The women's plus-size clothing industry has grown to $17.5 billion in sales as more retailers — especially online ones — cater to the plus market. But the stock images that represent this group of women have a long way to go.
The stock images below, with their original captions, were among search results for "plus-size." Here, a woman is "fearing unhealthy food."
Apparently, it's just as easy to fear healthy food.
She would apparently fly for junk food.
And in order to restrain herself, she might require a gag.
To reiterate, these photos were provided with the captions below them. "Gagged and scared isolated."
Here's the same model "seduced with hamburger." She is wearing handcuffs.
Plus-size women spend a lot of time thinking about apples, according to the images.
Here's another woman sated by an apple.
"Plus-size" apparently equates to an apple for lunch.
Nobody eats celery like this.
Plus-size women have a lot of dilemmas when it comes to what they should eat.
And they'd steal the burger from a child, according to this image.
They've got to contend with eating lots of new foods. Because you can't possibly be plus-size and eat healthy.
Plus-size women would exercise, but they're too busy eating chocolate cake in their workout clothes.
And dreaming about junk food.
According to stock photos, pregnant women are also considered "plus-size." Both of these images were tagged in the plus-size category.
The latter was labeled "Doctor listen big stomach pregnant woman."
Plus-size women are always scrunching their stomach fat.
In some cases, the stock photos get rather prescriptive.
Which makes sense, because plus-size women can't control their monstrous urges for food.
This woman is on a wild donut binge.
And this plus-size woman is so out of control, she's hung several links of sausage around her neck.
But if any of these were unclear or obtuse, then this photo might just sum up what all of these images are getting at. This was also found while doing a stock image search for "plus-size women."
