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Why Instagram banning #curvy – but not #skinny or #thin – is so wrong

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C'mon, Instagram. You can't just ban #curves
C’mon, Instagram. You can’t just ban #curves

Jenny McQuaile, Director/Producer of a new documentary Straight/Curve about the new era of plus size supermodels redefining society’s beauty standards, thinks the Instagram ban on #curvy is ‘outrageous’ and ‘damaging’.

Here’s why.

So many people in the fashion industry and in the media are working extra hard to empower women of this generation and the next to embrace their #curves and their bodies.

It is a whole movement right now that we are covering in our documentary Straight/Curve.

Models, agents, photographers, stylists, brands and magazine editors are all fighting for inclusivity and diversity in the fashion industry and in society.

And then Instagram comes along and in the click of a button obliterates years and years… Read the full story


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