Glamour-ous real women

By Contributing Writer on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 13:35

[Editor’s Note: This article was written by the team of Gaelick.com, an award-winning Irish website for LGBT news.]

Last year I wrote a piece on Dove’s involvement in the Campaign for Real Beauty. Although I truly admire the idea of having “real women” in advertising, I felt, and still feel, that this campaign fell well short. The women were all still relatively thin and had flat tummies. I looked at those ads and thought: so close, but yet so far.

So it was with delight that I recently heard about the positive response to plus size model Lizzi Miller’s photo in Glamour magazine late last year. The photo itself was beautiful and the outcry of support overwhelming. Lizzie became known as “the woman on page 194″ and was hailed as a hero to those of us who are not a size zero or even a size six, which is most women I’d imagine.

The image lead Glamour magazine to do a photo spread of several so called plus sized models and as that was met with such applause, they have taken on the challenge of having real women in their pages from now on and that can only be a good thing for everyone. After all, anything above a size six is considered “plus” and that is just a crazy idea to be putting out there, especially for young girls.

Just look at this example from November of last year and tell me you think these ladies are anything other than stunning! I really hope this takes off and we see more true representation of the beauty of the real female form.