LOL the comments:  This is a celebration of beauty. If it bothers you, take a look at your presumptions and prejudices. I am tired of seeing skinny, fake, bulb-boobed addicts constantly paraded on my television screen as something desirable. Women who throw up after eating, exercise to the point of exhaustion, or surrender to drugs in order to stay rail-thin are not interesting and not my ideal of beauty. There is certainly nothing healthy about that kind of life.  Woah there double standards. Why bring in health when the subject of his photography are overweight, morbidly obese women who won't last 'til their 60s? These weirdos. There also seem to be a lot of other comments calling thinner women "sticks" while claiming beauty at other sizes (or at other sizes other than normal).  Hahahaha found this gem:  You are assuming that people choose to be obese, which is not true. The medical evidence is overwhelming that body size is caused primarily by physiological factors. It is virtually impossible to make major permanent changes in one's weight through diet and exercise. If a person eats fewer calories, their body eventually compensates by lowering the amount of calories released as heat. Exercise is very healthy but has little effect on weight. (In fact, aerobic conditioning makes resting heart rate go down, which reduces metabolic rate. And, the idea that increasing muscle mass will cause any substantial increase in metabolic rate is mostly a myth.) It's not known why more people are obese now than in the past, but all sorts of chronic illnesses are much more common now than in the past -- allergies, thyroid disease, malformed genitals in males, many types of neurological and psychiatric illnesses, etc. Possible explanations of the increase in obesity include environmental chemicals, exposure to artificial light, and adenoviruses. And by the way, I have a PhD and have published on the topic of obesity in the New England Journal of Medicine. (Shapiro JS. N Engl J Med. 2000 Dec 14;343(24):1814) What makes you an expert?  Looked up her journal article but found this (in which she published a letter to the editor, not an actual study....publishing a letter to the editor and claiming you "published on the topic of obesity" is nothing to boast about...it's like claiming you're a marathon runner when you only walk around the track once every couple of months!!) http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200012143432415 Something she wrote, bitch contradicted herself by acknowledging that poor diet/exercise lead to obesity, while in her amazon comment she tries to pretend that making changes in diet/exercise are ineffective. PhD hams with hamlogic are the worst.  Although poor diet and lack of exercise presumably contribute to many cases of overweight and obesity, one cannot simply assume that they are the only factors leading to a high body-mass index.   Someone replied to her letter to the editor and shut her down fast LOL  As Dr. Shapiro correctly points out, genetic factors clearly play a part in influencing the body-mass index. However, genetics cannot be invoked to explain the epidemic in obesity in the United States over the past couple of decades. Moreover, even among persons with a genetic predisposition to obesity, the body-mass index is still — by the inexorable laws of physics — a function of diet (calories taken in) and activity (calories expended).