Thank you for signing our petition to get body diversity into the fashion industry. Here are some of your signatures, I am only placing those who express their opinions so your message can be heard!
Sarah Oxley,26
Leeds
I’ve been large all my life, and will remain large. I exercise when I can, but to be honest I like the way I am. It’s the rest of the world that doesn’t. I’ve recently discovered enjoyment in sports. at school I hated sport (PE) as it just pointed out how much bigger I was than everyone else. But there’s more to sport. There’s skill, ambition, determination and above all fun. Many of my sport teachers treated me differently to tohers due to my size, and glossy magazines with extreme diets made my classmates question why I was big. So, I’m signing to say ‘Stop the bullying’. I am how I am, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Amber Smith, 18
Alabama
This is a nessary movement and I am glad to become a part of it and will help in any way I can.
Anuskha Bella, 21
The Netherlands
There comes a time when there is only so much a person can take. This is our time, we have had enough and we finally are speaking up!
Nicole Beepath,33
Canada
Beauty is not a size it’s about lifestyle.
JIH,18
Brussels, Belgium
The models that we found on the catwalks are not like the real women of every day, those who work eight hours a day, who educate their children or those who live their lives without worrying about an even better makeup and sexy. They sell the dream. We should not be slim to be beautiful and sexy
Paula Lima
Remedello Sopra BS Italia
We are the curvy, we are women real.
Patrizia,29
Trapani, Italy
I don’t want to feel guilty about my body, anymore.
Vanessa Reece
www.vanessareece.com
It’s about time! We can do this. V x
Anna Scholz, 40
London
www.annascholz.com
Janine Mison
www.realwomen.com.au
The Curvy Revolution is here… join us.. I have a modelling agency that is being set up in Melbourne, Australia devoted totally to the realistic representation of bodies! Love your shape!
Janine x
Gemma Cartwright, 26
London, UK
www.biggirlsbrowse.com
Janice Day, 52
Epsom UK
www.allchangeproductions.co.uk
I want to get behind the real bodies campaign because I have been a slave to body image all my life.
Kimmoy
www.thecurvycoach.com
We as a society need to hold the mirror up and be real with our bodies and how we see ourselves. It’s time to embrace what God gave us and appreciate the fact that we’re all different shapes, sizes, colors, etc. –and we’re all beautiful in our own way 
Stephanie Danforth, 32
Detroit, MI
www.dailyvenusdiva.com
This is great!
Claire Dobinson
Cambridge
www.bombshellacademy.com
women are beautiful all shapes and sizes
Elizabeth Patch
USA
www.elizabethpatch.com
I make positive art for the plus-size majority, so of course I support your goals! Beautiful women come in ALL sizes!
Living Plus Size, 28
USA
www.livingplussize.com
Let’s keep the revolution moving forward!!!
Glen L Johnson
www.fullfigureplus.com
Real Bodies forever!
The Tuesday Edition on 107 Spark FM, FMSunderland
www.sparksunderland.com
The Tuesday Edition on 107 Spark FM is happy to support Real Bodies Unite in their campaign!
Erica Young, 26
New York, USA
www.madisonplus.com
Great idea, thanks for starting this petition!
Ann Harvey
London
www.annharveyfashion.co.uk
We support this.
Rache Aquino
Time for the Media/Fashion World to wake up & smell the coffee…A size 2 Model does not represent The Real Women!
Angelique
Real Bodies!!! Now!!
Nancy Rogers
www.bellybration.com
The fashion industry is THE go-to storyteller in our culture for the cues as to how we represent ourselves through our apparel. It has a responsibility to be of service to all people. The individuals involved are well aware of their impact; they can either choose to be the voice of Change, or they can continue to be responsible for contributing to the destruction of self-esteem.
Time to treat people with dignity and respect. ALL people.
Elizabeth Shoemaker
www.elizabethshoemaker.com/
I’m a fashion photographer, and I use women of all sizes as often as I can, and my portfolio ranges from size 0-20. Beauty comes in ALL sizes.
Danielle Brown
www.innerthoughtsandoutbursts.blogspot.com
I would love to see real bodies on the runway! Show off fashion to the people who are buying it!
Danielle Line
www.danielleline.com
What a great group! Thrilled to be part of it!
Philip Underwood
This is a great idea. It is good to finally see people recognising the importance that something needs to change sooner than later. It has been going on for far too long.
Georgina
Fashion should show all types of girls,not just size 0-2 .The average girl is size 3 -14 and they shouldn’t forget plus size girls with wonderful curvy bodies!They also need to stop the airbrushes, normal people don’t have plastic skin!
Nomonde, 27
South Africa
www.fiercefotography.blogspot.com
Awesome petition!
Mia L. Shelton
NYC
www.fleurtle.com
Not only do we want to see images of curvy women in fashion, we want all fashion to come in curvy women sizes! Real Bodies Unite!
Jennifer Barreto-Leyva, 31
Caracas, Venezuela
www.jenniferbarretoleyva.blogspot.com
Body image should be about plurality, diversity, variety. I´m tired of being brainwashed and bombed by the media about beauty supoussed to be. I´m a size 24 and I´m gorgeous to death!!!!!
Jane Burkinshaw, 56
Exeter
Let’s do this for all the young girls (and boys) fooled by the fashion industry into believing that being skinny is the only way to succeed in life.
Janine Sharples, 21
Derbyshire, UK
Fed up of seeing rake thin models (both men and women) it gives a false image of what the clothes are ment to look like on “normal” people. and giving out the the impression “if you dont look like this then your not gorgous” to our younger genterations is not good! i try my best to tell my 7 year old sister & neice and my cousins who are all under 15, they are beautiful just the way they are! but they take no notice when all they see on tv and in magazines is size 0 girls and they read/hear about anirexia etc, they think that is the way to be! i even try not to wear makeup around them too much to show you are amazing with or without it! i understand you are what you are, and everyone is beautiful, but the media (obvs mainly fashion) need to promote healthy bodies in their work, to show to young people it doesn t matter of your size etc, you are amazing no matter what your shape.
Behind this 1million%
Aisha D. Leach
San Jose, CA
There is no such thing as “plus size” because size shouldn’t matter when it comes to fashion!
Sage Salzer
NYC
www.facebook.com/sagesalzermodel
Let’s get the size zeros off the runway!!
Helen Swindells
Oxford, England
I think it is high time that fashion models reflect the real life sizes of average women. Personally, I am also tired of seeing stick thin fashion models. It would be refreshing to see size 14 and size 16 fashion models more often.
Rosemary Hamilton
United Kingdom
Curves equal Reality!! Real women are not android stick insects.
Marcy Ito, 29
Los Angeles, CA
www.hipsandcurves.com
Edith Navarrete, 33
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
www.modelmayhem.com/edith
Christel, 32
london uk
www.christel-model.com
Josh Groves, 18
UK
Even us guys support the use of more realistic models! :] After all, they are more beautiful!
Natasha Loates, 19
Colchester
I think that this is such a good campaign. Girls are always feeling pressured by the media! Hopefully this will put a stop to it once and for all!
Jamie Warren, 26
Texas
All bodies should be represented and loved no matter what!
Michelle derosier-caldwell, 28
NY
www.everythingiric.com
I’m signing to encourage diverse sizes as well as diverse cultures.
Tina McKay, 43
USA
Beauty comes in all sizes, shapes and colors
Lacey Woodbury, 26
Texas
www.goddesslacey.blogspot.com
We are all beautiful in our own way.
Jennifer Riach, 33
Gig Harbor, WA
We need this now. Our daughters and sons need this now.
Leisha Pielak, 19
Clarkston, Washington
I wear a size 22 pant and I have only 1 place in my valley of almost 80,000 where I can find a pair of jeans that actually fits me! Thank God for Fashion Bug. This whole “super skinny” thing isn’t how everybody is shaped! Designers need to expand their sizes to plus size women! We’re curvy and proud of it!
Jennifer Croteau, 34
Ormond Beach,Fl
I’d rather be a 14 than a 4!
Sarah Muliadi, 24
CA
I’m tired of seeing all these ridiculous images everywhere!
Joan, 35
Hampton, VA
Not all beautiful women are a size 0.
Anna Rodecki
Chicago, IL
Respect who you are!
Fig Taylor, 50
London UK
I’m sick of the ridiculous defence that the reason magazines use skinny models is because manufacturers only provide tiny samples. If the manufacturers under discussion cater to those with larger bodies there is no reason whatsoever why they can’t provide sample sizes that are larger – apart from complete and utter laziness and denial that they are in any way contributing to our insecure, fat-phobic self-loathing culture. The same goes for plus-size clothes. I want to see what the damn things look like on ME not a size 12. If you cater to a plus-size market and you want my money, make the samples in a size that a genuinely plus-sized model looks good in.
And lastly I’m sick of hearing irrelevant tosh about health. Models aren’t there to promote health. They’re there to sell clothes. Fashion isn’t there to promote health either; it’s there to provide clothes. Everyone regardless of body size or health has a right to decent clothes and a right to feel good about the way they look. Pretending that half the female population doesn’t exist injures those on both sides of the divide. Women who fear fat and women who are fat.
Donna K. Fitch, 50
www.donnakfitch.com
long overdue!
Alison George
Berkshire UK
Tired of seeing pictures of women – masculinized e.g. so thin, they’ve lost their natural beauty and natural curves. Tired of seeing models looking so gaunt, miserable and cosmetics which are used to emphasize this dour look..
Veranda
New York
www.twitter.com/divakattgurl
Real Bodies Unite!!
Ann Salisbury-Jones, 54
West Midlands UK
We should be able to love the skin we’re in and not be pressurised by images of stick thin models.
Qiana Smith, 28
Atlanta GA
www.thegeminimagazine.com
Abigail, 25
Northampton UK
I’m a size 12 and 4ft 11 im sick of seeing small sizing in the store’s and of the models not everybody can be tall and slim sometime’s the petites can be too long for me.
Rachel Charlton, 21
Sunderland, England
www.polkadotstripes.wordpress.com
Hi Im secondary ed of british style bloggers where you just did a guest blog, I think you’re doing an amazing thing here and I’m behind you all the way
Elizabeth Free, 43
Dallas, TX
The entire range of bodies should be represented. There is a National Geographic series called “Taboo” that addresses the current trend of growing obesity. I think you would find it enlightening. Your target market is shrinking rapidly. I think perhaps it is time that designers quit hiding. ANYONE can design clothing that looks good on stick figures. WHO can actually design clothes for over 50% of the population???
Belinda Hill, 22
Gold Coast, Australia
I am all for ALL TYPES OF BODIES, not just average but slim and curvy voluptuous women to be shown in magazine, on television everywhere in the media.
Julia Snowdin, 22
Huddersfield, UK
www.juliasnowdin.co.uk
The media creates the ‘ideal’ body image. Currently this is unrealistic, which creates negative body image issues. This can lead to eating disorders. I don’t believe this should happen. I welcome the change and the chance to see diversity in the sizing of models.
Teresa Fowler, 43
Northampton, uk
www.saveandmakemoney.org
Life should be for living. It’s time to accept who we are and how we look. The media should show a representation of the ‘real people’ we are!
Harriette Novell, 54
Somerset, UK
Real glamour is no longer represented. Just emaciated, tragic looking ghosts. Not attractive, not realistic, not representative. The fashion industry is out of touch.
Penny Harding-Roberts
South Wales
EVERYONE needs to be treated equally.
Frazer Moore, 39
Northampton UK
Curvier women represent the real women of the world much better than those ugly skinny girls
Carole Russell, 66
Suffolk, UK
about time – right behnd you
Kelly Coon, 25
Ipswich, UK
I’m not skinny but I’m not fat either I’m a size 10! But I’m gettin sick n tiered of seein bags of bones modeling my 8yr old daughter has asked a few times why r there always skinny people showing clothes off!!
Iyesha Whitehouse, 19
Northampton UK
I am starting a fashion degree in september and have already decided that my final collection will be modelled by beautiful normal sized women!!!!!
Nicki CoughtreY, 44
Bedfordshire
Excellent campaign keep up the pressure
Janet Griggs, 66
Felixstowe UK
If the fashion industry cannot create clothes that make women of all shapes and sizes look good then it has failed, and it is judged by what people see on the catwalk
Lynette Smith, 51
Cambridge UK
Let’s stop giving young people a distorted idea of what is normal!
Jean Clark, 83
Norwich UK
Older women tend to be broader in the hips, but do not have longer arms or legs. I am sick of shortening jacket sleeves and trousers. Maybe this campaign may take account of the needs and sizes of the over seventies who want to look attractive.
Joanne Whitehouse, 46
Northampton UK
When the average height of women is 5’4″ why are all the models in excess of 5’11″”?
James Howes, 23
Northampton UK
I think it is needed in society to see real people wearing real clothes.
Jodell Raymond, 48
Rochester NY
www.blackcatplus.com
Great idea!
Susan Christiansen
Bandon, OR
Thank you!
Cathie Walker
Victoria BC Canada
www.victoriadogs.com
I’m happy to add my name and spread the word! I shall now eat a chocolate bar.
LPSFashion, 28
USA
www.livingplussize.com
Gen Vie
Philippines
Size is beautiful. Regardless of our size we all deserve respect and be freed from discrimination. It is hoped that society appreciates beauty beyond what the human eyes can behold
Amanda Duffin, 15
England
Seeing unrealalistic body sizes on television lowers most young peoples body confidence provoking them to go on crash diets and damage their body to acheive size 0 which is also leading to increasing amounts of anorexia among young people and adults
Connor Benson, 13
Immingham UK
Its wrong to show people that have been moulded to please the eye, people should be interpreted the way they are and not the way the media think they should be.
Johanna, 38
London
This is a fantastic idea, lets hope things start to change soon.
Hayley Chalmers
Tring
www.shortcouture.com
Abnormal hyperskinny models give women & girls a bad body image of themselves which is not healthy.
Sonia, 33
Malaysia
Real bodies are what people need , not the skinny , unhealthy ones that have been influencing the way young girls live
Rebecca York, 34
Kettering, UK
www.the-businessclub.com/northants
Women come in all shapes and sizes. There is increasing pressure on women to be UNHAPPY with their bodies because of the fashion mags, catwalks etc…me included! Women change as they get older and as we have kids etc. I am definitely no longer the petite natural size 8 I was aged 24…but a (Hefty) size 16 as the media world would have me believe. Stretch Marks, Cellulite, love handles the lot! Clothes are cut wrong to suit different shapes etc and this should be addressed! We should celebrate these changes not be repulsed by them! RANT OVER!
Mimi, 28
Virginia Beach, VA
www.irresistibleicing.com
Let’s do away with the plus cateogory. ONE section, ONE brand for all body types. Currently, it’s no different than the days of racial segregation. Let’s unite!
Janelle Cissell, 31
Indianapolis
www.rubyleonne.blogspot.com
Thank you for this petition
Elisah, 24
London
Keep up the good work, ladies x
Claire Leivers, 35
Lincoln, UK
www.knikitta.com
We are not all stick thin, and some of us are proud of our curves!
Annemieke, 30
Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
www.LieveMiekjuh.tumblr.com
Patricia Colli, 23
Philadelphia
www.beutifulmagazine.com
I fully and 150% stand behind this message. Amazing. You are doing a wonderful thing. If you ever would like to collaborate on something to get the message out further, I would be honored.. Keep it up!!!
Christine Harthcock, 26
Ventura, CA
I have always used “real woman” in place of plus sized. I love fashion and one day I will make beautiful clothes to fit everyone, but until then, the fashion industry as is needs a major wake-up call.
Lynette Davis
West Hills
We need to stop considering a size 10 as a Large. Rubenesque is beautiful too.
Alice, 16
Surrey, England
I think its discusting that as a teen you are forced to have this idea of what you are meant to look like, and I truly believe that you should love yourself for who you are.
Alan Clark, 30
Scotland
www.womensunderwearonline.com
I run a lingerie store and have real problems getting sizes for larger ladies. We need more emphasis on real body sizes!!
Birmingham
I used to be a size 10/12 but after being diagnosed with Lupus I was put on steroids, and gained a lot of weight. I felt very insecure and unhappy about my appearance. The fact is not all women are the same. We should be celebrating the female form in all it’s glory whether a woman is a size 4 or a size 24. You can be large and healthy! At a size 14, i have spent years trying to confirm and slim down to a size 10, because “clothes look nicer on slimmer girls” this is what the media and fashion industry want us to believe! Some women are naturally slim and can’t put on weight, others struggle to lose it! We should embrace our feminity, regardless of shape or size!
Sheena Sigala, 25
New Mexico
Be happy with who you are, you were made that way for a reason.
Kathleen Santos Kirkpatrick, 32
Glasgow
BIg is just as beautiful as skinny for sure and oh you in-betweeners got it too!xxox
Shani Carrick, 41
England
I’m happy with my size and my huby loves my curves but it really gets on my nerves that everything from adverts to films and everyday veiwing has to always have skinny women on them. It’s boring and that’s no offence to the skinnies but thats not real life , it takes all sizes in real life , and this is a great site.
Tina Bettison, 45
Nottinghamshire
www.tlbmedia.com
Good work Sarah. It is about time that all shapes and sizes were represented in the fashion press – and time we saw what clothes really look like on a diversity of women’s shapes in catalogues. A little more focus on the buyers’ needs rather than the sellers would be interesting to see!
Charlotte Bleasdale, 29
Manchester
www.simplybe.co.uk
Simply Be are behind your campaign keep up the good work x
Paul Crick, 45
Newark On Trent
All power to your campaign. I’m right behind you.
Rebecca Keesing, 42
New Zealand
I work in plus size fashion design so peruse magazines daily and am SO tired of seeing slim airbrushed pouting sex kittens advertising everything from jeans to mini toothbrushes you put in your purse. The images can make me feel obese, abnormal and out of the loop. I am a size 16.
FAT girls buy more than snack foods dammit! We have spending power and want to be seen as being as normal as our smaller sisters are. I don’t buy a product because there’s an emaciated women wearing/eating/driving it. It doesn’t make me want to be like her. It doesn’t make me think I will be as thin as Kate Moss if I buy that dress. I buy a product because I want the product.
Laura McDowall,30
Kaitlin Hensley, 21
Tennessee
Real bodies are viewed as a disgrace in the fashion industry and it is time for US REAL WOMEN to be represented. “Model bodies” only represent about 5% of REAL women’s bodies….. Just because it is an “act” to model or perform, doesnt mean it has to be fake!
June Rowlands
Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK
www.boundarysound.co.uk
Desirée Pelgrom-Geurts, 26
Location Arnhem, The Netherlands
www.curvacious.nl
Nobody should be ashamed of their body!
Dorez Douglas, 60
Location Los Angeles, California
www.annalogy247.com
It’s time to stop the persecution of ‘real-sized’ women. It’s time to stop brainwashing people into believing there’s only one correct standard of beauty. It’s time to stop perpetuating the myth that only women of a certain size are ‘normal.’
Kelly Bliss, 56
Philadelphia, PA
www.kellybliss.com
67% of the population wants 67% of the fashion!! Our money is just a green as thin people’s money.
Jennifer Perkins, 25
Chicago
Curves are beauty now and forever xoxoxxo
emma plus, 50
Brighton, uk
www.emmaplus.co.uk/forum
I would like to support your campaign. I host a forum and have a blog which deals with plus-size fashion in the uk.
Sara, 33
Chicago
Every time I shop I feel like an outcast and end up going home in tears. No one should be made to feel bad about themselves because who they are.
Sarah Barker,
Birmingham
I love to have good quality, trendy clothes, but HATE the tents that places like EVANS give us,AND the expence of them too, it’s silly as they only use an extra meter to make the tents, and what does that cost them? 60p to £1.00 and we have to pay an extra £10-30 for the privillage of wearing these frumpy, boaring, bland clothes!!!
Fabia Cerra,37
Oxford
http://www.fabiacerraofficial.com
As the Ambassador for plus size models of diversity and, I love the term used here ‘real bodies’.
Erica Freeland, 34
Baltimore, MD, USA
It feels great to be united with like minded people! We are all created differently for a reason. If we were all the same, this would be one boring place.
I recently looked back at some old photos of my younger days, when I thought I was fat, and unattractive. Now, when I look at those pics, I wonder what was wrong with me…there was not a thing wrong with my size, or my appearance. I just didn’t fit the characteristics of what was in the many magazines I read, so I doubted myself.
Fighing to accept myself as I am is a daily struggle. I hope for change in what is published, what is considered beautiful, and what helps to promote a healthy self image.
Chloe Walton,16
London
By only having skinny models, it is giving young girls a warped sense of what is normal. In reality no one looks like that, and young girls become unconfident with the way they look, and feel they are less than beautiful because of the way people are portrayed in magazines.
Mel
UK
We need fashion that flatters real people!
Sue Thomason,46
UK
http://www.beautifulmagazine.co.uk
I’m editor and director of a magazine for curvy women. I’m definitely on your side!
alexandria,25
Southampton
I’m not slim and have been ashamed of it….but its sites like this that makes me see I have not been blind but society x
Sarah Oxley,26
Leeds
I’ve been large all my life, and will remain large. I exercise when I can, but to be honest I like the way I am. It’s the rest of the world that doesn’t. I’ve recently discovered enjoyment in sports. at school I hated sport (PE) as it just pointed out how much bigger I was than everyone else. But there’s more to sport. There’s skill, ambition, determination and above all fun. Many of my sport teachers treated me differently to tohers due to my size, and glossy magazines with extreme diets made my classmates question why I was big. So, I’m signing to say ‘Stop the bullying’. I am how I am, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Amber Smith, 18
Alabama
This is a nessary movement and I am glad to become a part of it and will help in any way I can.
