Skinny VS Curvy

“I feel like I’m in the best shape of my life after a dive. Swimming works all your muscles – your core, glutes, quads, even the ones you didn’t know you had, like the little ones in your feet and hands! When I exercise, I just feel good. I’m not a 6-foot-tall skinny model, and yes, I have cellulite, but I’m not going to apologize for my body. If you love your body, it will love you back. Confidence is beautiful.”

… says Hayden.

On being considered “the bigger model”:

Well, I’m a bit better now, but I was pretty self-conscious about it a few months ago because everybody kept going on like, “Oh, she’s so curvy!” and “She’s a plus-size model!” and this and that. It’s all people would talk about-how I’m not very skinny. For a while, it made me pretty upset and I got a bit obsessive about it. I did a bunch of dieting and exercising and everything. I was losing weight, but I was still much bigger than everybody else. I didn’t really see the point of making myself crazy anymore, so I kind of toned it down a little bit.

… says Lara.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is on Redbook Magazine’s cover in March and wow, does she look good! Here’s a beauty-related part from the interview:

You’ve said before that you feel like it wasn’t until you hit your 40s that you started to feel great about your body and style. What changed?

I don’t know. I think… Well, I started working with a costume designer who was interested in me wearing more fitted clothes. And I didn’t used to do that. I was shy. Because I’m so short and small, I used to wear things that were too big for me, that weren’t flattering. So I got some good advice that helped me find more body confidence. I mean, I’m not a superskinny person at all and I always… I guess I sort of wanted to be. But now it’s like, Yeah, I’m womanish. I can take that, it’s cool. I started to own it. “I am totally womanish — so stick that in your pipe and smoke it!”

When would you say you feel most beautiful?

When I’m superskinny. [Laughs]. No, but I always feel good after I exercise. I run, hike, do Pilates. I try to change it up.

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Another perfectly lean model says that she’s having trouble finding jobs, now that she is a size 4 (models sizes 0-2 are OK, and so are the ones over 12, just, for some inexplicable reason I will never understand, sizes 4-10 are not OK). Details from The New York times:

“I’m not in demand for the shows anymore,” said the model, who has worked for Marc Jacobs, Prada, Chanel, Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier and Louis Vuitton, among many others.

“I’ve been told to lose weight when I was really skinny,” said Ms. Rocha, who recently added a new line item to her résumé: correspondent for Modelinia.com, the Web site for the model-obsessed.

“You know what, I’ve stopped caring,” Ms. Rocha said. “If I want a hamburger, I’m going to have one. No 21-year-old should be worrying about whether she fits a sample size.”

“Girls are told they’re not skinny enough, or they hear, ‘She’s old, she’s boring, we’ve had her, she’s not tiny anymore,’ ” Ms. Rocha said. “A lot of people don’t take into account the vulnerability of these young girls.” And the latest crop of models is not made up of “adults or even sort-of adults,” she insisted. “They are children. Point closed.”

One more Coco after the jump!

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On life after her mom-jeans photo: “When I walk through an airport and people go, ‘You’re not fat!’ I’m like, ‘Thanks. That’s great. Good to know I’m not fat today! Thank you!’”

On acting: “I will never do nudity . . . I don’t care if I frickin’ could get an Oscar for it, I’m not going to do it. Those accolades mean nothing to me. I don’t think people deserve to see what’s under my clothing. That’s only for my next husband—ha-ha-ha.”

… says Jessica in Allure Magazine.

One more shot after the jump!

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