Appearing on the cover of Elle Spain, size 16 beauty Tara Lynn reluctantly confessed she supported the using skinny models to sell clothing, admitting clothes looked best on bodies with less fat.
“It is hard to make clothes look great on big women,” she said.
“The more fat there is on a body, the more variation there is in the shape of that body. And so it makes perfect sense that people are using a standard, clothes-hanger skinny body for it.”
But when it came to other areas like promoting beauty products, the American model endorsed body diversity.
“If we’re going to be selling perfume or makeup, I think it’s a great thing for [people] to see diversity in advertising and not have to feel like they need to fit a mould.”
The Seattle-based model, who was deemed “The Body” by Elle France, has appeared in several international fashion magazines and recently starred in retail giant H&M’s Big is Beautiful campaign, said she her entry into the modelling industry was “kind of a last minute idea” and her size held her back.
“I was never that skinny, so I always thought that if I was ever going to model, I’d have to lose a lot of weight. I knew at some point in my late teens that plus-size modelling existed,” she said.
“There definitely has to have been change in acceptance of plus-size models or curvier models being seen as legitimate models and even fashion icons, like Crystal Renn for example.
“We’re getting covers and great editorials and amazing photographers wanting to shoot with us: it’s not just PR stunts. They’re excited to see what we do and capture our bodies.”
With curvier women being more and more accepted in the industry, Lynn said was really looking forward to the day that someone puts a plus-size model on the cover of a mainstream American magazine.
