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Congrats to all parties involved but Full Figured Fashion Week has been going on for the past two years, and it’s for ALL plus sizes and shapes. Check the link: http://www.fffweek.com/la.php

OSP has the best cloths ever. So glad to see the great reviews for the fashion show, they deserve it. The cloths are affordable especially in this hard economy. Thank You OSP

This is great! Now if the fashion industry would stop treating us like we are an anomaly.

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Everyone did an amazing job! Finally, our voices are being heard and it is all because all women from every size, shape, and age want to be represented and we want to feel beautiful. I am a plus model and also the co-creator of the blog Plus-Size Models Unite. Many of the girls on the runway at OneStopPlus.com’s fashion show have contributed articles to the blog because they want to inspire other women to love themselves just as they are and to live healthy and happy lifestyles. Thank you InStyle for this article and thank you OneStopPlus.com for a beautiful fashion show! I am so proud to be apart of this community!

Many of the models from OneStopPlus.com’s Fashion Show have been featured on our blog http://www.plussizemodelsunite.com. They share their stories of how they have learned to love themselves, give healthy living tips, beauty and fashion advice and much more! We would love to have you stop by! This blog was created to help inspire women of every size, shape, and age, it was created by two friends Elizabeth, a size 2, and Angela, a size 12, both physically very different, but with the same mission, to inspire others and to promote self love! Thank you!

We so loved watching the OneStopPlus show yesterday, the colour story was fabulous and the models looked stunning. Catch all our cover at Madison Plus.
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We, at PLUS Model Magazine, are so proud to have been invited to attend the history changing event. for so very long plus size fashion has been invisible in the fashion industry. One Stop Plus took a huge leap of faith and the show was nothing short of spectacular.

Our in depth review and pictures will be in the October 2010 Issue of PLUS Model Magazine. Visit http://www.plusmodelmag.com

Madeline Jones

While it’s great that they have a fashion show featuring woman that wear more than a size zero, this is also glamorizing being OVERWEIGHT! And that is not healthy. Clearly “plus size” women need clothes also, but I don’t think it is acceptable to glamorize being overweight. It appears some of the models are even obese by standards. This is not the image we want our children to gear towards. I’m all for beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, but being unhealthy is a problem and should not be glorified. America needs to lose weight and get healthy as a whole. How about featuring AVERAGE, HEALTHY size women? That might be a little more realistic and attractive.

People do indeed come in all shapes and sizes, so where the heck are the “regular” sized women in fashion?? It’s either one extreme or the other, either stick skinny women or the obese…where are the average sized, healthy people?? If people want to “get real” start featuring women with real, HEALTHY bodies…there’s a big difference between having “curves” and being overweight/obese.

I’m so glad that we big girls are finally getting a little recognition. We are out here and we love our bodies and our selves just the way we are. The average woman in this country wears a size 14, plus size by most standards, so here’s to the average and above average women out there!

The pictures of the runway models and the clothes were beautiful; however, I cannot see Gabby ever being able to pull off wearing any these fashions and her red carpet secret is spandex………..PLEAZE!

You have got to slim down a bit girl!

……..who are we kidding……………Curvy is one thing………………fat is FAT!

that’s the problem………..stop sugarcoating FAT! get healthy……….if a chick could choose between 140 lbs and 285 lbs, anyone who claims 285 is soooooo lying

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FAT is a great word! I’m Fat and Gabby’s fat and Nikki is fat and Emme is fat and KayCee is fat! Fat people live in this world just like thin ones! And just because some women have a problem with their bodies the rest of us shouldn’t be ashamed to be who we are. Fat women work and have kids and go out for drinks with their girlfriends, we date and we love. We are mothers, daughters, sisters and lovers. And to all the Fat women, big girls, curvy ladies just always remember it’s not about whether other people think you’re good enough it’s about whether you think you’re good enough!

I think the girls look fabulous.It is nice to show that bigger girls are beautiful too. And I don’t see this as promoting being unhealthy, I see it as just saying be proud of who you are, and what you have to work with. Not everyone can be a “normal” size no matter how hard they work out.

@Pauline — while FFFW has been going on for two years hold, the plus size fashion world has NEVER been included in mainstream fashion week. No one has taken away from Gwen DeVoe’s events and/or accomplishments, please do not down beat the success of OneStopPlus.

The models in this show were OUTSTANDING!!!!! They were all different shapes and sizes and looked classy and beautiful!!! Great job OSP!!!!

come people – I am obese – there I said it. But I also am a mom, working, responsible woman. I need clothing to do these things so we should not have something that looks nice to wear? Get real. Yes, being overweight is not healthy but neither is being so skinny your bones show (like the latest person to be sent off of ANTM shows). However, typically, this is not the population ridiculed. Yes, we should teach out kids a healthy lifestyle but some of us have other issues that cause body weight problems. Quit judge and let others have lives too.

@Stephanie, consider where you are getting your statistics from (fullandfabulous.org?). The majority of statistics put women between 12-14 depending on their height, and that is a very important matter to consider. Regardless, I don’t think that overweight and obese woman are UGLY at all. I do believe that you are putting on a cover when you say you love being that size! You may be confident and happy, but if you had a choice you would take the smaller size. I also think it is disgusting to be stick thin, just as unhealthy as being overweight or obese. I understand woman do need to look great at all sizes, but it’s embarrassing how out of control Americans have gotten with their weights. And if you are in your 20s and overweight, just imagine how bad it will get in 20 years if you don’t start correcting it now. The point is, this fashion show draws people from all over the world, and we are just showing our “appreciation” for fat and unhealthy in America.

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It should not be too hard to find + size models in the USA especially those of african-american decent.

I agree that it is wonderful to have more clothing options for plus-size women. However, I am a former plus-size person (who has lost over 120 lbs and kept it off for years), and I think we should not glamorous or make it “okay” to be overweight. The goal is to be healthy. 10-15 lbs extra is one thing, but being more than that is unhealthy. I have heard all the “I’m healthy and large” stuff, too. There is no evidence to prove that being overweight is healthy (again, not talking about carrying an extra 15 lbs here). I never knew the damage I was doing to my knees until I lost the weight. Try to pick up a 25-50 lb. bag of sand and contemplate what your feet, knees, hips, etc. are carrying every day. Do you see large people living to be 70, 80, 90 years old? Don’t think so. However, each person has to live their own life. So if you are overweight and happy, then good for you. But really, deep down, can you truly, honestly say that you are thrilled to be overweight? If you love yourself, then you’ll treat your body accordingly. Eat healthy, move more.

I think this is wonderful! It provides an opportunity to women of all sizes to demonstrate that they too can stand out and shine in the fashion world…I hope this will be expanded upon and that fashion designer’s will be more inclusive in their designs for plus size women….where it has been clearly demonstrated that all women can bring out their best physical attributes and beauty, regardless of their size…

I don’t even want to get into the glorification of unhealthy size. Nikki and Gabourey are simply not model material – they are not attractive at all.

These “plus-size” models are average-sized American women, except taller, and look amazing! I have never felt the typical stick-thin model was as attractive as a healthy, well-proportioned woman, not to mention the dangerous potential habits of extreme dieting and bulemia to achieve the look designers seem to demand.

I applaud this more sensible and still elegant representation of female fashion and beauty. What I can’t understand is how we are now supposed to “accept” the “Super-Duper Extra-Plus-Size” and “Jumbotron-Size” female figures displayed by Ms. Blonsky and Ms. Sidibe as somehow less dangerous than their anorexic and bulemic counterparts.

If Gabourdey accepts and even embraces her morbid obesity, well good for you, Sister. You had better be willing to pay the medical and fiscal consequences of your terribly unhealthy lifestyle, as we the American taxpayers and medical system simply cannot afford to underwrite your healthcare.

There will never be meaningful healthcare reform without individual consequences for having your donut and eating it too, or your cigarette and smoking it too. So, let’s stop being so politically correct and call a spade a spade, or in this case, a pig a pig and a cow a cow!

I’m plus sized (fat), and I must say when I have clothes that fit well, and make me look good, or feel good…I’m much more likely to go out, be active and actually pursue a more healthy lifestyle, than sitting at home, watching TV and feeling depressed…

Oh, and congrats to these women…they look wonderful, and I love the clothes, too! What a great accomplishment of breaking thru into the regular fashion week.

All these women are beautiful!
But being obese is NOT healthy, it puts women at risk for so many health issues.
But I’m glad to see styles that look very lovely on curves…all these other trends don’t fit everyone.
I’m very much like Whitney Thompson…she looks very healthy and lush.
That’s the kind of model I want girls to look up to.
Healthy.
Hey, let’s have a show celebrating being active and healthy.
Anyone?

I love the models and the clothes, i am 5’10 size 14, and cannot relate to size 0, these models are beautiful, and maybe we can start getting cute designs with a little hip in them!! Love this!!

BRAVO to these ladies and to those to who work with them!!! I’m proud to be one of them…I’m 5’8″ and presently a curvy size 18 (you can find a picture of me on facebook, also). When I was much younger and thinner, I was often told I could be and SHOULD BE a model…ah…those were the youthful days when yes, my pelvic bones protruded from my abdomen and THAT was considered “model appropriate” size. Unfortunately, evolution took its natural course and I’ve evolved into the beautiful creature I am now, which means yes, I have MORE curves than before and yes, I COVERED the pelvic bone! Ah well! Perhaps, as my husband said, since I can no longer pursue “America’s Next Top Model,” I could pursue being a Plus Size Model!
Rock On, Ladies! Rock On!

Fat by fashion standards is anything over a size 8. Thus many of us are fat. Obese at size 22 is unhealthy and frankly not very attractive. I think that no matter what your size is your medical co-payment should be a function of a standard set of number regarding heart rate, BMI, chloresteral etc. If a size 22 can pass a stress test and a physical exam than more power to him/her (although I doubt they could) .

So glad to see plus sizes in the internet, I am plus size n the only place for me to shop is WalMart or Kmart in my town, but then there is Cato oh I buy my clothes there and I get a lot of compliments. Some times we cannot be a size 10, so to be in 20 or higher n that you advertize these clothes is goo new. Thank you so much for this….hurrah for you

So glad to finally see a plus-size fashion show during fashion week. Plus-size women spend just as much money on clothes (if not more) as our thin counterparts and it’s about time the fashion world stopped ignoring it and retailers stopped putting “our” clothing racks in the basements or the back of department stores. In the meantime, I’m quite disgusted by some of these hateful comments on here. “Fat” does not always equal unhealthy, just as “skinny” does not equal healthy. (I’m quite sure that the graveyards are full of both). Not all women are made to be the same size–period. And please, stop trying to disguise weight prejudice with this phony “health concern”. Not all cultures view large women as unattractive or unhealthy. In fact, many cultures love it (although here in America, you’d never know it–and they don’t want you to know it). As an attractive size 22 who is quite active (and passes her stress test and physical exams yearly, thank you very much), I find it very insulting that a skinny person can thoughtlessly dismiss me (or other women like me) as unworthy, ugly, obese and unhealthy without even first knowing me as a person or my lifestyle. When will we see the day when this country begins to obsess over a man’s weight they way they do with a woman’s weight (or her looks or age for that matter)? If the media ever refused to “glorify” all of the fat men that we see on TV the way they disgrace fat women, we’d probably never see another sitcom or sports commentary show ever again! (Not to mention, “Adios, G4 Network!”) Until that day, this whole “fat-phobic” mania is just another thinly-veiled ploy to keep girls and women endlessly starving and hating themselves, always feeling that they’ll never be good enough the way they are. And no matter if someone is medically unhealthy or not–no one ever becomes successful at anything by hating themselves. Girls, we must love ourselves unconditionally. (Weight will always go up and down–your love for yourself should stay the same). Gabby and Nikki…you ladies rock! And for those who don’t want to give these two beautiful and wonderful actresses any credit, please get yourselves some self-esteem. Don’t be mad just because you don’t have theirs!

Im kinda disappointed. Can plus sized models only wear purple and long pants? Reality is that plus is a size and if you don’t like it than you can go run your 10k and leave the rest of us alone. I’m not ashamed of being overweight not obese and I refuse to wear jeans and puffy shorts because American dress makers only cater to skinny bags of bones. I would have liked to see poke a dots or brilliant patterns, not to mention the few dresses there were in this show are long and very unflattering. This just shows that we have a LONG way to go when it comes to fashion for everyone.

I was encouraged when I opened this article and saw the 4 girls on the first page. It went downhill from there! I think most women in America would like to see the women on the first page model. The women that did model the clothes are not plus size. They are the average size of a woman in America. The fashion week people usually hang clothes on someone that is a skeleton with skin and send them down the runway. Then the industry make imitations of these so-called fashions & try to tell us that we (the average American woman) would look good in them. They are so out of touch!! Why, if you are doing a plus-size fashion show, would you not use actual plus-size models? Like the girls in the first photo. That way women could see what those fashions would truly look on a plus-size woman? Just some food for thought! Nothing will ever change if we don’t make oue voices & opinions heard.

It was time!…….I loved the show!……beautiful combinations!…..justice for plus girls!

Genes and Heredity have a lot to do with our size. Grandmother was almost six feet tall and Mom was 5′ 11″. None of the women in our family were small boned or thin. However, we all roller skated, ice skated, bowled and walked a lot. Part of today’s problem with obesity stems from access to television 24/7 and computers that allow us to sit on our backsides and work. During our history, only the wealthy people were overweight. This was because they could afford the kinds of food and drink and life styles that made them heavy. The servants, slaves and indigent could eat only sparingly and usually it was a kind of soup from veggies. Today, everyone is encouraged to eat the soup and avoid the fatty foods and deserts. For those who are not aware of the dangers of obesity – let me remind you that for every single pound of weight on our body – there is FIVE pounds of pressure on our joints. If you are 25 pounds overweight, you have 100 pounds of pressure of your knees and hips. I love looking at a person with curves and think bones sticking out of your body makes you look grotesque. I have been a size 18 most of my life – having been a 14 until age 65. At 75, I have the heart, blood pressure and health of a 25 year old (according to my DR) I still work full time and am not sickly. We need to have a common ground somewhere. Health is of the utmost.

So glad to finally see a plus-size fashion show during fashion week! Plus-size women spend just as much money on clothes –if not more–as our thin counterparts and it’s about time the fashion world stopped ignoring it and retailers stopped putting our clothing racks in the basements or the back of department stores. In the meantime, I’m quite disgusted by some of the hateful comments on here. I guess FAT really is the last acceptable prejudice. FAT does not always equal unhealthy, just as SKINNY does not equal healthy. I’m quite sure that the graveyards are full of both. Not all women are made to be the same size–-period. And please, stop trying to disguise weight prejudice with this phony HEALTH CONCERN. A woman is worth more than just her BMI.

Also, not ALL cultures view large women as unattractive or unhealthy. In fact, many cultures love it –although here in America, you’d never know it–AND they don’t want you to know it! As an attractive size 22 who is quite active –and passes her stress test and physical exams yearly, thank you very much–I find it very insulting that a skinny person can thoughtlessly dismiss me –or other women like me–as unworthy, ugly, obese and unhealthy without even first knowing me as a person or my lifestyle. When will we see the day when this country begins to obsess over a man’s weight they way they do with a woman’s weight –or her looks or age for that matter? What would happen If the media ever refused to GLORIFY or GLAMOURIZE all of the fat MEN that we see on TV the way they disgrace fat WOMEN? Then we’d probably never see another sitcom or sports commentary show ever again!

Until that day, this whole fat-phobic mania is just another thinly-veiled ploy to keep all girls and women endlessly starving and hating themselves, always feeling that they’ll never be good enough the way they are. And no matter if someone is medically unhealthy or not–no one ever becomes successful at anything–dieting or otherwise– by hating themselves. Girls, we must love ourselves unconditionally, so stop apologizing! Weight will always go up and down–your love for yourself should stay the same. Gabby and Nikki…you ladies rock! And for those who don’t want to give these two beautiful and wonderful actresses any credit, please get yourselves some self-esteem. Don’t be mad just because you weren’t blessed with have theirs! Peace!

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I think it’s important to soupprt South African Fashion and brands, but not because they’re South African but because they compete at the standards of international brands. Otherwise it’s just a charity case. We have the ability, we must just believe we do and also, there is a limited audience at Fashion weeks, these brands, designers should make full use of bloggers, media and other avenues to spread the word about their collections. The fashion elite go to these fashion weeks and do what exactly? Smile for the cameras and attempt to look pretty, beyond that, I see them doing nothing. I am a blogger with a considerable following but I always get the feeling of being sidelined when applying for accreditation and the like, so the amount of effort I go to to create exposure for these events is directly proportional to how seriously they take me, and they should. Blogs are collectively obliterating magazines and the like in terms of numbers. So do your part and we’ll do ours, I believe is South African talent and fashion but it takes two to tango.

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