I actually agree with some of what the article says.

I was recently on a plane to California from to Philadelphia, and it was a long and agonizing plane ride because I was in the middle of two 250 pound women whose cups literally overflowed into my seat. That’s not fair to me who paid good money for that seat, but ended up having to sit on one side of my ass cheek because I didn’t have enough room.

Obesity is a choice, just like staying starvation skinny is a choice, at least in America.

I’ve been to countries far worse off then America, and you would be surprised how little food the human body actually needs to get through the day. Advertising, the government, FDA, they all want you to believe you need 2000 calories a day to have a healthy life style, but that is because the more you eat, the more money you spend. I am all for positive body image, but fooling yourself into believing that your obesity is beyond your control is a negative mentality you have gotten into, and will not help you better yourself. I can’t tell you how much better I feel having lost that weight, I can run without being winded. I can go on long walks, I can wrestle, and box again. These are all things I thought I had lost when I was big and wearing a size 42.

Obesity is NOT a choice. As a woman who suffered from and is recovered from a battle with Anorexia and over-exercising for over 9 years, I am here to say that Eating Disorders are NOT something to be joked about, or looked at in a glamorizing way. Those who suffer from EDs are NOT rich, teenage sticks. Just as women do, EDs come in all shapes and sizes; they do NOT discriminate.
The problem here is that the media is trying to give us only one way to look at things. You say that the magazine spreads of “fatties” are beautifying obesity; I say that they are shedding light on the fact that the average model, who is skinnier than 97% of American women, is NOT the average woman, who is 5’4″ and weighs 140 lbs( that’s not taking in genetics or ethnicity!). Women and girls are looking at those magazines and wondering why they don’t look like that–you know why? BECAUSE THE IMAGE IS FAKE!!! You airbrush, and photoshop, and crop– I would take a “fattie” woman any day over your sick models. I use to be in the 3% that women wanted to look like, but I can say that now, as an ” average” woman, I have never been sexier or looked better.

F**K you NY POST!

~ Renn Simmons