my concern.

Not soapboxing here, but if a plus-size model feels good about herself and wants to pose in SI, and SI asked her to do so, who am I to disagree with that? Good for her.

I think she's hot...but I agree with you...who am I to judge?

They keep telling me that crooked-eyed, gap-toothed, heroin-chic, bag of bones Kate Moss is hot...I will never understand that...

 

[Swing 51]

Brony you really think she is obese? Big boned/framed more like it or is that too PC/nice?

 

[Fennis]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it.

they are trying to sell more issues

 

[RBM]

This chick is definitely hot.

 

[ScottNorwood]

She is not really plus size IMO.

If plus size=big boobs I'm all for it

 

[Brony]

Brony you really think she is obese? Big boned/framed more like it or is that too PC/nice?

I haven't run a BMI on her, but the headline is that she's a plus-sized model and yes, she appears chunkier than the average model.

 

[Fat Nick]

She is not really plus size IMO.

So to me, she's just a hot model with some curves. That's not "plus size." I'm one who likes a little meat on the bones, so I'd rather look at chicks like that vs. these little twigs any day.

 

[Fat Nick]

They keep telling me that crooked-eyed, gap-toothed, heroin-chic, bag of bones Kate Moss is hot...I will never understand that...

 

[culdeus]

She's probably clocking in at about 25% body fat.

Dress size has as little to do with obesity as BMI.

What exactly are her measurements

 

[Kraft...]

A big woman can be totally fit and healthy, she just might be genetically large

 

[mquinnjr]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it. Not that I give a hoot about whether she is hot enough or not, but I don't get the movement on big is beautiful too. We're supposed to be living in a time when obesity is unhealthy and people should want to strive to achieve a healthy weight. Seems like a double standard to celebrate curves.

Basically, I don't get women.

It's an excuse to avoid having to correct the problem and live in complacency, e.g. doing the heavy lifting (no pun intended) to eat better and workout more. Tables get turned on everyone else for judging women who are overweight. Overweight women scream loud enough, and people back off, possibly "celebrate" their fatness in fear of backlash for not being involved in the movement.

 

[Fennis]

She's probably clocking in at about 25% body fat.

Dress size has as little to do with obesity as BMI.

What exactly are her measurements

Per the know all source: 36C/D-29-39.5[4]

 

[Fennis]

She's probably clocking in at about 25% body fat.

Dress size has as little to do with obesity as BMI.

What exactly are her measurements

Per the know all source: 36C/D-29-39.5[4]

shes also 6'2"

 

[Man in the yellow hat]

That women is 6' 2". So, yes, plus size most likely because he has a bigger frame to work with. But she is in no way obese.

 

[culdeus]

She's probably clocking in at about 25% body fat.

Dress size has as little to do with obesity as BMI.

What exactly are her measurements

Per the know all source: 36C/D-29-39.5[4]

So she has some birthing hips. A 29 waist is a size 4. People need to get over themselves.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Kate Upton has appeared for several years now. Nothing ground breaking about this at this point.

 

[culdeus]

That women is 6' 2". So, yes, plus size most likely because he has a bigger frame to work with. But she is in no way obese.

adjusting my BF% down to 20% if she is really 6-2.

 

[Ignoramus]

"Obese"

 

[bryhamm]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it. Not that I give a hoot about whether she is hot enough or not, but I don't get the movement on big is beautiful too. We're supposed to be living in a time when obesity is unhealthy and people should want to strive to achieve a healthy weight. Seems like a double standard to celebrate curves.

Basically, I don't get women.

Mentioning her and obesity in the same post is

 

[Man in the yellow hat]

This, however, is another story:

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/plus-size-model-tess-holliday-busts-stereotype-article-1.2090500

 

[urbanhack]

She's a big girl and she's very proportionate...she's not chunky or fat.

would marry her.

 

[cstu]

Robyn Lawley, size 12

...at 6-2.

 

[Fat Nick]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it. Not that I give a hoot about whether she is hot enough or not, but I don't get the movement on big is beautiful too. We're supposed to be living in a time when obesity is unhealthy and people should want to strive to achieve a healthy weight. Seems like a double standard to celebrate curves.

Basically, I don't get women.

It's an excuse to avoid having to correct the problem and live in complacency, e.g. doing the heavy lifting (no pun intended) to eat better and workout more. Tables get turned on everyone else for judging women who are overweight. Overweight women scream loud enough, and people back off, possibly "celebrate" their fatness in fear of backlash for not being involved in the movement.

I don't think anyone would argue if you said that a chick who was 300 lbs. and was 5'3" was overweight and had a health problem that she needs to work on for her own sake...I think my thing here is that the definition of "healthy" is so skewed that the vast majority of the population is deemed "overweight." My issue isn't with the concept, but more with the cut-off.

I'm 5'11" and weigh 185 lbs. I'm considered "overweight." I've never been CALLED overweight by anyone who has ever seen me. I just think the scale is off. I'm NOT saying there aren't lots of people with major issues out there.

 

[Brony]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it. Not that I give a hoot about whether she is hot enough or not, but I don't get the movement on big is beautiful too. We're supposed to be living in a time when obesity is unhealthy and people should want to strive to achieve a healthy weight. Seems like a double standard to celebrate curves.

Basically, I don't get women.

Mentioning her and obesity in the same post is

I'm not the one touting her as plus-sized. SI is. Just decide if you think being overweight is something to be celebrated or shamed. It's not that complicated.

 

[krista4]

I think the OP had a decent point that was lost in his using an extremely poor example to make it.

 

[shadyridr]

"Obese"

 

[cstu]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it. Not that I give a hoot about whether she is hot enough or not, but I don't get the movement on big is beautiful too. We're supposed to be living in a time when obesity is unhealthy and people should want to strive to achieve a healthy weight. Seems like a double standard to celebrate curves.

Basically, I don't get women.

Mentioning her and obesity in the same post is

I'm not the one touting her as plus-sized. SI is. Just decide if you think being overweight is something to be celebrated or shamed. It's not that complicated.

She's not overweight. Normal models starve themselves to look like that.

 

[Parrothead]

14+ was always the best store in the mall to go hoggin'

 

[Godsbrother]

A lot of men dig plus sized women. I remember one heffer in a red bathing suit posted in another thread a year or two ago that many FBGs were going crazy for.

She looked like a whale to me.

 

[culdeus]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it. Not that I give a hoot about whether she is hot enough or not, but I don't get the movement on big is beautiful too. We're supposed to be living in a time when obesity is unhealthy and people should want to strive to achieve a healthy weight. Seems like a double standard to celebrate curves.

Basically, I don't get women.

Mentioning her and obesity in the same post is

I'm not the one touting her as plus-sized. SI is. Just decide if you think being overweight is something to be celebrated or shamed. It's not that complicated.

You do realize you can be plus size and not overweight, correct? Or do you realize it now?

 

[bryhamm]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it. Not that I give a hoot about whether she is hot enough or not, but I don't get the movement on big is beautiful too. We're supposed to be living in a time when obesity is unhealthy and people should want to strive to achieve a healthy weight. Seems like a double standard to celebrate curves.

Basically, I don't get women.

Mentioning her and obesity in the same post is

I'm not the one touting her as plus-sized. SI is. Just decide if you think being overweight is something to be celebrated or shamed. It's not that complicated.

Psst ... she's not overweight.

 

[shadyridr]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it. Not that I give a hoot about whether she is hot enough or not, but I don't get the movement on big is beautiful too. We're supposed to be living in a time when obesity is unhealthy and people should want to strive to achieve a healthy weight. Seems like a double standard to celebrate curves.

Basically, I don't get women.

Mentioning her and obesity in the same post is

I'm not the one touting her as plus-sized. SI is. Just decide if you think being overweight is something to be celebrated or shamed. It's not that complicated.

plus size is a specific term for models and really has nothing to do with obesity

 

[jon_mx]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it. Not that I give a hoot about whether she is hot enough or not, but I don't get the movement on big is beautiful too. We're supposed to be living in a time when obesity is unhealthy and people should want to strive to achieve a healthy weight. Seems like a double standard to celebrate curves.

Basically, I don't get women.

Mentioning her and obesity in the same post is

I'm not the one touting her as plus-sized. SI is. Just decide if you think being overweight is something to be celebrated or shamed. It's not that complicated.

You do realize you can be plus size and not overweight, correct? Or do you realize it now?

That is true. But a 5-4 size 12 woman is overweight.

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

She's probably clocking in at about 25% body fat.

Dress size has as little to do with obesity as BMI.

What exactly are her measurements

Per the know all source: 36C/D-29-39.5[4]

...only if she's 5'3" [record scratch]

 

[bryhamm]

brony, JJ Watt would be considered plus size. You think he is overweight or obese?

 

[mquinnjr]

SI swimsuit edition will have a plus-size model this year

I don't get it. Not that I give a hoot about whether she is hot enough or not, but I don't get the movement on big is beautiful too. We're supposed to be living in a time when obesity is unhealthy and people should want to strive to achieve a healthy weight. Seems like a double standard to celebrate curves.

Basically, I don't get women.

It's an excuse to avoid having to correct the problem and live in complacency, e.g. doing the heavy lifting (no pun intended) to eat better and workout more. Tables get turned on everyone else for judging women who are overweight. Overweight women scream loud enough, and people back off, possibly "celebrate" their fatness in fear of backlash for not being involved in the movement.

I don't think anyone would argue if you said that a chick who was 300 lbs. and was 5'3" was overweight and had a health problem that she needs to work on for her own sake...I think my thing here is that the definition of "healthy" is so skewed that the vast majority of the population is deemed "overweight." My issue isn't with the concept, but more with the cut-off.

I'm 5'11" and weigh 185 lbs. I'm considered "overweight." I've never been CALLED overweight by anyone who has ever seen me. I just think the scale is off. I'm NOT saying there aren't lots of people with major issues out there.

Fair point Nick, mine is a generalization that won't apply to all women who are overweight. Some women cannot control it via various medical issues, and that's fair, I realize that. I don't mean to poke fun at that subset of women.

My post above was specifically geared towards women who do not have a medical condition that makes it hard (if not impossible) to lose weight. Again generalizing, they seem to tend to scream the loudest when you don't celebrate the fact that they're overweight alongside them. Chastising them isn't necessarily the right way to get them to take a hard look at their eating and exercise habits and improve their health, but neither is celebrating the fact that they are overweight along with them so that they don't have to dig in and do the hard work to resolve their situation.

 

[culdeus]

Just to make this point. Her waist size versus what they are quoting as their dress size for men would equal you going up 8 inches in your waist band. Or rather if you imagine what would you look like with 8 inches less in your waistband if you have some belly fat on you.

She still overweight?

The better example was the Dove "real women" ads. Now those women were beefy and needed to drop 15-20 as a general rule.

 

[culdeus]

Also, for the first time in history there are more fat women than men in this country. And this is accelerating.

 

[Brony]

brony, JJ Watt would be considered plus size. You think he is overweight or obese?

I haven't commented on this particular model being obese or overweight. SI is not the first campaign celebrating obesity/big boned/overweight/above average BMI. I really have no interest in this model or JJ Watt being obese or overweight or whatever term you want to put on it.

I just find it odd that in a time when there are many headlines highlighting the country's obesity problem, there are campaigns celebrating being overweight. No problem if I'm the only who finds that odd. It won't be the last time.