Facebook faux-paux: Girls, stop exposing ‘fat arm’!

By Brandon Tucker



The biggest problem I have with Facebook is that many of the girls in my friends list have at least one photo gallery called “Good times” or “crazy nights”, featuring 40 or so variations of her and friends the bar, holding a drink and offering a drunken, glazed grin to the camera.

But there is a horrendously unflattering problem in many of these photos, something these women need to be more conscious about when they’re out chugging Sugar-free Red Bull and Vodka and getting camera phone-happy, because it can be prevented.

Fat Arm.

Fat Arm is what happens when you are shot from the side, and the camera makes your upper-arm look disproportionately wider than the rest of your body. Look at the girl on the right in the upper photo. She’s probably in fine shape (other shots in the gallery reveal she’s not bad at all), but because of Fat Arm, our first impression is that she’s a prime candidate for “Shaq’s Big Challenge”.

There is a solution…



Recently I was on a shoot with a fitness model/hostess. I noticed that even in her casual snap shots off-duty, she would strike a pose, where one of her legs was in front of the other, her hand was on her hip and her elbow jutted out (like one of Bob Barker’s gals).

I made fun of her a little for it, to which she explained if she didn’t pose like that, her arm would look like one of Rosie O’Donnell’s calves.

This girl is a twig, size zero, but even she knows Fat Arm can bite her. Think about all you females out there who are simply average in weight. You don’t stand a chance against it.

So, women, I urge you: stop feeling the urge to post 50 pics every Monday morning of you at the bars the weekend before. It’s really not all that interesting – even if you caught your friend puking in the bushes or pissing herself in the cab.

But if you insist, please, please, go the extra mile and protect yourself from Fat Arm.