First, no one owes anyone a specific appearance or an appearance to “please” anyone else. No one owes anyone else an explanation for their existence or body size. Second, there’s no “obesity epidemic” and to say that there is only discredits you. To say so is to imply that fatness in and of itself is an infectious disease. Stop it! Using the term “obesity” implies that every fat bodied individual is an over-eater, when that simply isn’t the case. I don’t see people attacking super models or concern trolling them to eat more. I appreciate your willingness to point out fat hate, but you’re missing your own. Using terms like “overweight” (over what weight exactly?!) and “obesity” only furthers the othering of fat people into that category of non-humanness it appears you’re trying to combat with this article. Very confusing. Why not explore the real lives and obstacles fat people live and face everyday? Why not talk about what all of this fat hate does to people? Children? Teens? Relationships? There’s so much more to life, in a fat body or no, than to use a model as a means to a point it seems you never quite reach. The fact that you use “pretty dress” as something not at all associated with a fat person is absurd! I want to see more fat bodied life related topics addressed, but this was a disappointment.