Brides (Digital)

Brides (Digital)

1 Issue, October-November 2018

step off the scale

A plus-size model and fashion editor lays down a new law for getting wedding-ready:
“Are you shedding for the wedding?” a friend asked when I ordered a salad during a recent dinner date. (Shocker, I know.) I must’ve looked confused because she hurriedly explained the concept of dropping a dress size for the big day and scrambled to change the subject. I mean, I’d heard of wedding diets, but I was surprised this was considered OK dinner conversation. What bothered me most: that cutesy phrase. It made a seriously loaded question sound offhand, and it made me wonder just how typical it was to assume that brides were losing weight for their weddings. So as soon as I got home, I googled “shedding for the wedding.” The first result was a Wikipedia page about a reality show that was—to my satisfaction—evidently canceled after a…
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