Posted on 03/15/2025 11:48:22 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The boss of online clothing brand Snag has told the BBC it gets more than 100 complaints a day that the models in its adverts are "too fat".
Chief executive Brigitte Read says models of her size 4-38 clothing are frequently the target of "hateful" posts about their weight.
The brand was cited in an online debate over whether adverts showing "unhealthily fat" models should be banned after a Next advert, in which a model appeared "unhealthily thin", was banned.
The UK's advertising watchdog says it has banned ads using models who appear unhealthily underweight rather than overweight due to society's aspiration towards thinness.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 61 complaints about models' weight in 2024, with the vast majority being about models who appeared to be too thin.
But it only had grounds to investigate eight complaints and none were about Snag.
Catherine Thom read the BBC report about the Next advert ban and got in touch to say she found it "hypocritical to ban adverts where models appear too thin for being socially irresponsible, however when models are clearly obese we're saying it's body positivity".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Oh, I don’t want her, you can have her
She’s too fat for me
She’s too fat for me
Much too fat for me
Oh, I don’t want her, you can have her
She’s too fat for me
She’s too fat, she’s too fat, she’s too fat for me
She’s a twosome, she’s a foursome
If she’d lose some, I would like her more-some
Photo....
Telltale sign you have been spending time on the Dem sites.
The complaints do not matter at all. What matters is if the company is selling clothing. If they are making a profit selling to overweight people, then good on them. And the complaints can be round filed.
You’ve never been on a CRUISE. OR BEEN TO AN AMUSEMENT PARK.
Men are also much heavier now than a few decades ago.
Once in a while there will be a picture of a news event with people at a gathering in a crowd outside. Old pictures might have one or two large people here and there but most are within a few pounds of normal weight.
New ones have a significant number of heavy men and women. Oddities are slender ones now.
I’m sure those marching crowds in the Wegovy and other ads didn’t require lots of searching by the casting director.
In the same vein, I’m sick to death of seeing closeups of ugly fat peoples underarms.
When a person is fat, ugly and stupid... must they add tattoos to the mix?
Fat people need clothes. Its a valid marketplace.
Fat thing: How much to tattoo a rose on my left boob?
Tattoo Guy: Normally it’s $200, but in your case I’d need $500.
These are the people who we all want to see covered as much as they could possibly want.
That is a significant and sufficient observation.
Yup
My money is on UberEats and Grubhub!
The woman on the right is showing her second set of boobs in public.
Dunno, looks like not much is going down the toilet.
If you are selling clothes for fat people you need to put the clothing on fat models.
The same item of clothing fits a fat person differently then it does a slim person.
Learn to deal with it.
“Size “G”??
For what...Gargantuan?
She could feed a famine. She would be a target in a famine...when the cannibals are out...
OMG, I’ve never seen anyone anywhere this fat. Blubber and tattoos require a barf alert.
Meanwhile, I was thrilled.when I saw my MD last week. I’ve gained four pounds, now weigh 116.
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