Synonyms for ‘Fat’ that aren’t Cringeworthy…?

Llamedos13

In a tv interview, a reporter was talking to a chap whose house had gone on fire, he said he had to pull his wife out of a window to escape the flames.”She’s a heavy girl”, he said over and over! I often wonder if she has forgiven him for telling the entire country his wife is a heavy girl,

god that's funny

Definitely 'voluptuous' - it sounds like a sexy complement, so enjoy using it to describe yourself.

grandtanteJE65

As long as a person is describing herself the choice is surely hers.

Stout, well-built, generously proportioned, ample, plump, or as Mma Ramotswe of The Ladies' No. 1 Detective Agency says of herself "a traditionally built lady".

Yes, that’s it; I’m trying to find a word to describe me.
I am fat; but to me, fat makes me think ‘flabby’, and I’m not.

Musicgirl no, I’m not tall. I’m extremely average, 5’4 I think

Don’t worry about repeating things. - it always happens.

Voluptuous is definitely very popular.
I might just go for it. Go the full Nigella.
Pass me the spoon MissAdventure! ?

‘I’m a heavy girl’
That’s probably more like it!

This is a phrase from a Victoria Wood joke, I can’t remember the the rest of it, but I often use it in relation to various situations and myself :

‘Two big lads and a wheelbarrow’

I don’t have a problem describing myself as fat. I prefer this to any of the euphemisms mentioned above, which I think are all super cringe-making and some twee. For example, I’d only use ‘Rubensesque’ about myself in mimed inverted commas, as a joke when talking to friends.
I have also used the factual ‘big’ or ‘large’. If discussing clothes, plus size seems a clear and accurate description.

tattygran14

A bit off point, as usual, but in America clothes for overweight youths are described as 'husky'. Somehow, I find that very funny.?

Is it?
That’s really mad!

I just remembered big fat Sue and fat no more Pat

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_kBku4g48

Fanny how about describing yourself in biblical terms………For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. ?

Above average weight

Doodle

Fanny how about describing yourself in biblical terms………For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. ?

Wow Doodle! You never disappoint! ?

A friend of mine used to say “plumptious”:

Maybe curvaceous or rubenesque

I’m ‘bigger than the average bear’
But then my offspring always refer to me as Mother Bear ??

Shapely? well proportioned?

Overweight! Tell it like it is! ( I’m not skinny btw)

townie

I don’t have a problem describing myself as fat. I prefer this to any of the euphemisms mentioned above, which I think are all super cringe-making and some twee. For example, I’d only use ‘Rubensesque’ about myself in mimed inverted commas, as a joke when talking to friends.
I have also used the factual ‘big’ or ‘large’. If discussing clothes, plus size seems a clear and accurate description.

In the health farm. “Clench your buttocks”…..” it’d take two strong lads and a wheelbarrow to clench her buttocks”

One of Victoria’s all time best .

Sorry !!. Wrong quote That was to FannyCornforth 14.16.35

Big boned. ?

Gorgeous !!!

Matronly.
Well covered.
Ample proportions.
Voluptuous.

My mother's overweight best friend was known by us as 'her biggest friend'. Other terms I remember: 'plenty to grab hold of' and 'there's more of me to love'.

Ooh! Matron!

Ma Larkin. How beautiful was she.

Our bodies are covered in subcutaneous fat, and it’s the direct terminology. It’s just society has decided it’s an offensive word.
My partner calls me his snorkus porkus and I weigh 126lbs. If I put some weight on in the winter. I call it my winter duvet

You could describe yourself as 'traditionally built' as does the Mwa from Number one ladies detective agency.