"I may be fat, but I beat my eating disorder"

[Exian]

First, I don't think it was fair of her for condemning people for not criticizing her weight before. For one, she doesn't look dangerously skinny, and for another thing, it could be that people were being polite. Mentioning a person's weight at any degree is now known to be rude.

Then, she gains weight and pushes her image out there with a message of "don't criticize my weight", which, if we remember, is what she criticized people for not doing in the first place.

Now, I don't know about her exact health issues. I think the studies and statistics can give us a good idea, but if we aren't in the doctor's office with her, it'll be hard for any of us to know what's healthy for her. Could be she's the spitting image of her healthiest weight. Who can say? On the flip-side, by her promoting what could be her healthiest weight, it's likely that others who identify as fat, but who aren't at their healthiest weight, will be sign on to this, and be encouraged to stay at that weight; like Parkers Tan said, the usage of the word fat is ambiguous on a social, non-professional level.

I think mental health should be a topic of discussion, along side of this discussion. Take the after picture; instead of being happy with herself at that weight, she could be tearing herself down into depression, which could lead to anorexia, as before, or cause her to over eat. Maybe that's what she aims to combat with her message; a negative mental state.

So, the question could be: Is she doing more harm than good by promoting a pro-fat message? Is she just encouraging some ambiguous variety of fat-obese people to stay at their possibly unhealthy weight, and be happy with it? Or, is she giving these people a chance, by helping them dig theirselves out of a depressive state; a state that contributes to an unhealthy weight, be it anorexia or obesity?