Fatty dons bikini in public, fatties everywhere call her "couragous"

Yahoo.com

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Her weight didn’t go up much until she became pregnant with her first child (a son who's now 11), gaining 75 pounds that she had trouble shedding, particularly after developing fibromyalgia, which left her unable to exercise.

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First of all, no one should gain 75 pounds during a pregnancy. This notion that a 120-140 pound woman needs to gain half her body weight to deliver a child is absurd. Second, fibromyalgia is not a real disease. It's called being lazy. If it's a genuine malady, I find it interesting that it only strikes white overweight housewives. Very strange.

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And there's another person who's impressed with Trout's work: her husband. He's "proud of my success with this piece," she notes. "He's also very conscious of how stress, even good stress, can overwhelm me, so he's been really great."

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What a treat it must be to come home to this every day.

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Trout wraps up her piece this way: “The reason these people do not want to see a fat body in a bikini is because traditionally, that garment is something a woman earns by proving herself attractive enough to exist. If fat women begin wearing them without shame or fear, what's next? Will they have self-esteem? Will they demand respect? Then what will keep them in their proper place? How would conventionally attractive people judge them?

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I do agree that the right to earn a bikini is something a woman should earn. I don't agree that a fat woman in a bikini will create a massive paradigm shift in which we can no longer judge what is attractive.