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	BBW Magazine The original publicaiton for the plus size woman. Full of fashion, lifestyle information, and advice, BBW is celebrating 20 years in publication. Right now, purchase a one year subscription and receive one FREE for a friend!
	The Ultimate Plus-Size Modeling Guide New York plus-size model, spokesperson, and plus-size image specialist, Catherine Schuller, sums up her years of expertise as a plus-size model in this 81 page guide that is a must-have for anyone who has ever wondered about the exciting potential in this new field. Set yourself on a realistic path to pursue your dream! The fantasy! The fun! The facts!!
	Advanced Revelations To Plus Size Modeling Advanced Revelations to Plus Size Modeling is a pragmatic reference book that approaches modeling for plus-size women not only from the standpoint of methodology; but sagaciously peeks into the psychology behind creating and maintaining a successful modeling career.
	How to Become a Successful Commercial Model : The Complete Commercial Modeling Handbook This book is the "Bible" for commercial modeling! This book teaches people in a practical and logical way how to get started, find legitimate agents and photographers, create the types of photographs that will grab the attention of agents, photographers and art directors, understand model release forms, contracts , vouchers, get work in the industry and much much more. Readers will save years of trial and error, and hundreds of dollars spent unnecessarily. This book will be your most important investment in starting your new hobby or career. Know you can stop wishing you were in a magazine or newspaper ad, or on posters or billboards, and learn how to make your dreams come true.
	Model and Talent 2002: The International Directory of Model & Talent Agencies and Schools Model & Talent 2002 is the single most comprehensive guide for people involved in all aspects of the modeling industry. The book provides valuable information to aspiring models and promotes reputable modeling agencies and industry recognition. This directory has long been considered the "bible" and "Yellow Pages" of the modeling industry. Not only does it list all agencies internationally, but also contacts at each agency. Model & Talent 2002 is the unrivaled "directory of record" for everyone from aspiring models in search of agency representation to power bookers at the world's top agencies, along with international modeling schools, conventions, scouting organizations and support services.
	The Wilhelmina Guide to Modeling The president of the world-famous Wilhelmina Models, Inc., presents essential information and savvy advice for the thousands eager to break into modeling. Presenting interviews with top models and other features, this guide shows how to find the right agent, handle auditions and contracts, and more. 150 b/w photographs.
	The Modeling Life : The One (And Only) Book That Gives You the Inside Story of What the Business Is Like and How You Can Make It As the Model Editor of Seventeen magazine, Ms. Rubinstein has launched dozens of careers. Big names such as Niki Taylor, Tyra Banks, Kate Moss, Cameron Diaz and Liv Tyler have all benefited from her expertise. With interviews, anecdotes and smart advice, Ms. Rubinstein gives an exciting insider's glimpse of the modeling life. The Modeling Life shows young hopefuls a model's day-to-day routine, the ups and downs of her career, and how she maintains a balanced life in an ever-changing industry. Also learn exactly how to navigate this challenging and competitive business, how to get started without spending a fortune on fancy photographs or high-priced schools, how to avoid common pitfalls and build a successful career.
	Model: The Complete Guide for Men and Women This insider's handbook full of "how to" color photos on the secrets of becoming a model. Not just on hair and make up, but practical information and realistic strategies for presenting yourself at interviews, handling your finances, health and nutrition, modeling opportunities, working abroad, and how to promote yourself. Everything you need to know to succeed.
	The Modeling Handbook: The Complete Guide to Breaking into Local, Regional and International Modeling The Modeling Handbook is the essential guide for anyone interested in a career in the modeling industry, offering an ideal guide for models and their parents. The book provides a wealth of information about the people, the markets and the business of modeling and analyzes the modeling markets regionally, nationally and internationally. This new, updated edition explores modeling specialties, including plus and petite sizes, children and parts modeling, and offers advice from: Top models; Agents; Photographers; Casting directors. The Modeling Handbook is a guide for all models and their parents who want to learn the ABCs of the modeling industry.
	Beauty and Health
	Making Faces The faces that Kevyn Aucoin has made are stellar and luminous: Cher, Tina Turner, Vanessa Williams, and Julia Roberts are among Aucoin's galaxy of star clients. The first section offers Aucoin's favorite ideas, tricks, and techniques for enhancing, defining, and altering facial features with makeup. You'll learn how to care for your skin, what foundation to use with your skin type, and transformational magic for that central player in the drama of beauty: eyes. Through his gallery of noncelebrity before-and-afters, Aucoin shows clearly how to use his fundamentals to achieve dozens of different looks. These sumptuous photographs are accompanied by full-page illustrations listing the "ingredients" required to create these looks, as well as simple directions for achieving them.
	Just the Weigh You Are : How to Be Fit and Healthy, Whatever Your Size What a refreshing outlook! Steven Jonas, M.D., and fitness journalist Linda Konner assert that you can get fit and healthy whatever your size. Just the Weigh You Are affirms that whether or not you are genetically able to get slim, you can get healthy and feel good about your body. "You may stop dieting now," say Jonas and Konner. According to the authors, weight is only one of the factors that determine your overall health, and the other risk factors are easier to handle and to control. The book includes profiles of fit, healthy role models who happen to weigh 200, 250, 300 pounds, or more. All work out daily, have normal blood pressure and low cholesterol, and live fulfilling lives.
	Bobbi Brown Beauty : The Ultimate Beauty Resource Celebrated makeup artist Bobbi Brown--whose clientele includes Christy Turlington, Kate Moss, Isabella Rossellini, and Tina Turner--offers the ultimate illustrated beauty primer, sharing tips and insider secrets for successful, practical and easy-to-follow makeup applications. First serial to Glamour. 150 photos. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title
	Fashion and resources
	Plus Style : The Plus-Size Guide to Looking Great Practical, personal and easy to use, Plus Style is an indispensible guide to looking and feeling great for the millions of plus-size women who now demand fashion as well as fit. Suzan Nanfeldt is a leading consultant on plus-size fashions. With an informative blend of upbeat text and attractive illustrations, she highlights the basic body types and shows how to turn well-chosen clothes into a signature style using color and accessories.
	Size Wise; A Catalog of More Than 1000 Resources for Living with Confidence and Comfort at Any Size The ultimate resource for the 35 million overweight Americans who want to live life to its fullest, Size Wise offers more than 1,000 detailed listings showing where to find clothing, life jackets, sleeping bags, and fitness equipment, plus the most accommodating hotels, movie theaters, car models, and more.
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	True Beauty : Positive Attitudes and Practical Tips from the World's Leading Plus-Size Model "At five-foot-eleven and 190 pounds, supermodel Emme is immediately recognizable. Her image has appeared on billboards and in newspapers and magazines, including print ads for Bloomingdale's, Macy's, and Liz Claiborne. She has been featured in the New York Times and she was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World." Many women feel that if they aren't a perfect size 6, they can't be beautiful. In True Beauty, Emme shares her story of triumph over negative body image and offers tips on developing a positive self-image and overcoming stereotypes through dressing, shopping, dating, relationships, job interviews, travel, and exercise. Emme's story will comfort and inspire any woman who has battled with issues of self-esteem and body image.
	Delta Style : Eve Wasn't a Size 6 and Neither Am I In this collection of inspirational, motivational advice, humorous anecdotes, and style tips, actress Delta Burke shares her thoughts on living and being a "real-size" woman of color photos & illustrations National author tour.
	Sexy at Any Size : A Real Woman's Guide to Dating and Romance Sexy Is as Sexy Does... Bigger is definitely better, as Katie Arons -- one of the fifty million American women who wear a size 12 or larger, and a world-famous Ford model -- knows. Without a single word about losing weight, Arons offers the encouragement, confidence, and techniques needed to attract smart, good-looking, and successful men. Here, readers of all sizes will welcome the way Katie defies the expectations of a society obsessed with thinness and offers up tried-and-true advice.
	Well Rounded : Eight Simple Steps for Changing Your Life...Not Your Size Professional model Catherine Lippincott is sexy, beautiful, confident, successful...and a well-rounded size 16. One of the fifty million American women who wears a size 12 or above, Catherine Lippincott knows the trials and tribulations of living in a large-size body. After years on the weight loss/weight gain roller coaster, she turned her life around -- not by dieting, but by choosing to live happily in the voluptuous body she was meant to have. Now, this gorgeous "plus-size" model shows you how to dress to turn heads, find your signature fashion style and, most of all, to love and respect your beautiful body from head to toe, just as you are.
	Learning Curves : Living Your Life in Full and With Style Learning Curves is part of a new revolution taking place in this country, a revolution that's finally giving full-figured women a face and a voice. Author Michele Weston is the fashion and style director of Mode, the innovative fashion magazine targeted at the 62 percent of American women who wear a size 12 and above. Mode hit the newsstands in 1997 and quickly found an adoring readership for plus-size women craving fashion and beauty advice. Now, in Learning Curves, Weston presents a comprehensive practical and spiritual program that guides women to explore their inner beauty and outer style and covers all the bases, from dressing and dating to food and fitness. Weaving stories of successful full-figured women, including actor-writers Delta Burke and Camryn Manheim, with her own startling insights, Weston dispels age-old myths, exhorts women to throw off the shrouds of negative thinking, and gives them the confidence to be the sexy, strong, and proud role models they know they can be.
	Wake Up, I'm Fat! You already know Camryn Manheim can act. She won the Emmy Award as the don't-mess-with-me attorney Ellenor Frutt on The Practice. Manheim made the ceremony itself entertaining by hoisting her trophy and hollering, "This is for all the fat girls!" But can she write? Yes. This memoir is by turns funny ("If Barbie were a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions") and excruciating. It helps that the material was honed in a one-woman show that sold out at New York's big-deal Public Theater, but the subject matter was strange and interesting in the first place. Manheim could not possibly be a less likely candidate for artistic and commercial success on TV. Born Debi Manheim in Peoria, the very metaphor for mainstream culture, Manheim re-created herself as a dozen-earringed California biker chick, a Renaissance Faire wench, a protester who helped drive the Miss California Pageant out of Santa Cruz, and one of 28 actors in America accepted at NYU's exclusive graduate school. In her book, Manheim gets even with her cruel, fat-bashing teachers; credits the director who gave her her first ingenue lead role (Tony Kushner, who cast her in Fen); and tells how the same temper that got her booted from school and arrested also won her the TV role that made her name.

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