Response to "Is overweight the new 'Good looking'"

After reading is overweight the new goodlooking by rb in Mrs. Golds blog, i started to think about why the women in America are stressed to be so skinny. Are women in America simply pressured to be skinny because that is what all the models look like or do women in America think that men want a woman who is skinny. I remember reading something in life skills in 8th grade that stated taht men are automatically drawn to women that are buxom and can carry a child. Do women in the Middle East not worry about their weight or are teh traditional thoughts of men about women still around? Do men in teh middle East see someone who is skinny as someone who is unfit to carry a child? All these questions arise but are almost impossible to answer.
-RML