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- Oct 27, 2021
Sigh, I'm going to get so many downvotes (hold on), but Amber is, or could be, could be pretty. But excess weight distorts your features - it doesn't even take crossing the 200-lb mark to do that, especially if you're 5' nothing*. Sure, put her up against the average 500-lb'er, and she's likely in the top x%. But that's a low bar.Amber loves the ways she looks. She thinks she's pretty.
She has to be on a diet so she can make people think she wants to lose weight, especially now that she's trying to hook a new caretaker. So she shows the camera 2 of the meals she had. I'm betting she had more that she didn't show. So clever, this 32-year-old toddler is!
And face-fullness preferences or body norms aside,
I think she doesn't (like Chantal doesn't) really "see" her face objectively, and doesn't see how much the weight both changes and distracts from her good features. The mind brings a lifetime of knowledge and recollection to bear, whether as criticism or cope. Again, this cope/denial can happen at weights a fraction of 500 lbs. (Though it is interesting how much face-change there is even between 300 or 400 and 500/530+.)
*(See, e.g., Lara flynn boyle, brendan Fraser, Bridget fonda, Kelly McGillis, Kathleen Turner, etc - and yes, all of those are unfairly comparing youth vs deep into middle age, and at least one also adds criminally bad plastic surgery - but so also see folks who lost a lot of weight, like Chris Pratt, Perez Hilton, Kevin Smith, Zach galifanakis, Adele, Jessica Simpson, Mariah Carey...point is not that they look excessively beautiful or handsome at x weight, but that features can massively change with weight going up vs down).
I think that's right. You can't reach those weights without some part of you liking it/seeing it as having some benefit, even if you have to do massive mental gymnastics to get to that view. This is where "body positivity" goes wrong; not hating yourself for carrying an extra 5, 10, 20, even 70, is one thing, but embracing stretching and distorting your body far beyond recognition and what it was designed to be is, to understated it, unhealthy. When your body has lost all recognizable human shape, it may be a good time to say fuck body positivity; this is unacceptable, fuck the fetishists.she likes being fat and what that brings.
It's also possible and imo healthy to say, yes, I love and care for the inner "me," but I hate looking like this, and this flab has got to go.
