Check her out ladies and gentlemen: fashion model Robyn Lawley, Australia’s answer to Kate Upton. She’s one of the most beautiful women in the world. But she’s probably not on the cover of fashion magazines you read, because of how the fashion world defines her. She is described as “plus-sized.”
And that says a lot about the way the world, especially America, views body image. Robyn Lawley certainly is “plus” in height at 6″2′, but it’s her dress size that’s interesting: size 12. At her height and build, a size 12 is “svelte.”
And to lay a little more insult on top of it, size 12 is the average American dress size. It’s actually somewhere between a 12 and a 14. Which means for most women who actually might be plus-sized, a size 12 model just doesn’t make any sense. Which is something our plus-size model actually agrees with.
In fact, she’s been posting un-retouched photos of herself on Facebook to show that beauty comes in all kinds of sizes. And while that’s admirable, plenty of people point out that it’s difficult to accept her message when she seems so… not-plus-sized.
And while our Man on the Edge, Robert Wilder, likes some junk in the trunk, it still seems like there’s something wrong with America’s perception of body image…
