Skinny VS Curvy

From the Celebs Who Love to Pose Nude While Pregnant club: Alessandra Ambrosio posed naked in the new campaign for Brazilian jewellery firm Vivara and explained her reasons:

‘A nude photoshoot was good, because pregnancy makes me much more confident. I’m proud of my body to be generating a life…
‘I wasn’t ashamed to do a nude shoot for two of my favourite photographers. I’m happy to have one of the most important moments of my life recorded by them.’

… says 31 year-old Alessandra.

… and has a little something to say about being too big as a model:

On her early days as a model:
“I was too curvy and too busty and a little too short. And I was a little bit self-conscious about it. But I was by no means heavy, I just—well, you have hips and boobs, and that’s it. Haute couture, you don’t really see girls with big boobs. And I always wanted first to be a model. So I had to say, ‘OK, you’re going to find other things to do in this industry, or it’s maybe not my industry.’”

… says Heidi.

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Rihanna, who recently lost weight and told us she loves buttered popcorn has a new quote for you – from her interview with Women’s Fitness Magazine:

‘The more I got naked the more comfortable I felt. I just had to face my fear. You always find something wrong, you always find something you’re uncomfortable with, and one thing turns into another and you get embarrassed and self-conscious about it.

‘After a while, it was like, “What’s the worst that can happen?” and I just started being a little more daring with it. It was just knowing my body is the way it is no matter what that helped me, knowing that it is what it is under clothes or outside of clothes.’ ‘My way probably won’t work for most people.’

… says Rihanna, here pictured in one of her tiniest stage outfits.

Jessica Simpson, who will have a 10 pound baby, posed naked for Elle Magazine, showing off her big baby bump while spreading her pregnancy glow.

On taking tabloid criticism:
“I’m still standin’,” she drawls. “I grew up very strong! You know, my father used to be an adolescent therapist. I remember sitting at his office, watching the girls walkin’ in and out. Kids doin’ coke at 16…heroin. Pregnant at 14. I could see what I didn’t want to be.”

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PLUS Model is a magazine dedicated to plus-size fashion that also militates for variety and beauty (and body) diversity in the modelling world - in the January 2012 issue, the magazine published a controversial piece that reveals a variety of statistics on beauty image in the fashion world and featured size 12 US model Katya Zharkova in a cloth-less spread:

- Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today, she weighs 23% less.

 - Ten years ago plus-size models averaged between size 12 and 18. Today the need for size diversity within the plus-size modeling industry continues to be questioned. The majority of plus-size models on agency boards are between a size 6 and 14, while the customers continue to express their dissatisfaction.

 - Most runway models meet the Body Mass Index physical criteria for Anorexia.

 - 50% of women wear a size 14 or larger, but most standard clothing outlets cater to sizes 14 or smaller.

If we continue to ignore and rely on others to decide what we want to see,  change will never happen. We have to be vocal and proactive, patient and realistic.

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