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Current and past confident
Hollywood celebrities who've
inspired us to look
and feel "sexy
at any size" ... |
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Anna Nicole
Smith, former
legendary Guess
Model, Playboy's
Playmate of the Year
1993 and pop sex
culture icon.
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Kirstie Alley, star
of Showtime TV Show
"Fat Actress"
detailing life of
overweight actress
in Hollywood and
former Jenny Craig
spokeswoman. |
Tocarra Jones, starred
in "America's Next
Top Model" and
"Celebrity Fit Club"
episode "telling off
the judge" about her
weight.
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Beyonce, American
R&B singer-song
writer, record
producer, actress
and pop culture icon
also famous for her
"curvy" body and
coining the term
"bootylicious."
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Jennifer Lopez aka
J. Lo, singer,
actress, designer,
producer is the
richest person of
Latin American
decent in Hollywood
according to Forbes
made her claim to
fame movie "Selena"
and her notorious
"sexy big butt." |
Laila Ali, professional
female boxer and
daughter of
legendary boxer
Muhammad Ali, new
host on revival of
NBC TV Show
"American
Gladiators" and is
an image of a woman
with a strong, fit
and toned body. |
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Marilyn Monroe, legendary
sex symbol considered large
in her time. She wore a size
12 dress, lifted weights
regularly, which meant she
was more muscular than
waiflike. Yet men found her
incredibly sexy. Even today,
years after her tragic
death, she is considered one
of the greatest sex symbols
of all time. |
Serena Williams,
former World No. 1 ranked
American female tennis
player won eight Grand Slam
singles titles and an
Olympic gold medal. Recently
posed nude in Jane Magazine
showing her strong, thick
sexy body in all its beauty.
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Mae West, performed
vaudeville at age five,
burlesque under name "The
Baby Vamp" raising eyebrows
of the lascivious "shimmy"
dance. Later, she started
writing her own risqué
plays, first staring role on
Broadway was in a play she
titled "Sex."
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Tyra Banks, host
of hit show America's
Next Top Model and WB's Tyra
Banks Show, recently
spoke out about People
Magazine claiming she's FAT,
has always stressed the
importance of body
confidence.
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Mo'Nique, comedianne,
host and actress "Showtime
at the Apollo", "The
Parkers" and "FAT Chance",
role model for voluptuous
women proving you don't have
to be a size 0 to be sexy.
She authored recent book
"Skinny Women are Evil!"
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Dana Owens aka Queen
Latifah, Oscarnominated
actress and music artist,
currently appears in Cover
Girl ads, figure of
Curvation plus-size apparel
and intimates, and part of
"Project Curvation", an
awards program championing
confidence in women.
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Alicia Keys, Pianist,
Songwriter, R&B Soul Singer
and Actress has sold over 25
million albums worldwide,
won eleven Grammy's,
Billboard, American Music
and NAACP Awards for her
soulful love songs. Current
hit CD "As I Am" sold
millions. Also loved for her
her strong, sexy, curvy
beautiful body.
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Emme, Super
Plus Size Model, E!
television host "Fashion
Emergency", best-selling
author and clothing
designer; has collectible
doll named after her, named
Glamour's "Woman of the
Year" (1997) and selected
twice by People Magazine as
one of the "50 Most
Beautiful People."
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Jill Scott, R&B
singer and Plus Size Model
recently needed a bra to
support her buxom curves.
She designed the popular
"Butterfly Bra" which is
carried by plus-size store
Ashley Stewart.
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Oprah Winfrey, won
multiple Emmy Awards host of
"The Oprah Winfrey Show"
highest rated talk show in
TV history. Over the years,
her personal "ups and downs"
of weight loss and gain have
been made public, she's the
world's only black
billionaire and possible the
most influential woman in
the world.
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Kate Dillon, Plus
Size Model posed for covers
of Vogue and MODE Magazines
and plus-size clothing
retailers. Dillon featured
as guest on TV Show
"America's Next Top Model",
talking to contestants about
body image and self-esteem.
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Kim Kardashian, stylist,
Hollywood socialite, model,
TV show personality on hit
E! reality show "Keeping Up
with the Kardashians" which
followed her posing nude for
Playboy Magazine. Also known
for her "voluptuous" butt. |
Kimora Lee, Plus
Size Model, author, actress,
head designer/ CEO of Baby
Phat Clothing, KLS, and
former wife of Russell
Simmons.
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Jennifer Hudson, Academy
Award winning American Plus
Size actress and singer.
Finalist FOX TV Show
"American Idol", won Oscars
and Golden Globes for
performance of "Effie" in
musical motion picture
"Dreamgirls" and Vogue cover
girl. |
Mia Tyler, Plus
Size Model, actress and
musician is daughter of
Aerosmith lead singer Steven
Tyler, modeled for H&M, Lane
Bryant, Vogue and starred in
reality TV series Celebrity
Fit Club in 2005.
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Crystal Renn, suffered
from anorexia and became a
plus-size model after
regaining her health. She's
been featured in multiple
editorials in each of
Vogue’s U.S., Italian,
French and German editions,
and an appearance on the
catwalk of Jean-Paul
Gaultier for his Spring 2006
prêt-à-porter collection.
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Chenese Lewis,
actress, host, plus model,
and advocate not only walks
the walk as a confident and
sexy plus size role model
who appeared on BET's hit
show "Hell Date" she talks
the talks as being a Love
Your Body spokesperson.
She produces size positive
projects such as the 2008
Flawless Calendar
and Hollywood NOW's Love
Your Body Day. |
Natalie Laughlin, was
the first plus-size model to
have an advertisement
feature on a billboard in
New York’s Times Square, an
honor repeated four times by
client Liz Claiborne.
Laughlin was also the first
plus-size model to appear in
the U.S. edition of Glamour
magazine.
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America Ferrera, actress
in Indie movie "Real Women
Have Curves", lead role ABC
TV Show "Ugly Better"she
portrays a girl who her
peers find extremely
unattractive. Listed in
"Time 100: Most Influential
People in the World."
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Velvet D'Amour,
appeared in John Galliano's
Spring 2006 ‘Everybody is
Beautiful’ and Jean-Paul
Gaultier's 2007
Spring/Summer prèt-â-porter
shows, and recently appeared
as a judge on Oxygen
Channel's TV Show Mo'Nique's
"F.A.T. Chance"
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Dove Modes for Real
Beauty, worldwide
marketing campaign launched
in 2004 included
advertisements, video,
workshops, sleepover events
and even publication of a
book and production of a
play showcasing women of
different shapes and sizes.
Idea is to "celebrate the
natural physical variations
embodied by all women and
inspire them to have the
confidence to be comfortable
with themselves." |
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