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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, good grief!  The *average* sized woman in the U.S. is a size 12-14.  This lady is a size 16 which is pretty darned close to the average.  This woman IS normal and perfectly beautiful.

The much smaller sized women on the covers of SI are also gorgeous but do realize that a size 4 is W-A-Y below average size.  Like it or not, size 2 does not represent the average woman.

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The average sized woman in the US is overweight through obese...[/quote]

What's sad is that we now have to choose between showing an average size that's unhealthy, or showing a healthy size that is perceived to be too skinny, because it has become rare and seemingly unattainable, when it's really not.

The photograph is beautiful, but the media should not encourage people to think positively about being overweight. It costs too much for society in quality of life, healthcare expenses and shortening of life expectancy.
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Someone who is a size 0 or 2 or 4 is likely a petite framed person to begin with.  People are growing taller these days and their body frames are bigger.  Size 12 isn't fat - usually.  Although a naturally small framed person wearing a size 12 might indeed be obese.

If I was a size 2 I would be skeleton thin and not healthy at all.  I prefer myself at a size 9/10 but I doubt I'll ever be that size again since having kids.  Fact is I look really good at a size 11/12 or 13/14.  I actually look o.k. at a size 16 and can be eating very healthy and exercising every day at that weight.  That's me though.  Maybe you are different.
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Indeed I am! Size 0 here, healthy at 5'4". I believe you, but I also know most people don't know what's healthy anymore, just as people have lost all sense of what a portion size is. That's the danger of showing overweight models (and she is overweight, you can't deny it). It's just one more visual to reassure people that what they see is normal and that normal is healthy. Unfortunately nowadays, normal is not healthy.
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People can [i]absolutely[/i] be healthy at a size 0 or 2. The problem comes when all of media is showing bodies who look the same--some runway shows cast "clothes hangers" to make the clothes lay flat--and people who are [i]not[/i] healthy at a low weight struggle to get themselves there in less than healthy drastic ways.

People can also [i]absolutely[/i] be healthy at higher weights. Check out, for example, Jessamyn Stanley (http://www.popsugar.com/fitness/Plus-Size-Yogi-Jessamyn-Stanley-37635102?slide=opening-slide) who is incredibly strong--especially because yoga uses body weight for strength building. Again, if someone yes unhealthy means to get her body to look like hers, that's an unhealthy body type.

I see nothing wrong with the media embracing a variety of body types. The problem is when all media shows everyone looking the same. We shouldn't be putting down thin women, nor bigger women: we should be celebrating health.

- 5'1", 115 lbs, curvy woman[/quote]

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