well thanks, but I'd like to think that beautiful and fat are not mutually exclusive. On my better body image days I try to take fat as just another attribute that I possess, not a value judgement or eternal damnation to the ugly corner. my body type is naturally fat just like i am naturally blonde with blue eyes. I could change these attributes if I wanted to, paid enough money, spent enough time, etc. Nonetheless my body, left to its own devices, is just like that. I am trying really hard to believe that it doesn't make me bad or good, pretty or ugly - it just makes me me.