As the author of Hungry, Crystal Renn tells her tale of battling anorexia and bulimia. Becoming frustrated at trying to remain a size zero, she embraced her body and became an icon in the plus-size community.
Speaking to PEOPLE about her experience doing the SI shoot she says, "I felt comfortable with my body. I have found a place of stability when it comes to how to view my figure."
Some in the plus-size community have shown some animosity toward the supposed betrayal Ms. Renn has shown by losing weight.
Plus Model Mag's Editor-in-Chief Madeline Jones is quoted as saying in this Radar Online interview, "You don't lose that much weight doing yoga and hiking! You have to put a lot of effort to go from a 14 to a size 6. We're not that stupid, we know how hard it is to lose weight and she insulted our intelligence."
Madeline is also quoted as saying, "Everyone rallied around her and now she's turned against us." "We have been betrayed by her." Rather harsh words for someone who was once the poster child for body acceptance.
Can we truly afford to ostracize our own? Crystal Renn has made a personal choice that we should support even if she has 'gone to the other side'. The social stigma of being plus-size is hard enough to battle without excommunicating our former members.
If Ms. Renn is suffering from her former ailments the last thing we should do is push her away from the community that accepted her when the rest of the world didn't. Let us be better than those that have ostracized us.
We should stand behind Crystal as one of our own. And congratulate her on her success at such a young age. Not as someone that has turned to the 'dark side'.
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