Does my bum look big in this?

It's a subject pretty close to my heart as a *ahem* "larger lady" - I hate that term, I'd prefer "lady of goddess proportions" but you may not all get what I meant! - I read this article today which was been sparked by a furore caused by this photo....


I'd love to believe that its wrong, but this lady, a professional model, is classed as too fat to be a plus sized model. Yup - Too Fat! I think that theres quite a few people in the fashion industry and media who need to get their eyes (and minds!) tested! I'd recommend reading the comments at the bottom of the article, some of them made me angry, but I'm fully aware that not one of the people writing those would dare say anything like that to the face of anyone who is more than a size 10, and its just false bravado caused by being safely behind a keyboard at home.

Maybe I'm just very old fashioned when it comes to these things, after all, it seems that the modern idea of beauty is this....

yet go back 60 years and beauty was considered more like this..

Go back even further and we find this...

It may be because I like chocolate, or cake, and dislike running, but I'd rather be my curvaceous, rubenesque self, than a skinny waif anyday! Maybe if "normal sized" people were used in the fashion industry we would all feel a little better about ourselves rather than striving to reach an unachievable perfection