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Calling BS on Our ‘Plus Size’ Obsession

Out of Shape

There’s been great fanfare over Sports Illustrated’s first plus-size model, but she is a normal size, has a toned stomach, and ‘real’ women remain absent from our magazines.

The pages of Sports Illustrated might be one of the last places you’d expect to find a woman who doesn’t look like a stick figure.

But on February 9th, Ashley Graham, 27, will become the first plus-size model to appear in an ad campaign in the popular Swimsuit Issue of the...

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