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Amy Schumer accepted the Critics’ Choice MVP award at the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards in Santa Monica in January. Schumer took to Ins-
tagram and Twitter after learning that she was included in a special edition of Glamour magazine aimed at the plus-size women’s market. She ques-
tioned why she wasn’t told of her inclusion and declared that the “plus size” label was unnecessary in general.
Comic takes on
Glamour over
plus-size tag
By LEANNE ITALIE
Associated Press
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EW YORK — Amy
Schumer took to Insta-
gram in a black bikini
to — punctuate? — her feelings
about being included in a special
edition of Glamour aimed at cel-
ebrating “chic at any size.”
That’s exactly what the
cover sings in a tagline accom-
panying a photo of Ashley
Graham, who made her mark
in modeling wearing lingerie
for the issue’s partner, the Lane
Bryant chain of stores aimed at
the plus-size women’s market.
The content inside the spe-
cial edition out this week
amounts to repurposed sto-
ries from previous Glamours,
including a cover shoot with
Schumer, but it doesn’t refer-
ence her as plus size only as
one of several women “who
inspire us,” along with Gra-
ham, Melissa McCarthy and
Adele.
No matter. Schumer took
to Twitter when the maga-
zine was released Tuesday
questioning as “odd” why
she wasn’t told of her inclu-
sion and declaring the “plus
size” label unnecessary in gen-
eral. Not that there’s anything
wrong with being plus, she
was quick to note.
“Plus size is considered
size 16 in America,” she
tweeted. “I go between a size
6 and an 8. ... Young girls see-
ing my body type thinking that
is plus size?”
She went on to deem the
magazine’s decision as “not
cool glamour not glamourous.”
As social media dust-ups
often go, Glamour’s editor in
chief, Cindi Leive, had some
tweets of her own. She noted
the issue was aimed at sizes 12
and up and said she does ¿nd
Schumer’s regular message
of body positivity and talking
back to body haters “inspir-
ing,” as the cover indicates.
Leive said she agreed with
Schumer that sizes 6 and 8 are
not “plus size,” nor is size 12,
the “frequent size of plus mod-
els” and a size smaller than the
average American woman.
“We love Amy Schumer,
& would never want to offend
her,” she tweeted. “To be clear,
@glamourmag special edition
never called her plus-size...”
And then the apology:
“But women of all sizes can
be inspired by one another’s
words. So sorry if implication
was otherwise, Amy.”
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