She suggests replacing it with “full beauty”

Oct 15, 2015 23:44 GMT  ·  By
Meghan Trainor has a new plus size fashion line coming out, would like to eliminate the term plus size from our vocabulary for good
   Meghan Trainor has a new plus size fashion line coming out, would like to eliminate the term plus size from our vocabulary for good

She’s all about that bass and not at all about using the term “plus size”: Meghan Trainor, who became the hottest female pop star around with the hit song “All About the Bass,” is launching her own fashion line and she’s determined to leave her mark on the industry.

She suggests starting by removing the term “plus size” from our vocabulary because it’s offensive, and replacing it with “full beauty.”

Meghan talks body image, fashion

Trainor’s new endeavor is made possible through a collaboration with FullBeauty (hence her suggestion for the replacement term), and will include clothing items for sizes 12 and up. Meghan is famously curvy and has turned herself into a role model of sorts by speaking out on body image and self-confidence issues.

Like many other plus-size models - role models or not - Meghan rebels against the use of this term, which she sees as offensive because it implies the woman to whom it’s attached is less worthy of consideration on the grounds that she has more skin on her body.

“Full beauty” would do away with this negative connotation.

“I’ve always hated the word ‘plus-size.’ It bugs me. When I first signed up with FullBeauty, and I talked to them. I was like, ‘I don’t want to be labeled as this plus-sized girl coming in,’ and they said, ‘Absolutely not, we don’t like that term either’,” Trainor tells Elle magazine. “Which is why we like to say ‘full beauty’ [and] why I was immediately excited to work with them. [They're] a big part of our society, women who are size 14, and how are you going to criticize us? The word ‘plus-sized’ should be gone.”

Since Meghan is reading so much into the term “plus size,” everyone else could do the same with her suggestion for a replacement: if a curvy / heavy woman is a “full beauty,” does that mean a slender one is less than a full beauty?

The anti-pop star

After she shot to international fame with “All About the Bass,” aka the song of the summer of 2014, Meghan started working on her image as the anti-pop star, speaking in interviews on body image, feminism and other topics that many female stars (like Katy Perry) refuse to touch lest they cause too much controversy.

At first, she embraced the plus size term that came with not being stick-thin and refusing to lose weight to fit into sample sizes, but as her latest interview shows, it was only so she could get to a place where she could speak out against it.