Why do people think clinically underweight is normal, underweight is curvy, average is overweight, and chubby is fat?

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I'm talking about this picture. #3 is slightly underweight but okay, #4 looks average but is deemed chubby, #5 is chubby but is deemed fat. The other ones are so thin they don't even have boobs, like what? What's wrong with people? How is that desirable? No wonder people are getting boob implants in the West. This scoring system is broken, does this actually represent what people think?

Why do people think clinically underweight is normal, underweight is curvy, average is overweight, and chubby is fat?
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This problem seems awfully relevant to the issues with the image of females in advertising, designed to make females hate themselves for not looking like those photoshopped idealized puppets... no one looks like that...
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  • I was told that 150 is overweight but I'm 5'8" people do not take height into consideration. Someone even told me I should be 130. But That's underweight for me. I mainly hear this from white people online

    • This is why I don't like pounds as a weight system - all the normal weights sound like "too much". Your weight sounds perfectly normal for your height.

    • I'm not 150. I am overweight My goal is 150

    • 150 sounds fine for 5'8" btw, that's a healthy goal. My friend is your height and 115 and she definitely looks like she needs to gain at least 20 pounds for her health. Good luck!

  • 3-5 look normal and heathy. The BMIs of theses ladies is probably an average of 20-23 which is average healthy BMI. 0-1 are likely clinically underweight at a BMI of 16-17. Healthy appropriate clinical weight ie. BMI is between 18-24, 25-30 is overweight 30 and above is obese.

    • However sometimes really muscular people have BMIs of 30+ so BMI can have a subjective component. BMI is calculated weight (kg) divided by height squared. Kg/(ht x ht) = BMI if you want to find yours.

    • Height in meters.

    • Yep, muscle weighs more than fat.

  • I completely agree. What's considered ideal is actually underweight and the media brainwashes girls into thinking they ought to look almost like skeletons. Girls with normal weight end up feeling ashamed of themselves even tho they look great.

    • Exactly what I've been saying, yet I get attacked on it. It's awkward.

  • Number 3 is not underweight and number 4 is chubby. Just because lots of people look like number 4 now because of fast food and everything doesn't mean it's good. Number 5 is without a doubt overweight. Every doctor would tell her to lose weight

    • #5 looks chubby to me, but not fat. #4 looks average to me.

    • And average isn't good. The average weight is overweight so that's not what people should be

    • Is that what you will say when the "average" weight will be #3? That's kinda how it is. Most models are photoshopped.

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  • Haha what the fuck? No way 'normal' is normal. Curvy isn't even normal. Chubby is more like the most normal one.

    • Exactly what I'm saying, what the hell?