Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- A major ad campaign by Dove beauty products that features larger models has set off a debate on female physiques and the way they are depicted. The furor is spurred by the campaign featuring the Dove women whose convex tummies and soft thighs are prime alternates to those skinny models and the media's ruthless campaign to shatter the self-worth of the average woman, says The Washington Post. Advertisement The Dove women are familiar -- not so much from the ubiquitous ads -- but because they look like the majority of the women one might encounter at the neighborhood gym. They're not fat, but not buff either. They are commonly referred to as "real women," says the Post, an irritating term that suggests a thinner woman is somehow artificial. More accurately, the Dove women are amateur models while the women who regularly appear on the covers of magazines are handsomely paid professionals.
