Don't take this as apologizing for fats, but some really do carry their weight better than others. I've seen people with overweight bmi who looked absolutely revolting and similarly overweight people who didn't look nearly as bad.  I used to look good at 150lbs/5'9 but after getting a lot of muscle atrophy from health stuff I looked like complete shit and had to drop ~15lbs even though I was well within the healthy bmi range.