Tyra Banks Supports Plus-Sized Models
French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier recently opened one of his fashion shows to plus-sized models, and the decision was the inspiration behind today’s Tyra Banks Show. In today’s show, Tyra held a modeling competition featuring plus-sized models.
“You do not have to be super stick skinny in order to model,” Contactmusic quoted Banks, as saying.
All wannabe models competing for the first Thick + Sexy Top Plus-Size Model crown are required to be size 18 and above, and they all tipped the scales at over 200 pounds.
Anyone catch the episode? How was it?
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8 opinions for Tyra Banks Supports Plus-Sized Models
BunniePage
Nov 29, 2006 at 1:18 pm
I saw one of her episodes like that, I don’t know if it’s the one you’re talking about (I don’t really watch the show) but it wasn’t good…very poorly done and they just copied shoots from ANTM (seriously, they even admitted that’s what they were doing). The girls all looked awful, not because they were big but, apparently, they’d done no air brushing at all.
I seriously felt bad for them.
Top model addict
Nov 29, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Ok, not to sound shallow or anything like that, but over size 18?? Instead of doing a photo shoot, they should send them on “The Biggest Loser”. You can’t be that big and be healthy and beautiful. You seriously need some medical intervention. Plus sizes under 18 is big and beautiful. Over 18 is morbid obesity.
judith
Nov 30, 2006 at 5:00 am
Wow, top model addict Stop acting brand new, being a size 0 is not healthy either. Also I know some beautiful women over a size 18, (alot of them are toned, but still big) granted there is such thing as too fat and unhealthy, Tyras point of the plus show was to highlight that beautiful comes in all sizes and shapes, not just the glorified stick thin. Think of it as Trya doing damage control after years of the fashion industry training bigger women to hate themseleves. No one should ever hate themselves. but you are right about on thing, your comment was very shallow.
S.
Dec 3, 2006 at 1:20 pm
I am sick of seeing super-skinny models, but this does not make me feel much better. In order to negate the effects of one extreme they just embrace another. What about average people? We’re too fat for regular modeling but not fat enough for plus-sized modeling. Average people are completely left out. Besides, the fact that plus-sized modeling is marginalized from traditional modeling shows that a bigger size is not actually being integrated into standard or beauty.
For once I would like to see average people promoted in modeling. The industry cannot prove that they are embracing all sizes until they actually do embrace all sizes including the more average ones.
Top model addict
Dec 3, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Well, I disagree that my comment was very shallow. Morbid obesity is NOT nice and it’s NOT healthy. I seriously doubt anyone that big feels sexy about themselves. (And don’t tell me that you’re toned when you’re that big. That is a complete oxymoron. It makes absolutely no sense.) They shouldn’t be encouraged to remain that way and to glorify their obesity. What they need is support to lose all that weight, and to lead healthier lives. Also, not once did I say that size 0 is healthy. Don’t argue about points I have never stated.
Moving on, I agree with S. Average sized women should be recognized too. It seems like the fashion industry only takes notice of both extremes: the super skinny and the super fat. What about those that are at a healthy weight? Why don’t we see more of them around? They have just the right look and can wear anything, yet they are completely ignored.
DarlingDA
Dec 5, 2006 at 7:54 pm
top model addict: A size 18 can be very different between clothing lines, and 18 is not that huge, it’s somewhere around 5′6/175 pounds. For a 5′6 girl it is slightly heavy, but NOT morbidly obese. That’s a cruel and incorrect statement.
Also, look at Tocarra - she was beautiful and took great photos, and the only problem she ran into was the wardrobe department not providing bigger clothes for her. She’s my idea of a plus size model, and probably aound a size 18, yet she was healthy and toned and participated in a swimsuit photoshoot and looked great.
I seriously think a model should look more like Anchal than the twins. Anchal presents a much more normal body weight and shape and looks so much hotter in almost every outfit, but she felt bad because they are people out there that believe a model must be a size 2, and that girl couldn’t have been bigger than a 6 at the very largest.
M.
Dec 6, 2006 at 11:18 pm
As a plus size model, who is also a size 16, I can assure you that I am neither obese or unhealthy. (I am nearly 5′10″.) I work out regularly, and while I am not rock hard, yes, I am toned, in fact my arms and legs are actually quite defined. The majority of working plus models range in size from a 10 to an 18, with proportionate figures. Look at the plus model board at http://www.fordmodels.com and take a look at what top plus models look like, and you will see that they look like very healthy women, and not fat at all. Of course being tall makes a difference.
I would love to see an “all plus size” America’s Next Top Model, but as I do understand the industry, I am sure that will probably never happen. As for Tocarra, when she was on Top Model, she was a size 14. Now I think she looks to be about a 10.
santa
Apr 13, 2008 at 7:50 am
i like plus sized models skinny models
not for me. like tyra bank size and
up
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