You can be obese and beautiful. But you won't be "healthy."

Healthy people radiate a kind of beauty to them that only healthy people have. A glow in their skin. Visible musculature. Other qualities.

Obese people have a beauty to them too. Most of it radiates from joy they have in their hearts.

But one can not pretend that because an obese person has a beautiful heart and it shows, that that beauty originates from being healthy.

And because we want obese people to feel beautiful, postmoderns disservice them by saying they are healthy when they just mean beautiful.

You can be all sorts of kind and generous and all words in between towards obese people, but let us not lie to them about being healthy. And outwardly fit-looking people can be unhealthy as well: they may carry any number of autoimmune ailments, suffer from poor nutrition.

You can encourage obese people to love themselves while realizing they need to shed the pounds to gain longterm longevity and reduce the risks of future ailments, including cancer, where obesity is a major risk factor in many kinds.

And you know what? You can be obese and face lots of ridicule and rejection in the world at large because you were born into an era where it is considered unsightly and is objectively unhealthy.
That doesn't mean you have to be bitter and resentful. Your attitude is your choice.

Please don't be awful to fat people. I was fat once. Like maybe not obese, or even fat-fat, but definitely not just gay-fat, but fat. The pictures are somewhere on my instagram, c. 2013.