FASHIONING FAT: Inside Plus-Size Modeling

Amanda M. Czerniawski

New York University Press, New York, USA

Year 2015

Pages 149

This book takes us through a plus-size model’s day-to-day activities, first at open calls at modeling agencies and then through the fashion shows and photo shoots. The author interviewed 35 plus-size models about their lives in the world of fashion, bringing to life the strange contradictions of being an object of non-idealized beauty. This book shows us that the mission of many of these models is to challenge our standards of beauty that privilege the thin body; they show us that fat can be sexy.