Obese Naked Ladies!

The one with her boob flopped over the bannister is totally not sexy. The others will obviously have their appeal and are very similar to the style of a few artists, although I can't name any ?. Apart from the fact that it is extremely unhealthy to be that obese, it is great to see women like this being used as art rather than to be mocked or to try and make people want to be skeletons.

Indeed very unhealthy think it was like 30 stone to 43.. but yes the lady with the boob over the railing..! I can't believe how brave they are.. i don't even like getting naked in front of OH! never mind in front of a photographer and naked!! Eeek! Hats off to them!

I think I get it(so to speak) but part of me feels that glamourising/promoting people at an excessively unhealthy weight- be it over or under is still not good.

Big can be beautiful. Obese can be beautiful too. But obese is never healthy. In times where people complain about cigarette advertising, sunbed tans and the use of size zero models, I find this bizarre. Is it art? Probably. Is it to be glamourised? Never.

None of them look happy or comfortable though. I absolutely agree it shouldn't be glamourised at all, it's not nice to look at the same way a severely anorexic model wouldn't be.

Has anybody else noticed the smiley face on the last woman?! Her boobs are the eyes, belly button is her nose, and the creases under her belly is the smile!

What Footlong and Pinky said. I find it disgusting to look at, same is I find anorexic models disgusting to look at. (And when I say that I don't mean that the women themselves are disgusting, but it's disgusting that such an unhealthy look is being glamourised). This so called "fat acceptance" movement is just the pro-ana movement in reverse.

well put Mrs Peanut.

I didn't mean my comment to sound pro-obesity, if that's what you're talking about. Naked big bottomed and overweight women in art is old news, and this is just revampimg it into the photography age, but should in no way be seen as a promotional poster for maccy d's.

I'm not in the "fat acceptance" camp and I don't fully understand how people can be so far to either extreme and willingly cause so much damage to their body. Glamourising any unhealthy habit/behaviour is wrong, but in a culture where a lot of people act like being skinny is the be all and end all, women like these are mocked and ridiculed, while their opposites are idolised and adored.

It's not a healthy lifestyle and glamourising it is wrong, but I really don't see that that was the intention of the study. I doubt many people will look at these and decide that's how they want to be, but, as well as being an interesting and more unique artistic study of the naked female form, it may well serve a purpose in adding some balance to people's ideas of beautiful.

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AGREE!!

I think it being beautiful or ugly is irrelevant. Everyone's idea of beauty differs. What disturbs me is that these women are clearly very unhealthy yet they're being glamorised. If these were anorexic women I imagine alot more people would have something to say. Either one is dangerous