[Goddess]

I think it's a biological thing. Bigger means better access to nutrition, and that means bigger, healthier, and more frequent babies. I took an art history class, and most of the earliest depictions of fertility goddesses or ideal women were round, sometimes obese looking feminine sculptures or paintings. When I say obese, I mean boobs down past the belly button, and rolls so big you couldn't even see her genitals.

I think it's just programmed into some us, whether we see it that way or not. It's a primitive instinct that some of us still go for.

Exactly. I love those sculptures. It makes a good point that it isn't just modern people that are bigger. People have always had diverse shapes and lifestyles.

When I was pregnant my butt grew a lot and the shape changed LOL (I don't think I would have believed it if someone told me that would happen) and one day I came across a picture of this one goddess sculpture and it looked just like my ass!! I was totally thrilled by that haha. It made me feel really beautiful, instead of weird or gross like I had been feeling.