IMG Models, a global modelling agency based in America, recently signed its first "plus size” male model.

Zach Miko, an actor and former US Target model looks, to my eye, like most fit young men. Yet Miko is one of very few plus size male models with agency contracts.

The UK has no plus sized models signed to an agency, and Australia has less than half a dozen.

While South Africa is yet to introduce its first ever plus size male model, Australia is among few countries worldwide breaking the mould with the signing a few years ago of plus size model Jesse McNeilly to BGM Models, largely a female modelling company. One of his labelmates is James Aitken, another of the few Australian plus size male models.

So why is the rise of the larger mal ... Read more »