The obesity "epidemic" has changed our perspective, if not our definition of fat people. Yesterday's corpulence is today's norm. Let me illustrate.
This is Fatty Arbuckle. It isn't Slightly Portly Arbuckle. It isn't Dude Could Use Some Toning Arbuckle. It is Fatty Arbuckle, perhaps the most rounded actor of the silent movie era, the prototypical endomorph.
Let's get another look.
It states in the IMDB that Fatty was required by contract to keep his weight above 250 lb. and that his weight was often near 300 lb. Did someone put their thumb on the scale?
Chaplin was 5'5" and of slight build, by the way.
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was a big man. Point taken. But in today's America, professional athletes often carry a higher BMI than Fatty did. Not a day goes by when I don't see a woman who is bigger than Roscoe Arbuckle in his prime.
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