Today Show segment
 

I was just watching the Today Show and, by golly, they actually used a nice variety of plus sized models for their fall fashion segment!!! It wasn't just a few sized 12 to 14 models which they have been bad about in the past. There were 4 women af very different sizes. Way to go Today Show! In the past they have not done so well. I watched a plus sized fashion show recently where the women were all sized 12 or below-- or at least that's how they looked. No boobies on them and not a huge butt in the crowd. Now that's realistic :(.

Good for them! Maybe they'll start a reality trend for so-called plus-sized models!

Yay! Finally the media is slowly comin round to realize that the majority of folks are in the double digits when it comes to sizes.. and hmmmm... I will feel alot better when they feature short, "zaftig" weebles in stylish clothes... oooh perhaps I can become a center fold afterall!

I've even noticed it in some magazines lately too. I'm a size 16-ish right now and I'm one of the skinnier girls at work! The world is just not a size 2 anymore and I think advertising is starting to realize this. It's about dang time. :)

have ya'll seen this new ad compaign? It's very cool :D

http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/

they are still better looking than I can hoe to be but it's a refreshing change in ads and marketing.

That's great, Sweet Tea! :)

What I'd like to see is models who are fit, not super skinny. I'd like our kids to idealize Mia Hamm and Serena Williams, not Kate Moss and Lindsey Lohan/Paris Hilton/Hillary Duff. How great would it be if we idolized strong, fit, healthy women instead of women who have every rib showing and appear too frail to walk? :dunno:

That said, you are so right...I'm having a really hard time connecting how fat I still feel (there's still a big roll of fat on my stomach even though I'm 20 pounds from goal) with how skinny I am compared to others. I have a friend who has always been what I consider skinny...not scary skinny like the aforementioned chicks, but healthy/skinny. I saw her yesterday and I look thinner than she does! :yikes: That was just weird for me!

I *so* don't know how to be the "skinny one". Do any of you freak out about this? :?:

I wish I did....I am def the biggest of all of my friends...they are all like a 0-6....I don't want to be a 0, but a 6 or comfy 8 would be awesome!!!!