Does this picture offend you?

If you are Shape magazine, it does. This picture shows slimmer Brooke Birmingham who lost an amazing 172 pounds. After such a successful weight loss, the magazine asked her for her picture so they could print it along with her weight loss success story. Brooke sent in this bikini snap and was shocked when it wasn't accepted, instead the magazine asking for a picture of Brooke with a shirt on. Insulting much?!

Obviously too worried about their image and not willing to show a picture of a real woman's weight loss is the reason behind their ridiculous decision. I personally think that Brooke has done amazingly well and should be proud of how she looks and what she has been able to achieve. She is a beautiful, successful lady who has shown that everyone's body is different and can look different after such a great weight loss. 

That's the thing I hate about a lot of magazines. They can be so narrow minded and have this stupid unrealistic image of how the "perfect woman" should look when really there is no such thing. Their view of a beautiful woman is one who is perfectly skinny with no bulges, marks or imperfections of any kind. In reality, this is a load of rubbish! 

There are very few women in the world who fit a magazines "ideal" of  the "perfect woman" especially since the average sized woman in the UK is a size 16. If all women featured in magazines were so perfect, then why does airbrushing exist!?

It's about time real sized women were featured in magazines, not those overly skinny emaciated "hasn't had a burger in 10 years" women that let's face it, just make the rest of us feel bad for not achieving that "perfect" look ourselves. I'm sure Brooke feels amazing and shouldn't let this rejection deter her from being a healthier slimmer woman than she was. Shape magazine, shame on you!