Major magazine features actual person

It's a bit of a "Man Bites Dog" headline, isn't it? A major American magazine contains artistic nearly-nude pictures of... wait for it... a real person, not an anorexia-thin model with eyes sunken from drug abuse!

September's Glamour magazine, "on page 194" (it's such a shocker that even the headlines direct you to the specific page!), features a 20-year-old model, yes, but one who looks like you and I did at that age. Well, not me exactly, but you get the picture. She has a "visible roll to her belly!" She has a "healthy, spongy roll of skin that gently spills over into her naked lap!" She's "showing off her pooch!" She's not airbrushed or photoshopped! She's a "plus-size model" (only a size 12, actually, but that's about 12 sizes larger than Kate Moss)!

Still, the photos are gorgeous, the kind of portrait photos I'd love to take myself (either clothed or unclothed), full of the joy of life and a natural acceptance of her own body. The model is Lizzie Miller, and the article itself is actually pretty good. But it's not the text of the article that has caused dozens of women to write to Glamour magazine. For once, on a single page (page 194, if you missed it), there is a glamorous photo of someone you could show to your daughter, someone who looks, maybe just a little bit, like them.

And damn, but she looks good.

(Glamour's online article is here. Both photos are online here.)