Facebook Group Photoshops Plus-Sized Women To ‘Inspire’ Them To Lose Weight

F**k this. Look, I'm all for promoting a healthier lifestyle. But photo-shopping someone else's body without their consent is a d**k move. You aren't trying to "motivate" them to be healthier-- you are simply saying, we'd feel more comfortable with you if you looked like this. Further more, jesus effin christ, those photo-shopped images are so unrealistic-- NO woman alive is going to have that tiny waist and huge breast naturally-- especially not if they lose that much weight. Can we all just f**k off and stop telling other people what to do with their bodies?!

Some of these women look better "now", not "after". Someone had a very bad idea.

My only problem with this: WHY THE F**K ARE THERE ONLY WOMEN BEING PHOTOSHOPPED? like it is ok for men to be fat not for women. _ _"

How is this motivating anybody to be healthy? It's purely schoolboy fantasy photoshop work - funny how the breasts all seem to stay the same size or enlarge as the rest of the body reduces so far down to be unhealthy. Also the positioning of legs, waists and hips is fairly bizarre. A fun private project maybe, but not one to share and promote to sensible human beings - particularly on copyrighted images

I think the title of this article is misleading. It should be Facebook Group Photoshops Plus-Sized Women badly To ‘Inspire’ Them To Lose Weight and to body shame them. People need to face up to the fact that we are all different shapes and sizes we are not built from the same mold. If you don't like big women then don't look at us, don't talk to us, and don't Photoshop us! I sure as f**k don't Photoshop anorexic skinny bitches into holding a f*****g sandwich to "inspire" them to f*****g eat something. So why is it OK for them to "inspire" a big girl into doing anything?

All the time I hear people that have never confronted with weight problems saying that fat people lack discipline and that they're just lazy and guilty for the way they are. Truth is, the kind of discipline that you need to lose weight is like the army. You follow strict rules and plans all the time and if you don't, you face the consequences; the psychological stress is huge due to the fact that you're depriving your body and make it do hard work-outs. Are the fat shaming people so disciplined that they can put others down for not being so, or are they just blessed with better genetics or a life that doesn't make them fell so hurt that they look for comforting in food? Do they quit smoking easier, do they make their bed every morning, do they avoid procrastinating or are they human as well and have their own weaknesses? I think that if there should be a campain, it should be a fond raising to assist overweight people in their jurney to lose weight, not one to point out at them!

I think being stick-thin like some runway models or as huge as Tess Holliday are 2 extremes NO ONE should be inspired by! However, let us be frank- all the slightly "fatter than average" people I have met have a complex about themselves and strive to lose weight. Please do not start defending Tess and her bravery and bla bla bla! Did you see her "selfies"?! She is just a huger version of Kim Kardashian- attention-hungry whore posting almost-naked bum shots! Some inspiration! Girls like her want the same thing- attention at whatever cost! You want to fight the body standards, do it in a way that will help stop bullying and not by "naked photoshoots"! What she is promoting is "eating as much and whatever you want"- which is far from "healthy"!

At the age of 22 I was 41 kilos (...height 163 cm). Well... That was much worse than being "oversized", believe me. I tried so hard to gain any weight, I looked like s**t, felt like s**t. So quit that BS about "the motivation of losing weight" and let people live and feel the way they wanna. F**k you people. Now I am 65 kilos and feel great and healthy and everyone says I look much better. So f**k ya again and f**k those cheap stereotypes.

Now, as a large woman, I know that overweight can mean unhealthy, but fat and unhealthy are NOT mutually exclusive. That's what bothers me about so many of these campaigns. I know several women who are size 16-20, exercise regularly and eat well. Regardless of whether or not their appearance is socially acceptable or ideal, these women are happy and healthy and you should just keep your damn opinions to yourself. Don't like how their bodies look? Don't make yours lo like that. That is where your right to involvement ends.

That's not cool. Highlight the positives of healthy living and life longevity free of serious chronic illness and pain.

The only pic here I slightly appreciate here is the one of Tes - not sure why her morbid obesity was ever glorified in the first place. And the one of Kelly Clarkson? Gimme a break, she just gave birth. The rest are just stupid because who's to say that any woman who loses weight will automatically look like a Victoria's Secret model with a rail-thin waist, big perky boobs and perfectly toned arms & legs?!? Dumb.

This is horrifying. Why don't we take photos of people with birthmarks or missing or deformed limbs and photoshop them to see what they could look like? These photos don't show what these women would look like if they lost weight, they show what they would look like if they were closer to the current beauty ideal. Their bodies would probably not lose weight in that way. Most would have extra skin under their chin, arms, and around their waist. Their breasts would be smaller. Besides all of that stupidity, it's just not ok to use photos that you don't have permission to edit. This is bullying, plain and simple. It's not motivating - it's offensive.

It started when fat-positive feminists on tumblr photoshopped models and movie/game characters fatter. They just turned the cards.

Even if they could lose the weight, they are not going to look like THAT. Skin takes time to shrink, and will never completely snap back. Not to mention losing the weight is the easy part. It's the firming and toning that takes a lot of work. Plus people lose weight in some areas more than others, not uniformly. Way to set unrealistic expectations.

Honestly you guys need to calm your roll. Beautiful is not so beautiful when youre at risk of heart disease

If the web site was taken down then why wasn't this page?

It makes me happy that it's been 8 years and none of these women have lost weight, and they're all killin it and look gorgeous. SUCK IT A-HOLES

This is ridiculous and does nothing for the body positive movement. As a currently plus size woman and former skinny girl...I've always had low self-esteem and issues with my body weight did not change who I am as a person or how I feel on the inside or how I perceive myself. Loving myself has been a struggle since I was a preteen, thanks to society. www.chubbymannequin.com

Where's the one for men? Exactly......

I'll bang Viktoria Manas without Photoshop.

MaKayla Spring - "People like you are the reason why I think we should just stop foreign aid totally and completely. If a country invades England or France or whatever or well we should just sit back and let the haters burn." Interesting... you clearly don't understand geopolitics. Not surprising however, most Americans don't. Anyway, I have been to the US multiple times (DC, NY, LA, SF, Miami, SD, and a lot more places), and I'm always amazed by most people's sizes. Just like the the Dutch are clearly the tallest people in the world, Americans are the biggest people in the world. Yes, there's clearly a different standard in the US, compared to the rest of the world. Again, an average sized American is considered "fat" in most other countries in the world. The US has "normalized" being fat. Travel a bit, and you'll see it for yourself. The key here, is to stop lowering society's body weight standards, to make overweight people feel better about themselves...

I am also a XL girl and I am happy with my look. Some sick minds won't feel me trrible. I really don't want to look like a barbie doll. Why should I? I am healthy and happy so..........

As a girl who lost a few clothing sizes of mass quite a few times, I thought the idea itself behind this article is actually pretty good. Most of the overweight people, no matter the degree of overweight, actually do dream of an at least a little bit slimmer body, and it's mostly out of practical reasons - acquiring new clothes, sitting on public chairs etc. I agree many of these women look hot either way and I agree some of these edited photos are quite unrealistic, despite the efforts to be so (yep, I can see their efforts). But then, these are models of their own, they're not some magazine cover models or celebrities. Besides that, the description of the article suggests these are not made without their consent.

That's what healthy should look like!!!!

Sexiest thing in the world is confidence!They dont need your fake pics.

i dont see fat shaming, as looking at this made me want to loose weight, but ive been wanting awhile also... some ppl get inspired, some fat shamed? its all ones opinion... this was my reaction when i looked at these, made me feel that hey i need to shed some pounds myself... why does everyone has to be "oh im a victim" role playing... come on how many of us need to shed a few pounds and lack the motivation due to busy schedules and some other excuse?...