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NY Daily News, April 10, 2008:
We won't see any plus size models flaunting their curves during next week's Miss USA pageant (a rep has confirmed) but Chloe Marshall will be the first size 14 contestant to strut her stuff at the finals of the Miss England pageant.
Hopefully it's a trend we'll pick up on stateside.
Marshall, a 17-year-old beauty school student, is 5'10" and weighs 176 pounds. While Marshall clearly stands out amongst the average pin-thin pageant girls and models, she's proud of her curves.
"I love my body. People seem desperate to get me to say that I don't, that deep down I'm not happy and would rather be thin, but the fact is I wouldn't change myself at all," Marshall told the Daily Mail as she posed in the skimpy white official Miss England bikini for a photoshoot.
Credit is due to Dove for their global Campaign For Real Beauty which, according to their site, "aims to change the status quo and offer in its place a broader, healthier, more democratic view of beauty."
To that end, Dove has taken up several initiatives including a massive ad campaign featuring real women with real curves, and a "Girls Only Interactive Self-Esteem Zone," which teaches girls about image manipulation in the media.
In the UK, the Periodic Publishers Association has put out a plea to the fashion industry and invited top editors from mags like Vogue, Elle and Hello! to discuss restricting the use of "photoshopped," or digitally-enhanced photos. Hope we follow suit!
Leah Chernikoff
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyl...ussize_beauty_pageant_winner_m.html#community
NY Daily News, April 10, 2008:
We won't see any plus size models flaunting their curves during next week's Miss USA pageant (a rep has confirmed) but Chloe Marshall will be the first size 14 contestant to strut her stuff at the finals of the Miss England pageant.
Hopefully it's a trend we'll pick up on stateside.
Marshall, a 17-year-old beauty school student, is 5'10" and weighs 176 pounds. While Marshall clearly stands out amongst the average pin-thin pageant girls and models, she's proud of her curves.
"I love my body. People seem desperate to get me to say that I don't, that deep down I'm not happy and would rather be thin, but the fact is I wouldn't change myself at all," Marshall told the Daily Mail as she posed in the skimpy white official Miss England bikini for a photoshoot.
Credit is due to Dove for their global Campaign For Real Beauty which, according to their site, "aims to change the status quo and offer in its place a broader, healthier, more democratic view of beauty."
To that end, Dove has taken up several initiatives including a massive ad campaign featuring real women with real curves, and a "Girls Only Interactive Self-Esteem Zone," which teaches girls about image manipulation in the media.
In the UK, the Periodic Publishers Association has put out a plea to the fashion industry and invited top editors from mags like Vogue, Elle and Hello! to discuss restricting the use of "photoshopped," or digitally-enhanced photos. Hope we follow suit!
Leah Chernikoff
