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The term "deathfat" was actually coined by a fat activist (can't recall which) to mock the medical designation of morbid obesity. They were deluded enough to think it was a clever comeback, when really, the joke is on them.A deathfat, in the literal sense, is a morbidly obese person. The term itself is a play on words. The Latin root of "morbidly" is -mort-, which literally means "death" (and appears in such words as mortician, mortgage, immortal, mortify). "Obese" is simply replaced with "fat", and you get the portmanteau "deathfat"
Beyond that, deathfat is kind of a state of mind. I think of them as those who choose being fat over preventing their own deaths. In this sense, Jen is a classic model. Chantal is only still alive by sheer dumb luck, so she qualifies. Amberlynn Reid remains a kind of standard bearer. Just being obese and sassy isn't quite enough; you need that overriding glib disconcern for your own health.
ETA: As for the uneven pupils, it could be damage to the eye itself, but the last time I saw that symptom on anybody was a cat who, a couple of hours later, suffered an aortic thromboembolism/saddle thrombus, which meant a fast trip to the emergency vet for euthanasia (it's extremely painful, and nothing can be done for it). So newly uneven pupils, whether on a human or a cat, is now a "go to the ER immediately; do not fuck around" thing.
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