Fri, Dec-01-06, 13:47
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Don't Call Me Sugar
Posts: 4,209
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 293/287/230
BF: :^( :^| :^)
Progress: 10%
Location: Auburn, WA
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Honestly? The size-12 woman might be better off doing something else besides modeling. To try to be a supermodel, I think it's abundantly clear she'd have to do some extreme starving and maybe a smack habit.
But I think a plus-size modeling contract would be a fine place to start. If the people like her so much, she'll have a career.
Incidentally, just as counterpoint to the question of male models - I studied art for a number of years and that included life drawing (drawing nude models). This was in an area with a guild for life models, which had a large list of regular models who knew how to model well (keep still, etc.).
We drew all kinds of women, from skinny to petite to enormous. But all the men were about the same - relatively ideal. One guy had a piercing in a surprising place, one was a bit long-waisted, and one guy was in his 70s, but that's all the variation there was. They were all slender, muscular, and ideally proportioned. No skinny guys, no short guys, no fat guys.
Men who weren't already the ideal wouldn't even consider modeling. So apparently all this body image stuff affects them, too.
I just looked up that modeling guild - same story holds true today. The men are all in a very narrow height/weight range. The women range from 4'11''/92 lbs to 5'10''/130 lbs to 5'6''/170 lbs.
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