'Morbidly obese' only furthers that stigma. These words are clinical and cold, and they make it seem as if bodies are healthy only up to a certain weight - and that crossing that line makes a body bad or sick. While many people, like Gay, have been reclaiming the word 'fat' as a descriptor rather than an insult, 'obese' and 'overweight' are still offensive. I don't think the scale goes beyond that, quite literally,' Freedman said. 'There's obese, then there's morbidly obese, and then there is super morbidly obese. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
