Calvin Klein's new "plus size" model: 5'11", size 10

[cali]

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/myla-dalbesio-plus-sized-model-article-1.2008954

Great message. Not.

[bravenak]

1. Seems like a small size ten or I'm just a chubby size Ten.

Maybe I need a 12. But they fit bad and loose. Must be a size ten for models.

[SheilaT]

2. And are you 5'11"?

Even if you happen to be the tall, most of us are not, no matter what size we wear.

Basically all models are taller, not to mention a lot thinner, than the typical person. A true plus size model would be no taller than 5'6" and take at least a size fourteen, and preferably should be wearing a 1x, 2x, or 3x, which are the actual plus sizes out there.

[bravenak]

5. I wish I was Five Eleven.

I get it now. I'm suffering from shortness. I'm 5'1, almost 5'2 though. Almost.

[dawg]

12. I wish *I* was 5' 11", too.

That's the height I always wished I had been. Not really tall, but not short either.

[pipi_k]

20. I would have traded

with you.

I was always sort of tall...5'9" at the very least.

Problem was it was all in my legs. Very long inseam. I could wear pants with a 33" inseam. Now with age I've shrunk a little...30" suffices at this point.

Anyway, I always wanted to be short. I totally get it when people say they felt like xxx in a yyy body.

Yep. I was a short person trapped in a tall body. One reason being that when you're a tall kid, people expect you (or they expected ME) to act older than your age.

[dawg]

24. I have to buy pants with a 29 or 30" inseam ...

and then get them hemmed.

I have a pretty long body, but my legs are short and I wear my pants slung pretty low.

But 5'9" is a pretty cool height for a woman. I have a friend who is that height and I don't really think of her as being unusually tall.

[pipi_k]

41. Yeah, once I got to be

an adult, my height wasn't that unusual.

But growing up, I was always the tallest kid in my classes.


I'm imaging how your body type looks, and thinking of a guy I lived with for a while. He was a few inches shorter than I was, but had a longer upper body and short legs. I'm long on bottom and short on top. One day I measured each of us, head to waist, then waist to feet, then swapped our waist to feet numbers. With his long upper body and my legs, he was like 7 feet tall. With my short torso and his short legs, I was like 4 feet tall.

OK so I am easily amused.

[dawg]

52. I'm a human corgi.

If my legs were long enough to by 30 length pants off the rack, I'd be 5'11", which is the size I would have liked to have been. Oh well. At least I don't trip and fall very often. I have that "stability" thing going for me.

[Aerows]

46. I have to shop in the children's department

to find jeans that fit. I'm 5'3" and I'm around 110. And I'm 40.

[Odin2005]

44. I have a lady friend who is 4' 11"...

She hates being called "shorty".

[UglyGreed]

3. I may be wrong

but I think Twiggy started this super thin model bs.

[Zorra]

4. I am 5'11", size 10, and will definitely not be shopping for Calvin Klein underwear in the

"Ladies Plus Sizes" section of any clothing store.

[Nye Bevan]

22. Especially since Calvin Klein has never called this woman "plus sized" (nt)

[pnwmom]

6. Of course, since plus sizes range from 16 - 24.

[Recursion]

7. My wife is a size 18 and the hottest woman I know

And I've met a lot of hot women. Just none quite as hot as her.

[aikoaiko]

8. She either slimmed down or they chopped her image

if these images are accurate....

[cali]

9. she's not even remotely + sized in the pics in your post

she's slender. and the camera really does add ten pounds

[kcr]

35. What's wrong with those images?

She looks the same.

[aikoaiko]

39. Nothing wrong but I think she looks thicker in the Ford poster

Compared to the pictures in the story.

[kcr]

40. I don't see a difference

[aikoaiko]

49. Fair enough.

[niyad]

10. the insanity of size ten being "plus" is just disgusting.

[Nye Bevan]

47. Who said that size ten was "plus"? Calvin Klein did not (nt)

[niyad]

11. oh, yeah, this is "plus"-sized.

Last edited Thu Nov 13, 2014, 10:39 PM - Edit history (1)

removing link--did not realize it was downloading to people's computers. have not had that sort of problem before. my apologies to those who experienced this.

[MineralMan]

13. Your link downloaded the image file to my computer.

Try deleting everything after the first jpg in that link. It's wrong to link in a way that actually downloads the file.

ETA: That didn't work. It still downloaded the file. I don't know why, but most people will not want the file downloaded. It probably would be best to remove that link.

[Nye Bevan]

16. For me, my browser opened up a new page with the image.

I'm guessing you have a browser setting set to download instead of open this file type. Not that it really matters, because when you open a picture in the browser it's still being downloaded by the browser.

[Raine1967]

15. niyad, I clicked on your link and

it immediately downloaded something to my computer. I don;t think you meant for that to happen, but I wanted to give you a heads up.

[RebelOne]

14. I am 5'3" and a size 8, so in Calvin Klein's eyes, I must be obese. n/t

[etherealtruth]

25. No sh*t, I am 5'8" and a size ten

Amazing

[dawg]

27. You are the exact same height and size my ex was ...

when I thought she was the image of female perfection.

Of course, I would have felt that way about her regardless of what size she happened to be. I was very much in love. She was very attractive at smaller sizes than that and also very attractive at larger sizes than that. But, looking back realistically, that was the size where she looked her absolute best.

[etherealtruth]

32. you sound as if you loved her very much

....hoping all is well for you.

[dawg]

37. I'll always love her.

Feeling blue about that at the moment, actually. But it's all good. I'm a lucky man in lots of ways.

[Savannahmann]

17. Bad news, still unrealistic.

Good news, moving in the right direction. At least she's not size zero. Give it another generation, and the models will look like the people on the street. With a little luck.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

18. She looks pretty nice to me...

sP

[dilby]

23. She is beautiful but I would not consider her Plus Sized.

There are a lot of women who look exactly like her and I would consider them to be of average weight. When you take a woman like that and label her plus sized you are only encouraging eating disorders in women.

[treestar]

31. Plus size to the modeling industry

Maybe. From their view, I can see it.

But for normal people, no way. Plus size means fat to us and doesn't apply to people who weigh more than models would.

The fashion industry may have forgotten models are not normal.

[Blue_Tires]

42. Oh, yeah...That'll work just fine

[Odin2005]

48. *SWOON*

[nomorenomore08]

53. Me too.

[Nye Bevan]

19. Nobody from Calkin Klein has ever referred to this model as "plus sized"

so I am not really understanding the outrage here.

[hifiguy]

29. Verdict first, facts later.

And that is one stunning young woman. She actually looks healthy, unlike most "fashion model" types.

[kcr]

36. Especially if you get your facts from The Blaze! n't

[dilby]

21. Ugh, I consider size 10 as skinny.

I am that old school type who admires a woman with curves. Although I appreciate Calvin Klein making an effort but labeling a size 10 as plus size is not helping young women who are already struggling to fit into what society considers norm. There is no shortage of size 20 women who are absolutely gorgeous and I would prefer to see in Calvin Klein ads.

[moriah]

33. Not skinny, not rail-thin, but not plus-sized. And if you call that "extra weight"....

... I wonder what you'd think of most women out there.

She looks healthy. Something most models don't. I'm willing to bet her BMI is below 25, but certainly isn't an 18 or 16 BMI. (Considering I've been an 18.3 BMI before, and looked skeletal, the healthy range is where most women look their best.)

[kcr]

38. Your post is exactly why those in this thread snarking that CC didn't call her plus sized are wrong

You are proof positive that marketing works.

[kcr]

51. She isn't skinny by model standards

But she is skinny. Lol

[Nye Bevan]

45. Calvin Klein did not "label her a plus size".

My understanding is that the "plus size" label came from someone on Twitter.

[moriah]

34. You are the exact same BMI as me, 22.3.

That's at 5'1 and 118.

At 97 lbs I was a BMI of 18.3. I looked sick, my hair was thinning, my bones showed, and size 2 jeans at Target were too big for me. I could wear juniors size 1, but they gaped at the waist to fit my hips (juniors sizes are not designed to accommodate curves).

At least you aren't aiming into eating disorder territory on your "ideal" (15 lbs less would put you at a 20 BMI), but remember that you're still well within a healthy weight.

[kwassa]

30. Department store plus-size mannequins are size 10 ....

I had a retail job where I used to dress them for display. I would have to pin up all the excess fabric from size 16 clothes on the back side of the mannequin to make it somewhat fit on the front side.

Next time you are in department store, check out the back of the mannequin. Pins and clips.

[Odin2005]

43. In the real world Size 10 is AVERAGE

Hell, tall women can be a size 16 and still be of a healthy weight.