The Brits Really Get It, or the UK is leading the Curvy Revolution
- Author: curvy angela
- Filed under: Beauty, Body Image, Fashion, Featured, Media
Apr 1,2008
I have always loved April. My birthday is at the end of the month, Spring is in full swing–I like to think of April as my New Year, thus making me the perfect April Fool.
So, I’d like to thank
Chloe Marshall, a size-16 Miss England contestant (How gorgeous is she?)
Plus, The Real Girl Band: a plus-size girl group with a new single out
Just As Beautiful: web-based plus-size magazine
Songstress Adele (pictured above): winner of the first ever Critic’s Choice Award at this year’s Brit Awards
Kate Dillon: the new face of Marina Rinaldi and my all-time favorite plus-size model
And, not mentioned, Beth Ditto with Mika on The Brit Awards.
I’ll have more details on each of these as the month progresses.
Here’s to kicking April off with a bang!
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5 Responses for "The Brits Really Get It, or the UK is leading the Curvy Revolution"
I like all of them. I am big myself. Big is just a number. And big is more beautiful. Take a look at those big beautiful women at largeplace.com.
That was a great post! I was glad to see someone like cloe so comfortable with her body!
I am so glad to see mainstream media embracing a more inclusive notion of beauty. Rather than think about size as determining beauty, why don’t we allow, oh, I don’t know, BEAUTY to determine beauty.
These women (and many more) are gorgeous–period.
bigangel: Thanks for the link to largeplace.com. Even if you are not a single woman, dating sites like this, and bbw groups on MySpace are great places to see images of real, beautiful women.
We are so inundated with plastic images of women–photoshopped, digitally manipulated images–that 1) we can lose site of what real women look like, 2) our eye becomes trained to “see” only one version of beauty, and 3) we can come to believe (falsely) that it is possible to make our bodies look like these pictures.
Kate Dillon is not plus sized. She is a height/weight proportionate woman who looks like she might even be on the light side of the chart.
I am a plus size - I wear a US size 20 top and US size 16 bottom. I am 5′6″inches tall (or 1.65m) and weigh 230 lbs (or 16.43 stones). I have never fallen victim to the “thin is in” mentality. I have always embraced my curves and I stand tall, proud and confident. I do not read beauty magazines, I do not compare myself to movie stars or supermodels. I judge my health on how I physically feel and not on fashion numbers. I am who and what I am.
At one point in time, I lost a lot of weight because my misinformed doctor thought it would be healthier for me to adhere to the height/weight charts. He believed all my pain I was experiencing was due to my weight and not because of the fused vertebra in my back from an auto accident that misaligned my skeleton- which he never even bothered to find. I finally got a 2nd opinion and that doctor actually said that the former doctor should be banned from practicing for his idiocy. Apparently, my former doctor was one of those idiots who thinks that weight is the source of all medical problems and fails to look for other sources. It’s an easy diagnosis for someone who doesn’t really know what they are doing and are too lazy or stupid to find out the real source.
Anyway, I lost a lot of weight (not easy with all the pain I was in!) and got down to a size 14 on top and a size 4 on the bottom at my skinniest and 118 lbs. (I tend to be very busty no matter what size I am.) I found that the thin me attracted stupid, self-centered, superficial men who were trying to find an external accessory that they thought might give them more status among their peers - like a rolex or a bmw- rather than a real partner. These men treated me like a possession and not a person. They actually didn’t want me to be smart!
I am much bigger now (almost twice my former size!) and more comfortable with myself and I constantly have strangers coming up to me and telling me how lovely I am.
Many of the men who like me curvy said that what attracted them to me was that I was fun, smart, caring, pretty but I didn’t obsess about my physical appearance - I seemed comfortable with myself which made them more comfortable with themselves.
I have always attracted men no matter what my size - the fun, smart ones like me curvy.
Thankfully, those are the men I’m attracted to also. I feel very fortunate to have discovered that instead of following fashion magazines and their superficial advise.
Fashion mags are rags and not worth the paper they are printed on as well as fashionistas who think that wire thin women hangers are attractive. Who are these warped people and why do women listen to them?
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