Yesterday 16 year-old Chloe Marshall beat many other slimmer hopefuls to be crowned Miss Surrey. She is on her way to the Miss England competition.
The full article in the Daily Mail states that the teenager, who has been signed up by the Models Plus agency, said most of her rivals were size eight or ten.
The article quotes Chloe as saying:
“Everybody thinks you have to be a tall, slim blonde and I’m a curvy brunette,” she added. “I want to show it is possible to be beautiful and not a standard size zero.
“The reaction I’ve had is great. Other girls have told me I have really boosted their confidence, which is terrific.”
No matter your personal feelings about beauty competitions I think that this is a fantastic step towards sanity in a thin-obsessed world.
That's very cool! Kudos to the judges for picking the RIGHT girl, not the skinniest girl!
Oh, and don't listen to the idiot in the comments that says UK 16 is only 10, MAYBE 12....it's a 14, and the proportions of the girl in the pic confirm that. No way is that even close to a US size 10.
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You know what, I am even going to go out on a limb, and say she is size 16 in vanity sized designer clothes, and she is more likely closer to 18. *I* wear size 14-16 over here (we are the same as UK), and I don't photograph that large. I don't photograph skinny by a LONG shot, either. So it TOTALLY is a victory for the big girl.
You know what, I am even going to go out on a limb, and say she is size 16 in vanity sized designer clothes, and she is more likely closer to 18. *I* wear size 14-16 over here (we are the same as UK), and I don't photograph that large. I don't photograph skinny by a LONG shot, either. So it TOTALLY is a victory for the big girl.
Really? I'm a size 10 but she looks smaller than me. Maybe she's really tall? NM, I saw the other pic. I saw on the article that she weighs 175, which isn't bad for someone that is 5'10.
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