Fashion magazines showing more body types

[LynneSin]

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Fashion magazines showing more body types

By COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mixed among the pages of dazzling celebrities and rail-thin models that dominate fashion and teen magazines is a surprising sight: young women with thick thighs and flabby abs.

In Seventeen, Teen People, CosmoGirl! and Teen Vogue are bathing suit sections partly illustrated by less-than-perfect figures and tips on maximizing assets and minimizing defects.

Editors say they are using more average women and fewer models to reflect changing body types and to help self-conscious teens see that not everyone is perfect.

"It's not going to help my reader if we only show girls who are size 6's," said Atoosa Rubenstein, editor of Seventeen magazine. "Everyone is beautiful, it's just a matter of confidence, and we try to show that."

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Seventeen's casting director chooses girls in malls, on the street, and anywhere she can find them for beauty and fitness sections. The magazine has increased newsstand sales by 17 percent in the past two years.

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This is great news because it's those magazines that are geared towards young women that start the vicious cycle of making us feel bad if we aren't rail thin

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Get out. Sanity has descended on Madison Ave?

Oh my God.
Maybe peace is possible.

[Mutley]

2. Where were these people when I was a teenager?