LuvBug, your petition wass a great idea. You should send it as an email chain and see how many names you can get!

I feel that we all need to take a look at ourselves and rid ourselves of negative stigmas associated with being robust and gorgeous. Most people don't like to be referred to as "Plus-sized" because they feel it translates into fat. But the truth of the matter is, if we all face the reality of not being size zeroes and twos then maybe we would be able to see past the negative aspects we allow society to impose on us. Look at rail thin models for example, people hound them night and day about the way they look but what do they do in return? They make it look sexy and marketable regardless.

First I want to thank "Amaze" for being positive and showing the appreciation for curvy women. Secondly I believe that some people just have a hard time excepting that curvey women can be beautiful too. I believe that we should ignore the negative and focus on the positive "Real women have curves" we are sexy&beautiful and are voice will be heard

Okay, here's my two cents.....
I will never never never understand why Mode went belly up. I loved Mode. It was like the holy grail to me.
As a woman who loves and embraces my curves, this is something that it's rather difficult for me to say...but...
Honestly, I think it's an issue of many overweight women not having great self-esteem, and wanting to run away from images, no matter how vibrant and beautiful these images are, of women that remind them of themselves. I think that many plus women just want to be the same as everybody else and don't want to feel singled out in buying magazines like Mode, Figure, etc.
Which is a bummer, because I think that these magazines are incredibly empowering and have helped me to further embrace my curves and realize that I'm just as sexy as those girls in Vogue and Elle...actually even sexier because I am healthy and have great self-esteem.
It's really a Catch-22, isn't it?
*Sigh* I miss Mode.

Amen valery!!