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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are all the models who are neither super skinny nor plus-sized? I like representation, but doesn't that mean we should represent the huge block of people falling between the two?

Mindy Kaling's book talks about this a lot. When she was doing magazine shoots and stuff for her shows (The Office, The Mindy Project) she'd show up at shoots and they would only have model and plus-sized samples, which meant, like, 0s and 16s, when neither one fit her. And she'd be like "I'm an 8" and they'd be so confused as to how to dress and shoot someone who was neither waifish nor a [b]big sassy plus sized person[/b]. That's a real problem, considering how many people fall into that range. [/quote]

What exactly is a "big sassy plus sized person"?[/quote]

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While those are not her exact words, she used something to that effect. Her point was that people who style magazines have a formula and it means putting women either into the "fashion waif" category or shooting them as confident, plus-sized women (you know, when they show a plus size woman with a huge smile, oozing with confidence, in front of a wind machine, in bright colors, like a Lane Bryant ad or O magazine cover). If you don't fit into either bucket, they don't know how to style and shoot you. [/quote]

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