I am a size 2-3 and weigh 125 lbs. I am far from being too skinny, I am the right size for my body. I look good, strong, and I am healthy. All you larger sizes who are obese and unhealthy - stop pretending like you have self-esteem while putting others down. Do I feel a need to talk about larger sizes? That would be a no, because I have real self esteem. Maybe if you took a really good look at how you evaluate yourself and others you wouldn't feel a need to pick up that next cookie, then call yourself "curvy." Get a reality check.

WOW KIM - you definitely have self esteem. Talk about a reality check - Try reading your nasty comment again.and then tell everyone how good you look and feel. The fact that you felt the need to say any of that....speaks volumes.....about your own self esteem.

yes, she's very hot, and many 'plus size' women are too. so sad that many woman feel they have to be rail thin, which is sick. I work w/a woman who is obsessed, too skinny and would look much better if she'd put on some weight. and I'm not a chubby lover, I just like all kinds of women, including big girls.

No doubt. I don't see why 12 is considered plus size. It's disturbing that everyone is under the impression that being healthy is wrong. Granted it varies from person to person based on height etc but there is nothing healthy about being size 0, 1, 2, 3 etc....

It is awful how they make everyone who is not a size 1 be consderded plus size. Makes me sick! I eat right work out and i am not a size 1 but I am healthy !!!! Why isnt that the focus not the size you wear!!!

Uh yeah, a size 12 is definitely a plus size. If any of you haven't noticed. The "average" woman is largely overweight, and therefore; unhealthy.

A size 12 may be considered plus size in the fashion industry, but in my opinion it should not be. I am 6'3" and wear a size 14. Please, someone tell me I am plus size...because I def am not when you consider the average size of women.

No, a 12 is not plus sized, and I am surprised if she is a 12. Maybe in designer clothes, which are cut more generously. I was an 11/12 and 125-130 when I was younger but my shoulders were too broad for a smaller size even then. Your body is your body, and we are not all cut out by cookie cutters - nor should we have to be to model clothes. How about some real people of normal healthy weight modeling instead of requiring girls to meet unrealistic, unhealthy standards?
Maybe she didn't have a model's body when she was 14, but to go from 5'8" and 175 lbs. to 5'10" and 95 lbs. in two years was just dangerous. She was developing bones in those years (and still is) and should not have had to develope an eating disorder in order to become a model. But she did, and was promptly given the jobs!

Size 12 is *not* a "plus size". It never will be for many women. Some women have small bones, some have large bones and those with larger, sturdier bones are made to feel horrible by calling a Size 12 a "plus size".

In high school and college, I had 6-pack abs and was a size 16--at 5'3". A tiny-boned woman I know is a size 00, eats normally and really would be overweight if she wore a size 4.

Unfortunately, because of the cultural definition of beauty purveyed by the modelling industry, I saw myself as fat (with 6-pack abs!) and it became a self-fulfilling notion.

Shame on the modelling industry for wanting girls that are just skin and bones, defining unhealthy physiques as a picture of beauty!

She looks 100% better at size twelve and you're right: she surely IS NOT plus sized. She looks average. The fashion industry has lost it's collective mind! The idea that someone would even think to measure someone at a size zero is plain stupid. Where I come from zero literally translates inot "nothing". No one, not even the boniest skeleton, can be a size zero. It is mathmatically impossible. I wonder how much more successful the fashion industry would be if they simply designed pretty clothes for real people, not freaky-looking, six-foot tall, human clothes hangers? Most clothing tagged as a size zero look as though they might fit a 10-year old girl and even she is not a size zero. And once zero is accepted as the norm what next ? Size negative 2?!!! At 5'3" I am happy with my size ten, 150 pound frame. I might be happier at a size eight but it would be about physical comfort more than how I looked. But if I never get to be a size eight, so what!!!

I'm healthy at a size 2. Why does every skinny woman need to be considered sickly? I have a fast metabolism and it's the way I am, just as heavier women are the way they are. If you are healthy it shouldn't matter.