Mae West: Sexy or "Fat"?

Fate Impacts on the Fat Theme
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Who are you calling a "Fat Actress"?
Coming on the heels of the documentary "Super Size Me" about a man who grew fat and sick after living only on McDonald's fast food for amonth, and just weeks before a new play by Nell LaBute called "Fat Pig" about a man who is ridiculed by his friends for dating a "generously proportioned" woman, Eve Ensler may have tapped into a trend.

"There are often times when you come up with something that's in the air," Ensler says, blaming the "tyranny of capitalism" for encouraging the obsession with having a "good body" as a means to sell products.

"The Good Body" opened recently on Broadway. It has been faulted by some critics as returning to well-worn themes, but in a way that raises laughs. "Many, many women have issues with their bodies. I don't think it's something that's gone away and it's something that's actually escalated," Ensler said in an interview, noting that the U.S. beauty industry is worth tens of billions of dollars.
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