Comments on: Plus-size model Lizzi Miller reveals real beauty

By: Andrew Pelt

Andrew Pelt — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:49:10 +0000

I was searching for photography tutorials when I found your site. Great post. Thank You.

By: Sophia - RESPONSE TO ABOVE COMMENT

Sophia - RESPONSE TO ABOVE COMMENT — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:06:55 +0000

Kaite, thank you for your response. However, with all due respect, I believe you missed the overall point of my article. I merely explained how women and young girls have been and continue to be constantly bombarded by the media’s fabricated images of beauty and images of rail-thin models. I never said anyone who is NOT of average size isn’t a real woman or isn’t beautiful. I never stated what true beauty is, I merely stated the facts; women are affected by the images they see in the media.

I also wanted to congratulate plus-size models like Lizzie who are not afraid to show their true beauty – a beauty that goes beyond the typical model-size that all women are made to believe is the only size they should aspire to be.

I did not mean to offend anyone in any way. If anything, I’m an advocate for all women of all sizes.

Every woman, no matter what her size, is beautiful in her own way.

And just to clarify, when I say REAL WOMEN, I mean women who are not the typical model height and weight we usually see in the media. Those models are obviously real women, but not ALL women share a model’s shape and size.

By: Kaite

Kaite — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:17:52 +0000

This would be a great article, except that you make it sound that any woman thinner than the “average” size is not a “real woman” and doesn’t have the “real beauty”, as you say, of a real woman. I thought that the whole point of Glamour putting a plus-sized model in their magazine was to show that ALL sizes of women are beautiful. I am 5′10 and 106 pounds, and no matter how much I eat, I can’t gain weight, are you saying that I do not have “real beauty”? Am I too thin to be a “real woman”?

All I hear about in magazines recently is how it is so horrible how over-weight women are treated and how children are pressured to be thin. Well I never hear stories about the women who are naturally very thin and have been teased and ridiculed their whole lives for it, like my self. Where is the fairness here? Every one is different and every one has their own healthy size. I don’t think it is your’s or any one else’s right to decide what is real beauty and what is not.
Next time please consider the people you are leaving out or hurting when you state something as if it is fact.

By: Bob Gardner

Bob Gardner — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:13:00 +0000

Great article with great insights! Good job Sophia.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:15:47 +0000

What a great article. Lizzy looks like those beautiful women in Renaissance Portraits. Women are like flowers. There are so many different kinds, yet all of them are beautiful. That’s what the media needs to get out to the public. Everyone woman is beautiful in her own way. Wonderful article.

By: Alicia Alvarez

Alicia Alvarez — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:13:22 +0000

Just my Size…………nothing wrong with that.