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PLUS Model Magazine Editor Dishes On Modeling, Statistics and Negativity – Interview With Daily Venus Diva Magazine

Editor-in-Chief, Madeline Figueroa-Jones — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:08:15 +0000

As women and activists we speak of change but how many of us are actually taking the necessary steps to create the change we want to see take place? Over 5 years ago Madeline Figueroa Jones and Plus Model Magazine created an avenue to give plus size women a much needed voice and a magazine that women could relate to. Known for edgy editorials, introducing readers to new plus friendly designers and shining a spotlight on working plus size models, PMM is the #1 fashion & modeling magazine for plus size women. If you had any doubt of how much power is in Plus, that doubt was put to rest after an editorial featured in the January 2012 issue of PMM was publicized and discussed throughout the world.

Read the in depth interview with Madeline Jones at Daily Venus Diva Magazine or CLICK HERE.

PLUS Model Magazine’s “Plus Size Bodies” Editorial On Fox 4 Dallas

Editor-in-Chief, Madeline Figueroa-Jones — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:40:57 +0000

PLUS Model Magazine’s “Plus Size Bodies” feature created a media storm with stories in ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, Entertainment Tonight and many other newspaper and blog stories.

Most recently Fox 4 in Dallas covered the story, Camille Kraeplin, the head of the fashion media department at SMU, and Nancy Upton, a fashion writer who made headlines after she won an online contest to model for American Apparel, join FOX 4′s Heather Hays to talk about the topic.

Click Here to see television coverage

Click for all media coverage on “Plus Size Bodies, What’s Wrong With Them Anyway?”

Plus Size Model Tara Lynn Acting Debut In Beautiful Video Ad Campaign For Hips and Curves (video)

PLUS Model Magazine — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:00:54 +0000

Take one internationally recognized plus size model and add sexy plus size lingerie and what do you have? A recipe for a hot and steamy shoot!

Tara Lynn, who has been featured on the cover of Italian Vogue and French Elle, makes her racy acting debut for plus size lingerie company Hips and Curves. The video is sexy and depicts the curvy model as she transforms from cute mechanic to sexy vixen.

What do you think of the new Hips and Curves video campaign?

Tara is wearing:

Plus Size Ruffle Demi Bra

Stretch Satin Boyshorts

www.hipsandcurves.com

Huffington Post – Plus Size Magazine ‘Reveals’ Low Weight Among Models

PLUS Model Magazine — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:12:25 +0000

Huffington Post – Plus Size Magazine ‘Reveals’ Low Weight Among Models by Margaret Wheeler Johnson…

Flying around the internet over the last 24 hours is a story in PLUS Model Magazine that various news outlets have called “shocking,” “controversial,” “scary” and “provocative.”

Why are they so stunned? According to the coverage, it’s not the fact that the article includes a photo spread of the Russian plus size model Katya Zharkova posing nude or that in some of the photos she is shown embracing an emaciated-looking woman, also nude. (After all, ItalianVogue‘s June 2011 issue already went there, minus the thin woman.)

ABC7 – Could Size 6 Be the New Plus Size? by By Nick Ciletti

PLUS Model Magazine — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:02:32 +0000

Check out this article on ABC7 – Could Size 6 Be the New Plus Size? by By Nick Ciletti…

“I’m shocked! Absolutely shocked!”

“It’s ridiculous. Outrageous. Doesn’t make any sense.”

Women all over are trying to wrap their heads around this one. According to PLUS Model Magazine, agents are casting models as small as size 6 in “plus size” ads.

“We’re really pushing the envelope and really facing this by putting something like that out there so boldly,” says Madeline Figueroa Jones, editor of PLUS.

Read the entire article, Could Size 6 Be the New Plus Size?” at ABC-7.com

PLUS Editor Madeline Figueroa Jones on ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer

PLUS Model Magazine — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:10:42 +0000

PLUS Editor Madeline Figueroa Jones on ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer for segment – Most Models Meet Criteria for Anorexia, Size 6 Is Plus Size: Magazine

It was an absolute pleasure to watch our fearless leader, Madeline Jones, this evening on ABC WORLD NEWS with Diane Sawyer…

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Yes, our readers, fans and entire PLUS Model Magazine staff are inspired by Maddy on a daily basis, and now the rest of the world has gotten the opportunity to see her in action asking the tough questions in support of curvy women everywhere!

Read the entire article, Most Models Meet Criteria for Anorexia, Size 6 Is Plus Size: Magazine

Plus Size Bodies, What Is Wrong With Them Anyway?

Editor-in-Chief, Madeline Figueroa-Jones — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:50:26 +0000

In the January 2012 issue of PLUS Model Magazine, plus-size model Katya Zharkova is featured in an explosive editorial where thought provoking statistics and statements are revealed.

*Check out all the images here*

- Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today, she weighs 23% less.

- Ten years ago plus-size models averaged between size 12 and 18. Today the need for size diversity within the plus-size modeling industry continues to be questioned. The majority of plus-size models on agency boards are between a size 6 and 14, while the customers continue to express their dissatisfaction.

- Most runway models meet the Body Mass Index physical criteria for Anorexia.

- 50% of women wear a size 14 or larger, but most standard clothing outlets cater to sizes 14 or smaller.

If we continue to ignore and rely on others to decide what we want to see, change will never happen. We have to be vocal and proactive, patient and realistic.

Tips on how we can help create change:

- Support the companies who market to you.
- Use social networking sites and email to let brands and designers know how you feel about clothing, options and the use of straight sized models (thin models) to market to you.
- Your dollars count! If you stop buying at “Store A” and let them know you will not be purchasing clothing until they market to you, this will raise concern.
- Use every avenue and opportunity you have available to you for your voice to be heard.
- Indie designers need our support.

The answer to the question is this, there is nothing wrong with our bodies. We are bombarded with weight-loss ads every single day, multiple times a day because it’s a multi-billion dollar industry that preys on the fear of being fat. Not everyone is meant to be skinny, our bodies are beautiful and we are not talking about health here because not every skinny person is healthy.

What we desire is equality to shop and have fashion options just like smaller women. Small women cannot be marketed to with pictures of plus-size women, why are we expected to respond to pictures of small size 6 and 8 women? We don’t!When the plus size modeling industry began, the models ranged in size from 14 to 18/20, and as customers we long for those days when we identify with the models and feel happy about shopping.

Are we moving towards that goal? Are you being marketed effectively by the brands who want your dollars?

Tell PLUS Model Magazine your thoughts and your comments may be in the next issue.

Don’t forget to check out the entire feature by clicking HERE!

Our Interview with Carre Otis

Natalie Monet, Editorial Assistant — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:26:01 +0000

By Tulin Reid

Carre Otis was a rock star to many of us, having modeled for Guess, Donna Karen, Calvin Klein, and Revlon and appearing on the covers of Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan. The media couldn’t get enough of her turbulent love life with Mickey Rourke and her undeniable good looks. Her memoir, Beauty, Disrupted written with Hugo Schwyzer; speaks of her difficult years, naming her rapist, a shooting and survival; but there is so much more to Carre Otis. Her rebirth, self-discovery, faith, sensuality, and journey into motherhood are part of who she is and what she shares with us. I found myself rooting for her, pained for her, and in the end, learned lessons about myself. Join me in my interview with Carre Otis.

Tulin: The media has touched on your more challenging years, but I would like to focus on other aspects of your journey. I’m really inspired by your self-acceptance and how you moved on.

Carre: Ohhhh, I am more than OK with that! Thank you!

Tulin: Where did the addiction start for you?

Carre: From the beginning, like the first signs of addiction, were around food. I think you have so many of us that had disturbed eating patterns, from a young age. As a child I was dyslexic and my family wasn’t necessarily in a safe place. I didn’t have a strong relationship with my mother; there were no discussions about femininity and embracing yourself, and all the miracles and joys about becoming a woman. It was a strange disconnect and quite terrifying, because what isn’t explained to you can be quite scary. My eating habits were an attempt to control all that was out of control, that whole vicious cycle is typically about emotional issues. That was my big attempt at controlling what was out of control. To find my way into the modeling industry that looks the other way, or actually condones that behavior, because you’re expected to be a certain size, was a really bad match for me. The attempt to medicate myself was a further extension to that initial wound in life.

Tulin: It’s completely evident throughout the book how much you empowered yourself truly from within. Do you feel that having been through what you have been through that you’ll be able to empower your daughters in ways you had not been?

C: Totally! It’s such an amazing, graceful, wonderful responsibility to have given birth to two girls at this point in time. I have this obligation and responsibility to share and give them, age appropriate, as we move along this journey together, all the dialogue. There is no question that is unanswered in our household. The way that we discuss the body, the way we talk about nutrition. We don’t use the words fat or diet or anything like that in our household. They are growing up in a very aware and empowered way. That’s not to say that they are not going to realize things down the line or go through their own hardships, because we all do, but I am giving them a very different opportunity to administer their own lives.

Tulin: You have experienced a lot of success in modeling. Then after sometime, you reemerged as a plus size model.

Carre: Yes, after my heart surgery, I was in Grace Magazine.

Tulin: I remember you had gorgeous plus-size editorials and campaigns in Grace Magazine! One I remember vividly was shot in the Palm Springs Desert.

Carre: I thought it was really cool too; I was so defiant. I saw another side of the modeling industry; the discrimination. I had gained weight and I was a different size, I could not understand why I was not going to get the same day rate. On the other hand, sometimes I wasn’t big enough so they wanted me to put padding on underneath the clothes. It was just this endless barrage of “you’re not this, you’re not that.” I was so proud of that time for myself. I was not going to not work as a model because I was a different weight or size; that to me was just unacceptable. It was a moment when I really found my voice.

To read more about Carre go to PLUS Model Magazine.

New Images of Plus-Size Model Katya Zharkova by Photographer Marvin Joseph

Editor-in-Chief, Madeline Figueroa-Jones — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:00:23 +0000

Plus-size model Katya Zharkova is stunning in her new photos by Marvin Joseph.

Check out Marvin Joseph at www.marvinjoseph.com

For bookings www.wilhelmina.com

www.zharkova.com

Watch Katya’s video Here!

Will Putting The Truth About Anorexia in Reality Show Format Benefit Anyone?

Editor-in-Chief, Madeline Figueroa-Jones — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:59:37 +0000

There are those that say yes, and those that believe that neither the patients or viewers who may be suffering from he disease will benefit from a new reality show based around the challenge of having this deadly disease.

Starving Secrets is the latest in ‘television recovery’ reality shows, publicly documenting anorexia’s grip on lives for the education – and entertainment – of others.

Presented by Tracey Gold, who shot to fame in the Eighties for her very public battle with anorexia while filming sitcom, Growing Pains, the new show tells the story of ten women, aged between 19 and 43.

Check out the details of the show and screen shots HERE.