Being both beautiful AND useful is the best of both worlds! :D
I have actually gotten a couple messages about this since I made that post. Carole Shaw apparently coined the term for BBW Magazine, which I hadn’t even heard of before I wrote that post. I’ll probably go in later and edit it a bit with a link to this.
There was apparently a time (now lost to the mists of history) when fat fetishism and fat acceptance weren’t as split as they are now, but I’m still not a proponent of calling someone a BBW unless they already identify themselves as one. Even if the term was coined by one of the first people to talk about fat in a positive manner, it has a much more complex set of connotations now.