France has been celebrating it's plus-size beauties in the Miss Ronde (Miss Round) festival last week.
What started as an online competition to celebrate bigger women became a pageant in 2010 with contestants selected from 26 regions in France by first submitting glamour photos.
"The key word of this is tolerance because being round should not be synonymous with rejection, denigration, abnormality, or guilt," the pageant website says.