Comments on: Finding Acceptance in the “Fat”osphere

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:28:58 +0000

True… obesity is an epidemic in this country, that can be easily preventable and cured, let’s call it, through a healthier lifestyle of a HEALTHY diet and exercise. BUT! There are many women out there who live according to this and they’re STILL big. So who’s to say that there isn’t some kind of correlation between tall/short-fat/thin? And what is so wrong with saying, “Hey! This is how I was created. This is how I always have been. I am taking care of my body and I feel OK with how I look.”

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:18:43 +0000

You guys have seen those videos by Joy Nash, right? She’s both fat AND fabulous. And she loves her body.

I’m a very short girl, I eat healthy (with some extra fibre, as recommended by my doctor), I exercise, I’m on a medication that changed the look of my body… and guess what. I’m chubby. And I’m certainly okay with being that way.

I found a photo of myself from four years ago when I was ill. I was on a new medication and I was puking every day for 3 months- and not voluntarily. It was a photo from my 16th birthday and I was so effing skinny… I HATE that photo. It made me sick, seeing myself so thin. My arms were tiny, my rosy apple cheeks had disappeared- and my boobs got so much smaller!

No thank you. I’ll keep my curves.

By: Carina

Carina — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:19:31 +0000

Just to put a random comment in here. The girl in the apartment next to mine has a paper on her door that reads “Fat people make the world go round.” Glad she is content but i don’t agree, health issues!!

By: hanabira

hanabira — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:35:34 +0000

“tools like BMI calculators do not take into account frame size or muscle percentage, many athletes and other healthy people are categorized as fat or even obese”

- so is beth ditto an athlete now?

By: leebee

leebee — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:59:48 +0000

Actually, Lauren, I believe that writer was just writing about what other jounalists have increasingly been writing about lately. The New York Times recently did an article on the “fatosphere”, including some of the best sites on the net.

I’m an avid reader of these sites (I’m a proud rubenesque, hour-glass shaped gal with curves in all the right places). I find that the sites promote a place for those individuals who are not a model size to feel better about their bodies.

It’s not a matter of obesity, it’s a matter of loving your body.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:25:20 +0000

Actually, there is some evidence cropping up now in support of the fat/thin=tall/short school of thought. Yes, scientific evidence. Who knows, 5 years from now we may be reconsidering what “healthy weight” means, if anything.

By: J - NYU

J - NYU — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:20:50 +0000

CC loves you too, Lauren. But this article isn’t defending obesity…it’s explaining a new internet trend.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:10:26 +0000

So what you’re saying is that bloggers like you understand genetics and the human body better than doctors do? And that scientists warning about the obesity epidemic are just shallow Michael Moores with poor math? Obesity is one of the leading causes of preventable death in our country, not some improperly measured inconvenience. I love College Candy, but I’m extremely disappointed that you were given the opportunity to be a new writer on this site. Before you start giving advice about getting heart disease, I’d advise you to put down the keyboard and pick up the salad fork.