Nude And Clothed Plus-Size Models Pose For V Magazine Spread (PHOTOS)

Will 2010 be the year of the no-longer-emaciated model? Yesterday we showed you a Marie Claire cover model who went naked and un-Photoshopped on the magazine's cover. Today we give you more images from V magazine's "Size Issue," which hits newsstands January 14th.

V previously released these photos by Terry Richardson of plus-size model Crystal Renn duplicating the poses of a skinny (i.e., traditional) model, Jacquelyn Jablonski.

In another editorial titled "Curves Ahead," models Candice Huffine, Marquita Pring, Michelle Olson, Tara Lynn, and Kasia P posed in bustiers--or nothing at all--for photographer Solve Sundsbo. Sundsbo told V "I loved the opportunity to show that you can be beautiful and sexy outside the narrow interpretations that normally define us." Check out the shots below from V magazine.

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[BowlingForRevenge]

08:46 AM on 03/17/2010

Just taking your height and weight will NOT give you an accurate BMI.
BUT these women must do some sort of exercise to keep themselves toned and shapely.
They are NOT fat they are just bigger than standard models.

I have always weighed 25lbs or more than people think I do.
I am petite but have muscle and it's NOT obvious BUT it is genetic.
Back in college when the state fair was on my dates would take me to every "Guess Your Weight" booth and I'd always go home with huge stuffed animal as we'd keep trading them in for a bigger one at each booth. They routinely guessed 90lbs and I usually weighed 115 as muscle weighs more than fat.

[MattsCupcake]

02:57 AM on 02/07/2010

I am a lot more overweight than these women.
They are all quite thin if you ask me.
And I think I am quite attractive, go to my profile.
Look at my picture.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Overweight women can be beautiful.
It has nothing to do with "size."

[Crazy Diamond]

08:17 PM on 01/16/2010

These women are lovely. Beauty does not have a set size, type, color, gender or age. Here’s to all those who dare to be beautiful and to openly admire beauty in all it’s forms!

[iknowyou]

07:33 AM on 01/15/2010

the hatred here against these models and fat people in general is depressing.

[veggiequeenmo]

10:57 PM on 01/14/2010

Clothing size does not indicate the health of a person. Good grief. These woman are the norm. There's nothing wrong with the way they look.

[MadxAsxHell]

08:18 AM on 01/16/2010

Yes, "Dr", we know you have TOTALLY ignored the studies on life expectancy for women with female-pattern obesity (hips and thighs, pair-shaped) versus woman with male-pattern obesity (belly, chest, candy-apple-on-a-stick) that shows female pattern has little effect on reducing life-expectancy.

You just keep hammerin' at it, don't you? You don't like heavy women and refuse to admit ANYONE can see anything positive, beautiful or sexy about them.

[Crazy Diamond]

08:07 PM on 01/16/2010

When you are more active your heart has to pump hard too. Should we all stop enjoying being physical?

Besides, where do you get that info anyway? It does not sound supported by good science. There are skinny people with clogged arteries and fat people in perfect health. It is nutrition, activity and genetics that determine your heart health, not your weight. Smoking will clog your vascular system faster even than poor diet and skinny models are often chain smokers. So what’s your point?

[scarletxoxoxo]

09:43 PM on 01/14/2010

I think these woman are hot. I also think a lot of the skinny models are also attractive. You can be attractive in all forms.

[Nerdiac]

04:29 PM on 01/14/2010

I'm going to catch heat for this, but... these women are not healthy looking. I don't see a muscle ANYWHERE, and you can't honestly tell me that these ladies have low cholesterol, normal blood pressure, etc. I've never seen an overweight vegan, that's all I'm saying, but even if I had, what's wrong with a little vigorous exercise after eating 3 vegan donuts (as I just did)?

For once I would like to see someone who looks like me in a magazine -- not plus sized, within her proper BMI, tall, big feet, small boobs, with a giant buddha belly and a thick muffin top :) Maybe if Taylor Swift gains a few in the gut, my wish will come true...

[veggiequeenmo]

10:51 PM on 01/14/2010

First, I'm an overwright vegan. It happens. Second, post your pick so we all know what we're supposed to look like! And BTW - I am healthy, even with rolls.

[MadxAsxHell]

11:32 PM on 01/14/2010

Many female body-builders when they train for a competition and have to get REALLY ripped, find their menstrual cycles shut down. That's Nature's way of telling a non-menopausal woman that she's starving and damaging her body. Many female long-distance runners experience the same thing.

Please tell me how being so starved your periods stop is healthy.

[YesWeCouldHave]

06:46 AM on 01/15/2010

AGAIN....show me one person saying they like anorexic women?

Megan Fox looks healthy to me. (I didn't say mentally)
Bar Rafaeli looks healthy to me.

I grew up in a real golden age of hot women.

Pam and Carmen looked healthy to me.

If THEY are your definition of anorexia?

It's a shell game to defend fat women....it's not an either or situation.

AND...for every extra pound your heart has to work MUCH harder to pump your blood.

You can make all the excuses you want...it is NOT healthy to be overweight.

[echota]

03:55 PM on 01/14/2010

I think they look beautiful! I think a lot of the more mainstream, thinner models are beautiful too. I wish we could just have models with a healthy BMI and good self-esteem. Someone who eats healthfully and works out. Why don't these people exist in the fashion industry? Because we have conditioned ourselves to think that a size 4 is fat in this country, while most of our country is obese. Kind of the pot calling the kettle black. I think that's weird what we uphold beauty and thinness as incredibly important in society, yet we cannot come to grips with our own food and weight issues, and many of us do not work towards these healthy goals on our own. We all need to check ourselves before we call a 125 pound, 5'4 female fat in the media, which happens far too often.

[Tresco]

04:02 PM on 01/13/2010

Beautiful women come in all shapes, sizes and colors. The feminine ideal has been skewed too thin for decades. I doubt many of today's top models menstruate regularly. Obesity is deadly so is Anorexia. As a whole Americans need to loose weight and exercize more. All of the women featured are stunning and healthy looking. If you have a problem with accepting them as beautiful, healthy and "normal" you just have a problem.

[YesWeCouldHave]

05:50 AM on 01/14/2010

This is a shell game argument.

Have you EVER heard ANYONE saying they like anorexic women?

No, Karen Carpenter was not hot. Pam Anderson was.

Those who wish we liked Kirstie Alley over Megan Fox will conflate healthy, thin, tight attractive women with anorexics as a form on BLATANT intellectual dishonesty in order to try to sway sympathy for their arguments.

It's as dishonest as calling these women OBESE.

[topachic25]

08:45 PM on 01/10/2010

@YesWeCouldHave

We get it! Your "type" is not plus size, and that is ok! We all have preferences. Thin, Thick, Tall, Short, Athletic, Blonde, Brunette. It doesn't matter because a persons preference is their own. Other peoples likes don't constitute judgment of your likes. Why continue to harass everyone who finds these woman sexy? Why assume they are not even healthy?

........Tell me about your mother.

[YesWeCouldHave]

11:05 PM on 01/10/2010

Show me who I have "harassed"?

When fat women or those who want them have attacked thin women, I have called them out on it.

Go back and look and you will see, all I did was state my preference and I was the one who was attacked for it.

Cvkathy wanted to act mature after making d*ck jokes, I called her out on it.

MY WHOLE POINT is that everyone gets their preferences.

You will find the majority of the comments here do not reflect that belief....

This thread is full of women attacking the thin and those who like them and thanking men who like fat women.

[clevernamehere]

01:09 AM on 01/11/2010

No, you have not been saying everyone has a right to their preferences.

You have been telling people that the vast majority of people prefer thin women. Anyone who feels differently is obviously dumb, fat, and out of touch in your opinion. You also charmingly called a poster Shamu.

Favorite quotes from you:
“She was kinda fat.” In regards to MARILYN MONROE.

“Some of the faces and some of the breasts are nice, but the folds are MOST definitely NOT the LEAST bit beautiful.” (If everyone has the right to their preferences, why do you need to tell people their preferences are wrong?)

“I have not been brainwashed into being attracted to ATTRACTIVE women as opposed to overweight women.” (Again, what happened to everyone having the right to their preferences?)

P.S. Liberal = Progressive

[topachic25]

03:20 AM on 01/13/2010

I think what the thread is expressing is support. Support of seeing women of ALL shapes and sizes being represented. It is not that we HATE seeing thin, skinny, athletic women on all the covers of magazines. We just want some diversity that exhibits a true reflection of the world in which we live in. I want a balanced view of the modern women that exist in today's world. I want to be able to open a magazine and see the same faces, body types, skin colors(etc) that I see on my walk to work every day in the middle of San Francisco. No we don't hate "skinny sexy" women. We hate being cornered into, or being sold on the fact that there is only one type of sexy. And "skinny/ thin" is it. And if we don't meet that ideal, we are of lesser value, or attractiveness. Thats is where the resentment comes into play. Simply misguided at the woman, as opposed to the ideal sold to us by the marketing firms who think they know whats best for us, or what we should like or be attracted to.

[mesomorph]

05:22 PM on 01/10/2010

I don't know what all y'all are talkin' about. I think this is hot.

Women of all healthy sizes (meaning not anorexic or morbidly obese) should be celebrated for their remarkable beauty. These women are definitely healthy and beautiful...and the furthest thing from obese.

[Crazy Diamond]

08:25 PM on 01/16/2010

Thank you!
Well said.

[Aramarcal]

02:14 PM on 01/10/2010

Can't they have a shoot with healthy models? Curves are in, but liver rolls should not be! Some of these models are too fat and too fat lke too thin is unhealthy.

[Christy Caudill]

12:05 PM on 01/10/2010

finally, real women who are models. these people look healthy, and full of vital energy. much better than tiny anorexics that we've worshiped for far, far too long. kudos, V!

[YesWeCouldHave]

01:43 PM on 01/10/2010

You realize those other women are real, right?

They aren't CGI or Japanimation or paper mache, right?

They are real human women.

[rougebaisers]

07:21 AM on 01/10/2010

Absolutely fabulous and about time.

[capitaldysfunction]

05:43 AM on 01/10/2010

Good argument for ending the war on cholesterol: I like Big Butt. Got to have a figure though. Derriere the same size as the waist, or buttocks without beautiful round mounds of flesh is not my cup of tea.


Now, back that ass up... care for a cup of tea or...