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Sports Illustrated's 1st Plus Size model The ad is part of a new swimsuitsforall campaign, #CurvesinBikinis, that aims to help celebrate the beginnings of the ‘Curvy Girl Era’ and to help women feel confident and sexy in any swimsuit. “The world is ready for more curves in bikinis,” Graham says of the campaign. NEWS: 'Sports Illustrated' Plans Swimsuit Fan Party in Nashville The 27-year-old model who is a size 14 has been very vocal about the need for the media to embrace curves. In January, she penned an essay for Net-a-Porter’s online magazine, The Edit, encouraging women to love their bodies. "I think that you can be healthy at any size and my goal is to help and educate women on that,” she wrote. "It doesn’t matter if you’re a size 2 or 22 as long as you’re taking care of your body, working out, and telling yourself, ‘I love you’ instead of taking in the negativity of beauty standards." The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue hits stands on Feb. 9  News guy asked "Is she plus sized?" | |
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She is smokin hot. |
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when did an average to below average size woman become Plus Size? "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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When you carry extra fat on your body you are plus size. I don't understand why people are so upset about the term "plus", it's no different than "petite" or "tall". It's not an offensive term.
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Seeing as how she's probably at least 5'10" tall, size 14 really isn't that big.
I'm not a fan of the side boob, though. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Genesia said: Seeing as how she's probably at least 5'10" tall, size 14 really isn't that big.
I'm not a fan of the side boob, though. sideboob and underboob are glorious gifts from above | |
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Looks more like photoshopped-boob... | |
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If she's "plus" size, that indicates there is an average size which is smaller than her. All women aren't shaped the same. She looks normal to me. I wouldn't call her plus size at all, but that's just me. | |
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"Plus Size", "Women", over size 16... who cares? I don't. A lot of folks in my community would say, that woman is "thick".
Kudos to S. I. for realizing that women haved different frames, shapes and weight. The side boobs... I don't care what you are wearing, its a better look when your clothes fit. | |
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TD3 said: "Plus Size", "Women", over size 16... who cares? I don't. A lot of folks in my community would say, that woman is "thick".
Kudos to S. I. for realizing that women haved different frames, shapes and weight. The side boobs... I don't care what you are wearing, its a better look when your clothes fit. I was thinking that a size 16 and up is considered plus size, so to me, she's borderline at a size 14. I mean, at least that's what I've seen how they label women's sizes at Walmart   | |
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Generally speaking, size 14 and above are considered "plus-size". (And she actually wears a plus-size, which has historically been unusual for "plus-size" models, who seem like they always wear a size 10 for some reason.) A handful of stores have expanded their sizing in the last few years, though, with "regular" sized lines running up to 18 or xxl and "plus" sized lines starting sometimes at 12. |
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CarrieMpls said: Generally speaking, size 14 and above are considered "plus-size". (And she actually wears a plus-size, which has historically been unusual for "plus-size" models, who seem like they always wear a size 10 for some reason.) A handful of stores have expanded their sizing in the last few years, though, with "regular" sized lines running up to 18 or xxl and "plus" sized lines starting sometimes at 12. A couple of years ago, I couldn't get a size 12 in jeans at Hollister, so I settled for the biggest size they catered to, and that was an size 11. Therefore, I could accept that the sizing depends on the store as well as the designer. | |
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I have jeans in three different sizes although I haven't increased or decreased weight in years... Women's sizes aren't standardized anymore. A size 10 in one brand can be a size 12 in another. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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And here we go again, the truth is never up front. You've probably seen and heard all about Ashley Graham, who has captured a lot of attention as the "first" plus-sized model to "land" a spot in the hot Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. She's a size 16, and she's flaunting her curves. But she's a model in a paid advertisement. She's not a model featured in the magazine. Robin Lawley, however, is. She's the true first plus-sized model to grace the SI swimsuit issue. And she's wearing a bikini from her own swimwear line. "I don't know if I consider myself as a plus-size model or not," Lawley, a Wilhemnia Model, tells Time magazine. "I just consider myself a model because I'm trying to help women in general accept their bodies. "
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yeah but 14 to 16 is average. she is not plus size. it is sad that we have such a twisted idea of what a woman should be. "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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another thing I have seen is a woman say that is a size 18 will roll her eyes at the size 14 when she says "I need to lose some weight" but that same size 18 will say the same thing to a size 22... the ideas of body image is so twisted.
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