January 28, 2004
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By Pascale Harter
BBC, Mauritania
Obesity is so revered among Mauritania's white Moor Arab population that the young girls are sometimes force-fed.
A generation ago, over a third of women in the country were force-fed as children - Mauritania is one of the few African countries where, on average, girls receive more food than boys.
"I make them eat lots of dates, lots and lots of couscous and other fattening food," Fatematou, a voluminous woman in her sixties who runs a kind of "fat farm."
"Of course they cry - they scream."
"When they are small they don't understand, but when they grow up they are fat and beautiful. They are proud and show off their good size to make men dribble."
" I've seen 10-year old girls give birth. I tell you, 10 years old! Once they are fat and beautiful they can serve their men well."
Comments (7)
The last sentence sums up my feelings exactly. I've got the fat and beautiful thing covered. Now I just need a man to "serve".
This is completely ethnocentric of me, but, "disgusting."
im going to move to mauritania and be a hot chick. yessssss!
in their eyes, america must be full of lucious babes
I was about to head to Mauritania until I read that part about "serving their men well".
I'm moving. Today.
The idea is cool but the application is horribe
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