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Thursday, June 7, 2007 12:00 AM

Healthy, my ass

Many blacks love big women, but having a rump the size of Buffie the Body's can put women at risk for disease.
By Debra Dickerson

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  • Wednesday, June 13, 2007 04:17 PM

    The woman has lost 20 lbs.,

    by her own accounting (which means it is more likely 10 lbs, maybe) and pretty cute by whose standards? A hobo? She is fat, end of story. She will never break 175, on her best day. That is corpulent. Get with it.

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