TLC network is launching a new plus size 'reality' show about 4 fat women trying to make it as plus size models in New York. I saw a teaser commercial for the show this morning. From what I saw, it looks like the show partially focuses on the women's lives, and is not just all about fashion and modeling. For info about the show, click here:
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I'm still interested in seeing this show, well, interested, but also apprehensive. I've read and commented on this already on Lesley Kinzel's blog, but I like the concept, but it can be so easy to turn this into just garbage TV. Also, I will be in rage if I have to hear the fauxbesity epidemic without any critical tone to that hysteria but that's another rant for another time.
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I've thrown people in the past because when they heard I was into fat acceptance, they assumed I would want the media to stop representing very thin women and go for a more "healthy" average. Not in the slightest - I want to see thin women, average women and fat women. I just want the media to stop overrepresenting thin women so that other people feel the pressure to attain that body type even when it's not natural for them.
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I do like the positive "heyyyy, we're sexy!" vibe of the show promos, but calling thin women names isn't the way to make the point. I have thin friends who have body acceptance issues, were called "twig" and other unflattering names, etc.
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