(Editor’s Note) Every so often, we’d like to share opportunities like the one below with our readers. My name’s Heather and I’m a features writer national women’s magazines and newspapers, and they’re offering top fees for your experiences. Is there a story behind your size? Did your partner try to control you with food? Were [...]
Fired For Being Too Fat
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Obesity is one of the major health problems affecting the US today. Concerns about this particular issue continue to grow, especially in terms of the discrimination problems affecting those with weight problems. The statistics on weight-based employment discrimination is becoming more rampant and it causes a lot of employees, especially those who are considered obese, [...]
The Best-Dressed Celebrities in their Teen Clothes
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Because of the scope of their influence, teen celebrities are considered to be the most powerful sector in the society in terms of starting a teen fashion trend. Thus, fashion bloggers and fashion magazines such as Teen Vogue have regularly come up with a list of best-dressed (and worst-dressed) celebrities. Indeed, celebrities are considered to be [...]
Plus Size Clothing: The New Trend in Fashion
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Gone are the days when being skinny and slender spell the description of being beautiful and sexy. Even the fashion and modeling industry already opened their gates and welcomed plus size clothing and modeling to their fold. Mara Urshel, an owner and operator of a 35000-square-foot bridal salon in Manhattan, lamented how some of her [...]
Stories of a Plus Size Model
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Modeling is one of the professions that have been looked upon with envy and jealousy by most women. Rarely can you find a member of the female species who never dreamed of being a model or who never wondered what it feels like to live the life of a model. Their fame and fortune may [...]
Supercharge Your UK BBW Profile
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Nowadays, technology has indeed made the world smaller. Even the field of meeting new people and getting dates have taken a brand new picture because of the integration of technological innovations. With the development of online dating sites, the challenge of finding your own match becomes more convenient and efficient. The perfect match you have [...]
Issues Surrounding Ashley Stewart
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Ashley Stewart, named after Laura Ashley and Martha Stewart, is a major retail company specializing on clothes for plus size women. Since the early 1990s, Ashley Stewart has been one of the leading names in the field of apparel for women in sizes 12 – 26. Its collection includes sportswear, lingerie and undergarments, tops, bottoms, [...]
Celebrities And Their Yoga Clothes
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Because of its numerous benefits, yoga has gained international popularity as one of the most worthwhile hobbies and forms of exercise. Yoga has numerous physiological benefits including improvement of eye-hand coordination, increased energy level and endurance, integrated functioning of body parts and improved dexterity skills and posture. Aside from its physiological benefits, its psychological benefits [...]
Should We Trust Miss Plump?
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The society has projected that being thin and being slender constitute being beautiful. Thus, this distorted perception of beauty and sexiness has led to irrational beliefs regarding one’s body size, especially among women and among teenagers. Fortunately, that perception is no longer that prevalent. We now see women with plus sizes make it big in [...]
Delicious New BBW Dating Sites
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The advent of technology has indeed influenced the way society does and handles things. Even romantic relationships and dating have now been infiltrated with technological innovations. When people started looking for more convenient ways of finding their match, online dating sites became an instant phenomenon. Online dating sites have become so popular because they provide [...]
Unravel the Secrets of Miss BBW Winners!
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Are you a Miss BBW wannabe? Do you want to join the line up of confident and alluring Miss BBW winners? Indeed, Miss BBW has gone a long way in paving the way for big and beautiful women to be appreciated for their beauty. Miss BBW has changed the way society perceives beauty pageants by [...]
Does Plus Size Lingerie Make These Plus Size Celebrities Hot?
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The notion that beauty is only limited to women with a size of 0 is already a thing of the past. Indeed, society has learned to go beyond the skeletal and skinny descriptions of beauty. More and more women have learned to appreciate themselves for who they are, regardless of their size and of society’s [...]
Who Wears Torrid?
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Torrid, one of the hottest stores offering plus sized apparel for women in the age range of 12-26, never misses the eye of fashion afficionados. With its lineup of chic designs of jeans, dresses, tees, tops, jackets and underwear for women of big sizes, Torrid has rapidly risen to popularity as the go-to store for [...]
Miss Plump Universenet Contest
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Everywhere you look whether it is a billboard, TV commercial, internet advert, an advertisement in the newspaper or even a local ad for a department store, all you see are thin models. More often than not, women that are of plus size are not the first choice to be shown off in the media. Because [...]
Saks Fifth Avenue – Catering to the Plus Size World
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Like many high end stores, Saks Fifth Avenue has a reputation for catering to the haute end of the fashion spectrum. Typically, this falls into the category of “skinny”. Perhaps not the sort of thin profile which haunts the catwalk, but slim nevertheless. Saks, though, has taken the first step towards changing its image: offering [...]
Uniforms for Plus Size Children
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It’s hardly a secret that worldwide, adults of every age and every nation are growing ever larger. Just as recognized, but more insidious, is the growing size of children across the globe. In response to the changing shape of the average child which needs a uniform, suppliers such as Marks and Spencer have increased their [...]
Miss BBW UK 2010: Big is the New Beautiful…
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It might sound odd to say that one of the year’s most exciting, progressive, and heart-warming events is a beauty pageant, but this particular pageant is different. In June, Linda Koch, a British entrepreneur, hosted the country’s first annual 18-plus beauty contest. Size 18, that is. For us Americans, that equals size 16. The ‘Miss [...]
The UK Hosts an Amazing Plus Size Pagent
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Yup, you read the title right. There is actually a pageant that is solely dedicated to plus size women. Why shouldn’t they have their own pageant? They are just as beautiful as anyone else in their own sophisticated and elegant way! In the United Kingdom, plus size women dressed to impress and claim the 2010 [...]
Full-Figured Fashion Week: Are We Finally Making Economic Sense?
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While there are stores that do, there are still so many stores that don’t offer plus size fashion for us full figured women. When Full-Figured Fashion Week came to Manhattan a short while ago, a former 6’2” model, Gwen DeVoe, stepped out onto the runway to demonstrate the need for plus size clothing. What many [...]
Feeling Sexy — Find Yourself a Great Stylist
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I hear lots of conversations about dressing well in the plus size world, which is great. But what about hair? I get the sense it’s treated as an afterthought, that it’s a given consideration regardless of size. Well, I think that in order to feel sexy, you need to cover all grounds. Most women agree [...]
