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"Woohoo, Glamour&amp;amp;#8217;s got a new blogger for Fashion Week! We love her because she&amp;amp;#8217;s smart, funny and can write a mean sentence. But here are some of the things you&amp;amp;#8217;ve said about her: &amp;amp;#8220;the most gorgeous woman,&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;the embodiment of modern beauty,&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;truly glamorous and inspiring&amp;amp;#8221; and &amp;amp;#8220;OMG!!! Unbelievable!&amp;amp;#8221; So who is this awe-inspiring person? Meet Crystal Renn, 23, fashion fanatic and author of the book Hungry, about her experiences going from starving straight-size model to happy, healthy and hugely successful plus-size one (she&amp;amp;#8217;s a 12, which as we&amp;amp;#8217;ve written is considered &amp;amp;#8220;plus&amp;amp;#8221;; I know, it&amp;amp;#8217;s nuts). She recently appeared on the cover of V, made the front page of the New York Times&amp;#x27; style section and took over a good chunk of our own February issue, photographed by Norman Jean Roy. Here she is, dazzling in Dolce: &amp;amp;#8220;The sexiest woman in the entire magazine!&amp;amp;#8221; wrote one reader. Crystal got a huge amount of attention last fall for her book&amp;amp;#8212;and rightly so, as it&amp;amp;#8217;s intelligent, forthright and very candid about the pressure she once faced to get skinny. (&amp;amp;#8220;That could be you,&amp;amp;#8221; said the talent scout who first discovered her, showing her a picture of Gisele. &amp;amp;#8220;You&amp;#x27;d have to lose a bit of weight.&amp;amp;#8221;) But Crystal isn&amp;amp;#8217;t anti-fashion in the least. She loves it. She&amp;amp;#8217;s walked the runway for Jean Paul Gaultier, tromps around New York in Ann Demeulemeester combat boots, and wore Comme de Garcons when we appeared together on the Ellen Degeneres Show last fall (there was briefly talk of dunking her in Ellen&amp;amp;#8217;s &amp;amp;#8220;dunk tank,&amp;amp;#8221; and all I could think was, Not in that outfit!). She simply thinks that women can be beautiful in all different shapes and sizes, and that the level of gloss and glamour and fabulousness bestowed upon the slimmest models should also be available to their curvier sisters. Needless to say, she&amp;amp;#8217;s right. Over the next few days, she&amp;amp;#8217;s taking New York fashion week by storm&amp;amp;#8212;except this time around, she&amp;amp;#8217;ll be on the other side of the catwalk, sitting side by side with our editors in the audience. She&amp;amp;#8217;ll be giving you her take on the clothes she sees, the fashion-week whirlwind and what&amp;amp;#8217;s really going on for the girls backstage. Got questions for her? Share them here. More about Crystal Renn: Crystal Renn Shows Us How To Wear The New Nudes Body-Confidence Secrets From Plus-Size Model Crystal Renn Now That&amp;#x27;s a Sexy Swimsuit! More Ways to Get Glamour: Subscribe to Glamour magazine! Follow me on Twitter! Friend Glamour on Facebook! Photo: (Renn) Norman Jean Roy"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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