And Beyonce is a beautiful woman who sometimes is curvier than others. Not on this Vogue cover. Her waist has very clearly been airbrushed into oblivion.

I agree with guest 1! She does look stunning but her “curves” have suddenly disappeared

Well it seems Anna et al have finally bowed to the pressure of about a thousand letter each month about the lack of “real women” in the magazine. As a size-12-er (in the UK, people, God) it makes me angry. Is Karlie not a “real woman”? Is she a fucking hologram or something???!! I really think they should think about her feelings before writing to Vogue about something like that. But yeah, there sould be more variation. Personally I’m more fucked off about Tania D. in a “clothes for 50 year olds” editorial last year when Kate was in it. She’s like, 18? Ridiculous!!

Along the same vein of #3, I was just thinking about this today. I was looking at knitting books (just keep reading, it gets applicable) and they have these titles along the line of “Knits for Real Women.” So are the other books for “fake women”? I realize that they want big ladies to buy a book and they can’t say “we added a bunch of stitches to already boxy sweaters,” but it’s pretty transparent and very obnoxious. And I would imagine it would be obnoxious to be not-super-thin and have people always congratulating you for being “curvy” and therefore exceptional. But ya know, when they have to, when they have a famous singer on the cover and can’t come up with anything else, I guess.

guests 1 and 2 i dont think beyonces’ waist is airbrushed because in real life its teeny tiny. it has always been her hips and thighs that are large, not her upper body!

hmm… she looks pretty…
wonder if they’ll ever put Rihanna on the cover?
not now of course, but in the future..

Whose dress is she wearing? I tried researching on the internet and can’t find the answer!

Ok so I am sick and tired of “real women” being obese, as someone said above yea they are trying to get bigger women to buy these magazines and products, but a real woman definitely isn’t and shouldn’t b a size 16 it shouldn’t be a size 0 either, but can we get a healthy weight please??

To #5,
While I agree with you on the fact that Beyonce has a small waist, the sad truth is that 99% of all magazine and advertisement pictures have been photoshopped, and I think this one falls into the same category.

I think we’re forgetting something – it’s an interview! It is what Beyonce thinks, not the magazine. Is that a quote from the interview, or is it the magazine’s own title?

“(…)but a real woman definitely isn’t and shouldn’t b a size 16 it shouldn’t be a size 0 either”.
Oh great commenter #8 thank you for sharing your great wisdom with the public. Therefore I now know that I am an abomination and should be ashamed to even exist. Bad Fattie. Perhaps the solution would be to stop policing female bodies.

this annoys me. real women dont wear heels 365 days a year, nor do they constantly have that glow that looks like they just came back from the bahamas.
why not just say beyonce has curves and i black.
vogue’s turning into such a waste of paper

this annoys me. real women dont wear heels 365 days a year, nor do they constantly have that glow that looks like they just came back from the bahamas.
why not just say beyonce has curves and i black.
vogue’s turning into such a waste of paper

Vogue seems to be able to alienate at least part of the population with each current trend they feature. Whether your under or over weight have curves or not, the only important thing to take from this is that vogue doesnt make the rules about what is a ‘real’ women. God i cant stand vogue at the moment.

Real women come in lots of different shapes and sizes. There has to be a way to give fashionable options to those at the larger end of the spectrum without insulting those at the smaller end.

Her waist is small, but not that small. Check her out on google images.

Wasn’t Adele supposed to be on this cover?

It’s called airbrushing…and Beyonce is Curvy in respects to her peers i.e. singer, entertainers etc. I don’t think the true intention is to say Beyonce is the girl next door and she looks like “us”.
And I’m not going to go applauding a magazine for having two people of color on a magazine within a 4 month period they have a long way to go!
Healthy Weight is realtive to the individual and something a medical professional not magazine readers would be better equipt to determine. So they will never be able to please everybody

It’s called airbrushing…and Beyonce is Curvy in respects to her peers i.e. singer, entertainers etc. I don’t think the true intention is to say Beyonce is the girl next door and she looks like “us”.
And I’m not going to go applauding a magazine for having two people of color on a magazine within a 4 month period they have a long way to go!
Healthy Weight is realtive to the individual and something a medical professional not magazine readers would be better equipt to determine. So they will never be able to please everybody

Maybe “real” women you or I know don’t wear heels 365, but I’m sure some outside of the entertainment industry do. General statements about what women “should” be from other women are the problem. If someone is a size 0 that’s there business, the same goes for a size 16 it’s there weight or lack of and there health I’ve never understood why other people are so obessed with it!

I agree with commenter 5… Beyoncé has always had a super small waist.