Artist Depicts How Disney Princesses Would Look If They Were Curvy

Down with he unrealistic beauty standards. Chubby is REAL.

Damjan

• Published in Disney
• July 26, 2022

There are new body-positive Disney Princesses in town, and they're amazing. Whether slim, thick, or curvy, women should look like they want to look.

No one needs to be the police of the female body. We all agree on that.

We have been bombarded by unrealistic standards of female beauty. Although to be honest, roughly the same can be said for male beauty.

Just think, when was the last time you saw a movie with an actor that wasn’t ripped. When was the last time you saw a commercial featuring a chubby, short, hairless middle-aged man?

Can’t remember, right? And what about all those influencers and famous people (you know the type- people no one knows why are they famous, but they are).

Not many overweight and ugly influencers (of both sexes), right? The sad truth is that we live in an age of forced and artificial beauty, where people try to look good, and if they cant do it physically, they will use filters and stuff.

That’s why it is important to instill true values and show people that body positivity is important and that everyone should look the way they want to. This is exactly what this series of curvy Disney Princesses illustrations is doing.

They are showing what they would look like if they were curvy. Take a look:

Original Mulan:

Curvy Mulan:

Original Belle:

Curvy Belle:

Original Ariel:

Curvy Ariel:

Original Aurora:

Curvy Aurora:

To be honest, we think that people are criticizing Disney a bit too much. Just think about it - how could Mulan, who is training all day long be chubby? We are talking about a world where the main source of calories was rice (greases and oil were expensive and therefore not on the everyday menu of soldiers).

There are two schools of thought. The first one says that women couldn't possibly be overweight in that period.

A world without cars and TV. How Cinderella, who is starving and working hard all day long could be chubby?

How Merida, living in a medieval world and running outside all day long could be chubby? Today obesity is very prevalent, but in the past, it was not.

So see, none of the above-mentioned princesses have a kind of lifestyle that will demand them to be chubby or fat. In fact, if you consider the period, the general population of women isn't likely to be chubby.

So, to expect Disney's princesses to draw their heroine to be chubby when the general population of their time isn't one is kinda unfair.

On the other hand, the second school of thought says that - if we see renaissance nudes, we can see that the ideal of female beauty was curvy women. In fact, being slightly overweight was a sign of health and good financial standing.

The truth is that any extreme is bad, whether it is anorexia or obesity. Ever heard of the golden middle?

The bottom line is -you should watch over your health, but not chase some unrealistic standards.

Damjan