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Tess Holliday covers Cosmo to send "important body positivity message"

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I had watched this on the news this morning when they were interviewing Tess. I really don't agree with this. It continues to baffle me. While having "skinny/slim" models on magazine covers or being continuously promoted by magazine covers may promote eating disorders and/or self esteem issues, having this overweight woman is NOT the answer. This just promotes complacency.
There needs to be a middle ground; an average body, some stretch marks here and there? That is one of the bodies that I can get behind. But you cannot go from one extreme to the other and call it "body positivity."

Yeah, I'm worried for the people who will use this movement as an excuse not to change rather than a comfort

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King Salmonella

I love to see a fat woman run after a packet of hobnobs

Reply 22

Jaydor #2

Original post by King Salmonella

I love to see a fat woman run after a packet of hobnobs

Impossible. hobnobs tastes like poo, no lover of food will run for that.🤢

Reply 23

CraigBackner

absolutely disgusting

Reply 24

MrSuavetopia

Original post by SHallowvale

Not putting yourself down for being fat seems to be the message behind this. As in, 'Don't consider yourself ugly and worthless because you're fat'.

This isn't the same thing as promoting unhealthy bodies/diets but I can see how someone can get that impression.

Ideally I think body positivity and healthy lifestyles should be encouraged in unison.

Agreed on all fronts!

Reply 25

TimmonaPortella

Pertinent Onion-family media.

https://lifestyle.clickhole.com/this-plus-size-model-was-inspiring-but-then-she-lost-1-1825120960

This Plus-Size Model Was Inspiring. But Then She Lost 100 Pounds, Which Was… Also Inspiring? Even Though She Was Already Perfect Before? But She Is Also Perfect Now?

'Plus-size model Adriana Lettieri was an inspiration to curvy women everywhere, proving with each magazine cover she graced that all body types are beautiful. Now, after several healthy lifestyle changes, she’s had a stunning physical transformation. One hundred pounds thinner, Adriana’s hitting the runway in the best shape of her life, which is… also inspiring? Even though she was already perfect before? But she’s also perfect now?

Hmm…

Early this year, Adriana took a look in the mirror at her radiant 228-pound figure and realized that something had to change. She adopted a balanced diet, built a six-mile walk into her daily routine, and the pounds started melting away! Pretty soon, she was down to a fit-and-fabulous 130, and was finally rid of the… absolutely flawless love handles and cellulite that she had been allowing to… define her… as… as a powerful reminder that big is beautiful?
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Let’s start over. So, Adriana lost 100 pounds. Great. That’s inspirational. But she also gained some major confidence… confidence that she didn’t need because she was beautiful just the way she was, and she had been that way for… too long and that’s when she realized what… didn’t have to be done? Or rather, it… did have to be done, and she buckled down and lost those pounds, and that’s great, and it is absolutely NOT the message we should be sending young girls who are bombarded with images of conventionally attractive women like how Adriana is now, and it’s a testament to her incredible force of will that she… gave in to dangerous and hurtful industry pressures and ought to be ashamed of…

Huh. ****...'

Reply 26

Napp

If one wanted to encourage ones kids to eat themselves into an early grave then sure this is a jolly good thing. Alas, this is not the case though this is just downright irresponsible.

Reply 27

howitoughttobe

For as long as I can remember there have been campaigns for magazines not to show extremely skinny women as it promotes an unhealthy body image and can encourage anorexia. I don't see how this is any different. In fact this is probably worse because there are far more overweight people than there are anorexic people.

I don't really care.

Thing is there's carrying a bit of extra fat making you chubby but not overly fat, which a few studies (albeit others probably disagree) have shown isn't really problematic as long as the person is active and is better than being slightly underweight for your general health. However I don't think it's right to be displaying morbid obesity as something acceptable, as it's a medical condition with numerous serious side-effects, especially as the person ages and doesn't do anything about their excess weight.

I agree with not plastering size 6-8 women all the time, myself I prefer bigger size, probably size 12-16 (obviously that depends on the persons height/build), and many people of those sizes are naturally curvaceous and need to be represented as being okay too. But if you're say size 24, I don't think you can really claim that's just natural body shape, there's a lot of excess weight involved and it's unfair to the person to actually pretend everything is okay, because they'll cut years off their life and may end up quite miserable due to said health issues, I actually know a few very obese middle aged and onwards who have had to have limbs amputated due to a combination of their size and developing diabetes.

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Reply 30

iAngely

Original post by Danny Dorito

Plus-size model Tess Holliday graces the cover of Cosmo's September issue, to send an important message of body positivity. The model start the campaign #effyourbeautystandards in response to online trolls.

You can read more on the story here

I think she look incredible!

What do you make of this? Should there be more diversity in magazines? Would you like to see a male cover like this?

The only message I get from it is: "What you will look like in 3 years of over eating and living in denial about your health." No thanks, I prefer to be able to walk without a waddle.

She has a beautiful face but its ruined by that body of hers. She isn't as healthy as she claims, she doesn't exercise like she claims and she isn't as happy as she claims either. None of the fat activists are happy and they are all lying about how great their loves are. They want to change society so that it will accept them and encourage their bad habits but we shouldn't be accepting them.

(edited 5 years ago)

Reply 31

Con$piracy

Yeah make incredibly obese women feel better about themselves rather than encourage them to lose weight.

Reply 32

Joleee

thing is, we need to see this for what it is and what it is not. realistically, no woman of that size (besides Tess Holliday) thinks she is beautiful and women everywhere will not go rushing out and start gaining weight to look like her. no women like their bodies, not even thin women. so we can all relax on that point.

this 'body positive' campaign is not about making women love their bodies -- it is companies and brands trying to appear altruistic so you go out and buy their products. Tess draws attention; that's why she's hired. at the end of the day, Cosmo and other companies really don't care if you love your body. in fact they would prefer you didn't, because if you loved your body you wouldn't need to go out and buy their products to make you feel beautiful. imo we need to stop thinking of these companies as moral do-gooders and realise they're just manipulators. (i don't hate the player or the game, btw. just sayin. :smile:

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(edited 5 years ago)

Reply 33

-Eirlys-

Debate & Current Affairs Helper

There are overweight people saying we need more "real" women on the covers of magazines... so thin women aren't "real" to them? They want overweight people everywhere to make them more comfortable about their weight problem instead of accepting that they have an issue and working to solve it. I agree with what Piers Morgan said, that it's just as bad as having a woman with anorexia on the front cover and saying "body positivity". I'm sure there'd be an outcry saying that it's encouraging eating disorders and an unhealthy body weight... which is what obesity is.

Reply 34

isiaiah d

Original post by chasmiths

Morbid obesity isn't something to promote. I smoke, but if I saw a model smoking on a magazine I'd be outraged as it sets a bad example and glorifies an unhealthy lifestyle just like Tess Holliday's pic glorifies being unhealthily overweight.