Zero magazines go even remotely this far with editing. Just because it's technically possible (and done poorly in these examples, I might ad) doesn't mean this is what magazines do. This is a ridiculous article that reeks of virtue signalling. Yeah, love yourself at any size, but certainly don't think it's a good idea to stay that way. Please get healthy. The message should be "Love yourself enough to make positive, healthy change"

This is exactly what magazines do! Cindy Crawford used to get angry because even as thin as she is, Magazines would trim and edit her images, making her legs look thinner and removing the slightest blemishes. SHE was angry because it promoted unhealthy body images.

Full Name- This is exactly what magazines do..... Where have you been the last two decades?

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no one is going to go around forcing people to be healthy if they don't want to be healthy, they mean just as super skinny shouldn't be encouraged to children to look up to, neither should obesity

And nobody asked for you to comment to his/her comment either.But you know why you both did?Because it's the internet and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, hence the comment section.

When I'm subsidizing their diabetes and heart disease, it bloody well IS my business.

Yeah Justi, no one wants to wear shoes because Michael Jordan does...or eat where celebrities eat.... I think you're underestimating the power of media and advertising.

That comment reveals a lot. ::sips tea:: but that's none of my concern.

i agree! i'm so sick of good uncles and aunts advising everyone how to look. think what you want, but let others live their life! by the way, do you really think people will suddenly want to be obese because some models are? are you crazy?! you must be.

I agree. It's none of anyone else's business .. but please, let's not pretend that being 100 pounds overweight is "beautiful" or "sexy."

I'm no doctor but I'm pretty damn sure these ladies fit into the clinically obese category. Nor am I American, but when I visited last month I was shocked by the number of massively overweight people. So sad to say, but "average" in the USA does not mean healthy, too many people are obese and that is the new normal.

It's sad if that's considered average.

They aren't fat?? They are very obese! The edited versions of them are fat. No versions of them are a normal, healthy weight.

Actually, being overweight is not a guarantee of diabetes. Heredity plays a much larger roll. If you have type 2 diabetes in your family, yes, being overweight is much more likely to cause you to get it, but even thin people can get it if it runs in the family. I'm adopted. I have type 2 diabetes. Apparently, I had it since I was 30 and I wasn't overweight. However, I was just told, "Your blood sugar runs a little high, but you're not diabetic." Suddenly, I'm 45 and I'm diabetic I asked my doctor if my blood sugar counts went up. She said, "No. What happened is we lowered the standards for what is considered diabetic." I learned about my biological family back ground and sure enough, diabetes, both types 1 & 2 run rampant. Meanwhile, you have my adopted mother and my cousin, who were (in the case of my mother, who is gone) and are much heavier than I am, but they don't have diabetes.

Touché

Because being overweight is not healthy and that's a fact. Same as being underweight.

it's a fact that a human body can't be that size and stay healthy

The models may be healthy to a certain extent but the bones can only support so much weight. And the organs can only process so much efficiently.

They're both build like one of my great-grandmothers. The one whose legs, hips, and feet were so broken by hauling around all that weight for years that she ended up in a wheelchair (in constant agony), and then dead two years later.