When Lauren Frederick first started modelling seven years ago, she wasn't given the warmest of welcomes. Her hips were too ample, her stomach wasn't concave enough and her thighs needed to be trimmer.

Marie Denee is the creator of the digital publication, The Curvy Fashionista, which serves as a respected voice in the plus-size fashion industry. With an MBA in marketing, Denee strives to inspire ...

From runways to Hollywood, curvy representation is reshaping beauty, driving inclusion, and redefining pop culture.

Sounds like something you might hear in pottery class, no? Rest assured, it's not. Instead, it's the mantra stylist Timothy Snell has used to outfit curvy women throughout his 15+ years working in ...

A few years ago, plus-size lingerie was almost a taboo subject. Curvy or big women (no, that’s not a bad word) struggled to find styles that were pretty, comfortable, and suited their curves.

Fashion is an industry that prides itself on changing by the hour and yet sometimes stubbornly resists change for decades even when it makes no sense economically. I remember when I started out as a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission. Read our full commerce guidelines here. Shopping for your bridesmaid dresses can be tough, especially when you have a big bridal ...

Hawaii surfer Elizabeth Sneed hopes to improve the representation of plus-size women in the surf industry with her Curvy Surfer Girl Movement. With female surfers hitting the waves at this summer’s ...

In 2013, a survey conducted by plus size clothing brand Sonsi discovered that women prefer curvy over plus size as far as body descriptors go. For me, however, the opposite is true. Being called ...

Curvy, big-boned, fat, thick, plump, full-figured — plus-size girlies have a whole thesaurus of alternative words for describing the same thing: our bodies. This fact in itself is ironic as hell. Why ...