Fluvia, Mayara and Nahuane are models, but they do not diet, although they eat healthy, they also exercise from the “Belleza XL” program on channel E! The entertainment, whose second season begins on Thursday in Latin America, aims to “democratize and humanize fashion.
In an interview given to Efe by Zoom, the three Brazilian models of extra large size (XL) talk about their careers and the prejudices they had to face in life and in the fashion industry because they are “fat”.
PROUD FATS
It is a word that Fluvia Lacerda, known as Gisele Bundchen of “plus size” fashion, has no doubt to use when talking about herself and her companions, despite the fact that some people consider it contemptuous and from this reason I use euphemisms such as “fat”.
Fluvia explains that in the first season of the program, the audience opened their eyes to the reality of plus-size models, something that previously seemed “scandalous, absurd and inconceivable”, and now in the second shows the difficulties, obstacles and successes of their careers. three protagonists.
“The possibilities we have as ‘plus size’ models are as huge as those of conventional models,” says Lacerda, who has invested in her own line of swimwear, including bikinis, and complains that the manufacturers of these garments don’t think of people like her.
“The fashion industry must exist equally for all people, because no matter how much prejudice there is against a fat woman, she will not disappear because of it,” he says.
BEAUTIFUL AND HEALTHY
Mayara Russi, who is starting her international career and, like Fluvia Lacerda, is already known to the public because she participated in the first season of the series, she talked to Efe if it is possible to be fat and healthy.
The mother of two children, the same one Fluvia has, says her medical tests indicate she has “nothing to do with obesity.”
“My nutritionist says that your weight does not define your health, but healthy habits do. If you do physical activity, eat well, most of the time you don’t have to worry,” he says.
At 21, the “new” star of “Beauty XL”, Nahuane, is the youngest of the three and spent a season in London looking for more opportunities in a growing market.
Fashion is changing and models that conform to beauty standards are beginning to coexist with those that are more similar to real men and women, although that does not mean that the latter do not have to meet certain requirements.
NOT LESS THAN 115 CENTIMETERS AND MORE THAN 125
Thanks to this “reality TV” program, the public can find out what it takes to be the “new face” of the Ford modeling agency together with the “Beauty XL” program: from 18 to 30 years, a height greater than 1.70 meters and a hip width of 115 to 125 centimeters.
“I don’t follow a very restricted specific diet, I always try to eat healthy, I exercise. Sometimes I put something in my diet, but not to lose weight, but for my well-being, for my health,” says Nahuane Drumond.
Following its success in Brazil, the first season of “Belleza XL” premiered in July 2019 in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama and other Latin American countries, reaching over 49.5 million homes.
In the second episode of the series of this new season, a fourth member will be added, chosen in a casting by Ford Models Curve, an extension of the Ford Models agency.
BODY POSITIVISM
“Beauty XL” is an NBCUniversal co-production with Manjubinha Filmes, which focuses on empowering women, giving voice to an increasing number of women who break down barriers to assert their place in society.
“It’s a cause, it’s not just a job! I need to inspire women. I need women to love each other. I need women to understand that they are beautiful in their own way,” says Mayara Russi.
Fluvia Lacerda explains that “much of the program’s goal is to focus on all of these psychological prisons that women experience in any area of their lives.”
“I can be happy as I am and yes, I am a fat woman, I am happy. I don’t have to justify my health to other people, because when you talk to a weak model, you never ask how hungry she is, how many medications she uses to suppress her appetite, or how much of her hair is on. way to fall because he doesn’t eat and so on “.
According to Mayara, the audience for “Beauty XL”, especially on social networks, is mostly female, but there are men interested because “they are concerned about this issue of self-esteem of their wife, girlfriend, sister or mother.” .
Also, the lack of diversity in fashion affects both men and women. “The fat man also suffers from a lot of prejudice and suffers from this lack of fashion availability,” says Fluvia.
All three complain that their modeling careers are short, but they all have plans for later.