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>>16447885
This. Also notice how often the whole 'b-but in the 16-1700s fat was considered a beauty standaes!' argument surfaces. Those paintings were literally fiction. To get fat off the healthy, non-processed foods they had back then would require insane amounts of money (sugar was very expensive, as was oil/fat), making it a status symbol to be fat, as it implied the depicted person was very wealthy and well-nourishes in a time where famine was a regular thing. Rubenesque paintings are literally the exception which proves the rule.