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The folklorist who wrote down the story explained the treatment of the "pretty daughter": "The fatting house is a room where a girl is kept for some weeks before her marriage. She is given plenty of food, and made as fat as possible, as fatness is looked upon as a great beauty by the Efik people and Bahumono ."
Cherie Bennett obtained the idea of the novel from her readers because she writes about real life issues many young girls are affected by. [4] The novel reflects a girl living in a perfect world. She suddenly faces a traumatic disease which cause her to gain over 100 pounds in only a few months, with no cure, and her whole world turns upside down.
Fat fetishism practices and subcultures include internet porn; "gaining" and "feeding", which involves eating to intentionally gain weight; "hogging", which is when men seek out fat women to sexually exploit; and "squashing" which is sexual attraction to the idea of being crushed by a fat person or people.
In their teen years, increased weight can also lead to obstacles for romantic developments. A 2005 study showed that "a teenage girl’s odds for a romantic relationship… dropped 6 to 7 percent for every 1-point increase in her body mass index." [2] Gay, bisexual and transgender children are more likely to be obese, according to a 2020 study.
After surviving a near fatal heart attack in 1950, [3] Dolly followed a strict 800 calories (3,300 kJ) per day diet and in little more than a year she reduced her weight to 112 pounds, maintaining the loss for the rest of her life. She regained her health and became an avid advocate of dieting and exercise.
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Catrina Raiford is an American woman who was once considered to be the heaviest woman in the world, [1] weighing 955 pounds (433 kg; 68.2 st) [2] on a 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) frame.
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