#size diversity

Melissa Owens Miller

Emme is an American plus-size model, social reformer and body image advocate. Emme gained worldwide fame as the first full-figured model chosen for People magazine's.

Emme is largely recognized in the 1990s as the leading model in the profession, as well as its highest earner.

Emme was raised in Saudi Arabia, and returned to the United States as a teenager to attend Kent School in northwest Connecticut. When Emme was in high-school, her family moved back to the States, settling in Houston.

In her book, she tells the story of her stepfather instructing her at age 12 to strip down to her underwear while he took a black marker and drew circles on her outer thighs, hips, stomach and arms to highlight where she needed to lose weight.

In 1998, she was the first plus-size model to be a spokesperson for Revlon.Emme had a sportswear line of sized 2–26 women's clothing sold at QVC under the me BY EMME label and the Emme Collection sportswear line manufactured by Kellwood and sold to department stores.

Emme's name and likeness generates money to benefit body image and self-esteem organizations.

In 1999 she worked with the company of Revlon for one of their new products they were selling and she was in their commercial representing their brand as Revlon started being diverse with sizes years ago.

She is an idol and an inspiration to everyone and gave confidence to so many people that are struggling to loose weight.She proved their is always a way if you try and show off with who you really are.

www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Revlon ColorStay Compact Makeup Commercial featuring Melissa Owens Miller (a.k.a. Emme) (1999). [online] Available at: https://youtu.be/zvNk0uajhw8?si=nT5E0qdUz1tUopiG [Accessed 2 Oct. 2023].

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And yet some body positive artists will draw only one body type and or body size. It's usually a plus size girl, who's no larger than a size 18, and she has an hourglass or pear shaped figure. She's probably white. She's almost always able-bodied. If you're lucky, she'll have stretch marks or a bit of belly pudge or something, but don't be surprised if she doesn't. Her gender expression is hyper feminine.

I'm not saying body positive artists who draw stock body types have no merit. They are still putting out SOME degree of body diversity into to the world. Their art can still help people and make them happy. Their art caan be generally skillful and nice to look at regardless at how effective they are at showcasing body diversity. Even I like and reblog from those artists, so I'd be a jerk to completley condemn them.

And not all body positive artists who represent a limited amount of people have every single blind spot that I'm talking about. For example, some artists will draw fat girls with stretch marks and squishy midriffs, but won't ever draw them without an hourglass figure.