"Restrictions I place on myself" - here, "I am overweight so I cannot wear/do X because I will look silly" - are known as "self-control". It is what makes you an adult.

If you live in a country were half the medical attention is collapsed by obese people, excuse us if we do mind. My 5yo daughter almost died this week because she couldn't breath, and every oxygen mask at the hospital was occupied by obese people.

What causes a negative reaction isn't that people are fat, but that they are absurd - pretending to be glamorous. Your grandmother is not a sexy model, either - but she isn't ridiculed bedause she has the good sense not to pretend to be.

So why doesnt most of asia or europe have the same obesity problems as america.s**t in asia in some countries the fattest pl in the count ry are the size of what americans consider average 😆

Well said :)

unfortunately, she is absolutely obese. I'm pretty sure she and I are the same size. At 35, my knees hurt, so do my hips, and it hurts to run. Been fighting it and "yo-yoing" all my life. However, I must also agree that I LOVE big teddy bears. Incidentally, I also love myself, and I'm glad she loves herself as well. It's about feeling healthy. Media pushing anorexia or obesity doesn't change what people already deeply know. What their own bodies are telling them every day.

She’s definitely obese. Not morbidly, but still quite obese.

That shows most u.s women are put of shape. In europe that is no where clise to the aversge snd in asia lol if u go to the eastern half of asia u got entire countries where the average women is beliw suze 4. I live how americans think being a fat a*s is normal .

By clinical standards she is obese. Societal standards might disagree, but any doctor would call her obese.

If she indeed worked out, she wouldn't have those arms and torso. Every obese person thinks they can say they do weight lift and people will believe them, but body changes shapes with exercise even if you don't loose weight, and she has a sit down for too many hours per day kind of frame.

"However I don't think anybody but her doctor should be the judge on wether she is healthy or not." You don't need to be a doctor to see bad cases of obesity. You must be sighted. "But the main point of this article is to get people to stop having the kind of "ew gross" reaction to average looking women" It's more like "Such a pitty that she would die young", not "ew gross".

How many too thin people vs overweight people do you think there are?? Both are bad but one is a much more severe problem that affects all genders and all ages.

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Only if you count really sick people. This woman here is not sick. She looks healthy and happy. She looks more like a normal woman then every model out there. How many depressiv people are there? I think that number is even larger than obesity. And why are some of them depressive? Because the media suggests that they are not perfect if they don't look a certain way. I would rather be a bit bigger and happy like this woman, than thin and ready to kill myself, thank you very much.