Do women judge each other more as opposed to men?

If you read some of the comments under the recent photo editorial in one of Macedonia's leading lifestyle magazines, the answer unfortunately would be yes.

Frosina Angelovska, Irina Kiridzievska and Maja Sazdanovska, were all featured in Portret Magazine's newest edition as three successful Macedonian women that love their bodies.

They do not have the typical top model shape usually featured in lifestyle magazines, but in a society heavily obsessed with image and body weight, for the first time ever, they demonstrate that women should be comfortable with their body and more importantly, should love and embrace their shape.

As a reader and a man, I found the story quite refreshing and groundbreaking but what really surprised me were the reactions and comments by some readers that the magazine was promoting obesity as a trend?! What shocked me even more was the fact that most of the nasty and body shaming comments came from women!

It's great that they love their bodies but let's not act- they are fat and no matter how cute they look with -50 pounds they will look much better, wrote one female reader.

This photo shows three fat women. What is there to celebrate? A woman's body should not look like this, wrote another.

These looks good but they would be much prettier when they would have a normal weight.

Let's get one thing clear - a woman's body should look the way the woman decides.

Frosina, Irina and Maja, two thumbs up for showing women in Macedonia and all around the world that a real woman should be whatever the hell she wants to be.

Photos by Zarko Culic.