"Glamour editor Cindi Leive (left) said positive reaction to the photo
of Lizzi Miller (right) may change the magazine's approach." Source

I must admit, when I look at these images I don't see a "plus-size" woman, and apparently I'm not alone, as some of the comments in response to an online follow-up Glamour article demonstrate.

"I'm sure this has been said, but please don't represent a size 12 or 14 as a plus size. Represent it as it really is ...NORMAL. I am a plus size, you know, the clothes that have a W after the size (16W). those are plus sizes. so by letting the media call this woman a plus size, you are still saying to women a size 12 or 14 is fat. the word plus size to most of us (i did say most) means we are overweight or just large women. It's a shame no one can quite come out in a magazine yet and say YES, a size 14 is NORMAL. I wait for the day."

Posted 8/25/2009 9:40:58am by bpwriter47

"I was watching tv last night with my husband and they showed the picture and I wanted him to see it before telling him what the whole thing was about. His first response was "she looks good"! When he heard that she was a plus size model he could not beleive it. He said how is she consider to be plus size and that that was not right. It made me feel good because even though I am a size 6-8, my body looks like hers. After having two kids I really look like that and I realized that my husband still finds me attractive and that I dont have to be perfect. OMG thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!"

Posted 8/25/2009 9:52:48am by caty11

Is being tall or having a large frame the same as being plus-sized? The image has resulted in a public discussion of what is appropriate to show in magazines, but will it change what women want to see? Do women want to see themselves, or somebody else, what they want to be, when they open the pages of a magazine? But, doesn't what they see influence what they want to see, in a magazine, and in the mirror?