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On Friday we brought you Lizzi Miller, the plus-size model who recently appeared in Glamour. We were excited to see a woman who looks more like the kind we see in real life, belly pooch and all, instead of the stick-thin versions that normally grace magazines. As Laura put it, "Real women have curves...and that's the way it was meant to be. Who wants to hug a stick-thin, emaciated skeleton...?"

While a lot of you cheered the mag for featuring a "real" woman, others, like Momof4, jeered it for suggesting that "you can't be a real woman unless you're hefty, 'curvy', [or] big boned."

"If they want a magazine called fat and fabulous, then, damn it, make your own and get whatever size models you choose, but to promote yourselves as being real while implying that skinny people are fake is both hypocritical and immature," she said.

But Yo Mama thinks she's missing the point: Of course thin women are "real," but they're what we almost always see in the media, and getting a break from them is, well, nice: "...By saying that she is real, I'm not saying that naturally skinny people are fake. I'm saying that they are finally accepting that the typical woman is beautiful too...Skinny women can be beautiful too but that's all we ever hear about. Other women deserve to be accepted and told they're beautiful as well."

Tiki agrees: "The idea that people accept chubby as well as muscular, skinny, toned or airbrushed is a joy all by itself. Some people do exercise but they still look like page 194 girl."

Tell us: Are slim women not "real" women? Do you think people would have the same reaction had Glamour featured a super-muscular woman? Do you think magazines should show more different-looking women?