Khaleej Times

Chubby daughter

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> Kim, who is a US size 10, runs an online clothing shop and publishes a fashion magazine specifical­ly for plus-size women in South Korea — a first in a country where beauty is defined by rail-thin teenage K-pop stars and TV actresses. > In her looks-obsessed homeland, she is constantly mocked and ridiculed on social networks as ‘flat-out fat’ or ‘disgusting.’ > she had been mocked by her own mother, who once refused to take the same bus with her because of the shame of being called “mom” in public by a chubby daughter. > After a failed bid to compete in a local modelling TV reality show, she left for the United States in 2010, where she eventually worked a number of full-figured shows.

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