Crystal Renn: Hungry
Crystal Renn, once a super skinny model on the brink of collapse, has penned a new book Hungry. The now plus-size Ford model covers everything from health, to weight and even self-esteem issues in the memoir and hopes to shine a light on how people in the industry and in general perceive beauty.
“I’d like to see everyone take on the attitude that there are women of all different shapes and sizes as ‘the beauty ideal,’ and that it’s not one type or another. There are women who are naturally a size 2 — you can’t forget them, and that’s discrimination the other way,” Renn said in an interview. “All women bring something different to the table and we have to appreciate them all.”
Renn, who now works the pages of Vogue and Glamour as well as the runway with Jean Paul Gaultier, believes that there is a cycle to everything. From the Wall Street crash, to the housing market meltdown and now modeling. She says during the Victorian era the fuller figure was celebrated, while in the 1950s is was breasts, the 1980s shoulders and the 1990s the waifs. And now it seems it’s the return of the fuller figure.
Recent media coverage seems to agree. Just this week, we reported on Lizzie Miller’s triumph in Glamour magazine and the backlash from Kelly Clarkson’s Photoshopped Self cover shoot.
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