The Lizzie Miller ?case’ is raising questions. The American model showed off her body with a slight belly on the magazine "Glamour’ on page 194. This is real news for the fashion magazine that makes its business with perfect bodies. Glamour published a picture of Lizzie (20 years old, 1.80 m. tall and 80Kg weight) in an article on believing in one’s self and self-esteem, and nobody would have imagined that that choice would have brought a landslide of phone calls, e-mails, letters and messages from the readers of the magazine backing that choice. So the model become a star just in a few hours.

“Finally a woman in fashion magazines”, the photo is beginning to shake the fashion world which is now under attack: many women write because they want to be free from the slavery of dieting, they are tired of fasts and of size 6. And Lizzie is becoming the symbol of the ?large’ revolution. Cindi Leinve, editor of Glamour, astonished by the tone and number of e-mails received, wrote on her blog: “All this made me think. We must reconsider the models we chose”.

Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute