By Lisa Pool Content Manager | April 21, 2013 at 4:59 pm | No comments
"There is a real thirst for ‘normal’ sized women"
Taken from The Huffington Post: After years of silence on the matter, the fashion industry finally seems poised to embrace fuller, less svelte figures. Plus-size models like Robyn Lawley and Crystal Renn are already...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | April 1, 2013 at 4:31 pm | No comments
Queen Grace Weekly Dish editor and the creator of the popular curvy girl blog, Masque Mag, decided to get together for one of our WD Q&A's -- catch editor Kelly Augustine's views on the world of the fashionable plus size woman. As one of Pose.com's most sought after plus...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | March 19, 2013 at 7:15 pm | No comments
According to The Sun, some heavy-hitting brands are pursuing music icon Adele for a new cosmetics deal.
The rumored interested parties include Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Dior — some of the biggest names in the beauty game — and the offers are purportedly to the tune of...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | March 14, 2013 at 7:04 pm | No comments
Be it at the workplace or in a relationship, men really do like confident women. One clever guy lists a few great reasons why...
According to Jason Dayrit, a contributor to the Female Network, in today’s modern times, being the “damsel in distress” may work for you for...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | February 8, 2013 at 10:58 pm | One comment
Really? Really Rex Reed of the New York Observer? You think a qualified film review of the just-released flick 'Identity Theft' with curvy comedy genius Melissa McCarty includes verbal abuse? Hurling horrific critiques and name calling is professional? You know it isn't and you...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | November 13, 2012 at 9:20 pm | One comment
Well what do you know. every day something new and more life affirming is coming out of the major media houses proclaiming PLUS is the new IT GIRL. We couldn't agree more, knowing from our own QG WD perspective that the forces our with us! Every day, multiple times we hear...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 28, 2012 at 12:53 am | No comments
If you have a negative opinion about Xtina Aguilera, she does not give a damn. Regardless of what the tabloids may say, with the release of her album Lotus, the launch of her new perfume Red Sin, and a happy 4 year old son Max, she has every reason to feel on top of the world....
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 24, 2012 at 3:55 am | One comment
Lady Gaga gets all the credit for her body revolution campaign, but a New York College student had been a bolder advocate for body acceptance in recent months. Stella Boonshoft has become a viral hero thanks to her blog, in which she speaks frankly and powerfully about weight...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 15, 2012 at 4:35 pm | No comments
Our favorite quote in this article released by VOGUE Magazine, "I think it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect, like you can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight," she said.
ALEXA CHUNG has responded to...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 12, 2012 at 4:26 pm | No comments
ON her new show, “The Mindy Project,” Mindy Kaling plays a single doctor who is irked but not undone by a male colleague telling her she should lose 15 pounds.
Neither is Hannah, the character Lena Dunham plays on her HBO comedy, “Girls.” When a boyfriend asked her...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 5, 2012 at 11:26 pm | No comments
Powerful and truly inspiring words from a woman who would not tolerate the harsh, cruel words of an email from a viewer. Instead of letting a bully's harsh words about her weight bring her down, WKBT-TV news anchor Jennifer Livingston decided to speak up.
In an editorial...
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