Lara Stone, Bardot-esque model of the moment who has somewhat bafflingly recently become engaged to David Walliams, recently gave an interview to New York magazine about her size. Stone has hips and breasts and her feminine curves are normally feted in whichever illustrious editorial or campaign she features in and much has been made of her heralding a return to a healthier ideal in fashion. She is also a US size 4 (UK 8) which is by anyone’s standards (except it would seem the fashion industry’s) small.
Here’s what Lara had to say;
“Well, I’m a bit better now, but I was pretty self-conscious about it a few months ago because everybody kept going on like, “Oh, she’s so curvy!” and “She’s a plus-size model!” and this and that. It’s all people would talk about-how I’m not very skinny. For a while, it made me pretty upset and I got a bit obsessive about it. I did a bunch of dieting and exercising and everything. I was losing weight, but I was still much bigger than everybody else. I didn’t really see the point of making myself crazy anymore, so I kind of toned it down a little bit.”
It does beggar belief that a size 4 could be referred to as a plus size model and it is a testament to just how thin models have become that someone of Stone’s enviable frame would start to think she was fat and make efforts to rectify this. Whilst I think its good that Stone speaks out if it helps to highlight just how crazy the standards of thinness have become, it is also worrying that some aspiring models or young girls may too start to believe that a size 4 is not thin. As a size 10 I don’t really consider myself plus sized so for Stone to do so has really shocked me.
I’ve posted a pic of Stone naked on the front cover of LOVE magazine just so we can all see what we are calling plus these days….
