And the answer to your statement, Harley, is that it is NOT suddenly okay to have a large body. There’s nothing sudden about it. It has ALWAYS been okay to have a large body.

Check yo’ prejudice at the door, please! =^_^=

Preferences are individual, there’s nothing I can do about that, but I will give you this: at least you weren’t a total jackass in your comment. That counts for a lot here - honesty without assholery.

Thanks for stopping by!

Obviously you only believe in the system which only studies fat people in two parts, weight and health problems. Those studies never recorded their diet or exercise patterns which, if you knew about actual health, are the direct differences between health and disease, not fat and thin. A person can be healthy and still have a large amount of fat, if this was a perfect world where muscle automatically replaced fat upon development, we would have a lot more skinny people with great six packs and no breasts.

Like I said before, diet and exercise play major roles. If this woman exercises regularly (which is as little as a half an hour walk a day), she is much healthier than a majority of people in America today, despite her weight. To reiterate, the fat on the outside is not parallel to fat on the inside. Many thin people have inner fat which causes serious health problems. And many of skinny Americans DO NOT exercise, most just use crash diets to lose weight. The only risk that is exclusive to an overweight person who is active is increased joint strain.

The other factor, diet, is simple. If you take too many unhealthy diets (high protein, low calorie, little food(crash diets)), your body suffers organ damage and eventually, continuous use of these diets - since diets are not “eating for life” diets and in the end these people do not know how to feed themselves - will result in heart failure, stroke, etc. Continuous crash dieters, especially too thin models, can even suffer from immune dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, organ damage -INCLUDING LIVER FAILURE-, brain damage, and eventually death.

Now just plain eating unhealthy, high fat food is bound to make you unhealthy, it making you fat is a different story. If you have enough of it, it will put on the pounds, but if you eat a “safe amount” you are still adding unnecessary fat, sugar, and sodium into your body which can cause adverse health even if you don’t gain a pound.

I’m not going to say every time I see a too thin girl I see cardiovascular disease, so I really find it childish to see people saying they see diseases only in fat women. Did you know skin tags can be linked to internal tumors and organ cancer?! Do you think about that every time you see a skin tag? Noooooo. So turn off Fox News, put down your diet book, and go take a walk and enjoy the scenery. You can do that whether your fat, skinny, or republican. HA.

Since I mentioned it, yeah I’m fat.. AND I have skin tags.. I know my sister (who was always skinny) has organ tumors, mostly uterine. They may be why my sister miscarried the first time she got pregnant. Anyway, because I know she has it, I think I may have it.. and skin tags are little tumors which are usually non-cancerous, but are possible signs of a rare genetic syndrome that does cause organ tumors and cancer. That worries me a little, but the fact it is rare, and my sister’s tumors were not cancerous, I really don’t have much to worry about.

As for putting “average” women on stage, that is a biased opinion that is subjective to every single person. Not everyone thinks a certain weight is average or attractive. And fashion is about being attractive and what people want. So there will always be skinny girls and fat girls up there strutting their stuff in the name of fashion.

What does high cholesterol look like? What does high blood pressure look like? I’m not that much smaller than Velvet, but my physical health checks out just fine with my doctor. Aren’t you just assuming that she must be an extreme - living at the unhealthy end of the spectrum? I think your approach aligns too much with the extremes also, Cassie.

Velvet’s look –> hot!