Growing calls for “fat acceptance” fly in the face of accepted medical advice, but studies show you can be overweight and healthy
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WOMEN’S glossy magazines often get flak for promoting unhealthy beauty ideals, but usually it is because their models are so thin. Not so for this month’s UK issue of Cosmopolitan, which features the plus-sized model Tess Holliday resplendent in green satin underwear.
Holliday’s success in modelling, despite her UK size-26 figure, epitomises the burgeoning “body-positive” movement, which says that people’s weight is their own business and that no one should dislike the way they look.
“If I saw a body like mine on this magazine when I was a young girl, it would have …