Plus Size Disney Princess Petition

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Many Disney Princess fans are wanting a princess who breaks the mold of a pretty, thin, Caucasian girl, one teen has started a petition to have Disney make a plus size princess part of their franchise. Virginia teen Jewel Moore started the petition to create the new princess suggestion, she says "Studies show that a child's confidence correlates greatly with how much representation they have in the media," Moore wrote in the Change.org petition. "It's extremely difficult to find a positive representation of plus-size females in the media." I find this true because many overweight characters I have seen in media are used for comic relief, think Chris Farley, Melissa McCarthy, and Roseanne Barr for example.

I don't really know what to think about this, I say this because I definitely think they should break the mold of they typical princess and have her represent others, but I don't think it is a good idea because it is also kind of promoting something unhealthy, in this case obesity. Many experts are saying this is not a good idea because it will make kids want to copy the plus size characters and become obese. In the US, one out of six kids are obese. 

One comment on the petition against the idea says “I hate the term ‘plus-size’ its merely a way to sugarcoat reality to fat, over weight people. Being over weight has just as much, if not more negative health issues short and long term compared to being slightly underweight. Childrens self image is not at risk from disney. If anything it will just encourage them that princesses are not obese.This is simply another attempt by fat people to try and validate and justify their unhealthy lifestyle so they don't feel guilty when they're too lazy to do something about it. They sit by the TV eating garbage rather than a healthy nutritious meal and exercising every once in a while. Any fat person, given the chance, would take a thin physique over their fat one... They just don't want to work for it. When society accepts this mentality as ok, it drastically adds to the global health and financial epidemic of obesity.

So my final thought is this: I think it would be a good idea for a slightly bigger princess, but they are going to have to be careful with her personality and habits by making sure they are healthy, to make sure it is not encouraging unhealthy habits like eating only junk food and not exercising. Please write what do you think about  the idea? What kind of princess would you like to see? I have listed a few ideas for new princess they can do, which ones would you like to see?

A plus-size princess
A princess of a nationality or ethnicity they have not done yet (please specify)
A blind, deaf, or disabled princess
A same-sex princess
A little person as a princess
What ever I didn't list, please share!


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DarkmaidScaz's avatar
Nod I think it would be interesting for Disney to mix and match their princesses a bit with shapes and sizes. Would be a good addition to add to the line along with more princesses from different countries.
The only curvaceous characters I can think of are Princess Fiona in her ogre form and Tracey Turnblad from Hairspray (she turns down junkfood a few times in the film.)
A blind/deaf/disabled princess sounds cool. The only blind animated character I can think of was Garrett from the non-Disney Quest for Camelot.
I like the sound of a little person as a princess.
Don't know about the same sex princess. There are people out there who still find same sex couples uncomfortable.
I think what's worrying is if a curvy princess is created and then people start make a mountain out of a molehill. Look what happened with the game fat princess when it was released.