well.. in a way before tech and main stream money of a kind anyone who has alot of a body type was deemed sexy and able to support new life in the world. For anyone who was skinny or not average / large size would not be able to support new life let alone live in a harsh parts of the worldI actually learned about this from a related comment:
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To make it short, an attraction to exaggerated proportions and such is common.