She and her friends present themselves in all their glory as objects of aesthetic contemplation and representations of lesbian-identified eroticism. Yet she figuratively and literally turns away from the viewer. She presents her backside to us. Kiss my ass. Using her body as both figure and ground, Aguilar presents us with the flip side of the anorexic model.
Obesity is a disorder of equal magnitude and disruption.
Hers is an extraordinary act of courage and vulnerability. To expose a naked body so dramatically out of sync with standards of perfection takes considerable self-possession. She makes public what is most private. By this risky act she transgresses familiar images of representation of the human body and replaces stereotypes with images of self-definition. She reclaims her body for herself.