More Than Fat

In one comedy sketch, an overweight woman wearing sparkling jewelry and a comely black dress scarfs down food. A man acting as her manager yells, “Min-kyoung, wake up! How many times have I told you to lose that weight? How can you call yourself a woman and not make the slightest effort to become prettier? Who would think of you as a woman?” Min-kyoung, playing a ditzy celebrity-wannabe who is always hungry, seems hurt. “I want to be a woman, too,” she says weepingly. “I want to lose weight a