I am helping out a Pastor friend with a new church plant here in Calgary. He is Liberian and the majority of the church is African. One rather large woman from the Congo told me that in her home country, having a large wife is a status symbol. A large wife means that her hubby is doing well enough to keep his wife ‘well fed’. If she is not so big, he is not earning a good living.
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That could work in poorer countries. Even in the west, a hundred or so years ago, chubby women were icons.
Kim Jong-Un?