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From LIFE Magazine.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Honey, you aren't chubby. Your friends are just really too thin. You are perfectly fine the way you are... Oh! I forgot, I bought you some new clothes, have some Chubbettes..."

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The girl in that add isn't even chubby, she looks like a normal weight to me. I guess that's part of the point of the ad, but...

[–] MartinXYZ 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She looks normal weight because she's wearing Chubbettes 😉

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Of course she looks like a normal weight. The Chubettes are doing their job!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Different standards. Chubby was a very different thing back then.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I know, it's just crazy to me that throughout history, if you weren't teetering on anorexia, you were fat.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget... "you'll look yummy in these new Chubettes!" 🤮

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

People 👏 are 👏 not 👏 food 👏

[–] Klear 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

They're not people

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They aren't food, until they must be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's my favorite actually