![]() ![]() ![]() “I’ve been that girl, flipping through magazines trying to find just one person who looked a little bit like me. ![]() “When I read them I got teary-eyed!” she says. But everyone has different body shapes! And it’s not all about the physical! If you walk on the beach in your bikini with confidence and you feel sexy, people will see you that way too.”Īs for the letters, Lizzi’s loving them. I used to be so self-conscious in a bikini because my stomach wasn’t perfectly defined. “As I got older I realized that everyone’s body is different and not everyone is skinny naturally–me included! I learned to love my body for how it is, every curve of it. “When I was young I really struggled with my body and how it looked because I didn’t understand why my friends were so effortlessly skinny,” Lizzi told me. A size 12-14 and avid softball player/belly dancer (“I like exercising when it’s fun”), Lizzi moved to New York City from San Jose three years ago to become a model (a “plus-size” one by modeling industry standards, though hello, at size 12 she’s actually “normal size”…but I digress). 194” is actually 20-year-old model Lizzi Miller, and this is her second appearance in Glamour, shot by fashion photographer Walter Chin. ![]() So what’s the story behind the photo? “The woman on p. (Raising a question: With all the six-packs out there, do you even know what a normal belly looks like anymore–other than the one you see in the mirror?) The emails were filled with such joy–joy at seeing a woman’s body with all the curves and quirks and rolls found in nature. From another in Somerset, Massachusetts: “This beautiful woman has a real stomach and did I even see a few stretch marks? This is how my belly looks after giving birth to my two amazing kids! This photo made me want to shout from the rooftops.” But even so, the letters blew me away: “the most amazing photograph I’ve ever seen in any women’s magazine,” wrote one reader in Pavo, Georgia. #PHOTO GLAMOUR NATUREL ELLE MAGASINE SKIN#I’d loved this photo at first sight myself–we’d commissioned it for a story on feeling comfortable in your skin and wanted a model who looked like she was. It was of a woman sitting in her underwear with a smile on her face and a belly that looks…wait for it… normal. Here’s the deal: The picture wasn’t of a celebrity. So…who is she? And what on earth is so special about her? (As editor-in-chief, I pay attention to this stuff!) “I am gasping with delight…I love the woman on p 194!” said one…then another, and another, andanotherandanotherandanother. It’s a photo that measures all of three by three inches in our September issue but the letters about it started to flood my inbox literally the day Glamour hit newsstands. ![]()
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