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I've been running Heavenly Bodies, a dance for big women and their admirers, for eight years. She has strong words for both the diet industry and the growing popularity of gastric bypass surgery. My weight doesn't make me any less smart, and it doesn't make me any less attractive.'

I'm healthier than my husband, who exercises.

Society has raised us to believe if you're fat, you're lazy and unhealthy. Regarding the health risks of extra weight, Heather responds, 'It all comes down to the almighty dollar. I'm trying to educate people and let them know that fat isn't as icky or strange as they might think.' If someone had a preference for small breasts or a certain race, most intelligent people would say, 'Cool.' But if a man says, 'I like fatties,' he's a weirdo. Butts are getting surgically enhanced now. Why is black the coolest color car? Why are there fads, or different styles of clothing? Someone's out there designating it. 'The preference itself is a natural predilection. 'Fat admirers are mostly strong, intelligent men who say, 'I can't change it, and I'm going to enjoy it,'' she says. Heather believes society tries to guilt men out of liking big women. I said, 'You'll either have a fat daughter, or you'll have no daughter.' That pretty much settled it.' She actually said, 'Heather, if you don't lose weight, no one will ever love you.' One day we had it out. 'I'd lose five and gain back 10 lose 10 and gain back 20. 'She put me on every diet in the world,' Heather says. Her mother protested and took steps to get her to reduce. It's a place for men who see fat in a sensual way.'īorn and raised in Yonkers by her mother, Heather began to gain weight at around age 7. We have women wearing too-tight jeans or eating cupcakes because it sexually stimulates the viewer, but it's not explicit. She started five years ago with three models. There are fat women I know who accept their bodies, but if they had a choice, they'd be thin. I'm 422 pounds, and there's nothing wrong with me. 'If I had a choice to be thin, I'd turn it down. 'It's sexually exciting to me to be fat,' she says over the phone. On March 28 she's speaking at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU in an evening titled 'Fat Porn: Tipping The Scale,' which promises 'a frank discussion about fat porn and fat admirers.' Boyle has also become something of an advocate of fat acceptance-make that fat embracing. Sixteen women of assorted sizes, from plump to hypersize, including Heather, model for the site. She's 32 years old now, 422 pounds, happily married and runs from the house she recently bought with her husband John in Massachusetts. A long-term relationship wasn't to be, but we stayed in touch through the years even as she went off to California and England, and I went off to Bali. Around 300 pounds at the time, she was like an extra-large soft cloud, a buttery oasis against the harshness of the world.

#Heavenly bodies yonkers skin#

When I opened the door, there stood a 5-foot-1-inch, black-haired beauty with skin like milk and a body as wide as the doorframe. She came to meet me on the Upper East Side where, freshly disengaged and between apartments, I was staying with some friends. I had met Heather Boyle over the phone in 1995 after we'd chatted a few times via that new-fangled invention, the Internet. The voice was high, sweet and girlish, the conversation animated and playful.