I agree with you about how people point at foreign, overweight woman. I worked with a couple in a city in northern Jiangsu for two weeks. Both these women were from the states and here doing teacher training. One was a nice looking, but overweight blonde woman. The other was her mother. When women saw them, they just stared at them all day. Even the vice-principal of the college they were working at when he compared them to Chinese woman told them they were fat and CHinese women skinny.

During breakfast at our hotel, one woman while she opened her mouth up and down like a horse, just kept staring at the women. It seems women are in competition with eachother for beauty in China, and foreign women as "I am glad I am not them."

I am 1.70 cms tall and weigh 70 kilos, not exactly the poster child of obesity, and I have been called "fat."