Size-12 Model Poses Nude On Glamour Magazine
posted by Maggie's Nest at
8/26/2009 
Glamour magazine has made quiet a buzz after featuring a size-12 (or 14) naked model in its September issue. Lizzi Miller, a 20-year old 5'11" woman, poses nude for an article about body acceptance.
Lizzi Miller weighs 180 pounds and she has a tummy. Only one photograph of her has been posted on the magazine but it creates a huge stir, mostly positive. The reason for the favorable feedback: the model is just perfect representation of the average size American woman.
Comments center on how comfortable the "plus-size" model has posed without clothes on a widely-viewed publication and how healthy and fit her body is, compared to the likes of Kate Moss and Lindsay Lohan.
Asked if it is a brilliant move for more of Lizzi Miller's body-type strutting down the runway, it's a totally different thing. As most of the critics have come to agree, Lizzi Miller's body is beautiful but a runway model's body is supposed to be a vehicle to show the clothes "and having a belly isn't the best for showing off clothes directed towards more fit people."
Whether or not the purpose for using an average-size model is the promotion of a healthier body image, it is not an unusual occurrence for an average body-type model to pose naked for glamour shoots and any other body modeling projects. In fact, there have been lots of wonderful works of art that use plus-size (and even extremely fat) models as subject.
Average-type and plus-size models have always been warmly-accepted in glamour modeling. But for these body-types to be taking centerstage as runway models, the end of the ramp seems up to this day, very far and vague.
Lizzi Miller weighs 180 pounds and she has a tummy. Only one photograph of her has been posted on the magazine but it creates a huge stir, mostly positive. The reason for the favorable feedback: the model is just perfect representation of the average size American woman.
Comments center on how comfortable the "plus-size" model has posed without clothes on a widely-viewed publication and how healthy and fit her body is, compared to the likes of Kate Moss and Lindsay Lohan.
Asked if it is a brilliant move for more of Lizzi Miller's body-type strutting down the runway, it's a totally different thing. As most of the critics have come to agree, Lizzi Miller's body is beautiful but a runway model's body is supposed to be a vehicle to show the clothes "and having a belly isn't the best for showing off clothes directed towards more fit people."
Whether or not the purpose for using an average-size model is the promotion of a healthier body image, it is not an unusual occurrence for an average body-type model to pose naked for glamour shoots and any other body modeling projects. In fact, there have been lots of wonderful works of art that use plus-size (and even extremely fat) models as subject.
Average-type and plus-size models have always been warmly-accepted in glamour modeling. But for these body-types to be taking centerstage as runway models, the end of the ramp seems up to this day, very far and vague.
Labels: Glamour magazine, glamour models, Lizzi Miller
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1 Comments:
I've always been a fan of plus-size models! There's a great site with lots of images of plus-size models here:
http://www.judgmentofparis.com/
They're all gorgeous.
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