Size 8 being plus is absolutely disgusting! Talk about problems with society's views!!! I would call size 8 "average" because many women I know who are healthy and in good shape wear that size. I am plus size; I wear 16 - 18. There are pictures of me on my profile page or my website (www.redtailedmusic.com) so you can see what I look like. I am not hideous, just plump. I pretty much always have been. Guess I take some of the arrows thrown at fat people to heart because I have heard some crappy remarks in my life. Would I be instantly thin if it were possible? Yes. Because my life would be easier in so many ways. I didn't mean to make this thread about me, I just wanted to give another view.

What the woman in the article is doing is extremely self-destructive and dangerous and I'm sorry to see that she has turned herself into a circus sideshow act in order to get money and attention.