http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliegerstein/shape-magazine-refused-to-let-this-woman-wear-a-bikini-on-it?bffbstyle

Shape Magazine didn't want to run pictures of a woman that had lost 170 pounds showing her excess skin. It's real, it's the truth, and it's not always pretty. If you make a drastic change, and drop that much weight you WILL have skin. It's sad that they claim it's policy to have everyone cover up for their before/after shots, but one look at their site, or the pages of their magazine prove otherwise. I guess they only want to showcase those that have toned and not had dramatic loss.

It would however be an excellent opportunity for them to follow a complete story. Like help her with plastics and show how healthy she is now. I am starting to get the saggy skin and I will keep it covered. But I would rather have saggy skin and a healthy body than what I had before.

I agree, but at the same time why isn't she beautiful the way she is? Not everyone wants or can afford plastics. I know if my insurance doesn't cover mine they won't be done, at least not for a LONG time. And until I started having health issues,(lower back pain, skin problems, and trouble with sitting on rolls of skin and causing pain and skin trauma) I never even considered plastics.

I think it should be made known that significant weight loss results in unattractive skin sometimes. It's real, not just all rainbows and butterflies.

i agree.....lose skin is a after effect of losing a lot of weight

i am dealing with that right now.....i think (myself) is my harshest critic

and the world itself is quick to jump on the (bandwagon) so to speak

i kudo the woman for showing herself to the masses....i dont think i could do that

however i blog about my journey and try to keep it as real as possible...and just

yesterday wrote a blog post about my saggy stomach and my hub sent this article

link to me and i found this post today so it must be a sign for me to read it...

some people think WLS is all butterflies and easy......then they find out its not....

Everthing being photoshopped, they could have 'fixed' it

http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliegerstein/shape-magazine-refused-to-let-this-woman-wear-a-bikini-on-it?bffbstyle

Shape Magazine didn't want to run pictures of a woman that had lost 170 pounds showing her excess skin. It's real, it's the truth, and it's not always pretty. If you make a drastic change, and drop that much weight you WILL have skin. It's sad that they claim it's policy to have everyone cover up for their before/after shots, but one look at their site, or the pages of their magazine prove otherwise. I guess they only want to showcase those that have toned and not had dramatic loss.

If you read the follow-up from Shape, it was actually the independently-contracted writer who stated the policy to her, not the magazine itself. The magazine apologized to the person in question (and no, I don't know if it was the result of the social media fall-out, but the author in question did admit to turning down the photo and not actually submitting it to the magazine)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliegerstein/shape-magazine-refused-to-let-this-woman-wear-a-bikini-on-it?bffbstyle

Shape Magazine didn't want to run pictures of a woman that had lost 170 pounds showing her excess skin. It's real, it's the truth, and it's not always pretty. If you make a drastic change, and drop that much weight you WILL have skin. It's sad that they claim it's policy to have everyone cover up for their before/after shots, but one look at their site, or the pages of their magazine prove otherwise. I guess they only want to showcase those that have toned and not had dramatic loss.

If you read the follow-up from Shape, it was actually the independently-contracted writer who stated the policy to her, not the magazine itself. The magazine apologized to the person in question (and no, I don't know if it was the result of the social media fall-out, but the author in question did admit to turning down the photo and not actually submitting it to the magazine)

Sadly I don't trust what Shape magazine has to say. They also stated that only more modest photos were ever accepted. I have seen more "after" photos in bikinis then not, but they originally told her that a more modest photo would be ok, and "to their standards" but if you look at their archives there are more bikini pictures than anything. It's sad that a bikini on a thin person that more toned than lost is ok, but a bikini on a formerly MO person is not, due to some excess skin, which is a fact of live for most if not all bariatric patients.

People are going to complain no matter what you do. If the magazine published it, people would complain, because they didn't then people complain.

This is my first post, I just turned my paperwork in but I've been lurking for a week or so lol. I was reading this thread and I found this

http://imperfectlife.net/ilovemyuglybody/

She is going to be my inspiration.

@kyrickchick64 LOVE IT!!! Thanks for posting that!

This woman is just amazing. I hope my attitude is as great as hers.

Edited July 15, 201412 yr by kyrickchick64