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By P.G. Ramblings
Amazingly Sexy is a Voluptuous Plus Size Woman

Here's the problem. You'd love to be a fashion model; lingerie model; nude model; but you've got a problem of large proportions. You're not a size 6; not even a perfect 10; you're a size 16 without a gnat's chance in Hell of ever being the new Miss Clothes Hanger; the next long legged malnourished superskinny queen of the catwalk! And why would you want to be that skinny? You're size 16 for God's sake!

Men have always loved the curves of a voluptuous female figure; curvaceous women such as Marilyn Monroe, Raquel Welch, Salma Hayek, Caroline Munroe, Lisa Fischer and Sophia Loren to mention but a few. There's nothing more beautiful than the ample curves of a plus size woman, and before the complaints roll in, obesity is not being advocated here. Model agencies around the world are clamouring to sign up curvaceous models of size 12 to size 20 and beyond.

Thanks to the concerted efforts of real women around the globe, we now witness that it's the clothes that need to fit the woman; whoever she may be; whatever size she may be; and not the woman that needs to fit the clothes. Yet it seems like only yesterday when allegedly trendy; shapeless clothes were all to often seemingly conceived in the same darkened corner of a tiny disturbed mind as 'The King's New Clothes' were, and brought forth into materialization by forces once thought to be more powerful than life itself. But enough about the bone idle talentless fashion gods who have played games with the lives of women since the birth of the tabloid toilet paper; full-figured women have finally come of age. At last they can unashamedly celebrate their well-shaped figures and voluptuous curves. Thank God for the sensible, if money grabbing, manufacturers that have finally surrendered to overwhelming consumer market forces.

You still think you've got what it takes to be be a plus size model; outsize model; full-figured model; extended sizes model? Plus size modelling is now big business and any aspiring plus size curvaceous model should take note, there is a career in plus size modelling. Could you be one of the next generations of plus size curvaceous beauties? If the answer is in the affirmative and you need to know more about modeling; go here.

The Plus Size Modeling industry, which claims to be accurately reflecting the current large female population, is expanding at an alarming rate, and they're also helping to reduce the negative stereotyping of today's larger woman. Model agencies around the world are clamouring to sign up curvaceous models of size 12 and above; there are even beauty contests for sizes 16 to 20 and beyond. I kid you not! And to further whet your appetite; below are the listed statistics of a current, somewhat successful UK based Plus Size Model.

Height

5ft 10"

Hair colour

Brunette

Eye colour

Green

Dress size

16/18

Bust size

40

Bra size

40c

Waist

34"

Hips

43"

Inside leg

33"

Shoe size

9

'Beauty implies a good sized body, and little people may be neat and well proportioned, but cannot be beautiful.' - Aristotle

Apart from requiring larger bust/waist/hip measurements; the requirements for plus size models are no different from those of fashion models, 5' 8", good skin, hair, teeth, and the rest. And as the type of work that plus size models engage in is now the same as their smaller counterparts, aspiring larger models, including teens, are advised to read 'You Wanna be a Photographic Model!!! Are you Nuts?'. Since plus size lingerie became one of the hottest new trends on the fashion scene, it has led to a huge increase in the demand for larger size girls to model lingerie; so what are you waiting for? From the male point of view, there's something amazingly sexy about a voluptuous plus size woman; so if you're the owner of a curvaceous female figure; get out there and flaunt it.

Recommended reading for the aspiring Plus-Size Model:

You Wanna be a Photographic Model!!! Are you Nuts?

The Business of being a Model

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