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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…

by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

With Plus Size Modeling becoming a force to reckon with all over the world, Plus Size Models themselves are becoming more and more popular and busy in their respective countries. The United Kingdom is no exception with names like Tara Gibson, Erika Elfwencrona Signe Nordström and Joycelyn Phillips becoming well known faces and names in the fashion industry.

Signe Nordström says “I never hear any negative comments. On the contrary, a lot of people think that curves are wonderful, it’s both sexy and beautiful.” Erika Elfwencrona started as a skinny model and weighed 48 kilos. Today she’s a size 14/16 and has stopped weighing herself. She says, Continue Reading…

by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

Do you know that Playboy magazine has sold out only twice in history: Once back when Marilyn Monroe posed for the center fold and in 1998 when Katarina Witt Olympic double gold medalist figure skater posed for the magazine? Now what this tells us is that this magazine, clearly a men’s magazine, has been at its’ most popular when it has featured real women and real looking women: Monroe was wonderfully curvy and womanly, Witt is an athlete with a beautiful, well defined musculature which is also something that is extremely attractive.

Nancy has done posts about the BBW (Big Beautiful Women) List and also about the spectacularly proportioned Serena Williams posing in all her nude glory to illustrate the point that women are beautiful and sexy in any all sizes and shapes and I wanted to do a post about nude athletes to illustrate the same point. Continue Reading…