Oversized model: As beautiful as fatty

Velvet D'Amour, a New York native who now lives in Paris, was trying to become a model when she was 21 years old but was a model considered "too fat" because she weighs 53 kg. Laughable instead, 1.70 blonde had the breakthrough on the French Vogue magazine and appearing on the catwalk fashion for John Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier at the age of 38, with 136 kg in weight.

Photo taken 21 years salmon D'Amour Velour (left) and when become oversized model (right).

During the past 8 years, she has been trying to persuade people to "accept her looks" and recently she has published the Fourth Edition for the magazine for his woman, the magazine Vol Up 2.

In February last year, 2012, she started to release every publication that aims to encourage women to accept and love the "not perfect", as well as always proud of her body. This publication considers the sizes as a fad or trend.

Working in the fashion industry-as a model, photographer and now magazine editor-D'Amour has many ideas about the State of the model and the changes that you want to see.

She shared on Bustle.com: "The women that we regarded as icons of beauty never happy. And if they are not happy then who are happy people. Their images life nothing different – are all 16 years old girl white, skinny, Weasley and absolutely terrible. ".

She had to persuade people to "accept his appearance" during the past 8 years.

D'amour: "age is not important. Racial differences are not the problem. " D'amour said she always dreamed of becoming a stylist or designer fashion and looked at the picture of her parents from the 1940s to get inspired.

"I'm obsessed with eccentric style," she said. But the field template is very difficult so D'Amour moved to the art of painting, photography, and art activities.

She moved to Manhattan to study at the school of Visual Arts (Visual Arts). With a balanced physique, slender body and long curly hair, people often mistook her as a model.

IMG models-the representative body for the high-end fashion Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum, and Alek Wek-have ignored her but D'Amour said that she could not lose weight to reach the weight that they require.

At the time, she weighed over 63 kg, while "everyone must try to weight down the 44kg range". So, she was considered "too fat". Feeling rejected, she continues to focus on photography, she spent a year studying American photographer James White in Italy before returning to New York.

Instead of the austere diet, regular swim workout D'Amour.

D'amour said when his weight increased, she felt embarrassed about her body. However, the more work the model has a "perfect skin but not happy," she is as happy with his appearance.

"I started photographing model and that is where the" size acceptance ". Because I was taking pictures of the model and I was feeling unhappy about my body. I have also taken the women as a symbol for beauty, and I think that "They are not satisfied with their own," D'Amour share. It was a great discovery.

D'amour said: "here, I have been exposed to the beauty ideal but they hate themselves. What will happen if these women represent feminine beauty in society we hate their own body? ".

When the Organization Agence Plus, heavy model Organization signed the first open in Paris, France D'Amour, who was then moved and opened its headquarters in the city, was approached by the organisation and become a photographer.

"I have to tell them about my work and they feel my talent," she recalled. "After that, I was also taken with the pictures of myself, so they can see I'm an oversized woman", but they have agreed to sign a contract with her.

In an interview in Raannt.com, she said: "it sounds very funny because I was signed at the age of 38 and to weigh 136 kg. I considered it a personal victory for all the struggles that I went through to accept his oversized body. "

The images of oversized model D'Amour.

She has become the main discussion topic when the program appears in Jean-Paul Gaultier Fashion Week ' Paris in October 2006 as a model.

She has also appeared on the catwalk in John Galliano's collection called "everyone" in the same fashion season that year. Photo taken by photographer Nick Knight also appeared on French Vogue.

That same year, she won the lead role in a French comedy Avida, and participated in the third season of the reality television program the French famous, Celebrity Farm.

Public opinion has criticized and accused D'Amour "súy stock obesity" but she insists her body completely healthy and not suffering from high blood pressure or cholesterol-related issues. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she says she doesn't abuse drugs, alcohol or tobacco.

Her conclusions on his blog: "those who spend all night to squeeze the hand on the forehead, the sick worry for the health of me, there are many examples of the model, the other celebrities are not healthy. Sadly some people not only healthier, but not even dead, but yet who promptly blamed the media. "

"So many women suffering about his appearance, waking every day have seen his picture main aversion in the mirror. Do you really believe that fat people by pretending don't exist which can change this for the better? "

"We are existence, we have and will always be so, there is always somewhere for the fat in this big wide world."

"If there's any one have sincerity in your fake concern for the health of a person's fat, then instead of ridicule us when we come to the gym, or on the road, white Creek, our way in a pool, then please take a sec to encourage others to have better health."

"In the end, the true beauty that we all have the choice of not lying under the mantle of Dior or Lanvin, which are the simple act of generosity created a difference in the life of each person. Not a ngấn excessive fat or wrinkles that might negate that. ".=

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