ELI5: Unrealistic body image + Some rambling So, there's that London mayor that wants to ban advertisements showing a regular looking girl. Since when having a normal BMI means you're promoting unrealistic body image? Also, i have a question: How fat is too fat? Most of the submissions here are about obese people, and to be honest i see no reason to accept an obese person. At the same time there are some people that are salvageable.  Right now my BMI is 24.8,(174cm height and 75kg) i was at one point as high as 26.8 (174 cm 81kg)  By BMI that was considered overweight. Why i was in such a bad shape? Because i was a lazy fuck. I'm not going to find excuses. I'm a dude, i always had to wear M sized shirts, was i ever a target for fat people hate? Just wondering.  Now time for a story about genes/glands.  Back in the day when yahoo messenger was popular, most webcams had shitty quality and the video output was more like a slideshow i met a random girl on the internet.  Spoke for a while and asked her for webcam, she immediately said she has issues with her glands but she accepted to turn on the webcam. Pretty much what you would expect, she was fat. But i was a kid, and i actually believed that she had health issues.... until she said "BRB". When she came back she had some freaking chicken wings and started to eat them while sitting in bed. It became obviously that her problem wasn't with her glands or whatever.  Probably she realized that the webcam was still on, since she closed it pretty fast after she started to eat. We never spoke again.