In a previous job, we were in the process of selecting models for our new print and social networking campaign. The supervisor states that we were going to be using our friends and try to achieve the average college student look. As I surveyed the pictures of already chosen models, I noticed several unifying factors. All were: white, impossibly skinny, and did not represent the average American college student.
Luckily as the process continued, we began to diversify the ethnicities more, but the same impossibly skinny factor still held true. To combat this issue, I tried to suggest several friends who were obviously very pretty, yet were bigger women. They were met with, "I don't think that the image we're going for." So I beg the question, why are bigger women not considered beautiful.
In the middle ages, being bigger was a sign of health and wealth. When did this change? And how can we rectify this change?
My mother is one of the most gorgeous women I have ever seen. She is also a full-sized woman. According to society, the fact that she's plus sized diminishes her beauty.
In my opinion, show me someone who doesn't think plus sized women are beautiful and I'll show you a woman who struggles with an eating disorder, an unpleasant man with a false sense of reality, and a little girl who only knows what society tells her.
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