She's a serious cutie. She needs to find a mean, though, between healthy (BMI of 20 and fit) and starving-skinny. The Daily Mail needs to shove it up their collective asses.

She's not even that big. I really don't get why they've got their knickers in a twist about it.

is it just me, or does her head look WAY too small for her body?

that's not her real head, is all i'm sayin'.

I'd like to get HER knickers in a twist....

The Daily Mail are the Fox News of the British press. If they can cast a smug, judgemental 'wasn't like that in my day/why do WE have to pay for it?/Why don't they just fuck off home?/What does she LOOK like?' frown on something, they will.

Also, I've always found the, ahem, 'homelier' female body type insanely erotic (if I was to put it crudely, I'd say 'instant boner material'. Good job I've decided to be tasteful), far more than the skinny little kids we're constantly served in the mass media. I CANNOT be the only man who feels this way...where are OUR kind of unacceptably objectified women on billboards?

When you go for something as shallow as a beauty pageant you've got to expect a certain level of scrutiny. She deserves every bit of ink criticizing her appearance, the fact that she's fat just makes it easier.

as a size 14 I applaud her. BMI is a load of shit. It doesn't take into account that muscle weighs more than fat.

Chloe is a beautiful, beautiful girl. I'm really glad to see her doing this well in a beauty pageant, even though I really really don't like them. She's challenging the mainstream idea of beauty, and she's taken the fight directly to the lion's den. That takes a hell of a lot of courage, so for that I applaud her. Plus I like the idea of undermining the institution of the beauty pageant from within.

And as danrimage said above, she's amazingly hot and I have no doubt whatsoever that she has to beat the boys back with sticks. *grin* I myself can attest that being a big curvy girl with luscious cleavage and a nice round ass is not an impediment. As long as I'm feeling good and smilin', the boys buzz around like bees; when I'm down, it's like they don't even see me (although that's somewhat by choice). So I think that slowly, ideas of beauty in our society are changing. It's about time.

A healthy BMI is 18.5 to 25.  If this woman's calculations are correct, then Chloe is only slightly overweight, not at all obese.  And from the patients I've seen, it's very easy for women's BMI to be in the "overweight" range if they have athletic builds or engage in sports.

Anyway, Chloe is amazing and very courageous!  I know I would not have been able to withstand the kind of criticism she is receiving when I was 17.  I wish her all the luck in the world and I was there was a way to send her a message of support.  

It is shameful that the Daily Mail is publishing these articles.  We try so hard as parents, teachers, and physicians to help young women see that they are more than their looks...then we see articles like these telling young women that if they are "not to be admired" if they are not a certain weight.  I'm basing this on the segment quoted above (as I don't want to click the Daily Mail link and give them more traffic), but notice that the author mentions how admirable it is that Chloe's thinner competitors raised money for charity, but doesn't mention any of Chloe's accomplishments, only her weight.

And that picture looks weirdly photoshopped or something, as if it had been made to be as unflattering as possible.

Physical fitness: means you are capable of taking care of everything you need to care of in day-to-day life. Many, many, years ago, that mean running down prey bare-foot, killing it, and eating it.

These days, well. . . you don't have to be fit to survive. The only reason to be thin and conserve resources is so that everyone around you has a chance to consume.

Thinness doesn't necessarily represent attractiveness; but it does represent an understanding that our resources are limited.

If I've been too subtle: "J'accuse!" Stop. Eating. So. Much. When. Other. People. Can't.

if you want to hear mean, check out what this blogger over at unfatblog.com has to say about chubby girls being sexy!

I think it is the same guy that runs myfatspouse!

To all those people criticizing the BMI scale, yeah, you're right... bodybuilders would have a much higher BMI than normal people.  And yes, you're right: muscle does weight more than fat.  Just look at all that muscle on her.  Must be skewing the BMI scale...

No, there's nothing wrong with Chloe.  That she is overweight shouldn't bring about condemnation.  Being a size 4 doesn't make you a better person than a size 18.  But in terms of glamour, hey, there's nothing particularly glamourous about being fat.  Nothing wrong with being fat, of course, but  just not glamorous.