Plus-size model Crystal Renn to appear on Glamour cover
It seems a plus-size model will appear on the cover of Glamour’s June issue.
Let’s hope one day it won’t be news that a model who has more than a stick-thin figure is on a fashion magazine cover. Let’s hope we see it often because it’s real life.
Crystal Renn is a size 12, smaller than the majority of women in America. Statistics show that 56 percent of women in the United States wear a size 14 or larger.
Renn is an average-size woman. A real-size woman. Yet in the world of modeling, she’s plus-size. The most in-demand plus model, too. She won’t be gracing the cover solo, though. She was being shot for the Glamour cover along with Victoria’s Secret angel Alessandra Ambrosio and Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover girl Brooklyn Decker, reports Women’s Wear Daily. Showing Reen with two models who are more standard model sizes may be Glamour’s way of easing into a new way of thinking.
Glamour has been fascinated with real-size women lately. Last fall, Lizzie Miller, also a size 12, appeared mostly nude inside the September issue. It was the picture everyone was talking about. Since then, women with curves have figured more prominently in Glamour.
Renn started modeling as a teenager, starving herself for years so she could be a straight-size model. She details that experience in her memoir, “Hungry.” When she finally decided to get healthy, she gained 70 pounds and re-entered the modeling world as a plus-size.
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I’m personally a fan of the idea. I’m a 12 and while I don’t take too kindly to the idea of being considered plus-size by any means, I appreciate Glamour’s foray into showing women of different sizes. I have definitely noticed the putting-their-money-where-their-mouth-is lately in Glamour by featuring women in various size ranges.
How can we expect women to know how to dress for their size/shape if we don’t show them options other than just size 0s? Maybe that’s why there’s been so many women who have problems dressing for *their* body (i.e., muffin tops with low rise jeans, etc) — all we see are boyish, lean shapes who don’t seem to have many dressing issues. ::shrugs:: Only a thought.