While it's almost impossible not to be entertained while watching the Victoria's Secret Angels strut their stuff down the runway, it's hard not to notice that every single one of them has slim frames with super toned bodies and curves in all the right places—of course minus any body fat.
Victoria's Secret is the big name in mass-market lingerie, but many plus-size women are often left buying only beauty products since most of the brand's lingerie are not offered in plus sizes.
This is exactly what Victoria's Secret consumer Dana Drew has a problem with. When she goes into her local VS store, she is stuck fantasizing about wearing the pretty little things, but in reality she is checking out with just cosmetics and some body lotion.
So she decided to stand up to the lingerie giant, which controls 35 percent of the market, by starting a Change.org petition asking Victoria's Secret to start to carry plus sizes. (Yeah that's right, over one-third of all lingerie sold in the U.S. comes from VS!)
"My money and my credit are good enough for them, but the fact that I can only buy items like perfume, lotion, and body spray sends the message that my body is not," Drew writes.
Drew touches on the controversial "The Perfect Body" marketing campaign in her petition, which was eventually removed after the company received pressure from people campaigning against it for its negative body image message.
With 750 people having signed her petition, Drew is not alone in her concerns. There are also a few other petitions going around pressuring the lingerie company to start offering plus-size products, as well as featuring plus-size models.
After the company changed "The Perfect Body" tagline to "A Body for Every Body," Brittany Cordts started a petition telling the brand to put their money where their mouth is and start featuring models that look like real, curvy women.
"Victoria's Secret is the largest retailer of lingerie in America and their annual fashion show reaches about 10 million people," Cordts writes. "It's time for them to realize that they have a social responsibility to stop encouraging a toxic body image to tens of millions of teens and women."
Drew points out in her petition that there are more than 100 million women in the U.S. who wear plus sizes. Plus- size clothing ranges from size 12 to 28. Victoria's Secret's largest size, an extra large, would be the equivalent of a size 16. And with $17.5 billion spent on plus-size clothing last year alone, you would think the company would hop on board.
But still, the brand features thin women, including models Lily Aldrige and Doutzen Kroes who have reported working out four hours a day when preparing for one of the company's famed fashion shows.
And of course these models keep up their best shape year round, just take the company's new Valentine's Day commerical that aired during the Super Bowl for example.
No one will deny that Adriana Lima is beautiful in this ad, but it would nice to celebrate plus-sized women as being beautiful as well.
