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Thanks for your question! It can be challenging to find legitimate modeling opportunities, but there's certainly no harm in trying. Your first step would be to have some photographs taken - they don't have to be professional, but you should have a variety that include full-body and face shots alike.

You will want to submit these to modeling agencies with plus size divisions, and you might even want to get in touch with local casting agencies and find out if they cast female plus size models. Good luck to you!

-- Contributed by: Tsharma

I'm a 1x black lady that at one time did some modeling. for jacobsons department store, in Detroit, michigan. I have taken care of myself an would like,to give it one more try. At 52 yr old I find myself homeless, an think this would be a great time for something good to happen. Im 6"Feet 218Lbs, with great legs an a nice smile.

-- Contributed by: Enter your name here

Thanks for commenting, Essa. Hopefully, as more positive images come out, the more widespread acceptance will result.

-- Contributed by: Del Sandeen

Great article on Bill, MaryBeth. The snowball effect in size diversity and HAES has brought us where we are today as merchandisers and artists.

-- Contributed by: essa@essabooks.com

Thanks for commenting, Pat! You're right, everyone is not meant to be a size 6 -- that doesn't make anyone any less beautiful.

-- Contributed by: Del Sandeen

Thanks to Bill and Nancy for showing the world that fat can be beautiful. It is so important for children, especially girls, to be accepting of themselves. Living a healthy lifestyle doesn't always mean that you are a skinny-mini! Keep up the good work, Bill!

-- Contributed by: Pat

Thank you for all of your comments so far! It's incredible to see how much of a difference Bill and Nancy have made in people's lives. Hopefully, more people will read this, discover NAAFA, Amplestuff and make a difference in how society views all of us.

-- Contributed by: Del Sandeen

I really appreciate the work that Bill has done in his life to support and fight for the civil rights of fat people. I was well into adulthood before I found out about NAAFA and size acceptance in general. It was liberating for me. Since I have always enjoyed working for a cause with a "higher purpose", I am proud to help carry on the work that Bill and his friends started 40 years ago. I hope everyone who reads this will join us in Washington DC in late July as we gather to fondly remember the past and work toward the future! Together we can do it!!!

Looking forward, Peggy

-- Contributed by: Peggy

I really loved the comments made by Bill in this article. NAAFA helped so many people, (and still does), to get their lives together and learn to love themselves in a society that hates and scorns you. I just keep hoping for the world to change and maybe HAES will eventually penetrate popular thinking. I doubt it. There's no money to be made. And in the end, that is what ALL of this is about. MONEY and greed. And fat people keep shelling out their cash for unrealistic fantasies of looking like something they aren't genetically programmed to look like. Why? Because some Madison Ave or Hollywood exec say Beauty only comes below a size 8. Its a sick world we live in.

-- Contributed by: Dexter

We live in a day and age that the simplest of inherent liberties seem to be so out of reach if you do not "fit" in. Amongst the myriad of differences that people use to discriminate against others, being FAT is the ONLY one that is socially acceptable. Most of the populus treat their fat brothers and sisters as if we are not worthy of the same dignity and respect as our thin counterparts. We, as fat people, are often judged worse than thiefs, criminals and child molesters, for simply being a different size.

This has been proven many a times by people posing in fat suits who come to the realization that when stripped of their thinness they enter an alien world and are ill equipped to handle the comments, jeers and constant judgement. It's something that needs to end!

Bill is an amazing man not only because he has given of himself selflessly to promote awareness, but to know him is to experience a passion for equality that is rivaled only by Dr. Martin Luther King's vision for equality. It is the simplest of concepts but the most impossible to install into the lives of Americans because intolerance is alive and well.

Unlike Dr. King, my hope is that Bill will still be alive to see his hopes for the fat community come to fruition. Keep up the great work, Bill!

-- Contributed by: Sophie

I fervently wish I had found Bill and NAAFA earlier in my life. I went through way too many years feeling guilty about "letting my self go and getting fat". Yo yo dieting dominated most of my life. I stayed in an abusive first marriage for years, feeling no one else would want me at 350 plus pounds. I really hated to go out in public. For some reason people think it's not just O.K. to insult fat people, It's their God given right/duty. I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard that I had such a pretty face. That I would be a knock out if only I'd lose a few hundred pounds. When I heard about NAAFA, I thought it was too good to be true. For once in my life, I was not disappointed. NAAFA truly changed my life. Thank you, Bill, for changing the lives of so many people.

Ruby

-- Contributed by: Ruby Blickenstorfer

I wish most people thought like Bill! I look forward to the day when being large is looked upon as desirable again. It was a sign of health and power during the days of the Polynesian kings.

-- Contributed by: JoeB

The best initiatives often start with the simplest objectives. NAAFA's success and longevity and ASDAH's fervent dedication among its members are due to those organizations' being founded on basic principles of civil rights and respect. Any female who grows up in North America should be able to appreciate the value of Health At Every Size as a peace movement, since we're completely bombarded by advertisements, consumer products and messages that tell us how we "should" look. Women especially, are socialized from an early age to believe that fat is inherently bad, and that if we are fat, then we have something inherently "wrong", "unattractive", and "unacceptable" with us. Consider how much energy, money, and time that we as women, invest in trying to fit into the socially-acceptable body shape; we have literally created fantastically rich empires out of industries whose M.O. is to tell us how unattractive, unhealthy, and unacceptable we are and how we must constantly work to "improve" ourselves (by buying their products/services, naturally).

HAES may be considered a radical principle to many because for too long, the voices that challenged our unrealistic cultural norms of thinness as the "ideal" body shape have been either few and far between, or silenced by naysayers who simply spew the same messages of "fat is bad and unhealthy". The brave voices of NAAFA and ASDAH offer EVERYONE, regardless of shape, size or weight, the opportunity to improve and maintain their health, both physically and mentally, by understanding that there is an alternative paradigm to the thin ideal.

Your pioneering work is truly inspirational, Bill. You and your wife have so much to be proud of.

-- Contributed by: AmyH
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