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The Wonders of Healthy, Well-Fed, Curvy Women

Normally I could give a damn about celebrities and, much less, people blogging about celebrities. But Jay linked to a side-by-side comparison of Renee Zellweger with and without a little extra weight for a role and the results are staggering, at least to these eyes. She’s not normally one of the actresses I flip for, but with a good meal or two in her she looks positively luscious, radiant and glowing. I’d reconsider my tastes for yes-I’ll-have-the-cheesecake Renee. Which I know she’ll be glad to hear, international superstar playboy bachelor tastemaker that I am.

All joking aside, women out there: eat, please. There’s nothing more pleasing than a happy, curvy, well-fed woman (and in my experience those three traits go together!). Turn a zaftig other cheek to societal standards and men who insist on rail-thin females. Dessert’s on me if you do.