SI Puts Plus sized model on its swinsuit issue cover

[SearchingforPeace]

Huff post article

All the history-making and downright exciting body-positive news surrounding the 2016 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue culminated in one major moment Saturday night when the brand made Ashley Graham one of its three cover stars.

Thoughts?

 

[/DG/]

She doesn't really look plus sized. Maybe it's the angle? Idk.

 

[SearchingforPeace]

She doesn't really look plus sized. Maybe it's the angle? Idk.

Here are the other two covers for comparison

Of course, typical models are very skinny, anyway, so plus sized often means healthy, not fat..... and then the magazines often airbrush even those pics...

Here is an article discussing the topic Models Discuss the Term Plus Size-Plus Size Issue in Modeling Industry

 

[cascadeco]

They all look healthy to me, just different body types. The third one/ blonde girl is probably most stereotypically idealized though; that's a super rare body type to have.

 

[SearchingforPeace]

They all look healthy to me, just different body types. The third one/ blonde girl is probably most stereotypically idealized though; that's a super rare body type to have.

I agree. The model industry rejected "healthy" and "normal" for so long, which is why this is even an issue. It was over a decade ago that the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty came out, and that hit the subject dead on.

I have always felt there is a pretty good range for "healthy" and we don't need to force women (or men) into box that the publishing world has created...

 

[Ingrid in grids]

They're all bangin'.

 

[Kullervo]

Eh, they all look perfectly healthy to me. I am always suspicious that magazines make use of photoshopping to "enhance" their ladies' breast size a little...helps make the male readership go

Very shagadelic though.