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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 81 points 3 days ago (1 children)

None of this fat is intramuscular and, visually, this is objectively too close to an idealized body type to have been anything but a suggestion to have a pizza.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought this was visceral fat?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

On first glance, I thought so too. But it would be a truly bizarre amount of visceral fat for this body type, so it must be at least a 50/50 cutaneous/visceral split. She should be bulging far differently. But above the intestines, that’s definitely mostly visceral. The legs are the bit that made me second guess everything. The “skin” is fairly thick, but somehow the fat is substantially thinner? I don’t follow. Are they lipomas? Are these unhealthy fats? Why is subcutaneous belly fat seemingly excluded? What’s happening?

Really, it’s just a poster meant to make women feel insecure and the art is inconsistent because it doesn’t have to be consistent.