Toccara On the Term Curvy

Voluptuous model Toccara Jones is critical of the media's use of the word 'curvy.' At the African Pride National Hair Care event in Atlanta, Toccara blasted the way tiny women are plastered on magazines and called 'curvy,' continuing the unrealistic body image issues that so many magazines promote. "I definitely agree that they’re putting women on these magazine covers – actresses and artists- and saying they’re curvy and they’re really not," Toccara said. "For Vogue, Rihanna IS curvy. In defense of Rihanna, she does have some thick legs. I think she’s about 5’8, 5’9. She does have some big, beautiful, thick legs, so I will say that she’s curvy bottom half. I’ll give her that. I do have an issue with them throwing size 2’s and 4’s on covers and saying ‘This is curvy.’ Not to say that curves don’t come in all shapes and sizes, because you can be a 2 or a 16 and be curvy, but some of these women are just not curvy at all." "When people talk about curves, they either go to one extreme and make the requirement that you have to be really big or obese or not sexy and beautiful," she continued. "So, sometimes, when you say “curvy,” people believe that she’s not oozing the same sex appeal as anyone else."