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A 12-14 is average, or at least was last time they took a significant poll -- which was, I believe, at least 5 years ago. It's probably grown larger since then.
A size 12 is not "obese." Sizes cannot be equated with weights, and obesity is only based off of weights. A girl with larger hips but a smaller top could easily be a size 12 and not even be overweight, let alone obese. Or a girl who is big all over and shops only at places that vanity size to the extreme could be a size 8 and be overweight.
Regardless of what size they are -- I doubt Dove is going to release height and weight statistics on these women, but given that I spent far too many years of my adolescence trying to eyeball heights and weights, I can 80 percent guarantee that not a single one of them would fall into the "obese" range. One or two might fall into the overweight range, but certainly none of them are carrying enough weight to land them in the obese category. None of them are overweight enough to be called unhealthy based on their weights alone (although their eating and exercise habits might pan out differently). And honestly, even if they were -- tons of the models used in regular ad campaigns are thin enough that they are endangering their health based on their weight alone, not even taking into account those who are starving themselves or using coke to stay that thin. So until we eradicate those models from marketing campaigns too, "Dove is promoting an unhealthy lifestyle!" is hardly a viable excuse.
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