Plus size news

I love seeing new brands, boutiques, and designers launching that are catering to the plus size woman. Whether you fancy the edgy, classy, contemporary, or high end options, new brands are emerging to help fill the big black void that [...]

Nothing feels better than taking a stand, posing a question, or positively affecting change or thought. Such is the case when Plus Model Magazine released its January 2012 issue and posed this question: Plus Size Bodies, What is Wrong With [...]

Recently a salon in UK, called Hair by Bashar, opened featuring extra-large salon seats, bigger gowns, and a wider neck insert on their wash bowls. A plus size salon really!? The 31 year old stylist, Trim Bashar Brown, opened his salon [...]

  What happens when you get Gwen DeVoe, Tara Lynn, Marquita Pring, Candice Huffine, Emme, Catherine Schuller, Jessica Weiner, Connie Elder, Kmart, Ashley Stewart, Bare Necessities, Lane Bryant, Avenue, and USA Today together?   You get some kind of amazing. [...]

I love a great cause. Especially one that focuses on helping another achieve a dream, a goal, or their well-being. This is where plus size lifestyle magazine, Daily Venus Diva, sister site to PLUS Model Magazine and part of VIE [...]

  Follow your heart and dream big. You can do anything. It’s true.~Mia Amber Yesterday, May 10, 2011 the plus size community lost someone extremely near and dear to soo many. Yesterday, I lost someone I admired, loved, respected, and [...]

A look back at my top ten wishes for the plus size community’s progress for the year At the beginning of the year, I drafted a list of 10 things that I wanted, yearned, wished, crossed my fingers for, to [...]

It has been a while since I completed a week in review, but with all the goodies for the fashionably full figured, I had to recap just what YOU may have missed last week! One stop Plus made history with [...]

This time a year ago we asked the question “Is PETA Guilty of Fat Bashing?” Has anything changed in the time since?  Not really when you read news reports like the one that happened a few days ago in Canada.  [...]

This is defintiely the year of the plus size woman!  Breaking Barriers, boundaries, and stereotypes, plus size fashion is on its way to becoming a respected mainstay! For the latest plus size venture and challenge: SXSW Editor of Daily Venus Divas, [...]

Last week, I shared with you that I am a finalist for the Vienna Life Ball, what I did not share with you is WHY! HOW? Basically, all the details! I submitted this essay below, outlining all the details of [...]

Last week, I was contacted by a grad student wanting to conduct a survey. Once I found out what this was about, I was really intrigued!  The survey is ready and below is her call for participants!  Please take the [...]