Publisher's Synopsis
'I am a woman of the nineties. I am Australian. I can go after whatever I want. I can be a model too. That's why I get in there and say to the fashion industry: "OK you guys, this is the way it is going to be."' Darrianne Donnelly'When I have more flesh, when I have strong arms and wide shoulders and breasts, then I am strong. I like the way I look. I like curves...There is something very female about the way I look.' Kerry Greenwood'The ideal body, particularly in the film and television industry, has been getting progressively thinner. If Marilyn Monroe had been around today she would be considered too large...I was very good at my work and it was deeply painful for me to know that even though I was acknowledged as such, this was not as important as how I looked.' Maggie Millar'I have really, really deadly friends. I think they are beautiful and they think I am beautiful. I guess this is my mirror, what the people I care about think about me, not what some total stranger thinks.' Walbira WattsA series of interviews with eighteen fabulous big women who talk about their lives, sex, love, work and contending with society's definition of the body beautiful.;And just so we know how gorgeous these women are, there are portraits by photographer Ponch Hawkes.The women profiled range from those who work in the public eye, to those who do not and include mothers, singers, writers, students, teachers, business women and bellydancers. They include Ann Drummond, Wendy Ellis, Kerryanne and Carita Farrer, Maggie Haggart, Sika Kerry, Maria Masselos, Fiona McDonald, Jenny Pausacker, Jill Saunders, Sue Stevenson, Julie Ward, Anne Warwick and Pat Williams. All share their life stories as big women with boldness and honesty.
