Fat but not too fat

Another short post today as I just got back from vacation where this fat chick hiked, swam and walked a lot.

And apparently during my absence I was quoted in the New York Times in reference to the essay I wrote in the Fat Studies Reader about fat heroines in chick lit. One of the points I brought up was that most of these fat heroines weren't that fat (usually around size 12-16). This article points out that in media (in this case fashion), fat is rarely portrayed as someone bigger than 20...