How do we know that skinny women isn't a new thing?

Statue #11 would get it

Being large was a sign of fetility. In a time when most first borns didn't live long, medicine wasn't a thing, life spans were short, and populations were small it was a pretty important factor.

#1 all day.

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I don’t really care if it’s new, I prefer a woman who has some resemblance of care as opposed to some gelatinous blob that the way it is because it has no will power and must eat everything in sight.

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Poor people are more likely to be morbidly obese.

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It's muh genetics, bigot!

So being chunky used to be a sign of wealth. When you literally have people starving in the streets, someone who is overweight is a sure sign of excess.

because the caloric content per acre was WAY less throughout history and the OG chicks actually had to work for food.

Rich chicks were fat back in the day - so really the attraction was to the wealth and power

Elites always set the standard for beauty. During hard times, when lower class women worked out in the fields to make ends meet, they were thin and tan, so plump and fair were considered the ideal as it was a mark of someone with leisure time. During our modern time of plenty, lower class women tend to spend more time inside and less time exercising. Now, being fit and carrying a nice tan is a mark of leisure time, so that's the ideal.

It's never been a question of an objective ideal, but a moving target that the lower classes will strive for but never attain, as every time they do, the ideal will shift again.