PLUS Model Radio is the voice of PLUS Model Magazine, the premiere magazine celebrating and inspiring the plus size fashion and plus size modeling industry.

Hosted and produced by actress, expert commentator, and plus model Chenese Lewis, “PLUS Model Radio” airs live on Monday nights at 6pm PST/ 9pm EST. PLUS Model Radio covers everything for curvy women, including up close and personal conversations with a wide range of industry experts.

The shows in depth interviews gives the audience an inside look at the plus size industry. Guests on “PLUS Model Radio” include plus supermodels, pop stars, actresses, reality stars, designers, modeling agents, authors, and much more.

PLUS Model Radio airs via BlogTalkRadio which is the world’s largest social-radio network, with the widest variety of shows ever produced by a single media entity –from entertainment to sports to parenting to politics to self-help to technology and beyond. BlogTalkRadio hosts over 200,000 original shows over its network with over 2,000,000 visits per month.

PLUS Model Radio is a permanently featured show, as well as listed in the most popular section for entertainment talk shows on the BlogTalkRadio network.

Listeners around the world are able to tune in live though a real-time, on-line broadcast. Immediately following the show, the broadcast is archived and can be listened to on-demand as well as continually streaming on various websites. The show is also available to download in MP3 and Podcast formats as well as available on iTunes.

by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

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Something I read recently reinforced Nancy’s view of “Thin is not In…” This article I read just a couple of days back seems to indicate that there is a small but perceptible shift of perceptions in the fashion industry and the ‘heroin chic’ look that has dominated a lot of the catwalks the world over is perhaps on the wane. The article talks about how at the New York Fashion week, models are no longer just a size 0, and are now up to sizes 2 and 4. Still not anywhere near a normal sized woman, but the absence of the anorexic look marks what may well be a paradigm shift in the world of modeling.

While there were fewer numbers of jutting collarbones and visible ribs on display there were more curves and smiles to be seen. The fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar opined that this was a healthier ‘look’ and that “We’re obviously going through a season of a less cookie cutter look.” Continue Reading…

by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

Recently I read an article on how Nutisystem, the ‘send you the food’ diet plan is the fastest growing American company which has enjoyed phenomenal success in spite of the general slowing down of the economy and the ongoing recession in the US. This is an indicator of the American preoccupation; even obsession with weight loss. Continue Reading…

by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

For one or another reason, I had been feeling a bit down in the past few days and was looking for a way to break out of the down turn that my usually sunny spirits had taken. I usually find by solace in books etc., but this time my usual favorites failed to bring cheer.

I then decided to make a survey of an old box of music CDs that remained packed and unopened in a corner of the house, since we shifted here almost a year ago. I had not seen or heard them literally in years. They were my classical music collections, which I seemed not to have found time for in recent times what with how crazy busy life has been in the recent past. Continue Reading…

by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

As being plus size model is a particular area of modeling and has certain requirements, so is plus size photography which also requires specific skills and talents. Certainly there are a lot of very talented photographers who specialize in photographing plus size models and to excellent effect!

Michel Arnaud the legendary French fashion photographer who is also well known for his plus sized model photography, is supposed to have defined the MODE look and who is known to represent the ideal living presentation of full-figured feminine beauty.

Born in Iran and raised in Germany, Continue Reading…