There used to be a PBS series where families would live the way they did in different eras of history. 1940's House, Tudor House, Frontier House, etc. PBS needs to get off their assess, do another series where they can drop Amber in and watch her try to live without internet, TV, phone or delivery service. I'm not sure what era I would want her dropped into, but I believe it would make for some great entertainment.
Even better, there's a BBC series (it's on youtube if you're interested) called Back in Time For Dinner (there are about 5 spin-offs, Further back in time, Back in time for the weekend, Back in time for Tea, Back in Time for Christmas and Back In Time for Brixton). Those are the episodes she should be in, it's like [whatever] house on steroids. A family travels back in time, through culture, recreation and food, each week is a decade, and the house gets remade to represent the decade. I think the earliest decade is 1900. But it would be perfect, it would involve her favorite things: sitting around the house, touching new, unusual things, bitching to a camera and food.
OH GORL. Through out the history a mere 300 lb person was a freak show performer, like an animal in a zoo. Death would be guaranteed before 40. Never in history has morbid obesity been considered beautiful, morbidly obese people were seen as disgusting, selfish gluttons and made fun of.
The Victorian ages were even more fat phobic. The biggest person you would see before 1900s was something like 250 lbs, outside of freak shows with pinheads and other physical malformations and disabilities. Ancient idols of women with large bosoms and bellies were not from real people, they were literally just icons, products of imagination to picture fertility gods.
But good news is that a normal person in any other era worked hard physical labor to buy some bread and ate barely enough. She would be a skinny queen.
One exception wouldbe William Howard Taft, 1857-1930. The 27th president was just under 6' (or 6' depending on the source) and was about 320-350 throughout his presidency. (I guess he didn't get weighed and measured by Ronny Jackson like trump) He lived another 17 years or so, died of a heart attack at 72. No word on his weight then. I'm really not sure how someone that size managed to get elected. But then a lot of past presidents managed to hide maladies that would be glaringly obvious in our 24/7 news cycle/streaming media and social media society, and would make them unelectable today.
Not to point out the obvious, but he was also a man. You are right that at no time in history would a morbidly obese woman would be celebrated outside of a circus freakshow.
But this is one of the most interesting aspects of Amber's life imho, we've become such a progressive society, and still, the only job she considers for herself as a morbidly obese woman is to be the fat lady in a her own youtube freak show.
Could you explain? Do your legs stop rubbing together the same way if you're too fat?
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@SAVE TWINKIE! said, she sort of wobbles instead of walking.
What I think is going on with her thighs, I'm not sure how to describe it other than thigh overlap. Like if you sit on a chair and spread your legs, your thighs don't touch. But Amber's thighs just keep unfurling, so even if she sat in a chair and spread her legs as wide as possible, they'd still be touching. The fat from one could overlap the other. And her stomach just rests on that. Unlike a differently proportioned smaller fatty like destiny, dana or becky, their fat probably gets between their legs when they sit, preventing their thighs from touching because they don't have the equivalent of 7 thighs on each leg blocking the belly. So when she walks, because there's SO MUCH extra skin and density, there's not so much rub because that extra fat is condensed by being mashed together. So even if she was to make small strides while walking, it would only be from the knee down. If she wanted to separate her legs, just to get the thighs to detach, she'd have to swing her leg around and then down. Kinda sumo-like.
Another explanation, but since I don't watch the 600lb life shows, I don't know the technical terms, so... imagine you're playing a stupid game where the object is to put a basketball between your thighs and walk it to the other side of the room. You'd have to stride from the knees and keep the thighs together to keep the ball from dropping. Your thighs aren't rubbing together not just because the ball is there but because there's no movement in the thigh area. So Amber plays this game every time she moves, except there's no basketball, but her thighs are so massive, they don't move against each other when she walks because there's no way for her to scissor her legs above the knee.
She's also so hunched over because the weight of her stomach is so excessive and her torso is so short (hence the shelf ass), there has to be severe curvature of her lower spine (again, hence, the shelf ass), so all of that stomach sack weight probably rests on her thighs when she stands, further impeding the movement of her thighs.
So yes, amber probably escaped the fatty chub rub, because she has no way to make that chub rub together. I'll bet she has some severe seam and fabric rash though. Imagine that pressing together with no air getting through. That area of the leggings is probably so pilled, if she COULD rub her thighs together, that man made fiber might ignite.
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