America, the obese.

Fashion magazines are now trying to put "normal sized" women as models into their glossy photoed pages. They state that girls are getting depressed and insecure when they pour over the magazine pages obsessively, then turn around to the mirrors projecting views of their own obese selves. So now the magazines have turned pollitically correct, not wanting to make obese people depressed by showing super-skinny models for the victims to compare themselves to. There are now pictures of normal sized people, and some obese people, in magazines, so that the readers know what normal people look like, thus raising self-esteem and self-image.
I think that this says something weird about our country, and our magazines, which are now telling us it is okay, maybe even normal to be obese. This is a terrebly fine line between encouragement of obeseness and encouragement of self-image, and I'm squinting at it with a hand lens. Just now that magazines are worried about too-thin teens and self-image, they are telling people it's okay to be themselves. Not when "themselves" means fat, lazy people ruining the percentage of productive youth in America. There is a big difference between naturally fat people and obese french-fry guzzling people who got that way. If you are naturally fat, you really can't do much about that. But if you got fat, you can get un-fat. You can change your diet, and excersize more. America has this distinctive way of not helping people solve their problems productively, but either tell them to get something better, or to not feel bad about it. (This is why I like IKEA, but that's a different story)

Magazines should not tell people that it is okay to be fat, because it is dangerous, but tell them how or if they can get un-fat naturally and healthily.