The thing is, she looks fine in the Snag photos, a pretty fat woman. Nothing at all wrong with that. But the difference between these photos and hers is staggering. You can’t bang on about being fat positive when you deliberately hide just how big you are.
I’m fat too so I hope I haven’t upset anyone with the use of the word. It was the most hurtful thing anyone could say to me when I was younger, even though I was undeniably fat. Now I just use it as a neutral descriptor and I feel nothing other than liberated that I have reclaimed the word.