It’s no secret that artists have revered the fuller-figured female form for as long mankind has created art. Heck, the first known ever work of art, the Venus of Willendorf, is a statue of a portly gal.
I’ve been discovering a lot of great art lately, featuring beautiful big girls, but nothing has struck [...]

Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) Video

Hello, friends. As I navigate the Fatosphere in search of items of interest, I wonder how many readers know of, or are involved in, the Fatshionista blog and Flickr group. You’ll find lots of sassy style inspiration, and the added bonus of hot, chubby girl eye-candy.
Did you hear Monique lost 40 lbs?  Good for her. That is [...]

So you’ve put together the perfect outfit. The dress is right, the jewels are perfect, but there is that one nagging detail that seems to never resolve itself. Those darned narrow shoes. Consigned to flip flops? Relegated to orthodontic shoes? No more!
 Avenue has both women’s clothing sizes from 14-32 AND a crazily large selection of [...]

Drop Dead Diva, a new series on the Lifetime, is being billed as a “feel everything” comedy targeted at addressing fat stereotypes head-on.  The traditionally beautiful Deb (Brooke D’Orsay) dies in a tragic car accident and is plopped down into the body of pleasantly plump Elliott (Jane Bingum).  Elliott, a brilliant attorney is sidekicked by [...]

If you don’t read the Frisky, I suggest you do. It’s way better than this blog, and it looks much better too. It’s more like a magazine, not only in the look, but in it’s content as well. You get the feeling that the Frisky has an office with a conference room, a staff of writers [...]

You can always tell what is interesting to the lowest common denominators of the world by the subject lines in your spam. While filters catch all my spam email, periodically, I have to moderate the comments for this blog, a small percentage of which are spam. Currently, the world is abuzz with interest in (as [...]

Thanks to Heather for sharing this photo. Her eyes are the bluest I have ever seen. What a stunning beauty!
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Plus-size fashion is a subject of passion for BBW Deluxe readers and writers alike, and rightly so. The big women in my sphere are among the most stylish people around, yet they frequently get the short end of the stick when it comes to attractive, afforable clothing in extended size ranges.
With sizes over 14 accounting [...]

We have gotten the message (how could we not?) that we are not ok because our bodies are bigger. We spend too much time apologizing for it, trying to be smaller, less visible, less everything so as to try and appease the powers that be. Nice things, pleasurable things, delicious experiences? Those are for the [...]