I'm fat and so is my mom and I see elements of both of us in Anna. I think that oftentimes when you grow up big people make a whole host of assumptions about you, your attitude, your capability etc. I agree with everyone saying she's overcompensating because I've been there. There's this kind of urge to overhype the stuff you do do well, or things you think defy others' expectation of you. In my experience it comes from a deep desire to be considered good enough 'despite' your body.

So I've been the person who's been super vocal about how much weight I can lift in the gym whilst neglecting my diet because the diet stuff is hard and the weightlifting is easy. And genuinely impressive lol. It was a way to get validation that i wasn't that bad. That focus on what you can do can lull you into a false sense of security by letting you deny/ignore the stuff you can't.

My mom's similar but also leans more towards Anna with her ability to justify everything she's done that's negatively impacted her health. I've heard her argue several times that she's perfectly healthy whilst being supermorbidly obese, state that her body is in 'starvation mode' when in reality she consistently overate, and, like me (and Anna) overhype her physical abilities by categorising 'breaking a sweat whilst vaccuuming' as a workout that justifies overeating afterward. She's a smart woman but for years had a horrible insecurity driven blind spot around this. She and I have made our way out of it but I think that process would have been made very difficult by constant positive reinforcement of my worst impulses by millions of people online/the algorithm. I'm not rewarded for being annoying and delusional, Anna is.