This Asian Curve Model Is Out To Smash Some Stereotypes

“We’re all different. We can’t build a mold and expect people to all fit in that mold.”

Women over a certain size are constantly having to shatter stereotypes. But one stereotype in particular may not last much longer.

Natalie Nootenboom is a 16-year-old up-and-coming model and the niece of famous DJ Steve Aoki. She looks up to him, she told Revelist, “because he broke Asian norms with his music.”

She hopes to break Asian norms, too, in her new and bustling modeling career. Nootenboom is a curve, or plus-size model she just signed with the inclusive agency Muse and said she hopes to destroy the notion that all Asian women are “petite, cute, and skinny.”

“The norm for Asian girls is to be, you know, petite, cute, and skinny,” she told Revelist. “But growing up, I kind of was taller, bigger, more awkward.  I was the opposite of what people expected me to be, and so I really want to use my platform to say, you know what? We’re all different. We can’t build a mold and expect people to all fit that mold.”

Nootenboom told HuffPost that when it comes to creating a more diverse and inclusive fashion industry, it’s careless to focus only on one thing.

“You can’t talk about diversity without addressing different kinds,” she said. “Diversity is going beyond ethnicity and size. The more I am able to showcase that in the industry,

I will.”She credits her sister Yumi, who is also a plus-size model, with teaching her confidence, and says learning about self-love is responsible for the appreciation she has for her body. She cites Katie Willcox, a plus-size model and author of the book “Healthy is the New Skinny,” as an inspiration.

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Page Six Wants to Rule the World again

Once upon a time, Page Six, the New York Post gossip section, actually appeared on page six. Like on Jan. 3, 1977, when the first edition ran, complete with tidbits about Margaux Hemingway, Henry Kissinger, Steve McQueen, Jackie Onassis and John F. Kennedy Jr. (see below).

Legendary journalist James Brady—who later went on to become an Ad Age columnist (he died in 2009)—created Page Six at the behest of the paper's owner Rupert Murdoch, who'd bought the New York tabloid for $30.5 million in 1976. It wasn't long before Page Six became a major force in New York media—an inky forum where reputations could be ruined or burnished, the famous humbled, fledgling celebrities given a boost and hot spots annointed or suddenly iced out. Other print gossip franchises tried to match Page Six's momentum (from New York Magazine's Intelligencer section to The New York Times' "Public Lives" column), but it wasn't until the internet's mid-childhood that it faced serious competition (Gawker, TMZ).

Now Page Six is making a fresh bid for relevance—and crossplatform dominance. Here's what you need to know:

Page Six TV launches next month
It seems like the possibility of a TV version of the gossip page has been been floated forever, but now it's actually happening. Endemol Shine North America and the Post are launching Page Six TV on Sept. 18. Twentieth Television is handling distribution and has placed the show into more than 200 local markets covering 98% of the country. It'll be hosted by John Fugelsang (Sirius XM Radio/VH1) and will feature a panel of "Page Six TV Insiders" including Page Six Editor Emily Smith, reporter Carlos Greer, Bevy Smith (Bravo's "Fashion Queens") and Variety's Elizabeth Wagmeister.

Page Six - the print version - gets a refresh starting today

"It had been decades since Page Six in print had been significantly changed, and it was due for a renovation," New York Post CEO-Publisher Jesse Angelo tells Ad Age. The logo you're familiar with remains the same, but as for the rest of the page, "We wanted to make it easier for the eye to follow, to give some new visual cues to famous features like 'Blind Items.' ... Perhaps the most immediate thing people will notice is that instead of a cartoon every day, Page Six will have more photos."

Page Six long ago strayed from its original place (you're more likely to find it on, say, page 8 or 12). And it also continues to be run longer than just one page, all the better to offer adjacencies to advertisers—including Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Steve Madden, Ralph Lauren and Corcoran—who know that pretty much anyone who picks up a Post is going to turn to Page Six.

Page Six is now also a standalone mobile app

Earlier this month the New York Post quietly introduced a new standalone Page Six app for iOS and Android (separate from the existing New York Post app) as a bid to expand the brand's digital reach beyond nypost.com/pagesix.com and appeal to readers who may have never actually seen a physical copy of the Post. (Two big stories on the app this morning: "Kevin Hart urges celebs to donate to Hurricane Harvey relief" and "J-Rod is this summer's hottest celebrity couple.")

"Our largest print footprint is the five [New York] boroughs and the suburbs, but we still have a very sizable readership in Florida, Washington, Boston, Los Angeles and the areas surrounding," says Angelo, who also serves as chief of digital advertising solutions at Post parent News Corp. "Digitally, both pagesix.com and nypost.com are national brands—over 80% of our traffic comes from outside the New York DMA," he adds.

One very noticeable new thing on pagesix.com and in the app: the Page Six TV section—now basically a teaser, but set to become a full-fledged mobile companion for the TV show (on which Angelo also serves as an executive producer) starting Sept. 18.

And in anothor bit of Murdochian synergy, the Fox Television Stations group is giving a big boost to "Page Six TV," launching it into 16 key markets, including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

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French President Emmanuel Macron Spends $30,000 on Makeup in Just Three Months

French President Emmanuel Macron may be looking to rival Canada’s Justin Trudeau for “most handsome world leader.” That might explain the elaborate grooming routine that a French magazine reports is costing taxpayers some Marie Antoinette-level money.

French magazine Le Point reports that the Élysée Palace has paid a makeup artist named Natacha M. a sum of 26,000 Euro (over two payments, one for 10,000 Euro and another for 16,000) over the course of his past three months in office.

The amount converts to about $30,000, or roughly $330 per day since his May 14th inauguration, and is reported to have covered his looks for public appearances and news conferences. And though it may seem to be an astronomical sum, the Washington Post reports that his predecessors in office had similar expenditures (not great optics, as the newspaper points out, in a country where the average per-capita income is slightly less than three months of the president’s beauty budget).

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Swimsuit model Kate Upton endures grueling Marines workout to raise awareness

The U.S. Marines put supermodel Kate Upton through her paces on Tuesday during a workout in Detroit to promote the upcoming Marine Week celebration in the city.

Upton struggled a bit at the end, but was able to complete the training routine that involved a series of aerobic exercises and running as her fiance, Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, watched from afar. Upton joined several other Tigers players' wives and significant others in the session at Wayne State University's athletic complex that was led by Gunnery Sgt. Sara Pacheco, a Marine Corps fitness instructor.

"It was (a) very hard workout," Upton said following the exercise session, which she concluded by collapsing to the grass in an exhausted embrace with a fellow workout warrior. "I knew it was going to be hard. The Marines are very tough."

Kate Upton raises awareness for Marine Week.  (AP)

Verlander, a former American League most valuable player and winner of the Cy Young award as the league's top pitcher, said afterward that he was proud of Upton for her efforts.
"I think it's easy to show your support with words. I think going out there and doing that workout I think really shows how much she supports (the military)," Verlander said. He is the founder of the Wins for Warriors charity that supports military service members and their families.

Upton, a world-famous model who has appeared three times on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, was on hand to promote Marine Week, which runs Sept. 6-10, and is designed to provide the public with a better understanding of the Corps and its mission and the chance to connect with hundreds of Marines.

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Teens still hate Facebook, love Snapchat, Instagram

It's no surprise that teens hate Facebook, but a new forecast of social network usage in the US and UK by market research firm eMarketer paints a not-so-great picture for the world's biggest social network.

The firm expects Facebook's growth to continue slowing in both countries as "lessening usage among teens and young adults drags down overall user growth." At the same time, eMarketer expects Instagram and Snapchat usage rates to "rise by double digits."

It's not all bad news for Facebook, though. EMarketer says the social network's community of monthly users (aka the number of unique users each month) will grow 2.4 percent this year to 172.9 million people thanks to "increased adoption by older internet users."

But, Facebook's monthly user base between 12- and 17-year-olds—an age group "coveted" by marketers—will fall 3.4 percent this year to 14.5 million, eMarketer predicts. That would represent "the second consecutive year of expected usage declines by this group" following a 1.2 percent drop last year. The firm adds that monthly Facebook usage among those under 12 and ages 18 to 24 will also "grow more slowly than previously forecast."

Meanwhile, Snapchat's US user base is expected to grow 25.8 percent to 79.2 million monthly this year while Instagram's is expected to grow 23.8 percent to 85.5 million. Snapchat's user base of 18- to 24-year-olds will grow 19.2 percent while Instagram is expected to see a 19 percent increase in users younger than 12 and 8.8 percent uptick in users between 12 and 17 years old.

"We see teens and tweens migrating to Snapchat and Instagram," eMarketer Senior Forecasting Analyst Oscar Orozco says. "Both platforms have found success with this demographic since they are more aligned with how they communicate—that is, using visual content.

"Outside of those who have already left, teens and tweens remaining on Facebook seem to be less engaged—logging in less frequently and spending less time on the platform," Orozco adds. "At the same time, we now have 'Facebook-nevers'—children aging into the tween demographic who appear to be overlooking Facebook altogether, yet still engaging with Facebook-owned Instagram."

EMarketer expects Snapchat to overtake both Instagram and Facebook in total users ages 12 to 17 and 18 to 24 for the first time in 2017. "As a result, Snapchat's share of US social network users will grow to 40.8 percent," the firm predicts.

The predictions come after Instagram in April announced that more than 200 million people now use its Stories feature (the one it ripped off from Snapchat) every day. Meanwhile, Snapchat in a February IPO filing revealed that "on average, 158 million people use Snapchat daily."

This article originally appeared on PCMag