This beautiful girl in the adorable pink dress picture above is Jewel Moore, she is a high school junior in Farmingville, Virginia. She started an online petition asking to Disney to create a plus size princess.
It has been said many times that Disney promotes an unrealistic expectation for girls to live up to.
She wrote this on her Change.org page, since Disney has such a huge influence on young girls, it should create a princess with a curvy body to ‘show support to a group of girls who are otherwise horrendously bullied by the media.’
As with everything, some people agree and some don’t. Many people have praised her for trying to end body shaming and create a more realistic image. Others think a ‘plus-size’ princess instead of a normal-size one would be heading in the wrong direction. Some feel that the focus should be on having a ‘normal’ princesses with realistic and healthy dimensions instead.
Jewel’s petition, titled ‘Every body is beautiful‘ currently has 861 signatures so far.
She says that she created the page ‘because I’m a plus-size young woman, and I know many plus-size girls and women who struggle with confidence and need a positive plus-size character in the media.
I say good for her! I am all for it! How do you feel about this?
Wishing you Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust
Sunshine
Photo Credit: dailymail.com.uk
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I think I’m kind of in the middle on this. I like the idea of having healthier weighted females characters in the Disney cartoons. Although I don’t know what “plus size” actually indicates? A size 10 is large in juniors/women. A 12 & up is plus sized. But there is also a big difference in a juniors size 12 and a womens size 12. I do agree with a couple of the comments below. I like Merida & Nani’s character’s and sizes. They show more of an athletic body type but not over weight. There are some women that are 6’2″ and weigh 200+ lbs and are toned, not at all masculine either. There are a lot of red headed curly girls that I know that are 5’9″ & up and wear plus sizes but are not fat at all. They are completely toned. I know with the rising obesity levels in the U.S. today that Disney likes to teach kids to try to be healthy & fit, whatever that means. I am a mother of 4 my eldest is 15 and youngest is 2. All of my kids are skinny and no matter how much they eat they don’t gain a pound. But in clothing sizes they’re actually pretty big. I myself am plus size, about a 13, 5’3″, 190lbs. My husband is 6’3″, a XXL shirt and a 35 waist. And he looks really skinny, but he’s not. He’s perfectly healthy. So all in all I guess I’d really like to know a little more about what “plus size princess” means…
Why must we have fat Disney Princess role models? So our children can be even more comfortable sitting around on their lazy butts eating all day and doing absolutely nothing for exercise? Children are becoming more and more obese…they don’t need fat role models.
I think it is great. There coverage all the “gap” ethnically. Now it is time to do so size wise. Brave was a nice start. She wasn’t that scrawny thing they all have been. She had some curves until she came to the parks. At that point, she was redone into a “tiny”.
Let’s face it; Disney has real issues with size. Look at their clothing. XXS but try to get anything over an XL and it is highly limited edition. You better be there as they are putting it out and grab it fast. It’s insane! The XXS will rot on the shelf but dang if they will make XXXL and up for the real world. Even the few times they have larger sizes; they are cut so small it is a sad tease. It is time to get real and realize who really patronizes your parks. We want real food and real size clothing. Not veggie and rice with a XXS shirt.
The villains use to be allowed to be realistically sized. Guess that is why I always favored Ursela and Queen of Hearts. Now Disney is even trying to ruin them into “Barbie” size and the “new” versions are ugly! I know the original philosophy was that a “skinny girl could not be bad or mean”. Reality check! Look around today; the skinnier the meaner. Think it comes from all that denial of food and vitamins.
I digress, we need a Princess that has curves. We need a Princess that a young girl with cancer with associate with and a Princess that is a tom boy (again Brave took a stab here). We also need hero and Princes that boys can truly associate with as well in all shapes, sizes and races. In the real world, a muscle bound boy is usually a jock whereas the brain is a smaller man. Princes have to smart. It is time to show intelligence, in both sexes, over body type. Let’s add some diversity and make role models that really are realistic instead of these continued unrealistic expectations that Disney has taught us all to expect to achieve in life. They only confuse the young and have you spend your life seeking to be or find something or someone that will never exist. Yes, they are fairy tales but didn’t Walt teach us all to reach for our dreams!
I think they should make all of their stuff plus sizes for all shapes and sizes that might enjoy Disney clothes #ymbada
Kudos to this young girl. As the mother of a daughter that struggled with her weight all through high school, I am behind her 100%. My daughter lived and ate the same way the rest of the family did. Because of medical issues she had no control over her weight yet many looked at her as if it were her own fault. Many weight issues have nothing to do with not eating right – some are related to medications, health issues, etc. Assuming weight is because someone does not lead a healthy life when it comes to food or exercise is just wrong. There are many reasons someone is over-weight no matter what they do and to be teased or looked at in a bad way is a disgrace.
I’d like a princess that looks like Nani from Lilo and Stitch. That’s the kind of princess Disney needs. Thicker thighs with still a healthy body shape. I myself am a plus size teen, and I know what it’s like to get bullied for being overweight. I’m for a healthier princess, but not one as big as myself or even one that’s known as plus size. I don’t want my daughter to believe that looking like I do is okay. (That sounds terrible but I’m not quite sure how to put this) I don’t want my daughter when she’s young to say it’s okay not to be healthy because there’s a disney princess that isn’t healthy or there’s a plus size princess. I want my daughter to look in the mirror and be happy with her body I don’t want her to have to go through all that ridicule and bullying like I did. And making a plus size princess is not going to stop that. Most people think this is a great idea but it’ll hurt kids in the long wrong. When you put into a childs head that it’s okay to be unhealthy they’ll turn to that life style. There’s a difference between a normal body, a barbie body, and a plus size body. I don’t want my child to be ashamed of herself. DIsney can make it look okay but in our society it will never truly be okay.
Some people stave them selves to get thin that’s not healthy either, This young lady looks good to me they should offer larger sizes. Seems like whenever I go to a clothing clearance sale the sizes are always 0 to 6, that tells me pencil thin is not the norm #ymbada
I doubt they will do this. #ymbada
I agree that the focus should be on having a ‘normal’ princesses with realistic and healthy dimensions
I think a normal size princess would be acceptable, but with the problems youths are having with overweight and the health issues that being overweight can lead to, I believe Disney does not need to encourage young girls to be overweight.
It will surprise me if they do… the Ursala doll they made was slimmed down to Barbie proportions…
I don’t agree with this. Being a young woman with the “princess body” I want a healthy size princess. It’s not healthy to be overweight or underweight, and the princesses should be healthy. Our kids should look up to princesses that are healthy and good role models both inside and out!
Mainstream media has a way of portraying body image to young girls and young ladies that make them think they can never be “perfect.” It is such a pity that more people don’t take such a stand as this. I commend her for seeking to bring about change. I hope to hear more about her and her successes! #ymbada
I’m not on board with this. I’d just like to see the characters with a normal body rather than a Barbie doll body. #ymbada
I commend this young lady for her efforts. People do not realize that by today’s standards a size 10/12 is considered plus size . By all means this young lady is beautiful and shows a lot of poise and personality. I have always complained that there are not enough plus sized clothes for the larger sized woman in WDW and hopefully with her efforts it will all come to fruition.
I think it is a great idea #ymbada
She is a beautiful girl. And would give young girls more realistic views of themselves. #ymbada
Great Idea…We’ll buy it! #ymbada