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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The BMI is worthless without knowing more attributes of the person. Thin people can be unhealthy, and fat people who are working out can be in better shape than they appear.
You don’t need BMI to know she is fat. You just need two working eyes.
Lardy?
Certainly not Maryann Moberly in ‘Harem Scarum’
She is chunky.
Quit blubbering; you ARE definitely overly zaftig.
Goats aren’t normally fat?
“Hey Lou, you see my new spot on TV”
“Yeah, you could loose a few pounds ...”
“I gotta get bigger actors”.
yup
Max Density
So is BMI canceled?
It’s the old celebrity thing “ all publicity is good publicity”.
Too bad. Now I don’t know how much of her face is spackle, but she’s got a pretty enough face. All she has to do to shut people up is push herself away from the table five or six times a day. In six months, revenge would be hers.
If you like a big woman, she’s your girl.
To each their own.
The evidence seems to speak for itself good luck with that
She be fatish
Still fat. But taller.
She’s fat, Jim.
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