She's got a lot of love to give to......................ME!!!
Would you consider that this activist who is 300+ lbs as looking healthy?
You are not her doctor. Only her doctor can truly tell her if she is healthy or not.
I don't care if someone is okay with being obese. I do have a problem with them discouraging other obese people from losing weight. It's like the reverse of the "pro-ana" circle.
So, a couple of things . . . If she is happy with how she looks . . . How she feels (walking, climbing stairs . . . Etc.), then who am I to question.
If this amount of weight shortens her life expectancy and she is okay with that, then great . . . Hats off to her. We only have one life to live so we should get to decide how to live it. Unless it negatively impacts the people and the society we live with.
I don't see it as her inspiring young girls, or anyone for that matter, to stuff their faces with pizza. She's inspiring them to love and accept themselves, no matter what they look like. She isn't saying, "You should look like this." She's saying, "It's okay to love yourself if you look like this."
No one should be bullied by how they look, but is inspiring young girls to continue eating entire pizzas a day really the way to go?
I think that the healthy middle point for the stance of obese people is to not judge their character by it, but recognize that it is a health hazard. "Fat-shaming" is bad, but being pro-fat is promoting something that isn't healthy. Being fat does not make them ugly, stupid, or a bad person. In fact, the woman you have shown is actually very pretty, but it seems like she may have some health-issues, not "beauty-issues." Because obesity really should be treated as a health issue and not a beauty issue as a whole.
It's like, say, getting sick. Say I caught the flu. Sure, it could be due to bad habits such as not washing hands, but people around me won't think I'm disguising just because I caught the flu, regardless. Nor will they throw all hygiene rules and advice out the window as to not "shame" people with colds and flu. It should be the same way with obesity.
That being said, I am not saying that everyone should be pressured into being super thin. Being too thin is also a health hazard. You don't have to be super-model skinny at all, but not clogging up your arteries and being able to be mobile properly is always nice.
