Surprise! Real Women Do Sell Magazines.

Courtesy of Glamour

Everyone, their mother and Matt Lauer are abuzz over 20-year-old, size 12 Lizzi Miller—AKA the girl with the tummy in Glamour’s September issue. Just who didn’t stop to notice the blonde with the radiant smile and carefree pose on page 194? And more importantly, who didn’t think, “I want to be like her. This woman is healthy, this woman is happy; this woman has thighs like mine!”? Heeding that message, Glamour has announced that Miller will return—once again in her birthday suit—in the November issue, along with Kate Dillon and five other plus-size models. Whether or not the momentum to put real women in magazines will hasten or slow lies largely in the hands of readers (buy November Glamour, ladies!) and, of course, the none-too-tummy-friendly deciders helming other glossies. One such, Anna Wintour, recently appeared on 60 Minutes and touted Vogue as the every woman’s “glamorous girlfriend.” I happen to know this glamorous girlfriend quite well; she fits sample sizes, has the perky privilege of going sans bra when she wants to and never gets blisters from the five-inch heels she wears 24/7. But frankly, that girl’s exhausting and a bit boring—I’d rather be friends with Lizzi!