Actually, if you think about it, Beth Ditto does a LOT of excersize nightly when she’s performing – have you ever seen the gossip live? Girl doesn’t STOP. EVER.
The gossip rules, Beth is amazing, and it’s about time we got some LESBIANS in the fashion industry.
Yay beth!

I know some women who are size 12 or 14, who run marathons, so clearly their size isn’t a reflection of their health, it’s just the way they are built. That being said, I think it’s clear from what Beth herself has said that that isn’t the case with her, and she probably is pretty unhealthy.

Funny how Beth wrote a song a looong time ago about half of the people on this blog.
*Lesson Learned*
I don’t ever want to be that girl
Saddest thing in the whole wide world
I guess I’m lucky cuz I learned a long time ago
I used to try to be somebody else but now I know
People like you make me know that I don’t want to be
Stuck in a scene that only puts me down and judges me
So, I don’t ever want to be that girl
Saddest thing in the whole wide world
Now you buy the right records
Now you got the right shoes
Yeah, you look so good
But that’s all you do!
So worried someone’s gonna blow your cover
You got one talking bad about the other
So take care of the people you know
And that’s a lesson that I learned along time ago
That I don’t ever want to be that girl
Saddest thing in the whole wide world

Ugh, Christ. If that’s the best we lesbians can do for a poster child, I need to go ahead and turn in my membership card and start looking for a nice, Jewish finance banker to marry.
(But I get to keep my Jeep Wrangler, right?)

Yeah, and the designer boots to kick his ass with. Peaches and Ana Matronic are funnier anyway.

Anonymous responding to SM: actually, yes, most scientists believe that obesity is at least partially hereditary. As someone who double-majored in Biochemistry and neuroscience and currently works in research at a medical center, I rarely hear anyone solely use the term nurture to describe anything, other than from faux-scientists (ie, most psychologists), and even then they usually recognize the role of nature in most things.

i dont have any problem with beth’s size, her health, or anyone else’s body type/lifestyle. i just find it annoying when we are supposed to celebrate a fat girl getting to wear designer clothes. ohh, christopher kane is sooo enlightened, yeah, everyone should make clothes in a size 24!! please, he’s doing it for publicity and possibly because he likes her/her sytle. she’s doing it for the money/clothes. fashion is surreal. its an art. if you are a healthy size 12 i guarentee you can find any article of clothing you would want. and really skinny girls dont look fabulous in every article of clothing, either do heavier girls. find the clothes that fit you, be proud of your own body type, be healthy and move on.

Alright I just have to jump in here. I saw anonymous’s post about why people are overweight. Anonymous doesn’t believe it’s hereditary. Body size is one of the most genetically inherited traits along with height. The research shows that if you look at identical twns RAISED apart and NOT by their natural parents that their weight will be approximately the same. If one is overweight the other will be as well NO MATTER WHAT THEIR adoptive parents weight is! Environment puts you at the higher or lower end of your genetic weight range. Why do you think people lose weight and then regain it all the time. American diet in a way that fights their genes. Unless you practice dietary deprevation (ie very low calorie) eating forever and ever you are not keeping the weight off.
Americans are 7 to 10 lbs heavier then they were in the 70′s. That is the obesity epidemic in a nutshell.
Just who do you think is selling us the obesity empidemic? Drug companies and diet book authors! Even the CDC backed off their study that obesity killed more people than smoking because it was bad science. These people are not objective. So anonymous don’t be so dismissive about the fat girls! Don’t believe it’s laziness or some personal failure that makes all fat people fat.

Alright I just have to jump in here. I saw anonymous’s post about why people are overweight. Anonymous doesn’t believe it’s hereditary. Body size is one of the most genetically inherited traits along with height. The research shows that if you look at identical twns RAISED apart and NOT by their natural parents that their weight will be approximately the same. If one is overweight the other will be as well NO MATTER WHAT THEIR adoptive parents weight is! Environment puts you at the higher or lower end of your genetic weight range. Why do you think people lose weight and then regain it all the time. American diet in a way that fights their genes. Unless you practice dietary deprevation (ie very low calorie) eating forever and ever you are not keeping the weight off.
Americans are 7 to 10 lbs heavier then they were in the 70′s. That is the obesity epidemic in a nutshell.
Just who do you think is selling us the obesity empidemic? Drug companies and diet book authors! Even the CDC backed off their study that obesity killed more people than smoking because it was bad science. These people are not objective. So anonymous don’t be so dismissive about the fat girls! Don’t believe it’s laziness or some personal failure that makes all fat people fat.

Leaving all this hereditary stuff aside, I do find it hypocritical of any designer to use a plus size model when he doesn’t actually make plus size clothes. Are the only plus-size women allowed to wear Christopher Kane famous ones? It’s interesting.

Jess,
Stop quoting MeMe Roth…That woman is a complete moron.

Jess,
Stop quoting MeMe Roth…That woman is a complete moron.

Uhm, anyone who thinks Beyonce’s waist is not cinched in with very good foundation garment is woefully naive.
I think.

Realgirl said that Americans are 7-10 lbs heavier now than in the 70s–and I understand that this is an average (personally, I’m 90 lbs heavier :( ), but I can remember growing up in the 50s and 60s that fat people were fairly uncommon and fat kids were rare, very rare, and it was almost always a thyroid or similar problem. We ate normal food, balanced, and at least in my house, we did not have bread, dessert or soft drinks with every dinner…those were sometimes treats.
Our food is in the main, no longer natural and filled with chemicals and very few people know how to balance meals. Couple that with total lack of exercise–my g-daughter has never had a gym class since elementary school, where we had to have PE every year in school–and you end up with obese, unhealthy people
While I think people should not be judged solely on their size, I must agree with Jess and a couple of others, obese women are not “curvy.” Jane Russell was “curvy.” Obesity is not a normal state for the human race, no more so than is being too thin. I think it’s great that a designer can have the insight to say, “See, this is beauty, too.” Nonetheless, he should have several models, not just one, to represent a range of humanity. Just taking one rock star, regardless of her size, is a publicity cop on his part that I personally find disgusting.
I have just as many issues with “plus-size” models as I do with the concentration-camp-look ones. The skinny models have to starve and drug up to stay that way, the plussers have to overeat to stay that way, or at the very least not achieve optimal health, and both present an unrealistic figure that does not translate to anything I can wear (or could wear even when I was a mere 115 pounds because at 115 lbs I had curves–and yes, at 5’5″ 115 is THIN!)
The women who are 12/14s or 14/16s who run and all, I’d be willing to bet your overall bodyfat is not that high, you’re just large-bodied–my daughter is a 12/14 at 5’10″ and is not fat, runs and eats right and is very healthy
One final note of interest. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but sometime in the last ten years, they re-numbered all the sizes, so that what was a 10 when I was 20, is now a size 6; a 12 is now a 16, etc.

Realgirl said that Americans are 7-10 lbs heavier now than in the 70s–and I understand that this is an average (personally, I’m 90 lbs heavier :( ), but I can remember growing up in the 50s and 60s that fat people were fairly uncommon and fat kids were rare, very rare, and it was almost always a thyroid or similar problem. We ate normal food, balanced, and at least in my house, we did not have bread, dessert or soft drinks with every dinner…those were sometimes treats.
Our food is in the main, no longer natural and filled with chemicals and very few people know how to balance meals. Couple that with total lack of exercise–my g-daughter has never had a gym class since elementary school, where we had to have PE every year in school–and you end up with obese, unhealthy people
While I think people should not be judged solely on their size, I must agree with Jess and a couple of others, obese women are not “curvy.” Jane Russell was “curvy.” Obesity is not a normal state for the human race, no more so than is being too thin. I think it’s great that a designer can have the insight to say, “See, this is beauty, too.” Nonetheless, he should have several models, not just one, to represent a range of humanity. Just taking one rock star, regardless of her size, is a publicity cop on his part that I personally find disgusting.
I have just as many issues with “plus-size” models as I do with the concentration-camp-look ones. The skinny models have to starve and drug up to stay that way, the plussers have to overeat to stay that way, or at the very least not achieve optimal health, and both present an unrealistic figure that does not translate to anything I can wear (or could wear even when I was a mere 115 pounds because at 115 lbs I had curves–and yes, at 5’5″ 115 is THIN!)
The women who are 12/14s or 14/16s who run and all, I’d be willing to bet your overall bodyfat is not that high, you’re just large-bodied–my daughter is a 12/14 at 5’10″ and is not fat, runs and eats right and is very healthy
One final note of interest. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but sometime in the last ten years, they re-numbered all the sizes, so that what was a 10 when I was 20, is now a size 6; a 12 is now a 16, etc.

I just think that more clothes need to be out there that flatter all shapes and sizes so people don’t go getting a complex over how they look. There will always be fat people. There will always be thin people. People will always base that judgment on THEIR own size, regardless what the designers do/promote/photograph. I just think if there were more cute clothes out there to flatter a range of sizes, women might be a little happier with how they themselves look and a little less mean to other women. I know I could care less if I think I am fatter or thinner than the girl in the elevator next to me if I feel like I look good!

I’m amazed that they have a size 20 model. Jean Paul Gaultier used a sized 28 model in his 2006 Paris Fashion Show. Velvet D’Amour made an incredible stir during that time.
Its understandable that noone condones ‘fat’ modelling. It is just as unhealthy as ‘skinny’ modelling.
But, after years upon years of seeing the skinny side of things, like Twiggy, Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, etc. It is nice to see the opposite end of the spectrum. It’s nice to see the media showing a difference for once. It’s incredibly refreshing, actually, to see a different body. A different Look.
In time, Hopefully with the clash of the size 20′s and the size 0′s, the size 10′s will be represented soon, but how can they be represented unless they represent the opposite side?
Right now, its a case of extremes. And we should all be thankful for that because it means that a median is coming.

I’m amazed that they have a size 20 model. Jean Paul Gaultier used a sized 28 model in his 2006 Paris Fashion Show. Velvet D’Amour made an incredible stir during that time.
Its understandable that noone condones ‘fat’ modelling. It is just as unhealthy as ‘skinny’ modelling.
But, after years upon years of seeing the skinny side of things, like Twiggy, Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, etc. It is nice to see the opposite end of the spectrum. It’s nice to see the media showing a difference for once. It’s incredibly refreshing, actually, to see a different body. A different Look.
In time, Hopefully with the clash of the size 20′s and the size 0′s, the size 10′s will be represented soon, but how can they be represented unless they represent the opposite side?
Right now, its a case of extremes. And we should all be thankful for that because it means that a median is coming.