Comments on: Lucy Van Pelt School of Football and Fashion Design

By: anonymous1

anonymous1 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:47:13 +0000

i agree with dan. shes basically a young model who may have eaten too much cake on her sweet 16 party, and yet she tries to act motivational

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:45:17 +0000

Look, the truth is that for a 16 year old girl she’s quite fat and clearly overfed. And she doesn’t look like she’s had much exercise other than lifting a fork. If she’s this fat at her age, she’s like to be obese by the time she’s 25. Not exactly a model for other young women to emulate.

By: Steiff Bears

Steiff Bears — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:43:27 +0000

stieff bear

By: Lori C.

Lori C. — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:38:05 +0000

The naturally thin women I know do not have bodies like those mannequins. Wait- I have to take that back- I know one naturally thin woman who actually has curves, and every other one I know laments what they themselves call their awkward legs with no calves and flat chests. To each her own, yes? But these are not actual women, they are in fact mannequins-very, very thin ones- and so I have to agree with Bridey & Chaser. And since this is a “Big” Girl Blog I expect, and would be disappointed not to find, a certain amount of snark.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:52:26 +0000

I’m with E. This blog preaches body acceptance, as long as it is the particular body type to which this blog is dedicated. You can say “these are just mannequins”, but suppose the situation was reversed; the mannequins were large and someone called them “fat”. I doubt the ladies here would adopt the same “they’re just mannequins” attitude. You ladies are better than that!

By: dangster

dangster — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:23:47 +0000

Yes, that picture does a bit Photoshopped. It’s like they took Rachel Bilson’s head and pasted it on that body.

By: Margo

Margo — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:16:01 +0000

It it just me, or does this picture look like it’s been tweaked? There’s something seriously weird about her head/body proportions, like someone Photoshopped a tiny head onto that curvy bod.

By: La Petite Acadienne

La Petite Acadienne — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:44:00 +0000

Either way, she’s gorgeous. And I love that even if her bikini is ill-fitting and even if her shoes weren’t the most flattering, she knows that she’s smokin’. Look at that cheeky grin — any girl of any size who has the confidence to wear a grin like that while being photographed in a bikini has my admiration.

By: Style Spy

Style Spy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:22:18 +0000

I think the "bone" being thrown is that one gal is getting some press and some treats, and chances are that this blip on the radar of western body image is unlikely to change anything in the big scheme of things. When YSL and Galliano and all the rest of 'em start making clothes that fit someone larger than a size 10, or when Big Girls win beauty contests without exciting a flurry of press coverage, that will be some progress made.

By: Chaser

Chaser — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:53:25 +0000

I’m all for being nice to people whatever their size, but I think it’s bordering on hypersensitivity to take anybody to task for criticizing a set of mannequins. If those were fellow contestants, if those were women on the sidewalk, fine–by all means object. But given that they are constructed bodies–not an actual woman’s body– they are devoid of identity because they do not have faces– and thus I think they and they companies that use them are fair game for ridicule. These aren’t somebody mom, sister, or friend–they are a homogenized image of a female body. To be truthful, very thin women do not have such bodies either: the breasts are relatively large; the skin is perfect and (a source of irritation to yours truly) ALL WHITE. When mannequins start to reflect some measure of reality–like, say, one very thin one reflecting the naturally thin woman you are concerned about to three other mannequins of varying size and shape and color–I think we let up about the promulgation of “starvation chic.” But while all of them are stick thin and white…tough nuggets. They get the burn.