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'Average'is HOT!

Press Release: December 9, 2009

‘Average’is HOT!

As the tog season is just around the corner Next has rejected the ‘slim is in’ trend and shown that the average New Zealand fuller figure is sexy!

In the January issue of Next we celebrate the shapely side of summer by featuring a size 14 model to show just how hot ‘average’ can be.

‘Real women take chances, have flaws, embrace life…’
Next magazine loves this line from the movie Real Women Have Curves. Why?

‘Because, let’s face it, real New Zealand women do have curves – our average dress size is 14. We are strong, antipodean women and proud of it’ says Next editor Christina Sayers Wickstead

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