The Judgment of Paris is a truly awe-inspiring website that celebrates the myriad aspects of plus-size beauty and the cultures through history that revered plus-size women. The site features high quality photo galleries of top plus-size models (which often contain photos found exclusively at JOP), in-depth interviews with plus-size models, designers, retailers, stylists, publishers, etc., an extensive video collection, an online art gallery, countless thoughtful essays on various cultural issues, and best of all, an active, thriving forum. The Judgment of Paris has been around for about 11 years and is still going strong, thanks to the hard work and dedication of its founder, Heinrich Saint-Germain.
Oh my god, you must check out The Mouse Market! The artist makes miniature food and food jewelry out of polymer clay that just looks SO REAL! She was trained as a pastry chef and combined her talent with food with her love for miniatures. She sells her work on her Etsy online shop as well as in craft shows, for pretty reasonable prices. She has a mind-boggling array of yummy pieces, from pepperoni pizza earrings to chocolate chip cookie rings.
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Not too long ago, Sophia told me that I look like a walking Renaissance painting. And I’d never considered it in a serious way before, aside from the fact that I’d noticed the only place I ever seem to see my body type besides in the mirror is in art from that period.
I mentioned it to my boyfriend and he completely agreed. They had an obsession with “chubby, small breasted, angelic faced women” in his words and that’s a pretty good description of my physical self. I’ve got the round, smooth face that’s almost flat from a profile view, but still has a pointed chin. I’ve got the small but perky chest and this strange looking little tummy that makes a line right across my belly button. Even when I was half the size I am now, I had that little pouch of fat below that line and it would never go away no matter how much I attacked it with exercise. My mother says all of the women in her family, even the skinniest, are cursed (I’m trying to use the word blessed now) with that abdomen, though, they all got huge racks that seem to have skipped me.
It seems so silly, but, I’ll be honest, since then I’ve spent no small amount of time reading about and looking at Renaissance art. Titian’s Venus, as seen in the photo, might as well BE me for all the resemblance; I’m just a little heaver than she is right now. I’ve spent so many years loathing what’s under my clothes, and trying to cope with that fact, and trying to accept it all, and deal with it, and really I just want to get over it and move on because no one should waste so much emotional energy caring that she’s not “pretty enough”, and fussing over having her photo taken, and getting upset when she tries on clothes and they don’t fit. And somehow this realization that I may not fit today’s beauty standards but I am practically the modern embodiment of those of an era long past has made all that easier. I like the end, though I’m not sure I’m proud of the means: I shouldn’t need to fit anyone’s beauty standards to have self confidence. And I know that. But for now, I’m just going to keep my head high, telling myself I’m a walking piece of art that most people don’t know how to appreciate, and carry on until I believe it all the way.That’s the way I would look at it, for sure. :)
<3 Titian is definitely one of my favorite artists!!
Fluvia Lacerda wearing the España One Shoulder Ruffle Swimsuit from Monif C
Can someone please buy this for me? I’d wear the hell out of it with denim shorts - the perfect summer festival outfit.
OMG Fluvia’s always so gorgeous!! And I want that swimsuit—-I LOVE red!
