Robyn Lawley is a 25-year-old brunette beauty who caught some positive attention after she opted to post a bikini photo of herself on Instagram without any retouching.
“New sexier cuts coming to #robynlawleyswimwear that still offer the same support #retouchandmakeupfree #ineedatan,” captioned Lawley, who was wearing a fuchsia two-piece.
However, Lawley’s praise was then overshadowed by the fact that she’s a plus-size model. What?!
Social media users were quick to defend her. “Plus size?? Are you freakin kidding me??!! If this is plus size, then everyone I know is morbidly obese. Wow,” one user wrote, while another said, “the fact that this is plus sized makes me sick. she is flipping gorgeous, long and lean!”
Someone also commented, “You are not plus sized. You are a regular sized individual. No more, no less. It is an insult to people with real weight issues that you title yourself with this. #getreal.”
She is the first Australian plus-size model to be on the cover of Madison, an Australian fashion magazine. She was also the first plus-size model to appear in a campaign for Ralph Lauren.
She is best known for her cover of Vogue Italia‘s June 2011 issue, and is the first plus-size model to be shot for Australian Vogue.
“This is the first time Vogue Australia has shot a larger model and, of course, now that we have done it, I ask myself why we didn’t do it sooner. But that’s because Robyn is especially gorgeous,” Editor-in-Chief Kirstie Clements mentioned.
“I went to the shoot to meet her and was transfixed by her beauty and poise. She is a truly super-duper model. When a plus-size model first turns up to the studio, she may be an anomaly to a team normally used to working with size-6’s, but once photographer Max Doyle started shooting Robyn, we quickly readjusted our preconceived notions of beauty. She doesn’t actually look plus-size to me at all now.”
Honestly, to us, she never did. She looks perfect the way she is.
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