The quotes and replies to this tweet calling this woman fat are so unreasonable, so promotive of unhealthy body standards, so ignorant of biology and sex differences, that I have to address it. Expecting women to be very lean and have no visible fleshy parts outside of their breasts and buttocks is irrational, unhealthy, and symptoms of consuming far too much media featuring actresses, porn stars, and models that are too often very young and unrealistically thin. It promotes a lifestyle that can lead women to damage, and permanently lose, their fertility and bone density. In response to this post, too many people are equivocating the state of being fat with simply having visible fat, and that has disastrous consequences for women. The science is clear. Women need nearly three times as much essential fat as men, 10-13% versus 2-5%. This is the level of fat on your body you need simply to survive. Not thrive, survive. Which means that the body fat levels at which women are considered healthy, 18-35%, are dramatically higher than the healthy levels of body fat for men, 10-25%. A man at 10% body fat is likely to be healthy, but a woman is likely to be ill. We naturally have more fat on our bodies to support our hormonal and reproductive functions and facilitate vitamin absorption. The estrogen we produce helps us store fat around our hips and thighs (interestingly, this is why liposuction results on women's hips and thighs are often quite impermanent and unsatisfying). When we drop below healthy body fat levels, our hormones are disrupted, and we can lose fertility and bone density, sometimes permanently. Fat is simply where the differences between human male and female bodies are very dramatic. We naturally store a lot more subcutaneous fat (below the surface of the skin), just like the pear-shaped woman in this video. Men, however, are more prone to the far, far more dangerous visceral fat (stored around the organs) that is less visible. Women also naturally create more brown fat than men, which is healthier and more useful than its more common counterpart, white fat. Basically, white fat simply stores excess calories, but brown fat actively burns calories to generate heat. This is part of the reason why women are less vulnerable than men to type 2 diabetes and extreme cold. In sum, women both make more fat and are less likely to be unhealthy at higher body fat percentages than men. Nowhere is this more apparent than cellulite. Famous women are expected to have none, and regular women are told they should have very little as well. It's virtually absent in media, and taboo to show, with women that don't cover or airbrush it being called "brave," pejoratively. But 80-90% of women have cellulite, versus only 10% of men. Why? Well, our connective tissues fibers (which attach the skin to our muscle) run vertically, but in men, they form criss cross patterns. So when our fat cells push upward, and we naturally have more fat under the skin than men anyway, they strain those fibers and we get areas of our skin that dimple, forming cellulite. But men? They naturally have less fat and store less of it subcutaneously. Their skin is also 20% thicker than ours, which deters cellulite. Finally, their criss cross connective fibers act like a net, keeping their fat smooth and contained. This is why so few men ever get cellulite, even if they're quite chubby. Women have more fat overall, more under the skin that is easy to see, more in their hips and thighs, and nearly all have cellulite. This is natural, and healthy, and promoting otherwise is extremely foolish. Expecting female beauty and health standards to adhere to male ideals of leanness? Actively ridiculous.