It's common among certain fatties to see being fat as an act of rebellion, not just against the Patriarchy, but against Whitey.  They try and convince themselves that a slender figure with a 7:10 waist-hip ratio is an ideal imposed by Cis Hetero European men.  This allows them to double-up on the OPPRESHUN if they are both fat and black/latino/oriental.    They will often cite the statement that, in a small handful of African cultures, fat women are apparently valued (those cultures being, according to Google, some rural Mauritanians and the Efik culture of Nigeria).  That these women are treated as property, force-fed, and often forbidden from having any method of supporting themselves apart from their husband/feeder is not generally mentioned.