There's a difference in fatness. I don't think you have anything to be proud of if you are fat/obese, unhealthy and running your body in to a toxic pit of lard. Society definitely SHOULD NOT encourage such behaviour, that is just as bad as being unhealthy and skinny.

What we should be promoting is good health, not body shapes of any kind.

These women are beautiful because they believe they are beautiful, not because of their lifestyles make them unwilling or unable to slim down to the fashion world's shrinking and questionable ideals of beauty.

I'm all for these women improving their self-esteem. I just don't understand how taking a bath in makeup, and putting on an outfit that would make most drag queens blush does it. I'm pretty sure some stills were literally from porn videos. Does this really inspire or empower anyone? . . . if it works I guess it's okay. You just wouldn't think they'd benefit from objectifying their bodies further.

Though I do think the one at 0:31 was both sexy and self-respecting.

I hate things like this. They take obesity and try to dress it up as self empowerment. "You don't need to slim down for society, you're beautiful the way you are"

Um... you're killing yourself being that fat. That is not sexy, that is not healthy, that is not worth 'creating a riot' over.

This really gets my goat because it's taking one thing, the media's obsession with being very skinny, which should be scorned, and killing it by trying to suggest the only other option is being obese.

Properly, healthy sized women's bodies should be praised and adored. Curves are sexy, (although some people are just naturally skinny as well, so shouldn't be 'hated' for being very skinny and a bit shapeless) and there is not enough natural body shapes and sizes being shown in the media.

BUT

THESE women are not healthy, they are not 'natural', they are not to be praised. They are fat, they are overweight, they are morbidly obese (not all of them are all of these things, but some of them certainly are). This thing of 'just be happy with what you are' thing seems, in these cases, to be a cop out and a way of not trying to be a healthy size. Which is wrong.

The western world is getting stupidly fat on average, and this needs to be halted, not praised. You don't just give up on trying to get people to be healthy by shifting the goal posts of what we're supposed to find attractive or healthy. It doesn't work like that, you can't just say 'OK, morbid obesity is not a problem anymore, as long as you feel sexy'.

BAH!

Moving this video to inflatablevagina's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

I hated your comment before I watched the video, then I saw that in the case of most of the women in this clip, you are absolutely right. Healthy curves does NOT mean over 40% body fat, people. If you are a woman and that overweight, someone needs to get through to you that you aren't respecting your body, yourself...it has nothing to do with anyone else's opinions or perceptions of beauty...the riot needs to happen in your head.
That's just my two cents worth, though.
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I hate things like this...

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...ugh
Fat. Nothing to be proud of.
It's like someone addicted to crack with their teeth falling out saying they're beautiful on the inside and that's what counts. Sure, but you're still losing your teeth and probably going to die young. Please stop encouraging other people to do the same.

gross obesity is depicted here.

Beautiful perhaps for chubby chasers, those who adore women that do not look after themselves.

This is a knee-jerk bullshit reaction to the uber-thin basically anorexic runway models, that, quite honestly, just as few who chase chubbies, find attractive.

Fitness = beautiful. Healthy = beautiful.

Anorexia, or obesity....neither are attractive. This video and those promoting the ideas in this are just as retarded as the ones who put girls on stage with every single rib showing. Its a disgrace no matter which way you spin it.