even back then fat acceptance was severly fought . this is not a novelty . Many fats will proudly tell you that fatness used to be the beauty standard in the 19th century and even far back during the roman empire . I feel so mortified for them !  rich people used to expose their fat to the poor , the same way celebs today show off their gucci bags and ferraris to their thirsty fans  , it was a sign of wealth . The thing is  we're way passed that BS today ,and as the bible said "the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags." ==> not easy to work today if you're fat as a truck + today fat people are most likely to be poor , all that fat junk is cheap while well cooked food is more expensive . for the rag part , need I say more ? look at all the horrible pictures of obese women exposing their body parts on the internet .