[Writer]

Bah!

You think these ads are "realistic"? You think you ought to celebrate being overweight? Being overweight is an unhealthy thing. It contributes to heart disease and diabetes. Yes, anorexic photo-manipulated models aren't any healthier, but there's a healthy medium, which is what is actually healthy. Celebrating being overweight as "beautiful" is no more healthy than celebrating anorexia as "beautiful". This shouldn't be a question of how "pretty" a person is based on their weight: This should be a question of how healthy a person is.

And for crying out loud! Imposing "realistic" body shapes for cartoons, which is really just the American average, aka overweight and unhealthy? Bah! They're cartoons, for crying out loud. They're sketches drawn on a sheet of paper. Cartoons are meant to be loved for their storylines, not for their figures! If you feel bad because you've compared your weight/hair/face/what-have-you to a drawing on a sheet of paper or a Barbie doll, well, sorry, but it's your problem, not anyone else's, and you need to see a therapist instead of writing angry letters to innocent companies just trying to entertain kids for a living.