From the movie Spanglish, which always makes me cry:
American women, I believe actually feel the same as Hispanic women about weight; a desire for the comfort of fullness. And when that desire is suppressed for style and deprivation allowed to rule - dieting, exercising - American women become afraid of everything associated with being curvaceous such as wantonness, lustfulness, sex, food, motherhood - all that is best in life.
