Can fat people be beautiful?

[RegalSin]

Fat have it's place in this world. However too much fat is a problem.

 

[MiracleGhost47]

When discussing beauty from a universal perspective, there's no specific way to define it. In regards to my own personal perspective, I believe that fat people have potential to be beautiful. This beauty, however, is based on their will to do what's right- not their looks (at least, not to a direct extent). For example, if a fat person attempts to raises money for charity by being an artist, he/she is beautiful to me, as long as he/she does a good job and everything. On the other hand, if a fat person wants to raise money by being an athlete, then it's probably obvious by his/her looks alone that he/she shouldn't be taken seriously. In such a case, the fatness of the person should not be considered beautiful until his/her body represents the health that a usual athlete needs.

 

[Signomi]

Rather than the idea of fat/overweight being the staple for thought, I thought what could be trivialised more here is the definition behind being deemed "beautiful".

To avoid sounding like a broken record and reiterating how beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I'll say the beauty in one's physical appearance to me comes off in how confident they are about being able to strut it. I've known and been around overweight people who show me exactly what made them that way inclined in the first place. Through a bad attitude, desperation and regression in their personality, they end up striking me as weak individuals who would sooner let themselves fall into despair rather than be a part of the solution simply because "I'm unhappy with myself but I can't be bothered to do anything about it. I'd rather sit around and whine about it all the way." —this to me is ugly, it shows you more the kind of person you'd sooner be repelled by rather than drawn in.

Then there are those who happen to be overweight but show an intriguing amount of self-love, kindness, creativity and courage. They strive to find new ways of bettering themselves—whether it be to gradually lose the extra weight they're carrying or by finding new ways of enjoying their lives and even improving it for others. These are the people I deem interesting, attractive and therefore beautiful.

 

[pastelspectre]

I do think they can, if they're not too overweight, like unhealthily overweight. Other than that, I do think they can be yes.

 

[curiousnathan]

Fat have it's place in this world. However too much fat is a problem.

In what ways?