Marianne Kirby writes the popular fat acceptance blog The Rotund and is the co-author of Lessons From the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body. She writes, makes art, and lives fat and happy in Orlando, Fl.

More to Love, a plus-size version of The Bachelor, premieres Tuesday night on Fox. But what does showing curvy women in the pursuit of love add to the American obesity debate?