”Skinny is only one body type. But it has been the aesthetic, with modifications in height (now tall with long legs: used to be middling with shapely ones) and breast size (now big: used to be small) for several decades. It’s not that there is anything wrong with skinniness in its current manifestation: it’s the singularity of the image, and the message, which makes us judge anything that deviates from it as somehow wrong.

Susie Orbach, Ad men today are wrong on body size