Charli howard

The powerful girl who wrote a letter to the fashion-industry and now tries to give women strength to feel beautiful and confident again.

Hello girls,

It’s been a long time ago, sorry for that. We had our finals and tried to come back with some good stuff. (There’s some good stuff coming up! ;) )

Today we are going to talk about the model Charli Howard. She’s a British model and in october 2015 she wrote a letter to her modelling agency to critize them. They fired her because she was “out of shape” and “too big”. Since that day, she wants to be a model on her own terms. Here’s a passage of her letter:

“I refuse to feel ashamed and upset on a daily basis for not meeting your ridiculous, unobtainable beauty standards, whilst you sit at a desk all day, shovelling cakes and biscuits down your throats and slagging me and my friends off about our appearance. The more you force us to lose weight and be small, the more designers have to make clothes to fit our sizes, and the more young girls are being made ill. It's no longer an image I choose to represent.”

A little bit later, she explained in a video from Style Like U how the fashionindustry ruined her self-acceptance. In the video you can see that she undresses herself before the camera. And she talks about all the things she had to do for being a skinny model. You can watch the video here:

Charli Howard is one of the creators of “All Woman Project”. It’s a foundation aiming to better the life of girls and women worldwide by displaying a true, beautiful, positive and unretouched image of women in photo and video campaigns throughout the years. They want girls to love themselves and try to be their inspiration to give them the strength to be the women they are meant to be. They believe all body shapes, ages and ethnicities deserve to be represented in fashion and in the media.

Charli Howard refers a lot to it on her instagramaccount. She uses the hashtag #iamallwoman. And she also writes things like ‘love your body’,‘your body is beautiful’,... She posts before-after pictures and explains that she wasn’t happy at that moment in her life. We admire her courage of writing that letter. The message she tries to transmit to the women all of over the world is powerful and we hope it would change something because real beauty and self-acceptance is what we support.

Here's an example of a text she wrote underneath a picture. As you can see, her text is really powerful.

Here's a before-after picture. Left, she was in the fashion industry starving herself to have a size 34 and right she still looks amazing and eats what she wants.