Same here. When I hear "burlesque" all I think of is fat chick on stage pretending to be sexy.  If you look at stag films from the 50's, most of the burlesque dancers aren't rock-solid fit - they are fairly average for the 1950's. Some might be a little overweight, but none of them were morbidly obese and embarrassing to look at like the fat fucker in the picture.