Plus-Size Model Tara Lynn Poses in Lingerie
October 28, 2010 in Hot Models by Versus
Super beautiful plus-size model Tara Lynn (size 12 US) is the new face (more like the ‘new body’) of Plie lingerie – and she looks seductive and cleavagey while posing in their nude and black ensembles.
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Stunning!
If I were a man, I’d have an errection right now. I’m just sayin’ LOL
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Deb,
I do have an erection….I’m just saying lol
When I see a heavy women with such a beautiful face I can’t help but think it is a shame. She would be an absolute knock-out if she were slimmer and more toned. I know I am going to get a lot of backlash probably for that comment but that is my opinion.
@ Jen, I kinda agree but you know what, if she was slimmer and toned that would make her another slim beauty like all the others. Atleast with this bigger frame she stands out from the rest. Good for her!
agree!
she’s stunning
I agree with both of you. She is beautiful the way she is and would be beautiful thin. I think there is just no denying that she is just plain beautiful! I also think that a larger Tara Lynn is more appealing to men than a thinner Tara Lynn.
that´s not true.. i agree, she is beautiful but when you see her body all i can think is mmhh,, she could be better.
I agree here too! she is a beauty!
i have to agree on this one…
Thank you for saying it first lol
I agree completely. I feel, in general, women who are slimmer/more toned have an air of confidence that makes them all the more attractive. Physically, I think they look better too.
She’s absolutely beautiful, but if she was slimmer she could be the next major supermodel..
What is flawed is your perception that a woman must be thin to be truly beautiful, not Tara Lynn’s body.
does her size look healthy to you?
honest question here.
often what appears healthiest is considered beautiful (clear skin, sparkling eyes, toned figure, etc.)
Thin? Or just not fat? There’s a difference, you know. Don’t go assuming that just because we don’t like the fat look, that means you have to be so skinny that you disappear when you turn sideways. But thin enough to eliminate some of the fat rolls, to make the hips a non-ridiculous circumference, to show a bit of muscle tone? Heck yes. That doesn’t have to be “skinny,” just skinnier.
she isn’t saying that she isn’t beautiful. jen said precisely the opposite–that tara lynn is gorgeous, but her body isn’t watch people usually think of as perfect (or at least in my experience). yes, her face blows me away, but body-wise i prefer someone more toned, and if she was i’d consider her almost perfect
completely agree! right now i find her unattractive, despite her gorgeous face
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
This woman’s figure is FAR healthier and attractive than anorexic man-muscle stomach Megan Fox. I hope and pray that society changes the pathetic idea of what a beautiful woman is. I do not (and will never) understand how having no shape, figure, or curve is feminine. IT ISN’T!
Women judge other women so harshly. It MAKES ME SICK! She’s probably far more attractive than anyone who posts on here. I can guarantee you that.
I completely agree with you. I’d rather look healthy, and normal, then look like I didn’t eat in three years. People need to realize, the 78lb look isn’t attractive. It’s plain disgusting. If you have curves, love them. I know I am very confident with myself. This woman is gorgeous, and the people knocking her down, are just blind to what beauty is.
and how do you know her body is healthy for her? just because she has meat on her bones? and there are women who have no shape feel insecure about themselves people like you choose to put them down because for not having a big breast or butt. no one is saying she has to be a size 0 to be beautiful but take care of herself. beauty comes in all shapes and sizes and that should be appreciated, not bashing someone because you don’t like it. thin women exist just like curvy women and people should deal with it.
You are bashing her while preaching against bashing. wow.
and how was i bashing her? i didn’t like what she said so i said my opinion. i felt she didn’t have to put down someone else just to make a point. so please point out where i called her a name or put her down.
You can’t assume Tara is healthy or healthier than Megan Fox. I mean health is determined by your cholesterol, blood pressure, EKG’s, blood tests, lung power, being flexible and having good muscle tone with a healthy amound of body fat (Essential Body Fat for woman should not be under 10-13% and not be over 31% based on http://www.acefitness.org) So unless you can tell me you know her stats and they are in the healthy range then you have no argument when it comes to the health side of things. Also have you ever herd of beauthy is in the eye of the beholder.
At K Justice- My comment was for you and I didn’t read that you do know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder so then why do you say she is far more attractive than anyone that posts on here. Thats mean and irrelevant cause remember what you said about beauty being in the eye of the beholder.
Wow, jealous much? Your tirade against thin women with visible abs sounds a lot like sour grapes.
i completely agree jen!
I agree, but she shouldn’t get to thin, just a little slimmer
I totally agree with you..sure she doesn´t have to get super skinny but she could afford to lose a few pounds and get i bit slimmer!Her face is really stunning!
I agree with Jen. She is certainly no size 12, but look at other plus size models who start taking care of themselves. Once they start both eating healthily and working out, the fat just burns away. Look at Crystal.
It really is a shame. Whether the plus size model is being unhealthy to make a point that plus is beautiful, or she is doing it because she doesn’t care about herself, it certainly isn’t something that people should praise. Yes there are once in a while genetic factors behind it, but generally plus size is a choice. And it generally isn’t the healthy one.
Sometimes I think the same thing but then I imagine if she were to lose weight, she might lose her facial beauty. The weight loss could throw off her “look” then she wouldn’t be as pretty. She has a full face that looks so young and fresh. I think weight loss would make it gaunt or possibly cause sagging skin.
Agreed! When you lose weight, your face changes. We can´t know what would happen in Tara´s case, but it might be that she would lose her sparkle. At least the weight loss would have to be very slow, and it shouldn´t be major.
She has a beautiful face exactly because she is overweight…the excess of strogen on the fat tissue makes her face, skin, hair everything so feminine…if she was skinny,her face wouldnt be stunning like that…it would look older.
She may gain wrinkles and sagging skin (what people on this site call older) from losing weight only because she stretched out her skin. Being overweight doesn’t make you look feminine or beautiful.
I disagree, I think some women look good bigger, if you look at her face, its so full and glowing, if she were 120lbs I bet her face would look lifeless and lose that plumpness that makes it beautiful.
And this is coming from someone who is the opposite, when I gain weight, my face looks terrible and bloated, but hers is amazing at this weight and I’ve seen lots of women like her, who actually look better with meat on their bones.
I don’t think you can say what she should or shouldn’t do with her body. The fact that she found a job and she shows off her body freely give us the conclusion that she is happy with herself and that she can use her body for her benefit. Someone’s body shape and how they feel with it is completeley personal and i don’t believe we should judge others lives or habbits.
What’s wrong with how she is now? She’s perfect the way she is. There’s nothing wrong with how she is and if you really like her then you would accept her for how she looks like now.
Just because slim is the “norm” doesn’t mean that it’s the ideal shape for a woman.
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She is sooo beautiful here.
I wonder if they will ever have plus size male models? I just had a vision of a chubby man in an underwear shoot and it made me laugh
haha
aww that would be quite cute… Don’t know why, but something just made me think that- it’s very late so it could just be my mind going a little haywire
I think Tara Lynn is one of the most beautiful people I’ve ever seen on this site and can I just mention that I also love her name? Very unusual as I’ve never come across it before. 
Where are the healthy sized models, I ask? There’s beauty between the extremes y’know!
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I agree. What’s wrong with size 6 or 8 models? Fuller figures (and I use this term in comparison to the majority of models nowadays; in real life, if you’re tall and a size 6 or 8 I definitely wouldn’t use that term), but still very healthy.
Doutzen, Bar, Crystal. All healthy sized. Stop asking the same question every time.
Crystal only recently became an average everyday size, up until recently she was very much plus-sized. Bar is borderline underweight, she just looks bigger in comparison to the majority of models and Doutzen has often been called ‘fat’ by various designers and other notable people in the industry.
Stop being rude every time.
Come on, Bar is not borderline underweight! She has said herself she’s a size 4, or sometimes 6. That’s perfectly healthy!
I’m about as tall as she is, and I wear the same sizes. My BMI is 20.5. Not even close to being underweight.
for everyone who says that this figure is not beautiful and has never been found beautiful, i ask you to look at statues and art from ancient greece.
this example here, is meant to be aphrodite.
http://www.adrianconnelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/exhibit21.jpg
and my absolute favourite, winged victory of samothrace:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/13/18253938_0823fe3ae6_o.jpg
seriously. the greeks idealised these bodies. Male statues too, are muscular but fleshy. To them this was the absolute ideal.
The statues would not have the same power and grace if sculpted with todays ideal figure.
The figures depicted there are thinner than Tara Lynn’s, which kind of negates your point. They’d be considered “average” these days.
“for everyone who says that this figure is not beautiful and has never been found beautiful,”
I don’t think anyone said that, and I hope no one believes it.
As for what is found beautiful, there are some aspects of beauty that are universal and timeless, like good skin, good teeth, symmetrical faces, but the rest really depends on the culture and environment.
The reason why larger women were found more attractive in earlier societies is because that size was associated wealth and health. The majority of people in those times were dying of hunger, unlike today. So of course their ideal of beauty was skewed to favor women who are larger simply because they were the prime example of health during those times (by that I mean, starvation leads to many health issues, larger people aren’t starving, so they were perceived as the healthier body type). In addition, with lack of antibiotics and so many illnesses plaguing people, when a man wanted to invest in a woman he wanted a woman to last, so to say. He would want a woman who could give birth and not die, or a woman who would get things like smallpox, and be able to fight through it.
In today’s time, things are obviously different. We are not a society plagued by lack of food, but rather an overabundance of food. So much food, that people are dying as a result of it. So now, larger figures have been associated with health issues we have come to know, such as diabetes and heart disease. In any society, what is healthy is usually what is attractive, and because of our overabundance of food, larger people are no longer the ideal since they are no longer the healthiest body type that exists. Now, fit, active people are the ideal…people who are able to control their caloric intake and not succumb to the health problems of being overweight. Now, it’s not about being able to fight smallpox, it’s how long you’ll live. It’s not about being able to survive a birth, but whether or not you are fertile in the first place or whether you have cysts on your ovaries and high blood pressure that make you incapable of having a child.
Basically, before, it was emaciated vs. larger figures, so of course larger figures were healthier and therefore more attractive. But now, it’s emaciated vs. fit vs. larger, and out of the three, it’s usually fit that is the healthiest and therefore the most attractive.
“The statues would not have the same power and grace if sculpted with todays ideal figure.”
That’s pretty debateable. If the figures were done using figures like that of VS models back then, whose to say we wouldn’t have treated them with the same grace that we do now? I think the grace comes more from the fact that it’s timeless pieces of art from romanticized societies of long ago, rather than the bodies themselves. I think the bodies themselves could be completely different and we would have treated it the same way.
great post!
amazing post
She is so beautiful. I think her body looks nice, but i do think a little bit like, ah if she was a bit thinner she’d look awesome. But then, maybe this weight is comfortable for her, and not all people prefer a thin figure. In her own category, the plus-sized, she’s a real stunner imo.
I am sooo jealous! Wow!! I want to look like that!
She’s a beautiful woman. But I’d definitely think she’d look better with some muscle definition/toning.
she is such a beauty!
She is extremely beautiful but she should lose a bit of weight for her health. Not a substantial amount but her modelling card gives her a waist measurement of 34 inches. Most ideal waist line measurements for women are 31 inches and under. Anything above this puts women at at higher risk for diabetes, blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. She just needs to tone up a little bit to make sure she doesn’t exceed the healthy amount of abdominal fat.
Other than that I think she is perfect. She is beyond beautiful at her current weight but purely for health reasons she should slim down a tiny bit.
Actually from what I’ve read 35 inches is the maximum healthy waist measurement, but it seems to vary from site to site! So she’s on the edge. I think her WHR must be below .80 which puts her at a decreased risk of weight related health problems.
You have to take height into consideration. A 4’9 person should have a smaller waist than a 5’11 person. You need to divide the waist size by height, anything above 50% is considered overweight. It’s called waist to height ratio.
Exactly; i don’t understand where did people come up with this absolute number. A 24 inch waist is tiny on someone 5’10 for example, but it is average on a 5′ person…
I believe a 32 inch waist cut off is for average height, so for short women it might be 30 inches and tall women 34 inches. That said most people would probably prefer to keep their waists under the cut off for aesthetic purposes.
@ Kate1st. For aesthetic purposes everyone has a different opinion, and I think that her waist is very nice and fits her, even if it isn’t “under the cut off”.
@Jen I have to agree. I think exactly that every time I see her.
Actually… I have seen women who just loose their charm when they loose weight… Some people just look much better with few extra pounds, some dont… And some skinny girls would look amazing with some more pounds on them!
It really depends on every single person how they look at their best…
YUK!
Beautiful face, but I think she’s a tad too heavy to be healthy. Not saying she needs to be super thin or slim, I think curvy (truly curvy not fat) and ‘plump’ suits her very well. Like a milk maid of days gone by.
I agree, I have quit a few overweight/obese relatives with diabetes so I know how important it is to keep your weight at an acceptable BMI and it’s important to watch your waist line. My grandfather had half of his left leg amputated because of diabetes. It’s rarer for that to happen these days because of medical advances but I still get scared thinking about it.
doesnt she kind of look like rosie huntington whitely
I can see the resemblance facially. So now we sort of know what she’d look like thinner. I Tara the way she is now though.
She is really beautiful although she is really big especially the fourth picture. She’s much too big.
Wow! She’s unbelievably beautiful. Just stunning. Her body is a tad fuller and lusher than I personally care for but she definitely is gorgeous.
Truly stunning. Not only does she bear my name but she is also very inspirational for me as I am trying to deal with my fuller and currently plus-size figure after years of anorexia/bulimia. I can´t really count on Crystal Renn anymore lol. I am however worried about the fact that you associate her weight with poor health. Have you ever read ,,Health at every size”? I strongly recommend as it discredits all the myths about how overweight causes health problems and illnesses. In fact research shows (and by that I mean indenpendently funded and scientifically reliable research, not funded by the diet industry) that being overweight or at a BMI between 25-30 indicates better overall health and longer life (sorry english is not my first language) that people in the BMI range of 20-25. And that if we look back in history we see that not many years ago when BMI wasn´t known as publicily as a measure on health the “healthy” weight category was in the range 25-30, overweight was 30-35 and underweight was 20-25. It all changed overnight when WHO decided to change it. Why, you ask? WHO claims it was based on new research and evidence. Such evidence has however never existed. They changes the scale because it benefitted the dieting industry which had begun to rake in millions (and which today rakes in billions) and in fact many of the board members that made the decision were partners or CEO´s at those before-mentioned dieting companies. Let´s not be fooled by what society tells us. Tara is stunning and everything about her is…
Making up “facts” to deny reality doesn’t help anyone. More often than not, obesity is directly responsible for premature death. Whether through Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, liver or kidney failure, or cancer, there can be no pretending that it’s “healthy” to be carrying around a significant amount of body fat.
And a lot of it has to do with your lifestyle. Very few people get fat by eating a balanced, calorie-controlled, plant-based diet and working out on a regular basis. Those that do generally have something else medically wrong with them – a thyroid problem, for instance. These indicators all point to the same thing: A healthy lifestyle doesn’t cause obesity; an unhealthy lifestyle does, and it also causes a drawn-out, painful, embarrassing, premature death.
The book you cite is full of crap, only intended to make fat women feel better about being fat so that they won’t have to take on the responsibility of doing something positive for their health.
It’s bad enough that you’re making excuses that continue to enable obese people to sit idly and worsen their health; you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to paint obesity, one of America’s most prolific killers, as a “healthy” thing.
I agree with Alexa. However, I found interesting the comment “she is also very inspirational for me as I am trying to deal with my fuller and currently plus-size figure after years of anorexia/bulimia. I can´t really count on Crystal Renn anymore lol.”
Crystal Renn should be an inspiration for you. She was overweight, successful in her modeling career, and then began thinking about her health. She began starting to take care of herself, eating right, and the weight just melted off.
Seeing other unhealthy people become healthy should be an inspiration, not seeing someone unhealthy happening to be successful at their career.
I agree with you for the most part. I even agree with you that someone with a BMI of 25-30 could be healthy and that it’s wrong to just assume that they are not just because a lot of people of that BMI are not.
But I don’t think it’s fair that you dismiss decades worth of replicated scientific research conducted at top health organizations, medical schools, and research universities for the purpose of promoting one study that has not even been replicated.
The diet industry probably does fund a lot of research. But funding is not the same as creating conclusions. Certain industries can “fund” research, but they cannot influence the outcome of said research. Also, industries don’t have much power on peer-reviewed journals that publish results of research that they have determined to be scientifically valid. The whole notion of peer revision eliminates that possibility as any biases in the research will be pointed out and the article dismissed. Peer-reviewed journals fight strongly to uphold the strictest scientific methods in the articles they choose to publish. You may not believe that, but then again, you may also believe that the government is hiding aliens. To put it simply, no industry can buy out all members of a peer revision team, nor all members of a field who have a voice in said field, especially not people who take pride in conducting unbiased research. It’s like trying to buy out all Chrstians to do things against Christianity…it won’t happen.
I also find it hard to believe that most research is funded by the diet industry because a lot of research having to do with health and diet strongly attack and criticize the diet industry as unscientific and basically, bull****. I’ve never seen any replicated, journal-published study promoting any diet fad, but I’ve seen plenty attacking them.
Reading “Nourishing Traditions” by Sally Fallon. It contains a clear explanation of the why and how of “diet research.”
Just playing devils advocate here but you do realise that the tobacco companies funded research that told us that cigarettes were not at all unhealthy and that view was held for years, as did the Asebestos industry, as did countless fertilizers, lead paint, aluminium pans, mercury was considered safe enough for kids to play with, Cocaine & Herioin were both vallid medications (over the counter in kids cough medicine) the list goes on and on – in 20 years time who knows what we will find out is actually healthy or not.
Also an interesting side note I spent the better part of 12months in hospitals when my husband was very ill (he was in various hospitals for 10mths straight – I was there every morning and every night and most weekends, so I spent A LOT of time there!) In the general, cardiac and renal wards I saw mostly skinny people some overweight and very few obese people – just makes you think.
On another note…
I spend a lot of time in the gum and am very fit and know several of the other woman who eat healthy and spend just as much time as me working out but never drop below a AUS size 14 regardless of what they do. In my opinion healthy or not depends on first and foremost how you feel, if you cant walk 10 feet without getting out of breath, yeah your not healthy, but if you exercise regularly (in a gym or lifestyle, as in someone who mows lawns 8hrs a day for a living probably doesnt need to worry about working out!) and feel good within yourself, I think your on the right track.
There are a hell of a lot of woman out there who are big and really struggle to do anything about it, and its not always lazyness even discounting genuine health problems if have it in your head that you want to be 50kg but your body wont drop below 65kg regardless of how much you work out and how little you eat, your going to lose motivation. likewise there are a lot of woman who would kill to weigh 65kg but no matter how much they eat they cant get above 50kg. bashing each other isnt going to change that, whoever said in this post that there is beauty between the extremes was 100% right, just depends what you class as extreme!
People should realise if she lost too much weight (okay, she she could lose maybe 5 or 8 lbs) her beautiful round face would CHANGE. She is STUNNING and I really feel sorry for anyone who thinks you have to be skinny to be beautiful, you just don’t… and who are you trying to be skinny for anyway?
Also my BMI used to be like 21 now its 19, and my face isn’t as pretty its just not. I’m not saying skinny faces aren’t beautiful too but you got to think about your genetic make up. If she’s naturally a little heavier, she’s going to look nice that way and remember not EVERYONE wants to look like a twig.
Maybe for yourself, since being overweight is a really good indicator that you’re at high risk for heart disease, diabetes and cancer, among other things. Or maybe (removed by admin). Whatever works.
I don’t know about that. Facial fat is one of the hardest “fats” to lose if you’ve had it for a long time and grew up with it.
I think she would have to lose a lot more than 8 pounds to affect her face. And even then, who’s to say she won’t look even better if it DOES affect her face? There were a few instances where I’ve seen larger women with beautiful faces lose weight and their faces became even more gorgeous…like, more in proportion and more statuesque. You never know which way these things will go without it happening.
And I don’t think the people who are saying she should lose some weight are saying she should be skinny or a twig (which btw is a very insulting term to use to describe a body type which many women naturally possess). Saying someone would look better if they were slimmer than they are is not the same as saying someone would look better if they were skinny.
I’ve said it a billion times and i will say it every time i see your condescending comments: if women can be naturally extremely thin, accept the fact that women can naturally be where Tara stands. You always moan how you can’t gain weight yet i never ever saw you say something that a bit fuller woman cannot lose the weight. All your coherence and logic falls apart because of your double standard and your constant ad misericordiam arguments. Sorry if this offends you, but for someone always preaching how hurtful people are about her figure, you are terribly not understanding of other types of figures and bodies.
That being said, i think Tara is stunning.
“You always moan how you can’t gain weight yet i never ever saw you say something that a bit fuller woman cannot lose the weight. ”
I’ve said it hundreds of times, twice on this page already, that people can be overweight and be healthy and may have bodies that cannot lose weight. I’ve also said it’s rare, but I say the same about natural thinness.
“Sorry if this offends you,”
It’s okay, I’m not offended. I’m taking it as a simple matter of you didn’t feel like reading thoroughly and were skimming through comments as a lot of us do sometimes.
“I’ve said it a billion times and i will say it every time i see your condescending comments:”
Go right ahead, but every time you do, I’m going to sigh, roll my eyes, and explain to you that I am not being even the least bit condescending, that you’re wrong, and that perhaps you’re projecting some antagonism into my comments that isn’t there. I don’t carry the double-standard you’re referring to and have numerous times argued the case of “naturally overweight” and that it’s possible to be overweight and healthy, yet, I’m not understanding about other body types? And when I “preach” about people being hurtful, I’d like for you to understand that I’m talking about people being actually intentionally as rude and cruel as possible. As opposed to what? Me saying Tara is gorgeous and will always be gorgeous and will be even more gorgeous with a little less weight? If people had been so nice to me about my figure when they were sharing their opinions of me, I probably wouldn’t need to “preach” so much.
Whatever. Scrolling on this page alone you will see about 10 comments worse than mine so I don’t understand why you chose to single me out. I honestly think you’re completely misinterpreting my comments, but I cannot help that. This is text, and people won’t always get the subtle nuances nor tone that I’m trying to convey. I’m telling you now how I feel about the topic, but I have a feeling you will argue back about how I’m practically lying and how I’m really just a bitter, thin, woe-is-me girl who cannot understand the idea that others have body issues as well, in which case, I cannot do anything more to change your mind and you are entitled to your opinion of me.
I singled you out because i consider you an intelligent person, one that can lead a healthy argument and can understand the meaning of different opinions. I mean this. I might not always agree with you, but i respect you. I will not single out someone who is incapable of grasping others’ opinions, not worth my time.
I’m sorry you feel the way you do – the last paragraph i mean – i just find it unfair of you to consider it perfectly okay for you not to gain weight but perfectly fine for Tara to lose weight. That was the whole point. Also, in one comment you said that 20 lbs more or less does not hurt anyone. That’s terribly wrong. At 5’4 consider the difference between 110 lbs and 90 lbs and than say something like that.
That’s it on the point.
Okay, thank you for that Cristina. I’m sorry, but I perceived your comment as a little hostile, so I figured if you were going to attack someone over this topic, you should start with the ruder comments.
In terms of saying that I think Tara Lynn would look better with a little less weight…I do. I don’t think its possible nor GOOD to try to suppress people’s opinions, because we all have them. I think Tara Lynn looks great but would look even better with 20 pounds less. Just like I’m sure there are people who think I would look better if I gained 20 pounds.
This is not something that people have said that has ever bothered me. What bothered me was people’s snarky remarks, people assuming what I eat and don’t eat, the status of my health, and using that as tools to prove that my body is somehow inherently inferior to all other bodies. An opinion is one thing, and it doesn’t hurt that much. What hurts is when people try to somehow validate their opinion by making HUGE assumptions, and try to imply that their opinion is the law and universal and not just how they feel.
Having experienced that, I actively try not to do the same to others. I try not to assume one’s diet habits without any source of information. I try not to imply that certain bodies are not and cannot ever be healthy or attractive. I try not to be rude or snarky. Saying that Tara Lynn is a good looking woman who in my opinion would look even better with a little less weight is a lot different than saying, “Tara Lynn is gross and fat, she is unhealthy, therefore she SHOULD lose weight because she overeats and doesn’t work out.”
Have I said something similar in the past, or made judgments about people’s weight without any good source of information? Probably. I’m not perfect. But I do try not to, which is a lot more than most people on here.
Casey, I’m sorry you found the term ‘twig’ insulting, but really… Get over it I suppose. It really pisses me off when I read girls falling over themselves about ‘long legs’ because I get touchy as I’m 5’2. It annoys me when people call perfectly beautiful women ‘fat’ etc etc. Whatever really!
Casey is right 99,9% of the time
Nice… face.
That’s all I can say, sorry.
Gorgeous !
Ok ok her face is more than nice XD
Must be nice to be that gorgeous….i must admit while I would want her body…her face is gorgeous and I like her look for the way she is….also if you are eating healthy like 80-90% of the time and getting in weekly exercise and seeing your doctor….i would not worry about the numbers to the point of freaking out….we all know we should not be obese but after looking at several papers from both sides..i will say that bmi category of 25-28 can be iffy….but me personal I always think for everyone keep the body fat low and I agree keep the waist lean as possible but if you are eating healthy keeping the waist is lean….but we all are different but as said before she is gorgeous but maybe that is why she is a model and I am just going to school to be a physician:)
also the meant to say would not want to be that bigger
welll, i’ve said it once and i’ll say it again.
i don’t find this kind of body attractive, there’s nothing really attractive or healthy about it……..she would be stunning, like one of the best models round if she were straight sized but she’s not. whatever.
at the end of the day if she’s happy and honestly believes she’s healthy then i guess that ‘s all that matters…
How do you know there isn’t anything healthy about her body?
That comment is so ignorant it hurts. REally, get your head out of your backside, you’re not being smart.
im not attempting to be smart….im just stating my opinion….its a well known fact a larger waist line increases risk of heart attack and well her isnt even medium sized its large…….stop taking my comments so personally…just because i dont like fat girls doesnt mean my head is in my arse…..why do you have to attack me….
too much flesh
I think she is a beautiful woman. No, she doesn’t fit the cookie-cutter we generally use to measure women’s beauty with nowadays – but she’s still beautiful. She’d be beautiful if she lost weight too – but maybe she is happy the way she is.
I don’t think she is truly unhealthy – she’s not obese and her WHR looks good to me. She is what I would call a ‘Rubenesque’ beauty – very much what great artists painted as an ideal of female beauty from the Rennaisance through to Victorian and early Edwardian times – not to mention the many older sculptors. When we look at a body like this from our modern, fitness-and- leaness obsessed society – she does look big. But if you really look at beauty through the ages, this type of woman has always been beautiful – and always will be. I think it’s good to see bodies like Tara’s represented as beautiful – just as the thin Keira Knightley’s, the athletic Cameron Diaz’s, the petite Eva Longoria’s or the more ‘average’ Crystal Renn’s! There are lots of beautiful body types and they should all be celebrated, as long as they are not truly unhealthy – like Beth Ditto or Rachel Zoe.
Yes! I find her “Rubenesque” beauty so refreshing.
Wow. Just wow. She personifies full womanly flesh in all of its glory. I have a very petite figure so I am in awe of women who have the capacity to be so statuesque. I love celebrating the diversity of beauty.
She is a beautiful girl, no doubt. And I think she has both the figure and the face to pull off attractiveness at a variety of weights.
That being said, I agree with a lot of the posters above me that I think she would look even better if she dropped a little weight.
Whether she is healthy or not at this weight is completely irrelevant to me, because I’m pretty sure if she IS healthy now, she would be healthy if she dropped 20 pounds too. It’s not like there’s a law that states you can only be healthy within a 5 pound range. Losing 20 pounds should not produce a drastic chance to her health and she probably wouldn’t have to go through drastic means to drop the weight unless she is a freak of nature and is 0.1% of the population who have bodies that refuse to lose weight.
I do hope she stays “soft” because it seems to work for her. Being ripped and super toned is hot on a lot of women, but not all, and I like the softness on her.
She get’s paid to look beautiful (which clearly comes easy for her) but probably doesn’t have to stave herself or go on extreme/fad diets. She get’s to travel. Meet lot’s of interesting people. The point is plus sized or not I have to admit I’m a little jealous.
So I visit skinnyvscurvy as usual and see the models pretty face. I begin to smile. I scroll down slowly and, to my surprise, let out a loud ”ewww!” at the sight of that belly.
Some seconds to recompose myself and I look again at the picture. OBJECTIVELY speaking… there’s nothing bad about it, now that I think about it. Second surprise here… But now I know what my first reaction is and how much about my opinion could be conscious or unconscious.
I suppose I don’t really like that shape but I’m conditioning myself to, for the sake of tolerance? or…what?
I would say that you have been conditioned not to like her shape – not the other way round. Most of the images we have grown up with – since the 60′s – that portray beautiful women, have portrayed thin women. We now look at women who have a little belly, or big thighs or no well-defined muscles and think it’s unattractive and fat.
I realise this for myself when I first look at bigger women now – my first reaction is ‘she’s a bit chubby’. But I realise that it’s only because I am so used to seeing celebs on tv or in magazines looking very lean and toned, that it has become a benchmark with which to measure all women.
I think that is dangerous and kind of sad. Women like this have always been considered sexy and beautiful – for most of human history this type of soft, curvy body was considered the epitomy of feminine beauty. It is only in modern times that we have all embraced the lean, toned look we admire now. I think both looks can be beautiful – and both can be admired.
Now if you are just the kind of person who digs thin women (lots of people have a ‘type’) – that’s fine – but I think you should also examine the root causes of this and you may find that it is mostly because thin women are what has been portrayed as sexy and beautiful for a long time now and maybe not that you just instinctually like them better.
I also think many types of bodies can be beautiful and in Tara’s case I really admire that she’s bigger, but not flabby looking, with a nice shape and wonderful skin. It worries me that my subconscious might not be with me on this one.
I’m still having a hard time deciding how much nature vs nurture applies to my personal aesthetics, although I’m leaning more towards the society’s influence being greater. Nevermind the celebs, I’m used to seeing a majority of slim young people in my country on the street. I’m sitting right now in a full McDonalds and from the looks of it, there are only 3 girls who could be considered overweight, about Tara Lynns size, the rest are very thin.
…one of the reasons I’m visiting this site, to try to probe my sense of aesthetics and see where it needs work.
Speaking from a psychological point of view the majority of people have evolved to consider women of an hourglass shape (small waist indicating not pregnant plus slightly bigger bum/hips indicating a good source of fat/energy for a successful pregnancy) as the most attractive and about a size 6 US (10UK) for people under 5’6″ and about a size 8 US (12UK) for people over that height (healthy weight indicating healthy lifestyle and therefore the best chance to conceive. Of course, there’s an exception to every rule.
On the flip side people have also seemed to evolved to be extremely impressionable and also developed a need for social acceptance. These two combined could account for why we’ve been “conditioned” to like slimmer female bodies.
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That’s interesting – from both Charle and Kirsty. I think it is a mixture of nature and nurture – but probably more nurture. And Kristy is right that the hourglass is almost universally seen as the epitome of female beauty. I think height has something to do with weight perception – as does the size of a woman’s frame and body proportions. I know they did a study at an Australian University and found that men found the size 14 (US 10) women most attractive and this was at a height of 5’4″.
Charle, I think this is a good place to ‘probe your sense of aethestics’! Have fun!
shes no size 12 us just saying more like 16 shes pretty though.
just what i was thinking.
what a gorgeous face. i don’t think her weight and this whole topic of plus size models is about society. this girl is overweight, she has a lot of body fat. she needs to lose 20lbs for the health of her heart. it’s a strange thing that there is a model industry for size 0-4 girls, and then 12-18 plus size girls. where are the 6-10 ladies? like the actresses we really love such selma hayak, kim kardashian, christina hendricks, katherine heigl. i just don’t think this model would be “unable” to lose some weight and i don’t think it is about the pressure to be thin. come on!
For some reason she reminds me of Adriana Lima. She’s lovely. Honestly though, who really thinks she’s a 12? She’s bigger than that. Personally, I find a variety of body types attractive, but I don’t find anything over a 12 very attractive.
Pretty face, but personally I don’t like her body. To respond to a comment I see here often though -”how is a skinny body with no curves feminine?” -I think there’s a difference between feminine and womanly. For me, womanly evokes power and strength. The natural association we make with those words cause us to envision ‘larger’ women. Not fat, but voluptuous, curvy. To say someone is womanly recalls all of the very female attributes -breasts, hips, bums. Feminine, however, is more fragile. I think pin thin girls are very feminine! They’re delicate and soft (often pale) evoking the more traditional view of women. That’s just my opinion; womanly=curvy, feminine= skinny
Hmmm…womanly=curvy, feminine=skinny? This would mean that curvy women aren’t feminine and skinny women aren’t womanly. I think a lot of people would disagree with you. Sorry, but I don’t get your logic here.
If you’d read the rest of the comment, then maybe you would. No, I don’t think that skinny women are womanly or that curvy women are feminine. It has to do with the connotations of the words ‘feminine’ and ‘womanly’. Feminine is delicate and fragile, like the victorian age ideal dictated they should be (not necessarily in body, but in demeanor). I see feminine as skinny as a result because a large, curvaceous, woman cannot be seen as fragile or delicate. Womanly evokes the image of a powerful being who is in control. Also, it has all of the aspects of a ‘woman’ in it- breasts, hips, butt. A pin-thin model looks to fragile to be a powerful woman. My interpretation does rely on stereotypes, and I realize that, but still, it’s what I believe.
I read your comment several times. Each time I read it, the more perplexed I am by it. Yes, you are stereotyping a lot. Stereotypes can be hurtful and help no one.
i do not get why plus size models are called models.
they are never going to be in the business like straight size, i just don’t see it. i have no problem with bigger women, but they are not models, to me, and i don’t think there is very much clothing that is flattering on them.
oh my goodness that face!
Her body however is not my style.
She is absolutely gorgeous!
she is stunning just the way she is. i think part of the reason why her face is so beautiful is because of the weight on it. i don’t understand why gaunt cheekboned faces are considered beautiful now.
case in point: i watched bridget jones last night and was stuck by how stunning rene zelwegger is in that film. i’d forgotten how girlishly pretty she is with her rosebud lips and her cat eyes and her round face. now she is remarkable only for her sagging wrinkles and gaunt sunken cheekbones. skinny= beautiful? i think not.
Tara Lynn is obviously a very attractive and appealing woman. She definitely defines what a “plus size” model looks like these days. That said, she could lose some weight but she doesn’t really need to. I wouldn’t be happy with that extra weight but maybe she is happy. Her face is stunning and I’m not sure it would be if she lost weight. Sometimes the face looks better plump and full, whereas Crystal Renn’s face looks terrible at her lower weight. Either way, Tara Lynn is really pretty.
I’m sorry, she needs to lose some weight. She’s in no way normal sized. But at least she really is plus sized, unlike Crystal Renn.
To Casey:Hi, I know exactly what you are speaking about – I was very thin at 98lbs on 5 feet 4 frame. People would always make comments about my lack of boobs and chicken legs. They would often say these things as if I had no feelings and deserved a set-down…and the thing is I was nick-named “the bottom-less pit” by family and friends cuz I ate so much! Because of this I try to keep an open mind about what is beautiful.
That being said, to me someone’s shape makes their figure beautiful…so I can admire Paris Hilton and Tara Lynn and Kim Kardashian. I generally like pears and hour-glasses but some rulers are also gorgeous…I don’t think you need large breasts and a generous butt to be curvy nor do I think that not having a washboard ab makes you fat. All the negative comments I received really made me realise how much we judge everyone by one set standard when really there are so many diffrent types of beauty that we sadly do not appreciate.
this woman is unbelievebly beautiful… if she would “only” lose about 10 kilos she would be perfection!
Amazing, she is stunning
Nothing remotely attractive here. Sorry, but she is just too big/soft for my liking. I know other people like this, that’s great, but not me. Not now, not ever.
Tara is absolutely stunning. She is one of the most beautiful lady I’ve ever seen. She’s not the average girl, she is pure beauty. Most of the women I know, if not all, are not even half as beautiful as her. Most of the women I’ve seen in my life doesn’t show such beauty… And I am pretty sure that she is more attractive than all of you. Sorry to be harsch, but it’s the truth. And you know what? I don’t care if she’s healthy or not. She is a pure beauty.
well spoken daniel! give it to them. hæhæ
sorry but what you said was full of shit. how do you know she looks better than all of us? because some don’t find her attractive? she’s beautiful no doubt but the woman has nothing on me or anyone on this board. obviously you just care about a woman’s body more so than her health and for who she is. who asked you for what beauty truly is? with an attitude like that i doubt you look good yourself. i’m beautiful and every woman is beautiful and that, my friend, is the truth.
It was full of shit. Most of Daniel’s comments are. You’re pretty sure she’s more attractive than all of us here commenting? Wow, Daniel, I didn’t know you’d seen me before! If all you care about is how she looks, then you seriously have some problems.
thought it was jessica simpson at first
So did I.
I have never seen a larger woman without cellulite and without a fat that doesn’t look bulked and ugly under the skin and the photos above are photoshoped to smooth her. I have also seen professional models that are so skinny they look very ugly in person, luck of necessary vitamins make their skin look like paper ready to break.
Nobody can say how the person above really look. There she has the right light, the right MUA and the right PS artist.
She seems a lovely woman, not my cup of tea.
some of your opinions make me sick. “she’d be almost perfect if she was thin”
Is this really how the world has become?
What happened to being beautiful either way?
Ogmygod. The world is really sick.
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Looking hot in lingerie………….. so cute.
Tara Lynn is a goddess. If you don’t like her body then obviously she isn’t for you. You have to like her for all of her – don’t say how she should “improve” herself just so she can suit you.
I think she’s beautiful and womanly and should stay the way she is. Did it ever occur to you guys that she wouldn’t be her is she was slimmer? Just like women look different when they gain weight she would look different if she lost weight and so she wouldn’t be the same woman presented her.
Gorgeous.
I’ve read through many of these comments and am quite disappointed in the narrow mindedness of some people. I keep seeing “she should lose 20 pounds”. What if she can’t? I have a dear friend who watches what she eats and trains and runs marathons and cannot get below a size 15/16. I have another friend who is 5’8″ and is 105 pounds. She can’t gain weight no matter what she does. Both of my friends have had negative comments from people who assume one is lazy and the other is anorexic. Accept people the way they are, not the way you want them to be. If you don’t like a certain body shape, fine, don’t date them, but as mom always said “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all”
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She is gorgeous, in the way that Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, and Anita Ekberg were gorgeous. Womanly, curvy, voluptuous. Those women were not “toned”. The beauty standard for women these days is something similar to a boy with boobs. How is that sexy?
Fat is not sexy either, but this woman is far from fat. She has curves where a woman should have curves. And her curves give her an extra hint of sexuality, which is a breath of fresh air compared to all of the ridiculously thin, asexual models out there these days. Amen to that!
I’m sorry but you should google pics of Marilyn, Sophia and Anita because they were never as big as this model. Anita only had huge boobs but she wasn’t overweight.
If this model didn’t have such a stunning face everyone would call her fat. That’s all
Everyone who says she is fat or overweight is ridiculous. And whoever thinks plus size models don’t take care of themselves and are just “fat” because they eat whatever they want is INSANE. People come in all shape and sizes. Health comes in all shape and sizes. Beauty comes in all shape and sizes.
Tara Lynn looks flawless and perfect as she is because this probably IS a healthy weight for her. She is far prettier than the majority of boring looking sad models I see in most magazines.
I think she is beautiful being a girl who is 5ft tall and 36d 25 31 I am considered curvy my weight should be under 100 lbs i am NOT that and let me say this I love the way i look men stare me up and down all the time at the gym and pool I am the “thick” one of my friends who all wear a size 5 or smaller and I will say they always say things about how they want to be different I wouldnt change one thing about my full figure!! its pathetic marilyn monroe was never under a sz 12 !!! she was beautiful!! its sick that people like girls with no figure flat chested women remind me of men that has to suck!!! women with no hips? what do you hold onto? I wish there was a way to post pictures on here and show what real women look like! Im sorry but men thinking women should look like angelina jolie or someone as rail skinny as her just are trying to make up for something they are lacking little girls make there packacge small as my boyfriend would say!! and its true!!! I think she is beautiful! If i was taller I would love to show off what i have i go to the gym all the time and have a personal trainer i am italian and anyone knowing anything about italians they are rarely pencil skinny!!! I love being curvy look up sophia loren she is stunning!! she isnt skinny at all her stomach isnt a mans stomach she is curvy and beautiful ! so to all the people that talk crap about a girl being bigger then the next is saying alot about your character and the way you judge others! karma is whatever goes around comes around so when your 50 and all your weight catches up to I hope you still have the same feelings!
Damn! Tara Lynn is gorgeous!! As is Kate Winslet (also a plus size). I love the fact that she is proud of her body and is known to be nude in a lot of films (no I am not a perv for G_d’s sake). Tara and Kate are beautiful in every way, and age has little to do with it. Kate W is older and yet she is mind blowingly beautiful. I have nothing against women who are slimmer (no I am not talking about stick figures to hang clothes on like Victoria Beckham and others of her kind). Victoria has a line of fashion garments and I am sure her target market is stick figure women like her. Whenever I see Victoria in magazines or the papers, her expression is like a stone, hard and fixed. I think she needs to eat normally so she can be who she really is, and also be happy. If you catch her smiling you are going to be waiting for eternity.
I think plus size women like Tara Lynn are unfairly judged because of the word “plus”. The term BBW (big beautiful woman) does NOT apply to women like Tara Lynn or Kate Winslet. BBW has become a word behind which obese and extremely obese women hide themselves.
Anyhow, I think plus size women like Tara Lynn and Kate Winslet are any day more feminine (and more beautiful) than those like Victoria Beckham. And I would not be surprised if Tara Lynn and others like her have more estrogen in their bodies which makes them more feminine and gives them those beautiful soft curves. And women like Victoria Beckham and those who are obsessed about being overweight even when they are a size 7 or 8, must definitely lack in estrogen. And they look like dried up stick figures who are hungry and underfed. There was a time when skinny womens’ look (esp. among fashion models) was described as “heroin chic” meaning they looked like drug addicts.
As a guy I will always find women with curves more attractive and even more beautiful. Curvy plus size women give you something to hold when you hug them. Stick-figure women give you nothing but bones sticking out in places where they shouldn’t (okay, that’s mean of me to say, sorry!) Anyhow I don’t care for women who go for breast enhancement. I think a woman can still have dangerous curves even without a bra size that is DD or higher.
That’s my opinion and I am sticking to it
I can’t believe this thread is still alive and cooking. It started in Oct. 2010, and is still going strong in April 2012.
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