As someone whose weight has fluctuated through the years, has acne scars and thin hair, it bothers me when I see someone confident in themselves, confident of who they are, someone who has lovingly embraced their bodies, being torn down over the internet and on social media for putting up a photograph. What kind of message is this sending young women and men everywhere? ‘Real women have curves,’ is a famous tagline, but it doesn’t seem to be making its point anymore. The average woman has curves, she has acne, stretchmarks and scars, struggles to tame her hair and maintain a diet and it’s hard to imagine that might affect your perception of her in day-to-day life. She works a stressful job and tries to hit the gym whenever she can, but it isn’t easy to obtain that dream bikini-body--this is a regular woman, someone you see everyday, someone like us, like you and me. People are of all shapes and sizes, and while ‘plus-size is a term that continues to exist, to my dismay, so does the harsh backlash they receive for being who they are. Dubey articulated an apt response to such criticism when her photograph of a behind-the-scenes look of a shoot, although the social networking platform claims it was an ‘accident