Plus-size but not big enough: Curvy models told to wear padding to make themselves look even larger
Daily MailWhen Lauren Frederick first started modelling seven years ago, she wasn't given the warmest of welcomes. Lauren Frederick found she was considered too fat when she first started modelling seven years ago, but has recently been shocked to find she needs to bulk up; Felicity Howard, size 20 says they are role models for young girls to wear whatever they want A fascinating Channel 5 documentary, Curvy Girls Stripped Bare, is exploring this curious new world. Felicity Hayward on the new Channel 5 show; she said: 'When you say, 'I'm a model' they literally look you up and down and I can see their head working thinking, 'This girl ain't a model, she's fat.' Felicity, pictured on the new documentary, argues that they should be out there as a 'role model for younger girls who just wear whatever they want' To the untrained eye, though, some of the smaller Curve models don't look curvy at all. 'Sometimes I'm the only bigger girl among a load of size 8 models, and in the past that felt awful, but it's definitely changing,' says Lauren.
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