Comments on: From One Extreme to Another http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/ Musings of a Rubens Woman Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:58:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Velvet http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2565 Velvet Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:05:33 +0000 http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2565 Your argument makes little sense when those women on the runway may in fact be so 'unhealthy' to the point of death- http://vivirlatino.com/2006/08/03/uruguayan-model-dies-on-the-catwalk.php You simply can't judge health based on appearence, period. Your argument makes little sense when those women on the runway may in fact be so ‘unhealthy’ to the point of death-
http://vivirlatino.com/2006/08/03/uruguayan-model-dies-on-the-catwalk.php
You simply can’t judge health based on appearence, period.

]]> By: Logan http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2564 Logan Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:01:49 +0000 http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2564 I dont think we should be putting obese people out there in a way that makes them look pretty how they are. They may look ok on the catwalk, but off of it they are unhealthy, overweight people who shouldnt be walking around like its perfectly fine to look that way. putting a fat person on the runway was a way to get out of being healthy....by saying "Oh, if SHE'S overweight like me and shes a model, i guess i dont have to go to the gym today." because eventually your just gonna have a heart attack.....Sorry I dont think we should be putting obese people out there in a way that makes them look pretty how they are. They may look ok on the catwalk, but off of it they are unhealthy, overweight people who shouldnt be walking around like its perfectly fine to look that way. putting a fat person on the runway was a way to get out of being healthy….by saying “Oh, if SHE’S overweight like me and shes a model, i guess i dont have to go to the gym today.” because eventually your just gonna have a heart attack…..Sorry

]]> By: woahhhhh http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2561 woahhhhh Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:31:32 +0000 http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2561 This woman is only a size 20 on top. Her hips and thighs would never fit into a size 20 pant. I don't understand how she can be a model with such a disproportionate figure, regardless of her size. She's probably a size 26 on bottom if not larger. This woman is only a size 20 on top. Her hips and thighs would never fit into a size 20 pant. I don’t understand how she can be a model with such a disproportionate figure, regardless of her size. She’s probably a size 26 on bottom if not larger.

]]> By: Velvet d'Amour http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2516 Velvet d'Amour Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:41:54 +0000 http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2516 PS One can just as easily make a reverse argument by posting the hundreds upon thousands of POSITIVE comments which have been made with each and every posting of this picture. Including those from the very same article you quote from, have a peek... Hip, Hip, Hoorah! About time the true female form gets some recognition! I think it's great! Include a variety of people. She's alive, not a criminal or insane and has a right to live and work at any job. Well done! Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth girls were fab. Many people fed up with looking at catwalk girls pale, thin and starved looking! Carry on the goodwork Good for Gaultier! How refreshing to see a catwalk model celebrating her larger curves! Three cheers for voluptuous-sized women! Fantastic - lets see more of the "real women". No cellulite either. I think the larger woman looks great. Probably still more appealing than a stick thin model will ever be. Why are people so cruel about the plus size women? Just because they're not stick thin doesn't mean they're not as beautiful. PS One can just as easily make a reverse argument by posting the hundreds upon thousands of POSITIVE comments which have been made with each and every posting of this picture.
Including those from the very same article you quote from, have a peek…

Hip, Hip, Hoorah! About time the true female form gets some recognition!

I think it’s great! Include a variety of people.

She’s alive, not a criminal or insane and has a right to live and work at any job.

Well done! Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth girls were fab. Many people fed up with looking at catwalk girls pale, thin and starved looking! Carry on the goodwork

Good for Gaultier!

How refreshing to see a catwalk model celebrating her larger curves!

Three cheers for voluptuous-sized women!

Fantastic – lets see more of the “real women”.

No cellulite either.

I think the larger woman looks great. Probably still more appealing than a stick thin model will ever be.

Why are people so cruel about the plus size women? Just because they’re not stick thin doesn’t mean they’re not as beautiful.

]]> By: Velvet d'Amour http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2515 Velvet d'Amour Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:25:41 +0000 http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2515 Wow, funny this thread is so active, since it has been awhile since I did this show. Oddly enough I have yet to drop dead of that heart attack y'all seem to fear, LOL Hate to break it to you but I have no high blood pressure, no high cholesterol, no health problems to report whatsoever! I don't smoke, drink alcohol or do drugs and I do excersize. Check the hip to waist measurement kid's ;o) The amazing thing here is that everyone is on the health band wagon when it comes to me, yet you don't seem to take into account the fact that there have quite literally women who have dropped DEAD whilst walking down the runway as they were so thin. I think a runway which encompasses fat, thin, old, young, different etnicitys, differently abled models, THAT is the runway I am after and I just happen to be donating my curves to the cause. I think it great to see my jaunt down the runway has sparked such a rich debate amoungst you. No one is obliged to dig me, but for those that do and have spoken up, I thank you. My quest is to diversify our notions of beauty. I was at the casting in the first placce because it was JPG 30 year retrospective and HE HAD ALREADY USED A FAT CHICK on the runway back in the 80's, but we ended up hitting it off because we share the view that beauty is not limited to size, age, race, etc. My portfolio is what sparked the choice of revealing clothes, I happen to dig my body and that came across to Jean Paul Gautier, as well as John Galliano who I had done a runway show for the previous season. It really isn't such an earthshattering notion that a fat person might be considered beautiful to openminded people. But no one is obliged to find me beautiful because I do! And thats really the moral of the story - love yourself! Revel in your purported 'flaws', every individual has a beauty about them, but the media needs to convince us that we are not, in order that we keep buying all the potions and lotions etc, and in order to keep the industry with the single highest failure rate in existence, going strong, the diet industry! Everytime we see some drugged up rocker on stage do we admonish the venue for allowing them to perform? Let's face it, magazines show Lindsay Lohan,Nicole Ritchie and Britney Spears every other page yet are you up in arms about their inclusion? The health argument is the biggest joke when we live in a society which honors a plethora of 'unhealthy' people. But who are we to judge them, live and live! Make the most of the time you have, make a difference in life! Carpe diem, Velvet Wow, funny this thread is so active, since it has been awhile since I did this show. Oddly enough I have yet to drop dead of that heart attack y’all seem to fear, LOL
Hate to break it to you but I have no high blood pressure, no high cholesterol, no health problems to report whatsoever! I don’t smoke, drink alcohol or do drugs and I do excersize. Check the hip to waist measurement kid’s ;o)
The amazing thing here is that everyone is on the health band wagon when it comes to me, yet you don’t seem to take into account the fact that there have quite literally women who have dropped DEAD whilst walking down the runway as they were so thin.
I think a runway which encompasses fat, thin, old, young, different etnicitys, differently abled models, THAT is the runway I am after and I just happen to be donating my curves to the cause.
I think it great to see my jaunt down the runway has sparked such a rich debate amoungst you. No one is obliged to dig me, but for those that do and have spoken up, I thank you.
My quest is to diversify our notions of beauty. I was at the casting in the first placce because it was JPG 30 year retrospective and HE HAD ALREADY USED A FAT CHICK on the runway back in the 80’s, but we ended up hitting it off because we share the view that beauty is not limited to size, age, race, etc.
My portfolio is what sparked the choice of revealing clothes, I happen to dig my body and that came across to Jean Paul Gautier, as well as John Galliano who I had done a runway show for the previous season. It really isn’t such an earthshattering notion that a fat person might be considered beautiful to openminded people. But no one is obliged to find me beautiful because I do! And thats really the moral of the story – love yourself! Revel in your purported ‘flaws’, every individual has a beauty about them, but the media needs to convince us that we are not, in order that we keep buying all the potions and lotions etc, and in order to keep the industry with the single highest failure rate in existence, going strong, the diet industry!
Everytime we see some drugged up rocker on stage do we admonish the venue for allowing them to perform? Let’s face it, magazines show Lindsay Lohan,Nicole Ritchie and Britney Spears every other page yet are you up in arms about their inclusion? The health argument is the biggest joke when we live in a society which honors a plethora of ‘unhealthy’ people. But who are we to judge them, live and live! Make the most of the time you have, make a difference in life!
Carpe diem,
Velvet

]]> By: antonio http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2509 antonio Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:47:41 +0000 http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2509 Fat is always Beauty, I love to watch fat guys walking. And fat chicks are always tasty, sad that only few people can see this. America is full of models like this. I think however a person look like, is beautiful, we are all good looking in our way. and fat is not bad, we should get used to it because in few years we will all look the same "remember Wall E" Fat is always Beauty, I love to watch fat guys walking. And fat chicks are always tasty, sad that only few people can see this. America is full of models like this. I think however a person look like, is beautiful, we are all good looking in our way. and fat is not bad, we should get used to it because in few years we will all look the same “remember Wall E”

]]> By: canafa http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2502 canafa Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:56:09 +0000 http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2502 lol :P lol :P

]]> By: cheryl http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2501 cheryl Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:55:33 +0000 http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2501 i bet u guys r fat 2, but there's nothin wrong with that. I'm a skinny model i bet u guys r fat 2, but there’s nothin wrong with that. I’m a skinny model

]]> By: Dj http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2497 Dj Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:41:44 +0000 http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2497 wow, you guys are fucked in the head. she's beautiful. and to all those who agree with me kudos. you can be healthy and still be "fat". there's nothing wrong with it. and if you seriously have a problem with it, i hope a big girl sits on you, bet you won't have anything to say then, huh? cograts to her.(: wow, you guys are fucked in the head. she’s beautiful. and to all those who agree with me kudos. you can be healthy and still be “fat”. there’s nothing wrong with it. and if you seriously have a problem with it, i hope a big girl sits on you, bet you won’t have anything to say then, huh? cograts to her.(:

]]> By: Maddy http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2496 Maddy Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:24:24 +0000 http://curvature.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/from-one-extreme-to-another/#comment-2496 Im 11 yrs old. I think she is pretty and I wish I had more strong women like her to look up to in this world. All I see on tv is girls who dress like sluts and booty shake ot get mens attention, 40 yr olds who act like 13 and women who talk about eachother! I wish we had better people to look up to. I am a size 3 I am also 5'7 I still get called fat my best friends throw up after every meal and they all look up to paris hilton! Thanks for being great role models for us.. yeah right! Im 11 yrs old. I think she is pretty and I wish I had more strong women like her to look up to in this world. All I see on tv is girls who dress like sluts and booty shake ot get mens attention, 40 yr olds who act like 13 and women who talk about eachother! I wish we had better people to look up to. I am a size 3 I am also 5′7 I still get called fat my best friends throw up after every meal and they all look up to paris hilton! Thanks for being great role models for us.. yeah right!

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