Lizzi Miller model and the Glamour controversy

The woman on p. 194: Lizzie Miller Model photo posing semi nude with her stomach not photo-shopped

Lizzi Miller model and the Glamour controversy is shocking everyone. Its one of the top searches today as glamour readers are flooding emails to glamour and Lizzi. Fans and readers of Glamour are getting crazy over “plus size” model Lizzi Miller on the mag’s September Issue.

Lizzi Miller turned reader’s heads in the Glamour mag’s latest issue because of the simple fact that she resembles most readers of the fashion mag. Miller, 20, is a size 12-14 and not even technically “plus sized,” but her curvy shape is still alien to the airbrushed pages even of slightly progressive Glamour magazine.

As a result, grateful readers flooded Glamour with emails, prompting a blog post about “the woman on p. 194“:

The controversy behind the woman on p. 194 is a Lizzie Miller Model photo posing semi nude with her stomach not photo-shopped. The photo tells women it is ok to feel comfortable in their skin.

Here’s the Glamour mag’s editor-in-chief explanation:

So what’s the story behind the photo? “The woman on p. 194″ is actually 20-year-old model Lizzi Miller, and this is her second appearance in Glamour, shot by fashion photographer Walter Chin. A size 12-14 and avid softball player/belly dancer (”I like exercising when it’s fun”), Lizzi moved to New York City from San Jose three years ago to become a model (a “plus-size” one by modeling industry standards, though hello, at size 12 she’s actually “normal size”…but I digress).”It’s a photo that measures all of three by three inches in our September issue, but the letters about it started to flood my inbox literally the day Glamour hit newsstands. (As editor-in-chief, I pay attention to this stuff!) “I am gasping with delight…I love the woman on p 194!” said one…then another, and another, andanotherandanotherandanother. So…who is she? And what on earth is so special about her?

Lizzi on the other hand is grateful. She says:

“When I read them I got teary-eyed!” she says. “I’ve been that girl, flipping through magazines trying to find just one person who looked a little bit like me. And when I didn’t find it I would start to think there’s something wrong with the way that I looked. When J. Lo and Beyoncé came out and were making curves sexy, I started to accept myself more. It’s funny, but just seeing them look and feel sexy enabled me to do the same.”