Aerie’s New Ads Feature Barbie Ferreira, the "Curve Model" to Watch
January 23, 2016 by admin
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aerie, American Eagle’s lingerie offshoot aimed at young women, has made a name for itself on the internet by using no photo retouching, even on ads with celebrities like Emma Roberts. It’s also made a point to cast models with “real” (read: more realistic-looking and average-sized) bodies.
Now aerie’s at the forefront with another exciting casting: choosing “curve” model Barbie Ferreira for its latest campaign.
Ferreira is a 19-year-old model with a legion of young fans (about 219,000 Instagram followers and 64,000 Twitter followers as of today) and an outspoken stance on body image. She doesn’t fit the fashion industry’s strict size 0 or 2 norm, but she’s also not quite plus-size. Instead, she’s a “curve model,” a phrase she and her peers and their many followers use, that emphasizes shape rather than numerical size.
Now Ferreira, the “queen of in-between,” is an aerie model. In a video teasing the campaign she shared with her followers on Thursday, the teen is seen walking around the pool in a hot pink bikini.
In the video’s narration, she gets real about the importance of not retouching images.
“Not being retouched in the images is something that is very important to me,” she says. “People knowing that that’s what I look like without anyone’s perception of what my body needs to look like.”
“What makes me aerie real is that I am unapologetically myself, no matter what anyone’s opinion of me is,” she adds.
On American Eagle’s website, Ferreira poses alongside the four other models also participating in the campaign, and she’s the only curve model of the bunch, under a banner that reads “The Real You Is Sexy.”
When Ferreira, who is signed to Wilhelmina International in its “Curve” category, posted a snippet of the campaign on her Instagram, support immediately started rolling in from her rabid fans.
“I’m so here for this!!!1!!!11!” one commenter wrote. “I love aerie!!! I’m happy to see this happening, especially as a girl with the same figure!!” wrote another.
In June, Ferreira started getting attention for being one of the youngest “curve” models out there, at just 18 — and for helping slowly put the term on the map. In a November video interview with i-D, she advocated for a designation that includes a greater variety of women’s bodies (and possibly just sounds less uncool), saying, “The term ‘plus size’ is so inaccurate. I’m not plus size, I have never bought an article of clothing that was plus size.”
For girls who have curves and may not be a size 2, it’s a sentiment that’s resonating, and it’s an ideal fit for aerie’s ongoing #aerieREAL campaign. Sales jumped when the brand initially launched the no-Photoshop aspect of the campaign; featuring a “curve” model like Ferreira, given her social media influence, only helps the brand further its positive, happy-go-lucky message of inclusion.
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Farrah Abraham’s webcam business is not impressing anyone (PHOTOS)
January 23, 2016 by admin
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Farrah’s Friends Live is a webcam business that Abraham is very proud to be a part of, and on Wednesday, she took to Instagram to post a series of images from what looks to be the AVN Awards (an adult awards show).
One image shows Abraham posing alongside scantily clad women while others show her with models dressed up in lingerie and bunny ears.
A photo posted by Farrah Abraham (@farrah__abraham) on Jan 20, 2016 at 5:20pm PST
Bunny time! At www.FarrahsFriendsLive.com @avnawards
A photo posted by Farrah Abraham (@farrah__abraham) on Jan 20, 2016 at 2:54pm PST
FarrahsFriendsLive.com taking over! Love all our new friends signing up today at @AVN
A photo posted by Farrah Abraham (@farrah__abraham) on Jan 20, 2016 at 4:28pm PST
But the posts have been met with negativity and criticism, with fans showing a lot of concern for Abraham’s daughter, Sophia.
Comments on the pictures include one from peace_out.bye, who wrote, “How’s Sophia ?.. I’m guessing she’s locked in a closet somewhere? But you wouldn’t know you don’t watch her … Lol.”
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Dlanham5788 agreed, writing, “So now she has her own porn site pretty much ? Wait until Sophia’s like oh my moms [sic] friends are on the Internet and looks it up and sees naked bitches. That’s going to be a proud moment.”
“I wonder if Sophia will ever take mommy to school for career day…,” kimberley321970 joked.
But it was not just the industry Abraham is choosing to profit from that has angered her critics; she’s also taking a lot of heat for referring to herself a boss — something that many people refute.
“Being a boss has never felt so good! #boss @girlboss www.FarrahsFriendsLive.com @farrahsfriendslive thank you to all the new friends who signed up today @avnawards#avnshow,” Abraham wrote — and she probably did not anticipate the hate she would get over her caption.
A photo posted by Farrah Abraham (@farrah__abraham) on Jan 20, 2016 at 4:31pm PST
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“Girl do you know the definition of boss ? A boss is somebody that don’t have to show they whole body to get money u might as well be a hoe!”, new.niknik wrote.
Classicmegface laughed at the thought of Abraham being a boss. They wrote, “Boss???? Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhaha.” And janboo123 shared similar sentiments, writing, “You’re a boss? More like trash.”
Yikes.