Consider the following facts about Anorexic model Isabelle Caro –

• She had Anorexia from the age of 13
• She was a French model, known for appearing in a controversial ad campaign “No Anorexia” which showed her looking like an emaciated old woman with sunken cheeks and a skeletal frame in a picture by Oliviero Toscani that has now become world famous
• At one point, when her disorder was at its worst, she weighed only 25 kilos or 55 pounds Continue Reading…

In my last post we looked at some of the top 10 ten famous plus size models as listed by the definitive men’s portal AskMen.com and here we look at the rest of that list.

Emme Aronson dabbled in sports such as rowing then moved to anchoring a show on TV before launching herself as a plus size model. She has twice appeared on People magazines Most Beautiful list, bas been Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year and even had a doll modeled on her!

Mia Tyler had to have had it tough growing up the daughter of a skinny rock star (Steven Tyler) and the sister of Liv Tyler. But she carved a niche for herself using the sheer force of her personality and using her curves to her advantage. Continue Reading…

The international men’s web portal, AskMen.com,  something of a leader in the men’s lifestyle space did a write up about the top 10 famous plus size models a while back, stating how plus sized models have come into their own today; a natural consequence of the negative feedback for anorexic models from the public. Their oft quoted, definitive list of the top ten plus sized models is –

Natalie Laughlin was something of a ground breaker, being the first plus size model to feature on 5 massive Liz Claiborne billboards at times square. The Trinidadian is dubbed the Cindy Crawford of plus size modeling, and goes from size 12 to 14 and was the first plus size model to feature in the US edition of Glamour Continue Reading…