*Applause*

For once, a fashion magazine, whose target audience is the everyday, average-looking woman with actual thighs, has featured a model who looks like its audience.

Slender, leggy supermodels such as Bar Refaeli and Gisele Bundchen are taking a backseat these days to an unlikely supermodel contender in the form of Lizzi Miller — all 180 glorious pounds of her.

Miller, at 20 already a seven-year veteran of the modeling world, rocked the magazine industry and the blogosphere when her photo appeared alongside an article on women’s body confidence in the September issue of Glamour magazine. The photo shows Miller in all her blond, flashing a confident smile — but also flashing some stomach pooch that hangs over her thong bikini.

Check out the full story on MSNBC.com.

Kimberly Lawson served as the editor of Creative Loafing from 2013 to 2015.

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