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There are a bunch of these I've noticed. John Updike's story, 'A Constellation of Events': it's about an upper middle-class woman who starts an affair with a neighbor. She is self-conscious about her weight and there are some great lines like, "Betty lifted her sweater to look at her pale belly. Baby fat. Middle age had softened her middle. But, then, Lydia (the wife of the guy Betty is sleeping with) was an athlete, tomboyish and lean, swift on skis, with that something Roman and androgynous and enigmatic about her looks. It was what Rafe was used to; the contrast had startled him." Nathanael West's 'Miss Lonelyhearts': The main character goes away to the country with his estranged wife, Betty, and he watches her, naked, hanging up clothes to dry. "She looked a little fat, but when she lifted her arms the fat disappeared." Then, in Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer', there's a prostitute who is a supporting character. I don't have the book handy, but basically there's a sequence where she decides she's just going to stay in the main guy's apartment for a few weeks. She gets chubby because she's so sedentary, and one day when he comes home, she grabs her belly and says, 'Look what happened to me!' As some of you may know, that book is a treasure trove of erotica in general, let alone this one narrow type.