Crystal Renn Plus Size Model

Once upon a time, Crystal Renn was a waifish, anorexic, super-thin model whose whole life revolved around calorie counting and pushing her body to the limit.

“I couldn’t walk another step without being exhausted, or having hair clumps falling out.” – Crystal Renn

In her new book “Hungry,” Renn, now a celebrity plus-size model, bares how she overcame challenges with her weight, health and self-image and still acheive her dreams of becoming a successful model.

Not only has her new image been “accepted” by the fashion industry…it has been “embraced”.

“I got to my lowest point, when I couldn’t go lower, and it was either, `I’m going to die and not accomplish the dream,’ or, `I can become a plus-size model and keep the dream. I am healthy now, the healthiest I’ve ever been in my life — both physically and mentally.” – Crystal Renn

The 23 year old Renn even found strength and resolution writing her memoir “Hungry” with Marjorie Ingall for Simon & Schuster.

Of course she has told her story before to magazine writers but this book is not just about her…it’s addressing the perception of beauty, within society and the fashion community, at large.

Crystal Renn Topless

“I’d like to see everyone take on the attitude that there are women of all different shapes and sizes as `the beauty ideal,’ and that it’s not one type or another. There are women who are naturally a size 2 — you can’t forget them, and that’s discrimination the other way,” says Renn. “All women bring something different to the table and we have to appreciate them all.”

Gradually, the fashion industry is becoming more receptive to fuller figures, as Crystal Renn gets steady work with Vogue, Glamour, Jean Paul Gaultier and Dolce & Gabbana.

According to Reen, “It’s often not the typical “pretty girl” who makes the biggest splash anyway” and she recalls how a modeling scout was the only person other then her mother, who saw her beauty when she was a “chubby cheerleader”.

But Renn is not expecting a full-figure take over in fashion just yet…

“I believe there is a cycle to everything — Wall Street, the housing market, and modeling, too. Back in the Victorian days, it was all about a full figure, in the ’50s, it was about the boobs, in the ’80s it was shoulders and in the ’90s it was waifs. It can only go up from here.”

Crystal Renn Lingerie

But she does recognize that more diversity in body type and skin color is coming to high fashion.

“Fashion alone isn’t to blame for the idea of carbon-copy beauty, nor is it to blame for all the girls out there with eating disorders”, says Renn. But, “…fashion does help create the lens through which others, like the chubby cheerleader she was in Clinton, Miss., see themselves.”

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At Models & Moguls, we appreciate a diverse examples of beauty and we can’t figure out why the fashion industry is so slow to catching on with full figured women. Don’t they know that well fed models can sell clothes!

Source – Associated Press

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