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Teen pushes for plus-sized Disney princess
Teen pushes for plus-sized Disney princess

A petition started by a Virginia teen that urges Disney to make an animated movie featuring a "plus-sized princess" is rapidly gaining support.   So far, the petition has gained more than 19,000 signatures.  Jewel Moore, a teen from Farmville, Va., started the petition as a way to help "girls and women who struggle with confidence and need a positive plus-size character in the media." "Studies show that a child's confidence correlates greatly with how much representation they have in the media," Moore wrote in the petition. "It's extremely difficult to find a positive representation of plus-size females in the...