"I think it's true," Jessica Torres, Revelist's lifestyle producer said. "A lot of guys don't want to date fat girls when these were the ones they probably taught to make fun of."

Revelist's managing editor, Lauren Gordon, agreed.

"This is a super sad reality for a lot of women," she said. "And for a lot men. Sometimes dudes shame other dudes for their choices in women. They put their masculinity in danger" by admitting attraction to a type of woman that society has told them is undesirable.