14 DAY TRIAL // Crystal Renn, one of the most successful and highest paid plus-size fashion models now working in the industry, is no longer plus-size: she’s lost a lot of weight and she’s coming clean about it saying “this is the real me.”
Renn’s weight has been subject to much speculation over the years, mostly because she started off in the industry as a size 0 consumed by anorexia because she was constantly struggling to stay thin.
Once she realized she was putting her life in danger, she decided to ditch her previous lifestyle. This way, she shot to fame as the most in-demand plus-size model – and has been a “spokesperson” for curves ever since.
Now, Renn is down several dress sizes (she’s U.S. size 8-10 / UK size 12-14 from a US size 16) but she insists she didn’t do it on purpose. Neither is she turning her life upside down to be this way.
In a recent interview with the New York Magazine (cited by the Daily Mail), Renn reveals she first started to lose weight when she began working out more regularly. A bad breakup did the rest then.
However, that’s not to say that she no longer means all the things she said when she was plus-size (“plus-size” for the fashion industry, where size 0-2 is norm, not for the average woman) or that she’s killing herself to get a new, slimmer body.
On the contrary, Crystal is happy to say she’s the happiest and healthiest she’s ever been – and she credits the good ol’ fashioned workout for the improvement.
“In the past, I avoided exercise because it brought back terrible feelings. I wasn’t ready. And I was scared that maybe I was going to be addicted again,” Crystal says.
“That’s a fear that goes through your mind, whenever you’re getting over an addiction or a disease like anorexia, yeah, I absolutely was worried,” the model adds.
“But then I guess you could say my life changed in a really drastic way. For one, there was a split-up that I went through that was very difficult, and I thought, ‘You know what? I need to be in a good place. I need to find me again’,” Renn explains.
Since she must anticipate the kind of backlash she may receive for losing weight when she was preaching body acceptance only a short while ago, Renn goes to painful lengths to underline that her weight loss was not forced in any way.
Neither was it prompted by her rumored determination to be a catwalk model again since, clearly, she had plenty of offers even as a plus-size.
“This is just how my body is now... It’s been strange, actually, because it’s not something I’ve been trying to do,” she stresses.
“I think I probably have a good relationship with the exercise that I do do. I’m taking care. I’m just in a really good place. I do hiking. I do yoga, but nothing crazy, just in my house. It brings me peace,” the model further explains.