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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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  • Friday, June 8, 2007 10:13 AM

    FYI for DianeKovacs

    I don't know why people keep repeating the nonsense about Marilyn Monroe's wearing a dress size 16. At her heaviest (when pregnant and filming "Some Like it Hot") she weighed 140 pounds. She mostly hovered around 120 (she was 117 when she died) so her BMI was in fact, for the most part, around 20. Dress sizes have changed a great deal over the years. From what I've read, she'd wear an 8 in today's sizes.

    She probably wouldn't get very far as a super model these days, but the notion that she'd be considered tubby by anyone not in the fashion industry is ludicrous

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