The Skinny on "Plus-Size"

I thought this was an interesting article about Crystal Renn, a so-called "plus-size" model. She recently published a memoir titled Hungry, in which she discusses her battle with the modeling industry and an eating disorder.

Renn is far from being big, but wears a size 12 (the article notes that the average woman wears a size 14). Despite being smaller than average, she must compete with size 2 models for jobs, and so as a result she has been successful "plus-size" niche. One of the things I found interesting was that she describes how photographers use digital imaging to focus on her curves and make her appear even larger than she is...

Overall, I found it inspiring that this 23-year old model decided to fight how the industry standard define beauty by being herself, the way she was made to be. Let's hope there will be other models who will choose to follow her her footsteps!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/fashion/14CRYSTAL.html?pagewanted=1&8dpc