The story of Rose Freistater, in three Time magazine articles.

[dyfferent]

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Comments

[eyelid]

I wonder if it would have gone the same if she were a guy.

[dyfferent]

Probably not, just as Simon Cowell only told the fat popstar girl contestant she had to lose weight to be marketable, he didn't tell the fat boy one.

[eyelid]

that's my suspicion as well.

[wyliekat]

I've heard it suggested, more than once, that "overweight" people were going to become the new smokers. It's like we're on a societal witch hunt now and we can't stop ourselves. I shudder to think who will be next after the overweight. The elderly? The undereducated?