It's never too late to change: Belle Vere = True Beauty.

Well, it's about time.

A major fashion magazine has F I N A L L Y featured curvy women on its cover. The honor goes to the latest issue of Vogue Italia, which can be seen above. (The rest of the photos I've included here are from the cover story.) As Time magazine says, "Vogue Italia has thrown the fashion world a major curveball — by placing three plus-size models on its June 2011 cover." (Please not the plus-size models are size six and up.) And even better is that these women look stunning. As one blogger writes, "You see real confidence in their eyes—they KNOW they are beautiful."

I truly believe we are in the middle of a paradigm shift about what it means to be beautiful—people are beginning to believe that beauty does not come in just one size or shape. We're seeing more diversity in women's body sizes in film (Bridesmaids) and television (Mad Men, Huge, Glee), and corporations like Dove are committed to helping us reassess what it means to be attractive.

For some time now, Glamour magazine has been devoted to featuring women of all sizes in its pages, and now Vogue Italia has jumped on the curvy bandwagon. And for the first time ever a first lady with a real body is seen as a fashion icon.

But in order to keep this change happening, we have to keep supporting the movement. I'll probably not get a subscription to Vogue Italia since half the women in it are naked, but I will order the new Vogue Curvy and continue to get Glamour and support real-sized women every chance I get.

Here's one easy thing you can do: vote in this poll about Vogue Italia's choice to feature real-sized women on their cover and tell them you say YES to curvy women!