NO MORE SKELETON WIN THE BEAUTY PAGEANT
British plus-size beauty pageant winner may pave way for healthier ideals
Saturday, April 5th 2008, 3:00 PM
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Not your standard-issue skinny models: Women pose for Dove's 'Real Beauty' ad campaign.
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British beauty queen Chloe Marshall will be competing in the Miss England pageant.
We won't see any plus size models flaunting their curves during next week's Miss USA pageant (a rep has confirmed) but Chloe Marshall will be the first size 14 contestant to strut her stuff at the finals of the Miss England pageant.
Hopefully it's a trend we'll pick up on stateside.
Marshall, a 17-year-old beauty school student, is 5'10" and weighs 176 pounds. While Marshall clearly stands out amongst the average pin-thin pageant girls and models, she's proud of her curves.
"I love my body. People seem desperate to get me to say that I don't, that deep down I'm not happy and would rather be thin, but the fact is I wouldn't change myself at all," Marshall told the Daily Mail as she posed in the skimpy white official Miss England bikini for a photoshoot.
Credit is due to Dove for their global Campaign For Real Beauty which, according to their site, "aims to change the status quo and offer in its place a broader, healthier, more democratic view of beauty."
To that end, Dove has taken up several initiatives including a massive ad campaign featuring real women with real curves, and a "Girls Only Interactive Self-Esteem Zone," which teaches girls about image manipulation in the media.
In the UK, the Periodic Publishers Association has put out a plea to the fashion industry and invited top editors from mags like Vogue, Elle and Hello! to discuss restricting the use of "photoshopped," or digitally-enhanced photos. Hope we follow suit!
i have curves, lol
never go younger by a month, a hard bod is no substitute for wisdom.
I would like to give a round of applaus to Dove for supporting normal standards and not the anorexic thin girls... !!!
I think curvy women are great and very beautiful.
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totally agree
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more curve is more sexy for 100%
Everybody is right everybody is wrong it depends where you stand.
Well suppose to be with a pictures but I believe the MOD find it a bit overrated so I understood.
And hell yes to this new breaktru.. finally the world slowly realise that to be beautiful you dont have to be looks like skeleton.
Am positive this will encourage woman to be more healthy eating and not suffer from hunger/anorexic to looks beautiful and received recognition from other people.
Everybody is right everybody is wrong it depends where you stand.
Well it seems people like e have a chance in the real curvy maket again lol