On diversity in the industry:
I don’t know about bringing it to the industry, like the fashion industry. I mean it’s hard—and I’m just going to make this confession—it is hard to make clothes look great on big women. The more fat there is on a body, the more variation there is in the shape of that body. And so it makes perfect sense that people are using a standard, clothes-hanger skinny body for it. But in terms of the way we represent beauty: If we’re going to be selling perfume or makeup, I think it’s a great thing for [people] to see diversity in advertising and not have to feel like they need to fit a mold.
On the women who inspired her:
You know, this is such an old idea, but for me it was definitely Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez. Obviously, they still have pretty idyllic bodies, but it still represented something different that I was trying to wrap my head around. They were outside of the norm, received criticism early on, and just faced it with…fierceness [laughs].Right? And there’s also Christina Hendricks, Scarlett Johansson, and Salma Hayek. Men aren’t [only] naming the skin-and-bones girls [as hot]—not that there’s anything wrong with super skinny girls, they’re beautiful too—but it’s funny to sort of see that shift.
… says Tara in Elle.
Tara definitely seems slimmer in this Elle spread… compared to this spread back in June!
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