The big fat fashion debate

Meet Crystal Renn. She's 23 years old, 1.75m tall and weighs 75kg. And she's one of the highest-paid models in the US, earning a six-figure salary last year. A former "skinny" catwalk model, she gave up trying to conform to the industry standard, put it all in a book and cashed in on magazine's desire to include more diverse body shapes following an negative publicity generated by the deaths of a number of anorexic models in the last three years.

She appears in a number of magazine spreads this month. "It's simply bizarre that ‘normal' is the new overweight," she wrote in her book, Hunger of the rise of the plus-size model.

"We've seen that super-skinny women can be as unhappy as the fattest fat girl. We know how awful it is to obsess about every calorie. We've just opted not to make ourselves crazy."

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