10 Big Beautiful Celebs Who Love Their Curves
1) Christina Hendricks
America's gone mad, mad, mad for 35-year-old actress Christina Hendricks - and her 1950s curves. The curvaceous "Mad Men" star was named Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire, but she says fashion designers refuse to outfit her 5'8", size 14 frame. "I'm still struggling for someone to give me a darn dress," she said before the 2010 Emmys. She eventually found a Zac Posen number and wowed the crowd. Christina Hendricks has been outspoken about her body and how she feels about it. Speaking about modeling in Italy when she was 15 pounds heavier, she told Health magazine, "I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, 'Oh, I look like a woman.' And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it.'"
2) Whitney Thompson
No one has ever accused Whitney Thompson of having undersized ambitions. The 22-year-old Florida native smashed through television barriers when she won season 10 of "America's Next Top Model" - the first plus-sized model to do so. Now Thompson is trying to help American women feel comfortable with their own bodies. Along with Chenese Lewis, Thompson, right, is the cover girl for this year's "Love Your Body Day," and a spokesperson for the National Eating Disorder Association.The size-12 stunner, has strong words for the diet industry, saying it makes women feel insecure. "People don't realize that we have a billion-dollar diet industry working against our self-esteem. There is always a new product out selling us happiness if we 'finally' shed those pounds,'" she says on her blog. "If you want to change your body, then eat whole foods and get more cardio. However, I think that it is important for people to learn to love their bodies, regardless of shape or weight before they make the decision to change it."
3) Crystal Renn
Crystal Renn beat anorexia to become one of America's top models - and an outspoken critic of the "thin equals pretty" mindset that prevails in fashion circles. "I have made it my life to speak about feeling completely beautiful no matter what size you are," she told CBS News.The 24-year-old beauty was horrified after a recent photo shoot in which she was radically retouched into a waif. "I didn't even recognize myself when I saw the photo," she says. "Friends had been emailing me, asking if I was all right. I was, but I was worried about girls with anorexia who would see these pictures and think that thin was better."
4) Toccara Jones
On television, Toccara Jones has become famous for being a bit big and utterly beautiful.
The statuesque model won "Covergirl of the Week" five times on season three of "America's Next Top Model," although she didn't win the show. Since then she has signed with Wilhelmina models and has been featured in Italian Vogue, Ebony and King Magazine, among countless others. Jones' relationship with her weight has been a back-and-forth affair. She says she dropped 32 pounds while competing on reality show "Celebrity Fit Club." And now she is trying to help "real size women" to be "healthy, fit and fabulous," with - what else - a workout DVD.
5) Tyra Banks
For full-figured women, Tyra Banks is almost a folk hero. In 2006, the 5'10" supermodel-turned-talk-show-host gained 30 pounds. Critics had a field day, but Banks fired right back. "To all of you who have something nasty to say to me or to women built like me," she said on her talk show, "I have one thing to say to you: Kiss my fat ass!" Since then, Banks's weight has yo-yoed. But her reality show, "America's Next Top Model," has promoted several plus-sized models and even held a national contest for "fierce, real-sized" teen models. The winner was a size 14, which, incidentally, is about the national average.
6) Kate Dillon
As a 12-year-old girl, Kate Dillon told People magazine that she was inspired by an anorexic TV character to radically drop weight. "The fact that the girl died in the movie didn't seem to deter me somehow," she told them. Her radical dieting worked. Five years later, Dillon was working fashion shows in Paris and appearing in Vogue and Glamour, according to People. But Dillon couldn't keep going. "I just couldn't keep starving myself," she told People. "I was only a size 8, yet I was told I was huge and disgusting." Dillon saw a nutritionist, gained weight and - after struggling to find the right relationship with food - reinvented herself as a plus-sized model with self-esteem. Now, at 36, Dillon is modeling, training for triathlons, and doing yoga, according to Vogue. Oh, and did we mention she managed to get a master's degree in international development from Harvard and is raising money to educate kids in Rwanda? Now that's weighty.
7) Mia Tyler
Mia Tyler doesn't think the revolution will be televised. The daughter of Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler and Bebe Buell Cyrinda Foxe thinks it's going to be worn. Tyler, a plus-size model and actress, started her own plus-size clothing line in 2009. She hopes it will help break the stigma of clothing made for bigger women. "Beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, and packages," Mia Tyler says on Revolution 1228's website. "Including ME!"
8) Queen Latifah
Everything about Queen Latifah is big: talent, success and confidence. And the Grammy award-winning musician and Golden Globe-winning actress has never been shy about her curves either." I just had to grow to love my body," she said in 2002, according to People. "I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself." America loves her too. At 40, the New Jersey native is a spokeswoman for Covergirl and has more acting and music awards than she can count.
9) Mo'Nique
Comedienne and critically acclaimed actress Mo'Nique has always claimed to be "fat and fabulous," but last year she decided she wanted to be healthy too. "Let's be healthy big people," she told Jet magazine, according to Entertainment Tonight. "Everybody can't be a size 0 or 45, but let's be healthy." The 42-year-old says she shed 40 pounds the natural way. "This was truly making the commitment to watch what I eat and commit to working out," the mother of three told Jet. "I stopped eating red meat." She may have to go further to reach her goals. At more than 200 pounds and just 5-foot, 6-inches, Mo'Nique says she she knows she still technically obese.
10) America Ferrera
America Ferrera may be "Ugly Betty," but in reality she's anything but. "We're not all a size 2 and we're not all a size 0, and you know what? That's okay because some of us like to eat," she told Project Weight Loss in 2008. The 26-year-old actress first gained notice in the 2002 film "Real Women Have Curves." Since then her award shelf has filled up with an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a SAG award, to name a few. Despite her success, being in Hollywood hasn't made it easy for Ferrera to deal with an industry reluctant to promote body sizes any bigger than Megan Fox's. "You have to build a normal relationship with exercise and food," Ferrara told Project Weight Loss. "For me it's not about looking like a supermodel - it's about feeling good about who I am naturally."
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America's gone mad, mad, mad for 35-year-old actress Christina Hendricks - and her 1950s curves. The curvaceous "Mad Men" star was named Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire, but she says fashion designers refuse to outfit her 5'8", size 14 frame. "I'm still struggling for someone to give me a darn dress," she said before the 2010 Emmys. She eventually found a Zac Posen number and wowed the crowd. Christina Hendricks has been outspoken about her body and how she feels about it. Speaking about modeling in Italy when she was 15 pounds heavier, she told Health magazine, "I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, 'Oh, I look like a woman.' And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it.'"
2) Whitney Thompson
No one has ever accused Whitney Thompson of having undersized ambitions. The 22-year-old Florida native smashed through television barriers when she won season 10 of "America's Next Top Model" - the first plus-sized model to do so. Now Thompson is trying to help American women feel comfortable with their own bodies. Along with Chenese Lewis, Thompson, right, is the cover girl for this year's "Love Your Body Day," and a spokesperson for the National Eating Disorder Association.The size-12 stunner, has strong words for the diet industry, saying it makes women feel insecure. "People don't realize that we have a billion-dollar diet industry working against our self-esteem. There is always a new product out selling us happiness if we 'finally' shed those pounds,'" she says on her blog. "If you want to change your body, then eat whole foods and get more cardio. However, I think that it is important for people to learn to love their bodies, regardless of shape or weight before they make the decision to change it."
3) Crystal Renn
Crystal Renn beat anorexia to become one of America's top models - and an outspoken critic of the "thin equals pretty" mindset that prevails in fashion circles. "I have made it my life to speak about feeling completely beautiful no matter what size you are," she told CBS News.The 24-year-old beauty was horrified after a recent photo shoot in which she was radically retouched into a waif. "I didn't even recognize myself when I saw the photo," she says. "Friends had been emailing me, asking if I was all right. I was, but I was worried about girls with anorexia who would see these pictures and think that thin was better."
4) Toccara Jones
On television, Toccara Jones has become famous for being a bit big and utterly beautiful.
The statuesque model won "Covergirl of the Week" five times on season three of "America's Next Top Model," although she didn't win the show. Since then she has signed with Wilhelmina models and has been featured in Italian Vogue, Ebony and King Magazine, among countless others. Jones' relationship with her weight has been a back-and-forth affair. She says she dropped 32 pounds while competing on reality show "Celebrity Fit Club." And now she is trying to help "real size women" to be "healthy, fit and fabulous," with - what else - a workout DVD.
5) Tyra Banks
For full-figured women, Tyra Banks is almost a folk hero. In 2006, the 5'10" supermodel-turned-talk-show-host gained 30 pounds. Critics had a field day, but Banks fired right back. "To all of you who have something nasty to say to me or to women built like me," she said on her talk show, "I have one thing to say to you: Kiss my fat ass!" Since then, Banks's weight has yo-yoed. But her reality show, "America's Next Top Model," has promoted several plus-sized models and even held a national contest for "fierce, real-sized" teen models. The winner was a size 14, which, incidentally, is about the national average.
6) Kate Dillon
As a 12-year-old girl, Kate Dillon told People magazine that she was inspired by an anorexic TV character to radically drop weight. "The fact that the girl died in the movie didn't seem to deter me somehow," she told them. Her radical dieting worked. Five years later, Dillon was working fashion shows in Paris and appearing in Vogue and Glamour, according to People. But Dillon couldn't keep going. "I just couldn't keep starving myself," she told People. "I was only a size 8, yet I was told I was huge and disgusting." Dillon saw a nutritionist, gained weight and - after struggling to find the right relationship with food - reinvented herself as a plus-sized model with self-esteem. Now, at 36, Dillon is modeling, training for triathlons, and doing yoga, according to Vogue. Oh, and did we mention she managed to get a master's degree in international development from Harvard and is raising money to educate kids in Rwanda? Now that's weighty.
7) Mia Tyler
Mia Tyler doesn't think the revolution will be televised. The daughter of Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler and Bebe Buell Cyrinda Foxe thinks it's going to be worn. Tyler, a plus-size model and actress, started her own plus-size clothing line in 2009. She hopes it will help break the stigma of clothing made for bigger women. "Beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, and packages," Mia Tyler says on Revolution 1228's website. "Including ME!"
8) Queen Latifah
Everything about Queen Latifah is big: talent, success and confidence. And the Grammy award-winning musician and Golden Globe-winning actress has never been shy about her curves either." I just had to grow to love my body," she said in 2002, according to People. "I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself." America loves her too. At 40, the New Jersey native is a spokeswoman for Covergirl and has more acting and music awards than she can count.
9) Mo'Nique
Comedienne and critically acclaimed actress Mo'Nique has always claimed to be "fat and fabulous," but last year she decided she wanted to be healthy too. "Let's be healthy big people," she told Jet magazine, according to Entertainment Tonight. "Everybody can't be a size 0 or 45, but let's be healthy." The 42-year-old says she shed 40 pounds the natural way. "This was truly making the commitment to watch what I eat and commit to working out," the mother of three told Jet. "I stopped eating red meat." She may have to go further to reach her goals. At more than 200 pounds and just 5-foot, 6-inches, Mo'Nique says she she knows she still technically obese.
10) America Ferrera
America Ferrera may be "Ugly Betty," but in reality she's anything but. "We're not all a size 2 and we're not all a size 0, and you know what? That's okay because some of us like to eat," she told Project Weight Loss in 2008. The 26-year-old actress first gained notice in the 2002 film "Real Women Have Curves." Since then her award shelf has filled up with an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a SAG award, to name a few. Despite her success, being in Hollywood hasn't made it easy for Ferrera to deal with an industry reluctant to promote body sizes any bigger than Megan Fox's. "You have to build a normal relationship with exercise and food," Ferrara told Project Weight Loss. "For me it's not about looking like a supermodel - it's about feeling good about who I am naturally."
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Finally a list with diversity, fierce HBIC's, and body positivity!