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PEOPLE & ARTSThursday 7 April 2016
Latest dust-up in plus size wars:
Amy Schumer vs. Glamour
LEANNE ITALIE ours, including a cover tor in chief, Cindi Leive,
Associated Press shoot with Schumer, but it had some tweets of her
NEW YORK (AP) — Amy doesn’t reference her as own. She noted the issue
Schumer took to Insta- plus size — only as one of was aimed at sizes 12 and
gram in a black bikini to — several women “who in- up and said she DOES find
spire us,” along with Gra- Schumer’s regular mes-
In this Jan. 17, 2016 file photo, ham, Melissa McCarthy sage of body positivity and
Amy Schumer accepts the and Adele. talking back to body hat-
Critics’ Choice MVP award at No matter. Schumer took ers “inspiring,” as the cover
the 21st annual Critics’ Choice to Twitter when the maga- indicates. Leive said she
Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. zine was released Tuesday agreed with Schumer that
Associated Press questioning as “odd” why sizes 6 and 8 are not “plus
she wasn’t told of her in- size,” nor is size 12, the “fre-
punctuate? — her feelings clusion and declaring the quent size of plus models”
about being included in “plus size” label unneces- and a size smaller than the
a special edition of Glam- sary in general. Not that average American wom-
our aimed at celebrating there’s anything wrong an. “We love Amy Schum-
“chic at any size.” with being plus, she was er, & would never want to
That’s exactly what the quick to note. offend her,” she tweeted.
cover sings in a tagline “Plus size is considered size “To be clear, @glamour-
accompanying a photo 16 in America,” she tweet- mag special edition never
of Ashley Graham, who ed. “I go between a size called her plus-size...”
made her mark in mod- 6 and an 8. ... Young girls And then the apology: “But
eling wearing lingerie for seeing my body type think- women of all sizes can be
the issue’s partner, the ing that is plus size?” inspired by one another’s
Lane Bryant chain of stores She went on to deem the words. So sorry if implica-
aimed at the plus-size magazine’s decision as tion was otherwise, Amy”
women’s market. “not cool glamour not Schumer’s publicist said
The content inside the spe- glamourous.” the actress and comic was
cial edition out this week As social media dust-ups not available Wednesday
amounts to repurposed often go, Glamour’s edi- for further comment.q
stories from previous Glam-
Khloe Kardashian talk show
ending after 14 episodes
In this Jan. 6, 2016 file photo, Khloe Kardashian participates in NEW YORK (AP) — The bar
the panel for “Kocktails with Khloe” at the FYI 2016 Winter TCA in is closing at “Kocktails with
Pasadena, Calif. Khloe.”
The FYI network said
Associated Press Wednesday that Khloe
Kardashian’s talk show, de-
signed to approximate a
dinner party at her home,
is ending in two weeks af-
ter 14 episodes.
The final “Kocktails” will air
April 20, with guests includ-
ing her sister Kim Kardashi-
an with husband Kanye
West, as well as John Leg-
end and Chrissy Teigen.
The little-known FYI network
said in a statement that
the show “brought new
viewers and significant
numbers to FYI’s linear and
digital platforms.” An es-
timated 496,000 viewers
saw the premiere episode,
but spokeswoman Heather
Pastorini did not immedi-
ately have details on how
many saw subsequent
shows.
Pastorini would not say why
the show is ending.q
