Except that, well, they did.
Here’s a picture of my great-grandparents and their kids (my grandpa is the little boy on the right):
My body type is extremely similar to my great-grandmother’s on the left, and I looked like the girl in the middle when I was a little girl.
So much for no fat people in history (this photo is about 100 years old).
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I had a similar realization today, only mine was in the dressing room of an 18th century lady.
My mother and her sisters and I always joke that we come from good hearty peasant stock, as all of the old pictures of the women in our family look just like us – built for hard labor in the fields!
That is a stunning picture and I could immediately see the resemblance between you and your relatives!
Yup! I’ve seen pictures of my great grandmothers when they were younger and they were larger ladies, as were my grandmother and her sisters.
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The same in my family 🙂