Why the difference?

In today's world, different cultures and societies tend to have their own aspects, characteristics to define what beauty is to them. Unfortunately, western society puts a lot of pressure on young girls and boys to look a certain way. From photos, videos, runways, magazines, articles and basically everywhere we look, we are surrounded by images that look quite similar to each other even if they're showing different people. The thing that most of these things have in common is the way the model looks. I know some model's bodies are indeed built that way and sure they might work out but they're naturally slim but there's also lots of starving and excessive workout that could go on. These things create extra pressure on teenagers to look a certain way in order to be considered beautiful which can lead to terrible causes such as anorexia, bulimia, depression (and others). In fact, anorexia is the "third most common chronic disease among young people" (https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/anorexia-nervosa) and therefore this conception of beauty has to change.

Nowadays, we're slowly including what we call "plus-size models". This is a person who has a bigger built than the models we are used to seeing but who have a more realistic body. While the term of "plus-size model" existed before and there were even agencies dedicated to plus size models ("Big Beauties Little Women" was the first plus-size model agency), it wasn't what we were exposed to frequently.

Today we're thankfully having runways for plus size models as well. I hope that the next step the fashion industry takes is to be even more inclusive and stop making a difference. Therefore, the title of this article "Why the difference?" and that's exactly the thing that I don't get. Why can't we make a fashion world where everyone is together, where it doesn't matter what shape or color you are. After all, we're all mixed in this earth, we're not separated into categories so why should the fashion world be?

I also hope that instead of creating different areas in the stores where they sell plus-size models clothes they can sell all their products together, in the same space without creating such a different sector.

So hopefully, in a couple of months or years there will be no difference between women no matter how they appear to be on the outside. That way, if we break the barrier of what it is/takes to be pretty, less and less girls will struggle with body image issues. So, starting today, try to think about why do we call plus size models that way? Why don't we say skinny size models? Why can't we stop making the difference and just call them all models without dividing it into categories? Maybe if we start by calling everyone the same and stop making differences between the bodies, girls will start to look in the mirror without beeing so jugmental and start to like the person who's staring back at them.