Reply #7: If you're in a healthy weight range, that's the ticket.

[SarahB]

The women that the media considers "fat" are in a healthy weight range. Very slim women can be healthy too, but they are at higher risk for osteoporosis down the road. Often in elderly women, it leads to hip fractures and a downward health spiral. :(

If my curves lead to good health, all the better because I don't have much of a choice. I take care of myself and try to be my healthiest self, but that's just how nature made me. I spent an awful lot of effort trying not to be too curvaceous.