It doesn’t matter if she is “all that large.”
What matters is that Mia’s words were awful and she hasn’t yet managed to properly apologize for them.
The whole “but she isn’t even that fat” thing implies that people who are, in fact, really fat deserve to be treated badly whereas less large people deserve to be treated less badly. It’s still fatphobic.

Even if she WERE “all that large” she should be treated with respect. There’s lots of talk in the fat activist community about the problem of the “good fattie” — that is, if you’re not “all that large” and/or exercise regularly and/or enjoy decent good health, ok, yay, you’re not like those BAD fat people.

ALL PEOPLE OF ALL SIZES deserve civility and kindness. Full stop.

I’m looking forward to (and also dreading) reading her book. I expect it’s gonna be wrenching.

Do we really need to Google image a person to see if the comments made were hurtful, cruel, and unnecessary? No. We don’t need to do that.

This is like all the nightmare scenarios I’ve ever had about my weight, all depicted in vivid Technicolor. I cannot imagine living this in real life, and just cannot understand how someone could be so callous and horrifying and still walk upright like an actual human. The “well, she said it first” defense utterly sickens me.

I’d also just like to add that Mia Freedman was appointed chair of the Federal Government’s Body Image Advisory Council in 2009.

Let’s just let that sink in…