Marlowe Mckerihan - The Blog

I think this leading lady on the runway, Crystal Renn, is one of the most stunning women ever. At any size - she looks exquisite. Yet it baffles me why the news is still harping on her about her weight. She has a bad breakup, she went hiking with her mom, she embraced a healthy lifestyle, and enjoys working out. Not everything has to be a tragic woe is me story, and I look up to Crystal for eloquently defending her demeanor. Such a beautiful inspiration!  ‘I've been a double-zero, children's clothes, at 95 pounds, and I've been all the way up to a size 16 and everything in between. [Now I’m] a 6, 8, sometimes a 10 depending on what designer I'm wearing. And that's an interesting place to be in fashion, where extremes are the norm.’   Crystal  has previously said, ‘I want the women who look up to me as a role model to know that I haven’t set out to lose weight… I’m trying to be who I am and not let anyone else dictate what weight I should be.’  ‘No ...

In case you needed more reasons to be baffled by the modeling industry’s definition of “straight-size” and “plus-size,”  Paulina Porizkova  provided it during yesterday during the  Glamour  Women of the Year conference at 92Y. “Excuse me, I have to do this,” she said, interrupting her fellow panelist  Crystal Renn  mid-sentence. “Crystal, can the two of us stand up next to each other for a moment, so that the audience can see us?” Renn obliged, and the two women stood shoulder-to-shoulder. “I'm pretty much the same size now that I was in the eighties, when I was actually modeling, and I was known for doing bathing suits,” explained Porizkova, who if anything looked larger than Renn once they stood side by side. “Here's Crystal, a plus-size model,” she said, gesturing toward Renn. “This is a plus-size model in 2010. This [she pointed to herself] is an average-size model in 1980. Times have changed.” Unsurprisingly, Renn had plenty to add to this: What I ...