# Lets see some photos of women who aren't thin, but are beautiful anyway **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 26, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875 "2010-05-26T21:14:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/41 "2010-05-27T05:39:47Z")
[My best friend.](http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8235/leslieo.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Cyningablod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Cyningablod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyningablod)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/42 "2010-05-27T05:50:01Z")
> [@palacheck](#): > > Don’t want to go searching for photo evidence on my friend’s computer, but if you’re into tattoos and piercings and stuff, the Suicide Girls website has plenty of beautiful big girls. Yep. **Yep**. **YEP!** Tattooed/pierced voluptuous women = HELLA HOTT. (“Hott” with two t’s.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/43 "2010-05-27T06:00:05Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Too bad. Most people today think skinny people are more attractive. The number of attractive plus-sized women in media is painfully small. And most seem to require heavy makeup and/or weird poses for people to call them beautiful (as evidenced in this thread). > > I wasn’t going to say anything, **but seeing the treatment Knorf got** for daring to pick someone he does not consider thin, but not fat enough for you, I really don’t care about how I make you guys feel. Yeah. It was pretty harsh the way **zweisamkeit** slammed him: > [@zweisamkeit](#): > > Uh, that season was one where Sarah Michelle Gellar looked painfully thin (you shouldn’t generally be able to see individual ribs on a woman’s chest). > > Apparently the dope is not only the place where 50 lbs overweight is “just a bit chubby”, but it’s also the place where if you’re a size 4, you’re “not thin”. And then to be followed by the almost tear-inducing tirade from **Dangerosa** that followed: > [@Dangerosa](#): > > No, the OP pointed out that all of the unconventionally attractive women in that thread were model thin. She requested photos of women who were beautiful and “aren’t thin.” I mean, what’s wrong with them that this thread can generate such hatred and vitriol that they would feel the need to dump all over **Knorf** like that? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/44 "2010-05-27T06:10:59Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Too bad. Most people today think skinny people are more attractive. The number of attractive plus-sized women in media is painfully small. And most seem to require heavy makeup and/or weird poses for people to call them beautiful (as evidenced in this thread). > > I wasn’t going to say anything, but seeing the treatment Knorf got for daring to pick someone he does not consider thin, but not fat enough for you, I really don’t care about how I make you guys feel. Oh gee willikers **BigT** , you sure put us in our place, you did. That’ll teach us for telling people to stop posting pictures of skinny girls in a thread dedicated to hawt fatties. My behind stings, but I already know you don’t care. Not one bit! ---
**Author:** ![Cyningablod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Cyningablod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyningablod)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/45 "2010-05-27T06:12:35Z")
Don’t mean to derail the discussion here, but I feel like I need to say this. First, I concur with others that the first few offerings in the thread were nothing but typically “media skinny”. Please don’t assume that most guys think that way. I ADORE plus-sized, voluptuous women.\* Always have. And I know for a fact I’m not alone. A LOT of guy friends that I’ve talked to over the years have confessed that they find heavier women just as attractive–more so, in some cases–than the skinny model “ideal”. So why aren’t they more vocal about it? Sometimes, just as women are made to feel ashamed of their bodies, **men are sometimes led to feel ashamed if they’re not dating a super-skinny piece of “arm candy”**. Their friends insult them, make pig noises, and call them “chubby chasers” or something equally offensive. It’s tragic and reprehensible, all the way around (though I’d never argue that this practice is equally damaging to the _man’s_ self-esteem). A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman. You’d probably be really surprised at how many men genuinely don’t mentally discriminate when it comes to size, in assessing a woman’s physical appeal. Weight/body fat is indeed a factor in a woman’s attractiveness, but its role is vastly, VASTLY overblown by the media and TV/movies. \*I don’t mean, “Kim Kardashian” heavy/voluptuous. I mean, like Jennifer Hudson, or Queen Latifah, or even larger. I’m NOT one of those freaks who particularly digs women who are morbidly obese, for the kink factor (I think that’s actually a kind of [paraphilia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia)), but pretty much any woman who’s a size say, 24 or below, can be and often is HOT. Almost every crush I’ve ever had has been on a woman who outweighs me by probably 30 - 50 lbs. (I’m 5’10", 165.) And my wife, who outweighs me (but I won’t say by how much) is just BEAUTIFUL. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/46 "2010-05-27T06:23:09Z")
> [@Cyningablod](#): > > And my wife, who outweighs me (but I won’t say by how much) is just BEAUTIFUL. 🙂 You won’t say by how much? Is it because there’s something wrong with being big? Isn’t that sort of perpetuating what you claim to be fighting? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/47 "2010-05-27T08:36:07Z")
Marilyn Monroe: [http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Job/Marilyn-Monroe-oversized-postcard--.jpg](http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Job/Marilyn-Monroe-oversized-postcard--.jpg) Nigella Lawson: [http://www.shrewdmammal.com/wp-content/uploads/NigellaLawson\_FD61/Nigella\_Lawson\_thumb.jpg](http://www.shrewdmammal.com/wp-content/uploads/NigellaLawson_FD61/Nigella_Lawson_thumb.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/48 "2010-05-27T08:58:41Z")
Because it’s impolite to ask about a lady’s weight, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/49 "2010-05-27T09:27:32Z")
Singers [Vika and Linda Bull](http://www.planet-tonga.com/entertainment/Vika_Linda_Interview/Vika_Linda.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Neverending\_Elbow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e274bd/32.png) [@Neverending\_Elbow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neverending_Elbow)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/50 "2010-05-27T09:33:06Z")
A very plus size model featured in Elle recently, [Tara Lynn](http://idolo.pl/moda/tara,lynn,w,sesji,zdjeciowej,dla,elle,a,2320.html). I think she’s absolutely beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/51 "2010-05-27T10:03:09Z")
[Lindsay Hollister](http://www.lindsayhollister.net/images/008gsm_lindsay_hollister_001_k6zb.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/52 "2010-05-27T11:53:35Z")
Here’s [Anabelle Ursulet](http://www.judgmentofparis.com/au/anabelle03.jpg). I really like [this pic](http://pics.livejournal.com/pericotera/pic/000d3d3h) of Johanna Dray. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/53 "2010-05-27T12:35:21Z")
Will video do? [Ashley Graham.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxyZQfMmM4) I ‘follow’ modeling, including plus-sized models, so I can think of many inhumanly gorgeous women who also wear a size 12 US or larger (but of course, since models are all tall, most plus models are far from what most of us think of as fat and may not even have what most people would define as a ‘few pounds extra’). ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/54 "2010-05-27T13:30:54Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > If you look up ‘muffin top’ on google images there are some decent photos. The faces are always cropped out though. > > [http://www.jesseliebman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/muffin-top.jpg](http://www.jesseliebman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/muffin-top.jpg) > > [Rachel's Blog: Image](http://rachellarkin.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/camomuffin.jpg) > > [http://auntiefashion.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/muffin-top.jpg](http://auntiefashion.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/muffin-top.jpg) The last one is actually _grab handles_, whereas photo 2 depicts what is colloquially known as a _gunt_. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/55 "2010-05-27T13:39:17Z")
Well, my esteemed colleagues, why don’t we ask **Renee**? Renee, hello. Was your OP intended to find pictures of overweight women who are attractive, or to find women who are attractive but not rail-thin? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/56 "2010-05-27T13:40:10Z")
[Kirsten Vangsness](http://www.google.com/search?q=penelope+garcia&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8), who plays Penolope Garcia on “Criminal Minds” ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/57 "2010-05-27T13:40:12Z")
Let’s not forget [Mia Tyler](http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=mia+tyler&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=0nL-S7btFIG0lQfUp5W2CQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQsAQwAA)! ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/58 "2010-05-27T14:00:14Z")
Just wanted to add the late great Phyllis Hyman… [http://themusicsover.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/phyllis\_hyman.jpg](http://themusicsover.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/phyllis_hyman.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/59 "2010-05-27T14:07:38Z")
Sorry I posted the OP and ran, I had some stuff to do last night. Thanks for all the responses–I, too, laughed when I saw the first two responses, and it just reinforces that thin=pretty thing. A few extra pounds does not actually mean tits that weigh 12 lbs each on a size 4 body. Not that big tits aren’t nice, but let’s not be so literal. What prompted this was a discussion with a friend, who is raising two teenage daughters (neither of which are fat, but the mom could loose 20 lbs or so). She said she tries to be very conscious of any remark she makes regarding dieting or body size, that kind of thing, so they don’t get screwed up body images, if that is even possible for a teenage girl. I related the story of my weight-obsessed, constantly-dieting (but skinny!) aunt whose beautiful, very intelligent daughter had to be hospitalized for bulimia a while back. I just wanted to see some pics of women who are a bit (or a lot) fat and who pull it off, and seem comfortable in their bodies as a counter point to all the tiny women who are held up as perfect in the media. Anyway,[here](http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/809/slide_809_14643_large.jpg) [are](http://clothingtutor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Junior-Plus-Size-swimwear-Black-Halter.jpg)a [few](http://images.askmen.com/top_10/celebrity/plus-size-models_8.jpg) I [found.](http://fullfigureplus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/velvetdamour.jpg) edit: thanks for all the responses, btw–great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875/60 "2010-05-27T14:47:35Z")
> [@Neverending\_Elbow](#): > > A very plus size model featured in Elle recently, [Tara Lynn](http://idolo.pl/moda/tara,lynn,w,sesji,zdjeciowej,dla,elle,a,2320.html). > > I think she’s absolutely beautiful. Yes, I think she captures it. Gorgeous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-see-some-photos-of-women-who-arent-thin-but-are-beautiful-anyway/540875.md?page=4)