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The feature in PLUS model magazine, which shows a plus-size model posing nude alongside a high fashion model, aims to get women to tell designers and manufacturers they don't want to be sold super-thin images of models.
Size 16 (US size 12) model Katya Zharkova is shown posing naked in the provocative images, which are accompanied by text about the fashion industry.
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Another says: "Ten years ago plus-size models averaged between size 12 and 18 (UK size 8 and 22). Today the need for size diversity within the plus-size modeling industry continues to be questioned."
"The majority of plus-size models on agency boards are between a size 6 and 14 (UK size 2 and 10), while the customers continue to express their dissatisfaction."
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"Not everyone is meant to be skinny, our bodies are beautiful and we are not talking about health here because not every skinny person is healthy."
She adds: "Small women cannot be marketed to with pictures of plus-size women, why are we expected to respond to pictures of small size 6 and 8 women?"
Should retailers and advertisers change their ways or are images of slim women a good thing? Let us know below...
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