Happy Being Fat

Big Dee Irwin 1963

 

Don't tell me to go on a diet;
Don't give me no pills.
Just leave me alone with my ice cream cone,
And let me eat my fill.

     I'm happy being fat;
     I like the weight I'm at;
     I'm happy being stout,
     And if you don't like it, you can get on out!

 

If I lost weight, I'd have to buy new clothes,
Cause my old ones would not fit,
So woman don't scream, just put some more ice cream
On my banana split.

     I'm happy being fat;
     I like the weight I'm at;
     I'm happy being stout,
     And if you don't like it, you can get on out!

 

 

 

 

I'm forty-two around the waist
And forty-eight around the hips;
I'm built like a tent, but, gal, I pay the rent,
So don't give me none of your lip.

     I'm happy being fat;
     I like the weight I'm at;
     I'm happy being stout,
     And if you don't like it, you can get on out!

by Gerry Goffin and Carole King

 

Fat Sculptures by Erwin Wurm

 

Erwin Wurm is one of Austria's most important and internationally famous sculptors known for his humorous approach to art.

In 2003, Erwin Wurm created the “Fat House” a large-scale sculpture of an obese house. Inside this chubby house is a video of the house asking itself a series of poignant questions like of “Am I a house?”. The following year, Erwin Wurm created a series of “fat cars” which depict puffy, obese, life-size sculptures of cars that bulge like overfilled sacks.

 

 

 

 

 

Wurum first tried to collaborate with Opel and General Motors in Germany but the computerized modeling software were unable to achieve the kind of shape that Wurm had in mind. Finally, he decided to go back to the old way of making cars - by hand. Mr. Wurm used the chassis of an actual car. The “fat” was polyurethane foam and Styrofoam covered with lacquer.

 

 

 

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