When the top plus size model Crystal Renn appeared in the latest Karl Lagerfeld Chanel show, many people began asking why the model looked as if she’d lost some of her signature curves. According to her reps there is nothing unusual going on with her weight or diet.

Her people say: “She is not trying to lose weight at all, she fluctuates between a 10 and a 14….She went hiking in Patagonia for three weeks over the holidays and she firmed up and got a little smaller. She has also been traveling like crazy and tends to be smaller when that happens.”

Crystal Renn has won admiration for her honest discussion of her own struggles with anorexia, and how the fashion and modeling industry is unhealthy in many ways, including eating disorders but touching on other issues as well for the young women who get into that world.