Tara Lynn (born July 26, 1982) is an American

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. She is best known as a

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model for

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Early life

Lynn was born on July 26, 1982, in

Tacoma, Washington Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, southwest of Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue, northeast of the state capital, Olympia ...

, where she grew up.

Career

Lynn drew attention in the

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world after being featured in '' V'' and in the French ''Elle'''s plus-size fashion shoot. She has also appeared on the cover of the June 2011 ''

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'' on the Spanish July 2010 XL-Semanal, in ''Elle''-Québec and in

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in 2010. She has also been featured '' Glamour''. She appeared on the covers of various issues of Lucky Fall Jeans' promotional magazine. Lynn has appeared in advertisings for H&M. When Lynn was the covergirl for ''Elle'', the picture was accompanied by the tagline 'The Body' implying that hers is the shape women should aspire to – rather than a slim figure. Since then, Lynn has become one of the faces of plus-size modelling. In an interview she admitted to being bullied at as a teenager: 'I was a size 14/16 (UK size 18 – 20) in high school, and it wasn't the easiest thing. (...) As a 16, I definitely felt like my weight was holding me back. I was supposed to have these bones protruding from my body and clearly that's not the case, and not the way my body's meant to be.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lynn, Tara 1982 births Living people American female models Female models from Washington (state) IMG Models models People from Tacoma, Washington Plus-size models