Weight & Self Esteem

There have been many plus sized women in the public eye who have talked about how they are proud to be large, beautiful, curvy, confident, etc.  But as we found out with Star Jones, when she got her surgery, she wasn’t happy, she wasn’t confident, I don’t think she had a dating life at all before that.  But that being said, it was a façade, and frankly it hid quite a few serious health problems and other things that she was suffering through. 

It wasn’t the lack of confidence or anything like that which actually motivated her to finally lose the weight.  Instead, it was all the health problems and her doctor telling her that she had to lose the weight or she would die.  But it makes you wonder.  I mean obviously, she put on an amazing façade.  There are some plus sized women who just admit that they don’t like being obese, admit that it’s a problem, and that’s it. 

But the reality is that whether they put on the façade or not, most plus sized women will ultimately admit that they feel unattractive, unappealing, and undesirable among many other things.  And frankly, there are men who consider them that way of course.  There are of course some men who are more drawn to them.  But it depends on the individual to a larger degree.  This being said, you have to wonder how many would really believe any of that.