[...] about different villages in African countries that consider “big women” tha most desirable so a few months before marriage a woman is secluded in a hut with her mom and her future mother in law and they’re fed fattening mills and cakes and shit to put on weight before tha wedding...these women were goin’ from like 170-180 to damn near 275+ in a matter of a couple months...shit was wild
I think I knew what you are talking about. Somebody on a predominantly white chubby-loving forum started a topic about it and I remember having rendered lots of white folks mad when I started educating them about the subtleties and trappings of African cultures (is it just an American thing or white folks really have anti-intellectual/inferiority complex issues and rude tendencies when you are enlightening them about anything?) . Get blocked for weeks because of this. Long story.
In Central, West, East, Northeast and Southern Africa, there has plenty of women who thrive for a fuller-figured planturous silhouette -let alone from getting downright obese- to secure chances to either marry or find a partner.
Using a variety of curves-boosting and weight-boosting methods: it may varies from daily trials of premarital milk-based or carb-based (sorgho, rice, flour paste, ecetera) overstuffing during an extended period of time, to herbal naturopathic treatments enhancing one user's physical feminine attributes and bodyweight at an exceedingly rapidly progressing pace (we are talking here about popular treatments successful enough to turn underweight-to-"normalweight" young women, granted by a very fast metabolism as well as little to no physical indication leaning into developping a shapely silhouette if ever there happened their bodies grow bigger, into hundred/s-of-pounds-heavier planturous, Rubenesque or bonafide blimpful ladies
in mere weeks to few months) to the heuristic although noxious use of nitroglycerin-lined Vitamin E pills sell under the black market in various African countries (whose proprieties are as remarkably efficient than traditional naturopathic treatments, although less successful at long term: a French article from tne 2010s spoke about the popular use of these pills in Democratic Republic of Congo and West Africa and one of the interviewed persons, an young Congolese woman who used to resent her skinny form, reported having used these pills and rapidly developped the fuller-figured body shape she desired after only a couple of weeks: but turned a little too greedy, rapidly lost her newfound shape by getting bigger, get sick and after a total of a
six-weeks transformation went from a twig to a planturous to a then-
165-pounds-heavier-obese-form. Yes, you've heard it: she gaind 165 pounds in six weeks... and caught diabetes and cardiovascular issues in the meantime as well as a severe mobility impediment because she overdosed on illegal dietary supplements and that her body could not sustain yet such an extra weight carrying around in a ridiculously little amount of time) , to more ridiculous heuristic methods who nonetheless works such like pluging Maggi-branded (a Nestle food condiment brand popular in sub-Saharan African countries and the Diaspora) soja cubes between their butt cheeks (I am kid not: it works) to a more foolish cheap method like making butt injections with chicken porridge to even using downright occult methods what God-fearing factions in sub-Saharan countries are misnoming derisively as "sorcery" (have you ever read or watched
Stephen King's Thinner?? A morbidly obese lawyer who get cursed by an eldery Gypsy man and shed a lot of weight at an unnatural pace every passing day until he turn 300-pounds thinner and agonizing because of the strain? Just imagine the same kind of f*cked-up phenomenon: but inverted, better controlled, safer and delayed to a desired limitation. Still, you cross a twig someday and a few days or weels later, she turn all T&A-tier extrathicc, then if she's into the idea of pouring her ass out of two chairs, pray for not getting a nervous breakdown or heartsroke the next time you see her... the remainder of premodern African exhaustive epistemologics of Nature and its inner workings are f*cked-up. Cosmetic surgery is nothing but primitive butchery for the knowledgeable minorities, then postindustrial Northern countries and their embryonary exploration of Quantum Physics but 2000 years worth long-halted baby steps from an arrogant preteenage brat. Only South Africa, Senegal and few North African countries have cosmetic surgery clinics and even there, much of their clientele are not local!) .
Still happens too among Berber-speaking populations of the Sahel and North Africa nowadays and reportedly used to be a thing in Egypt (due to the influence from the south) since as far as the Roman period till as far as 19th century CE, according one sociologist studying about the historicity of that subculture in the Muslim world and its North African origins.