Posted on 08/12/2022 5:07:15 PM PDT by simpson96
Iraqi actress Enas Taleb is taking legal action against The Economist magazine after it used her image as a cover photo for a story about obesity among women in the Middle East.
The British weekly's story — Why women are fatter than men in the Arab world — argued that social barriers and a lack of access to jobs were keeping women indoors and preventing them from going to gyms or playing sport in public areas, leading to an obesity crisis.
At the end of the article, the magazine quoted some women as saying that one of the widespread social norms in Arab countries is that many men prefer them “to be Rubenesque”.
The magazine did not interview Taleb, but its story concluded with the line: “Iraqis often cite Enas Taleb, an actress with ample curves, as the ideal of beauty."(snip)
Earlier this week, she told the Arabic news channel, Al Arabiya, that the article was “a great insult to the Arab woman in general and the Iraqi woman in particular”.
The mother of two claimed that she is not as large as the photo depicts her, accusing the magazine of “manipulating and distorting” it.
“I have been facing bullying and offensive comments,” she told the station from Amman, Jordan, where she resides. Taleb is seeking compensation for emotional, mental and social damage.
She did not provide details about the lawsuit.
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Time was ample curves were seen as beautiful in Europe too and skinny was seen as both unhealthy and infertile (which is actually somewhat true, for it seems that human women with too low body fat may have difficulty conceiving).
Give the gal a break, she certainly isn’t the Princess Qajar ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNQmfu7XAgs
There are reasons that Arab men go after goats. Exhibit A.
Large woman customer: “Excuse me, but am I invisible?”
Al Bundy: “Possibly from Pluto.”
You are not of normal weight.
That leaves....
Now your guy may like you like that, you may like you like that. But it still is what it is.
Unless you are preggers in that picture you are, to put it politely, a bit chunky.
‘Big Bone’ girl.
Bwahaha! That sure is punny!
Rubenesque.
Too fat polka (Arthur Godfrey 1946) => https://youtube.com/watch?v=9h-a9cvsbMM
The Economist “ That lady is fat. “
That lady “Fat ? Wah!”
Your body is God’s Temple.
Thar she blows! Harpoon that whale!
Awwwww, little chubbers.
she could play Miss Piggy with no additional makeup than what she’s got on in that pic ...
I’d bet she can also sing.
“Does this cape make me look fat?”
They did not “depict” her as being fat. She clearly is fat.
Its like George Costanza complaining a photo someone took of him, depicted him as being bald.
No, dear. That dress doesn’t make your ass look fat. Your fat ass makes your ass look fat ...
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