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Edited by Crimson: 1/29/2015 3:32:13 PM
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Fat & Beautiful, or just fat?

Yes, love all sizes!

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No, obese is unhealthy!

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Yes, love all sizes, but please be healthy!

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This link is talking about Tess Holliday, who is a plus-sized model (size 20 American, UK 24). I pose this question to you.... do you agree with her message? I, personally, love that she promotes self-love and not self-hate. If we all should be so lucky to feel comfortable in our bodies. However, part of me feels like she's also promoting something unhealthy (obesity). What's your opinion? DISCUSS! [b]EDIT:[/b] Do you think that if she were a MAN, that society would be saying "love yourself"? I feel like there's a huge double standard here when it comes to males and females being happy with their body sizes.

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  • Edited by Ultron: 1/29/2015 9:17:39 PM
    People love to cling to the idea that "you can be whatever you want" is a free pass to becoming rich and famous without any effort. The line should be, "you can be anything you want as long as you have the passion and dedication". With that out of the way, I'd like to point out that being a model is like any other major career. Just like an artist, it takes years and years of practice and learning to become a good model. The biggest misconception in the world is that artist are born with a natural talent. This could not be further from the truth. No one is born with natural talent, but most great artist are born with a passion to develop and hone their craft. Their passion not only helps them endure the lifetime dedication to their craft, but it makes them eager to improve their abilities. Sure genetics may make it easier to have an model quality body, but there are plenty of models who have bad genes, and have overcame this fact with hard work. If we take the same mindset this woman has towards modeling and apply to the art industry, we would see a lot of Deviantart quality works being passed off as the next MonaLisa. TL;DR these beauty standards aren't impossible to achieve. They just require years and years of work to achieve.

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