We're here. We're fat. Get used to it
The backlash has begun, with a size-16 beauty queen and 'fat acceptance' all the rage
By Susie Mesure
Sunday, 30 March 2008
A size-16 Miss England finalist; a new single from an over-sized girl band called Plus; and Coleen McLoughlin, not Kate Moss, lauded as Britain's most influential fashion role model: an early April fool or a backlash against size zero? Well, neither, actually, but evidence instead that Britain and its retailers are finally waking up to the reality of life for the average woman.
