Crystal Renn: Anorexic turned plus-size supermodel turned straight-size Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. She wins for reinvention artist (that’s saying something when you’re on a list with...

Long before the Victoria’s Secret catalog and fashion show started making hot models into household names, Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue was where curvy bombshells hit it big. The Swimsuit Issue still has clout, but its content is more flesh show for men than female fashion...

Crystal Renn gave me a lot of food for thought in her memoir, Hungry (written in collaboration with Marjorie Ingall). Her struggle with anorexia and exercise bulimia, fueled by her modeling ambition, is painful to read. She subsists for years—tender teenage years—on undressed salad,...