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- May 7, 2017
I agree on that, hence why I called Rubens a chubby chaser. But as pointed out before, Tess and the Bodypositive Lamdwhales love to use the term Rubenesque to describe their very excessive bodymass. Despite being the size of two Rubens women. At least.as an artfag, rubens is honestly not a great example. he was seen as unusual for his fat lady art, and his saving grace was the tonnes of jesus pics he did for the church. if fat ladies were such a beauty ideal, you'd see many more of them in other people's paintings.
historically, the beauty ideal WAS somewhat plump compared to the 90s heroin chic, but it was still women who looked healthy and would be still considered attractive today. in contrast, todays marketing has entirely skipped out on "healthy but not size 00" demographic and overshoot to obesity; media will never celebrate normal healthy women because that doesn't sell you anything.
I also hopped down a bit the rabbit hole about fat sideshow ladies. Jolly Irene whose photo I posted earlier, started as a slim women of 120 pounds and apparently a pregnancy fucked up her glands and she ballooned up. She died at age 65. She was said to be a very cheerful pleasant character.
Then there was another sideshow performer going by the popular stage name Dolly Dimples. After a massive health scare, she went on a diet, kept the weight off and became an advocate for healthy diets. Dolly died at the age of eighty. She was kind of a victim of her family's eating habits. SIX FULL MEALS A DAY!!!
But both examples showed me that Tess, with her shitty attitude and lack of any talent and charisma would even suck as the Fat Lady at a sideshow.