{"id":2282,"date":"2016-03-13T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/13\/lane-bryant-commercial-shows-plus-sized-models-loving-their-bodies-is-rejected-by-tv-networks\/"},"modified":"2016-03-13T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T11:30:28","slug":"lane-bryant-commercial-shows-plus-sized-models-loving-their-bodies-is-rejected-by-tv-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/13\/lane-bryant-commercial-shows-plus-sized-models-loving-their-bodies-is-rejected-by-tv-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lane Bryant commercial shows plus-sized models loving their bodies, is rejected by TV networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lane_bryan\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAzLzEzLzE2L2xhbmVfYnJ5YW4uNGYzNTUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJNTc1eDMyMyMKZQlqcGc\/a131a252\/f3b\/lane_bryan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Lane+Bryant+commercial+shows+plus-sized+models+loving+their+bodies%2C+is+rejected+by+TV+networks&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F13%2Fplus-sized-model-commercial-banned%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F13%2Fplus-sized-model-commercial-banned%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A body-positive Lane Bryant commercial is causing a minor uproar after TV networks deemed it too\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">risqu\u00e9 to air<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The 30-second spot, entitled &#8220;This Body,&#8221; features plus-sized models in scant clothing \u2014 or none at all \u2014 talking about the pride they take in their bodies, and in one case,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">breast-feeding a baby.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Among its stars is\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Ashley Graham, who was featured on the cover of\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Sports Illustrated<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">&#8216;s swimsuit issue this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/15\/ashley-graham-si-cover\/\">Ashley Graham is first plus-size model to grace Sports Illustrated cover<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">A spokesperson for Lane Bryant said the ad has been rejected &#8220;out of hand&#8221; by ABC and NBC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">NBC said in a statement provided to <i>Mashable\u00a0<\/i>that the network did not reject the ad but instead asked the company for &#8220;minor edits&#8221; so that the commercial would meet its decency standards. ABC declined to comment on the decision.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/13\/plus-sized-model-commercial-banned\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/abc\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Abc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/nbc\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Nbc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/lane-bryant\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Lane Bryant<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/advertising\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Advertising<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/UXKv1Q7q1zk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A body-positive Lane Bryant commercial is causing a minor uproar after TV networks deemed it too\u00a0risqu\u00e9 to air. The 30-second spot, entitled &#8220;This Body,&#8221; features plus-sized models in scant clothing \u2014 or none at all \u2014 talking about the pride &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/13\/lane-bryant-commercial-shows-plus-sized-models-loving-their-bodies-is-rejected-by-tv-networks\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[876,798,768,1574,1573],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-abc","tag-advertising","tag-business","tag-lane-bryant","tag-nbc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}