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A little puppy fat?

Lizzie Miller is considered too large to model plus-size clothes. Is the reaction that followed the publication of this picture going to change that? 'It's a photo that measures all of three by three inches," gushes Cindi Leive, editor of US Glamour in a post on the magazine's blog, "but the letters about it started to flood my inbox literally the day Glamour hit newsstands." What does it show? A beautiful, creamy-skinned naked model . . . with a small roll of stomach fat. Lizzie Miller, the 20-year-old model in question, agrees that it's astonishing that, at 5ft 11in and 12.5 stone she's considered a "plus size" model.

The article on the US Glamour magazine website has now attracted 965 comments.



...I find this photograph quite normal and I would consider Lizzie to be slim, not plus-size. It is a shame that most fashion pictures feature skinny women who are not representative of society. Most women have a little puppy fat around their waists, some more than others. Men like the well-fed look and it is a joy to see women wearing muffin tops. Advertising is there to sell products and by using skinny models it does not make the image realistic, you may as well view the garment on a hanger! Using a plus-size model in your advertising allows you to show the reader what your garment will look like on the street. Women want to know what their clothes will look like when they wear them on the street and not some anorexic fashion catwalk. The use of normal sized women as models should help rather than hinder the fashion industry. Get real clothing manufacturers, women have body fat and a little puppy fat around the waist is quite normal.