Many popular magazines that young teens and young women read are also promoting a healthier body image and providing clothes and tips for every size and shape. Women look at fashion magazines all the time and these magazines are a strong source of persuasion on what the average women should look like. In the past only thin, skinny, boney models that ruled the pages of the fashion magazines but lately the wind has blown in another direction to magazines promoting every size and shape. Women can feel comfortable picking up one of these magazines and finding an array of different sizes and tips on how to flatter each and every body type. 
Glamour, a fashion magazine, has started incorporating a lot more body consious articles and tips on how to be healthy and look good while being healthy. One of the articles that is a usual occurence is "Fashion: Dress Your Body." This article includes a bunch of different body types and shows what type of shorts for example would fit and look good on those body types. It shows the readers that they do not have to be stick thin in order to look good but there are clothes out there that will flatter there bodies. 
In Glamour's recent photo shoot for their July 2010 issue, models were used in all different sizes and shapes. It caught be off guard at first flipping through the magazine and saw an average body shape. I was surprised and happy that they have moved to showing a variety that their audiences could identify with. Not only do they show different body sizes, they also found really cute clothes for cheap that fit every single body type and flatter curves as well. These articles show that you dont have to be tiny to be beautiful, but you just need to embrace what is unique about yourself. 
Other magazines are also creating articles to have the same effect. Cosmopolitan has an article entitled "Styles That Flatter Your Bod," and guy testimonies on why they think curves are sexier.Shape's new cover model is Kim Kardashian who definetly has some curves. She is quoted by saying "I'll never be one of those skinny girls, so what?" And the whole article is about how she got her curves and exercises that women can do at home to get curves as well. I think this is a very powerful way to show women that you dont have to exercise to just be skinny but you can also exercise to build curves.
One of Marie Claire's new articles is called "Size Matters: Big Girl in a Skinny World." Every issue Ashley Falcon, a curvy plus size women, discusses how she lives in the 'skinny fashion world' and how she finds clothes that fit and make her feel beautiful. In her new article she talks about glam gowns in all shapes and sizes and where to find them. She tells the readers her struggles, her successes, and how it feels to live in a world where it is a hassle to find clothes that actually fit her. The other article that I feel does a very good job at celebrating everyone's uniqueness is the article entitled "What I Love About Me." This article goes to a different state every issue and asks real women what they love about themselves. Their pictures are taken and the reader has the chance to see that people do love their curves and the unique things about themselves. It is easier to use personal testimonies to teach people to love themselves and this issue does a really good job at perpetuating a healthy body image.
More and more I see designers, runway shows, magazines, and fashion advertisements incorporating a curvier model. I like the direction the fashion industry is headed and people are catching on that super skinny is not valued as much as loving ourselves and the way we are. 
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