Damn, we love Tyra Banks.
Sure, she can be a bit shouty, and the whole ‘Tyra-mail’ component of America’s Next Top Model (Tyra mail is simply a letter to the contestants…. It’s just like regular mail but from Tyra) borders on the narcissistic but when it comes to women and their beautiful bodies, Tyra just gets it.
Tyra, who started her career as a Sports Illustrated model after she was declared to have ‘too much booty’ to walk the high fashion runways, has told South Africa’s Cosmopolitan Magazine this month that: “Loving yourself is paramount, no matter what shape, size or colour you are. I call it being flawsome. You + your flaws + awesome = flawsome.”
Tyra is a rare example of a woman who isn’t going to change for any casting director. Even in an industry that thinks women who are any bigger than a toothpick should never be in front of a camera. Because, OH THE HORROR.
But if Tyra’s phenomenal success is anything to go by, change be a-comin’ y’all (and it be coming FIERCELY).
Here are 16 women who – like Tyra – are showing Hollywood producers that beauty comes in all shapes, sizes and colours and that beauty is not a homogenous commodity.
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Not quite sure if I agree with any of the above. I believe being beautiful is eating in moderation, not too much and not too little. Getting some exercise everyday even if it is just walking.
I am a size 8-10, I eat healthy most of the time and occasionally enjoy a bowl of ice-cream. Many of the above women are huge, size 16 plus (apart from Lucy) and I just don't see how eating junk food all day and not exercising could be perceived as beautiful? That's simply treating your body like a dump yard..
Why can't the "beautiful" woman be normal everyday size 8 - 12 women who lead normal lives in moderation??? Not super skinny models and not fat women who need to find a treadmill...
Sorry for being harsh but unless you have a medical condition being that overweight is not healthy or beautiful it's disgusting.
Pfft, most of those women are huge? How ridiculous. People like Christina Hendricks, Rooney Mara and Jennifer Lawrence are not huge, in fact I would only label one of the women in those pictures as huge. How ignorant to assume someone with curves sits on their ass all day eating junk and then call them disgusting.
It's great seeing more tv shows and films - like Bridesmaids, The Office, Girls, 30 Rock, Grey's Anatomy - with women who aren't super skinny over perfectly-modelesquely-beautiful. It shows that women can still be interesting, attractive and worth watching even when their looks aren't necessarily their greatest asset. Which is nice, since that's the case for most/many women in real life!