Former Miss Universe defends choice of birthday suit as magazine cover outfit

Jennifer Hawkins, the now-infamous former Miss Universe who recently posed nude -- and unphotoshopped -- on the cover of Australian Marie Claire recently, apparently to promote positive body image ideals in an otherwise size-0 sort of market. (The cover of the magazine also says that she is doing it for charity, but I didn't read the article, so fill me in if you know the details.) Instead of garnering praise from the feminist community, however, Hawkins was skewered for portraying (what would be considered by most standards to be) her pretty hot body as some sort of pro-feminist statement. NOW, there is all sorts of drama between her and Ricki-Lee Coulter, who I gather is an Australian Idol star?, and the fall-out is that some women's magazine has replaced Hawkins with Coulter as their cover girl. Reason being that Coulter is "respectably" overweight, being a size 14, and thus a better and more realistic role model for women. Oof! This is sort of a complicated issue, but ultimately, both women are both pretty and famous. Perhaps Ricki-Lee is slightly bigger (but she certainly is a petite size 14, from what I can see on google image) and thus it all seems like a series of exploitative publicity stunt. Which, gross.