What do these people have in common?

[quiregrrl]

According to the BMI, they are all obese. I post this not to make anyone reading it compare their own body with these ones and feel bad, but rather as an indicator of how deceptive the BMI can be as a measure of health and "appropriate" weight.

Pics stolen from the Illustrated BMI project on Flickr. Have a flick through all of them, it's fascinating seeing in real terms of body shape and size what gets classified as "normal", "overweight" and "obese".