Over the past week or so, the Internet has collectively been losing it–in a good way–over a nineteen-year-old model named Barbie Ferreira. It’s not totally hard to see why–Ferreira is a “curve” model, meaning that she doesn’t identify as plus-size but rather with her shape over numerical sizing, and she was just featured in Aerie’s, American Eagle’s lingerie offshoot, latest campaign. While Aerie has been making strides in terms of body positivity for about two years now (they stopped retouching their models in January 2014) they’ve been critiqued in the past for only featuring models whose bodies already adhere to what’s already expected with a lingerie model.
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