I guess they mention that she was “heavy set” so one might begin to think it was okay that he started boning some other chick while she was sitting home sick [and fat].
Also: “ She was somebody who was his intellectual equal, if not intellectual superior. She let people know that,”
She doesn’t look so damn smart now, does she?
Not that being John-boy's "intellectual equal" is saying a whole helluva lot. Neither one of them is exactly as sharp as a Ginsu knife.