Sophie Dahl is an interesting point, re: the fashion industry's attitude to size. When she became the face of Yves Saint Laurent she was a size 14.
Gasp!
An 'outsize' model was chosen to front one of the world's leading fashion companies!
After gaining a lot of good publicity for the company, a year later she was quietly dropped and replaced by Kate Moss. She's said in interviews since that in order to carry on finding work, once the novelty had worn off about 'outsize' models, remember she was a size 14 and six foot tall, she felt compelled to diet. She's now a size 8. Still beautiful, but the point is she was compelled to become thinner if she wanted to work.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but certainly wasn't present in some of the foul mouthed posts from the early hours of Sunday morning, that have since been deleted, and to refer to me as a 'milk shaker', which I have taken to refer to Parkinson's, and which showed a very ugly attitude.