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Look, I get it. That photoshop fiasco to make her look skinny in these photos was awful. I totally support her on that one. If the photographer wanted to end up with a thin model in his photos – he should have used one. When photographers choose to work with her, they need to accept her size. But then she said this:

“Plus-size…some people scoff at the name, but I think it’s amazing to be a part of the entire thing. What I think would end the confusion is if we call all the models just ‘models.'”

She lost me. Not all models are just ‘models’. You have runway models, lingerie models, catalog models, beauty models, celebrity models, plus size models and the list goes on. Models are not superstars and we do not need to accept them for that they are. Their job is to attract attention to the product of the brand that hired them. They are getting paid for their bodies and their looks. And when you call up an agency and give specifications as to what models you are looking for, you need to be able to differentiate between them. I suppose in her ideal world, a designer would call up a modeling agency and say “Give me 20 of your finest most ordinary real women”, but that’s not going to happen, is it? Because a designer has the right to decide how to best showcase his work, not how to accommodate models’ insecurities.

And please, don’t get me wrong. I think Renn is beautiful and I think there are a lot of plus size women out there who are beautiful. It’s all about the hourglass proportions – we are genetically programmed to be attracted to them. But she doesn’t realize that she succeeded because there’s something special about her. A lot of other models, skinny or fat, don’t succeed because they don’t have that certain ‘it’ factor. She also, would be a fool not to admit that clothes look better on thinner women because their bodies allow the outfit’s silhouette to come though, and that the shift of average weight in our society today didn’t happen because of subsidized corn.

P.S Can we stop using the term ‘real women’? It’s insulting to women.