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The plus-size modelling industry has received general criticism on the premise that acceptance of plus-size models sets a poor health example of weight management.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newsweek.com/2009/08/25/america-s-war-on-the-overweight.html |title=America's War on the Overweight |magazine=Newsweek |date=26 August 2009 |access-date=16 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/opinion/plus-size-models-doing-big-girls-no-favours/story-e6frfs99-1225770448113 |title=Plus-Size Models Doing Big Girls No Favours |work=News.com.au |date=8 September 2009 |access-date=16 October 2010}}</ref>

Consumer-based criticism regarding the lower sizes of plus-size models iswas for a long becomingtime commonplace and wide-spread. While the reputed 'average' dress size of an American woman is size 14, the majority of models represented as plus-size arewere between a US size 6-12; therefore, the models dodid not reflect the average consumer size.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123604722 |title=Fashion Week's Latest Trend? Plus-Size Models |publisher=NPR News |date=15 February 2010 |access-date=16 October 2010}}</ref> However, over the past ten years, larger plus-size models have appeared, particularly on social media, and Tess Holliday (US size 22, UK size 26) was featured on the September 2018 cover of Cosmopolitan.

Like other models, plus-size models use food tricks to temporarily alter their size long enough to meet client demands, such as eating salty food to go up in size or eating cotton balls dipped in juice to shrink for a shoot.<ref name="Sauers, Jenna">{{cite web |url=http://jezebel.com/5824896/plus+size-models-wear-body-padding-to-please-certain-clients-and-other-modeling-non+secrets |title=Plus-Size Models Wear Body Padding To Please Certain Clients, And Other Modeling Non-Secrets |author=Sauers, Jenna |date=26 July 2001 |work=Jezebel |access-date=23 July 2012}}</ref> Agents have suggested plastic surgery to some models.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549920,00.html |title=Pressure to Get Skinny Still the Fashion Norm, Even in the Plus-Sized Model World |date=14 September 2009 |publisher=Fox News Channel |access-date=28 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622084450/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549920,00.html |archive-date=22 June 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>