Jennie Runk
Model Jennie Runk has been featured in ads for H&M and Marina Rinaldi. The plus size model spoke to Elle magazine about the need to have healthy conversations with teens about their struggles with weight. “As a teenager, I was bigger in every single way than the other girls. It was really hard for me to wake up and go to school every day. But every teenage girl feels like that, and every teen girl thinks she’s the only one that feels like that. We need to start talking about it, so maybe their friends will say I feel that way, too.”
Runk told Elle that, growing up, “My sister and I would have conversations about how many girls’ thighs seemed to be the size of our arms, or their waists were the size of one of our thighs. I had friends in school who were a foot shorter than myself, and a size 2, pinching their tiny bellies at lunch talking about how much weight they absolutely have to lose, because they’re really letting themselves go. At the time, I was wearing a size 8. When someone who is less than half your size calls herself fat, you end up questioning what you should be calling yourself. These kinds of conversations need to change.”
–WomensHealth
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