Probably because Asian girls are pressured by EVERYONE to be skinny.
I'm a fat Asian girl and I'm always being told that if I don't skinny down, no one will love me. One of my mom's friend's husband asked my mom, right in front of me, why she never told me to lose weight. I almost kicked his face into the concrete floor. I had to remove myself from the group and wander the mall until I had calmed down enough to compose myself and smile despite being deeply hurt.
Sorry that happened to you. What a douchbag! I'm not Asian, but my mother has been doing diet after diet (she isn't even overweight or anything) and has been forcing me to join her since I was 11 or 12 and all that ever accomplished was an eating disorder and a lot of gained weight... So, yeah, just wanted to say that society everywhere seems to misinterpret 'skinny' for 'pretty' and 'pretty' for 'worth something'. That's really unhealthy and downright cruel, so don't let it get to you! Poor souls don't understand how they're getting manipulated.
I mean we don’t really know why she lost weight. She could have started ballet again. It doesn’t always have to be for love that makes her want to change herself. I do agree that it would have been better if she stayed cubby but with society and influencers. They practically makes it seem like being overweight automatically means you’re ugly.
I hope everything is alright with you and you shouldn’t care about what others think! You should do whatever makes you happy and lose weight because you want to not because people pressure you too!!
I feel happy for her change but I wonder why characters like her can't just stay the way they are till the end of the story.... You know, irl you never really have to change to be loved when you're already fine from the beginning. It's not just about looks, especially these days.