Plus-size 'fatkini' blogger rebuts critics: 'I'm all for health'

[blueshogun96]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/476165...1#.T8ezP7BfGhE

When plus-size fashion blogger Gabi Gregg posted a photo online of herself in a bikini — and called for other curvy girls to do the same — she was applauded for her bravery and confidence, but also slammed by critics for “promoting an unhealthy weight.”
Gregg, 25, says she’s not a poster girl for obesity or an unhealthy lifestyle. “I’m all for health,” she told TODAY’s Tamron Hall. “I think people should be really aware of what they’re putting in their bodies and try to get more active. The truth is, we have to live in our bodies and be happy with the bodies we have right now, regardless of where we are in our journey to health.”
Gregg, a size 18, called out to the online community of xojane.com for images of full-figured ladies in their bikinis. The call-out resulted in an online gallery of 31 women of all shapes and sizes rocking their two-piece "fatkinis".
The fashion blogger had the idea for the gallery after posting a bikini photo of herself on her own blog last summer. This year, she wanted to go bigger and show more people that all women, regardless of weight or size, can be happy heading to the beach.
She encouraged her readers to embrace what they have. “Don't let body shame keep you from having a good time!” She wrote.
Plus-size model is 'shocked' at being retouched
Gregg, who is from Detroit but lives in New York City, says her gallery is about empowering women by offering different images of body types. “So often in the media all we see are thin women in bikinis,” she told TODAY.


“I love my body,” she said. “I think we should kind of reject these fashion rules about what we are and about what we are not allowed to wear.”
American Apparel's plus-size contest winner is minus prizes
Gregg is quick to point out that her health is not determined by her size, an assertion that has been criticized for its lack of acknowledgment that weight is a part of one’s health, and that obesity can cause serious health issues, like diabetes and high blood pressure.
“My measure for health is how good I feel,” Gregg said. “The main thing is to judge how you feel and what you’re putting into your body, how active you are and not based on a number on a scale.”

Wow, just wow. I like full figured women (sometimes, when the face is right) but encouraging people who do have serious weight problems is not exactly a good thing. Some people need to lose weight for their own health's sake.

To me this is like saying "I have syphilis and I'm proud of it!"

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Oh dear god, facebook is gonna be filled with half naked fat chicks. More so than usual.

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Don't worry, she'll get a dose of aesthetics.

[snickothemule]

she was applauded for her bravery and confidence

Getting praise from the morons in the media carries zero merit. This mess is a hypocrite.

Stop trying to promote health by deluding overweight people they should be content and happy with the way they are. Now I'm not saying that the complete opposite should be true and fatties should be hunted down, but there are mixed messages in her way of thinking, all to help her agenda which appears to be pushing fatkini's, something which I find ridiculous.

Obesity is a serious condition that is far too prolific and something not to be taken lightly.

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[Ahielia]

Originally Posted by article

and called for other curvy girls to do the same

That's not curvy. That's fat.
People, especially the media, need to stop sugar coating it.

This is curvy:

[blueshogun96]

Originally Posted by Ahielia

That's not curvy. That's fat.
People, especially the media, need to stop sugar coating it.

Yes, they do need to stop sugar coating it... because they'll eat that too!

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But they better sugercoat it because...otherwise, the girls will feel worthless!!11!!
And don't get me started on the women inner-circle figure encouragement, aka "Oh girl, you're so beautiful, don't listen to what they say". Now beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but for the love of god and everything holy, please...Please! Don't encourage unhealthy eating and low activity.

Instead of making us accept (ie: swallow) the rampant obesity, work on your diet and activity habits. The obesity rates in N.A keep climbing up every year and it's costing tax payers $$$ for taking care of them.

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The obese showing off skin, and the media applauds the bravery? I can only assume they were laughing it out secretly and sharing the sad story as a joke to make 'normals' feel good about themselves.
Still engaging in a healthy lifestyle or daily activities is something that wouldve been more positive to hear of, not acting like attention-deprived egocentric sluts.

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Originally Posted by Hard core Rikki

The obese showing off skin, and the media applauds the bravery? I can only assume they were laughing it out secretly and sharing the sad story as a joke to make 'normals' feel good about themselves.
Still engaging in a healthy lifestyle or daily activities is something that wouldve been more positive to hear of, not acting like attention-deprived egocentric sluts.

Originally Posted by Phil

It's an excuse not to take care of yourself.

Fully agreeing with both of these, i'm not saying that the obese should be treated like scum, but they certainly aren't role model, such things shouldn't be promoted but rather criticized.

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Political correctness, hate it. Prevents people from accepting the truth about themselves enabling a state of self delusion where logic is abandoned or forces people to think on one belief system instead of exercising the ability to have your own opinion, conscious or view point (i.e. gay marriage, religion, etc.).

Kill political correctness, re-educate the world.

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[cottonvibes]

i laugh at phrases like "full figured women" as a nicer-term for "fatass."
"full figured woman" should mean "thin but with curves" (large breasts and round arse); instead its used to refer to obese women.

also I love it when they call fat-women "real women". as if all the in-shape women are fake.
how about we change the term "real women" to mean the in-shape ones, and call the fat ones "lazy women that like eating and looking like doughnuts".

Originally Posted by Kaizen

We at /fit/ incorporated have been fighting these fat acceptance landbeasts for many a moon.

Don't worry, she'll get a dose of aesthetics.

lol, right on brah-dah

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Normally I try to avoid jumping into heated conversations about widely-misrepresented public health issues, (guns blazing, natch), but I'll bite...

Leaving aside all comments about the aesthetics of "full-figured women," body weight/BMI is simply not a great proxy for health. The correlation between obesity and hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and almost every other health condition that's blamed on weight disappears once activity levels are controlled for. Basically, skinny people who don't exercise have poorer health outcomes than larger people who do. Body composition seems to have a more salient impact on health (e.g. "belly fat" is associated with disease, whereas hip-fat is mostly innocuous).

I'm not even going to get into the questions that have been raised in recent years about the success rates of long-term significant weight-loss. Suffice to say: losing 10-15% of a person's body weight is difficult, but achievable. Going from 250 lbs down to 130, and staying there, is a much, much more rare occurrence. Prolonged caloric deficit flips certain switches in the human brain that will undermine any person's sincere effort to lose weight. Paul Campos and Gina Kolata both wrote accessible, consumer-level books explaining the research into obesity and weight loss; both are worth a read.

FYI, I'm not a health researcher, a doctor, or even an obese person. I just became mildly interested in the subject a couple years ago when the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") was being widely-debated.

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by aerith099

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Right on the money. Also, if you were once fat but lose it all, you'll regain more fat compositionally when you bulk up to regain muscular weight.

As you become a fat person, fat cells swell up and divide at critical mass but when you lose weight, the fat cells reduce in size and barely any experience cell death. The only way to lose weight and have a decent chance of keeping it off is with fat destruction techniques, they're fairly new in cosmetic surgery but you basically freeze the under skin fat layers to kill the excess cells.

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