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Crystal Renn is gorgeous. At size 12, she's considered plus size, but when she was a size 0 she was anorexic.
Blame the modeling industry, society, lack of self-esteem -- weight issues are a huge problem not just for teens, but can affect a woman throughout her whole life.
Crystal shows that she didn't have to be a thin model to have success.
I know one of the arguments about skinny models is that they look better in clothes. But I don't think that applies to Crystal. She looks good in (and out) of anything. She does have great proportions.
I'm not bashing thin models -- I do know people who are naturally thin like my mom, who has been teased about it all her life. She says calling someone skinny with a negative slant is as bad as calling someone fat.
I am shining a light on the unhealthy lengths women (and girls) feel they need to go to be thin. Just like Crystal did when she was 14 and was told she had to lose nine inches from her hips. She became anorexic and lost 80 pounds, whittling herself down to a size 0.
Now a healthy size 12, Crystal wrote a book called Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, and guess what? She's still modeling!
Applause!!!!!
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Comments (15)
She is beautiful and it is kind of sad that she is considered a plus size model in a size 12!
That woman is gorgeous but It always makes me so sad to see what the "industry" considers plus size!
A size 12 in WHAT?! I was a size 12 once upon a time and unless that woman is photoshopped to hell I did NOT look like that.
in designer clothing... a 12 is "larger" than say... Old Navy. At Gap, I wear 2 sizes smaller than I wear at Levis... I doubt shes what we would call a "12"
If size 12 is plus sized, what the hell does that make me? :D
She looks awesome though.
She's probably considered a size 12 because she actually has curves...LOL
That's a very flattering picture of her. When I used to be a size 12...long ago...I sure could've used some of that boobage. LOL
she looks like a size 12 to me. she's gorgeous.
What kind of size 12 person has protruding collarbones? I sure as hell didn't when I was a size 12.
I think she's gorgeous. Everyone carries their weight differently. At a size 12 my collarbones were definitely protruding.