After the recent celebrity Photoshop fallout when Self magazine digitally slimmed down Kelly Clarkson on the cover of their September issue, a healthier, fuller photo has been published in a woman’s magazine. In Glamour magazine no less.

Twenty-year-old Lizzie Miller, who is between a size 12 and 14 and weighs 180 pounds, was photographed semi-nude for a story on body confidence that appears on p.194 of the fashion magazine’s September issue. Editor-in-chief Cindi Leive said on The Today Show that within hours of the magazine hitting the newsstands, their offices began receiving emails from readers about the photo.

Comments such as “She’s real and she’s beautiful”, “This woman rocks and we need more women like her to make a mark on what real women actually look like” and “Finally a woman who looks like most American women” began flooding in, and it more than proved that the magazine’s readers are demanding for a more realistic view of them in fashion magazines.

With the amount of publicity Miller’s photo is generating, will women’s magazines and Glamour magazine in particular be using more realistically-sized women in fashion spreads?

“Speaking for my own magazine I think it absolutely will,” says Leive on The Today Show. “I think it’s a sign of the times that women are looking for a little more authenticity and a little less artifice in every aspect of their lives.”

Watch the full interview in the video above.

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