Comments on: A Two-Minute Dose Of Va-Va-Va-Voom

By: Venus Pixeleada: En elogio de las curvas « El Rincón del Ornitorrinco

Venus Pixeleada: En elogio de las curvas « El Rincón del Ornitorrinco — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:04:30 +0000

[...] Big Fat Deal [...]

By: branwyn-gwynneth

branwyn-gwynneth — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:33:48 +0000

I get where they are coming from and maybe where they are trying to go (it’s all about getting someone to pay that outrageous amount of money for an outfit by letting them know they too can look fabulous like that-there model), but I might be a bit more impressed if she wasn’t wearing a crapton of makeup and false lashes…if she actually looked like a person. But, again, that isn’t the point, the point is to show a larger than the normal industry-sized model looking hot. “Hey look! She is fat AND she is hot! SEEE! It can be done! Buy our shit!”. blah.

By: danielle

danielle — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:13:22 +0000

Yeah, I’m solidly on the “unacceptably fat” side of the sphere (around 400 lbs), so this didn’t make me feel so good. In a way I’m glad to see someone of a larger size be considered as sexy and desirable as anyone else. However, being that I am “anyone else”, and I look nothing like this woman-and will never, ever lose enough weight to feel that she represents me/my type of beauty-it can be hard to see how she’s “empowering” (although I do respect the fact that for many her image *is* progressive). If the standards for fat models veer so close to mainstream, then there’s really no way that I can look at a woman like Fluvia without understanding that she is just another form of unattainable beauty. She’s a *real woman*, and women who look like me are just pretending.

By: Liza

Liza — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:30:49 +0000

I felt good and bad.

Good because, well, I’m straight…but hot damn. And I’m saying that thinking that “16″ indicates her size which means she is very close to me in girth.

Bad because even though she is supposedly very close to me size-wise, I still don’t feel like I could ever look like that.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:51:29 +0000

Oh My GOD!!! This video is just freaking amazing. And yah, even though I feel good about myself regardless of any model out there, this is just so great and refreshing to see that us curvy beauties are now being shown in a sexy way.

I am so tired of what’s on TV, with the only way big women being addressed is by asking as to loose our ass of, or on the dating show being addressed as our weight. Really, this is the first time we are being shown in a sexy and artistic way. Hooray IGIGI for creating this film. And oh my that dress is just smoking hot. I am soooo buying it.

By: Ashlea

Ashlea — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:46:48 +0000

On a sort of related note, Mark Fast (who is apparently some designer) recently did one of those runway shows and cast several size 10-12 models. While his clothes are not anything I would ever wear (being fugly nipple-baring shredded doilies), I think that’s kind of neat.

Link: http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/S2010RTW-MFAST

By: Linds

Linds — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:58:20 +0000

Um, yeah. I think I need a minute to recover from that. She is HOT! My boyfriend sitting right next to me wholeheartedly agrees, btw. :D

And, study schmudy, I got a bit of a boost from that. Also, where did she get that dress? I can haz?!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:01:05 +0000

I have to be honest, I feel as rubbish looking at Fluvia and Crystal as I am looking at Freja or Abbey. I’m actually really pleased this article exists, because I really did think I was the only one who felt like that!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:41:14 +0000

I can honestly say that models have absolutely no impact on how I feel about my own body. I guess i am just very secure and set in stone with my body image. I no longer compare myself to anyone and no images sent in the media nor anyones comments affect my self esteem. I just wish that all women can also learn to find that level of positive self image as well.

By: alice

alice — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:15:31 +0000

I felt happy, but I’m bi and find her reasonably attractive, so some of it was ‘pretty lady!’

The rest was def. a self-esteem boost. Yeah, I’m bigger than she is, and I don’t hang out in evening gowns or huge amounts of makeup. But seeing a body like hers be celebrated – seeing a larger body be unironically viewed as sexy – is awesome. I just watched disfigured, and one of the things that was SO great about it was seeing larger actresses just *be* larger. Getting a chance to see representations of really big women onscreen, without the disgusting ‘Shallow Hal’ “oh she’s GROSS” treatment, is really powerful. Seeing them in a judgment free context is great; seeing them celebrated is wonderful.

Maybe I’m just out of the habit of comparing myself to models and finding that I fall short, but in broadening the ideal, I see there as being more room for variation, and therefore more room for me. It creates a space where the fat = unsexy equation is moot, and I LIKE that space. It’s sometimes hard to find it when surrounded by mainstream media.