Crystal Renn, Then Or Now??

Ad America's waist line is collectively growing and changing so are the figures in media, they have to, the norm no longer dictates that women have to be stick figures to be considered beautiful. Which, I'd like to note, has not always been the case, in fact save for the Twiggy fad in the 60's and heroin chic in the 90's being curvy and buxom has always been the rage. I read an article by past skinny model and current plus size model Crystal Renn, she wrote a book about what it was like to starve herself to stay thin, being near to death and having people STILL tell her she was too fat. Well look at her now, absolutely sexy, drop dead gorgeous. And doesn't look like you could crack her over your knee!

Which do you find more beautiful and why?


Read the whole article from Salon.com, HERE



Sept. 15, 2009 | When Crystal Renn was 14 years old, a modeling scout showed up at her charm school (yes, really) in Clinton, Miss., showed her a picture of supermodel Gisele Bundchen, and said, "That could be you." There was only one catch: The healthy, 5-foot-9, 165-pound cheerleader would need to shave 9 inches off her 43-inch hips to get work.

In her new memoir, "Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves" (co-written with Marjorie Ingall), Renn tells the story of how she lost 70 pounds and landed a quarter-million-dollar modeling contract at 16 -- which was not her happy ending but the gateway to her personal hell. Renn developed anorexia and exercise bulimia, subsisting for years on "lettuce with a side of batshit," and joining two gyms so that no one would notice her working out up to eight hours a day.

And still, it was not enough. Dangerously underweight at 98 pounds, Renn took a test photo for her agency in which her collarbone juts out like a shelf and her arms look about as strong as pussy willows. Her agent's opinion: "You're too heavy here." It only got worse when, despite her continued starvation and obsessive exercise, she began gaining back the weight. After she hit Size 4, the then 18-year-old was hauled into her agency for a come-to-Jesus talk. Staring at a Polaroid of Renn in which she still looks utterly waifish to a layperson's eye, the agent declared, "The thighs need to come down."

Upon hearing that, writes Renn, "Something snapped." She quit working for that agency, and Ford Models soon signed her to their plus division -- accurately predicting that once Renn returned to her natural size, she'd be a superstar -- then waited patiently while she taught herself to eat again.