Cover model is both sexy and fat, confident too
Sexy, fat or both? Our June 25 "Gender: F" had two different covers; on one, the model asked, "I think I'm sexy. Do you?" and asked readers to vote at www.seattletimes.com/votesexy.
On the alternate cover, she asked a different question: "I think I'm fat. Do you?" and asked for votes at www.seattletimes.com/votefat. To date, more than 1,600 votes have been cast. Of the 870 who voted in the "I think I'm sexy" survey: 58 percent agreed she was sexy; 42 percent disagreed. Of the 761 who responded to the "I think I'm fat" survey, 56 percent agreed; 44 percent disagreed.
Many readers suggested that fat and sexy aren't mutually exclusive, and said the model, Chandra Chase, projected confidence that contributed to her allure. "There's nothing more sexy in a woman (or a man) than self confidence," said one reader. "And it looks to me that this woman has it!"