Hel-lllooo Dolly!

Been goin’ thru the 1968 Celeste Geyer (a.k.a. Dolly Dimples) inspirational weight loss autobiography, Diet or Die, as part of research for a project and came upon this marvelous moment wherein the It Girl of Circus Fat Ladies describes being provoked by a heckling rube who claimed she was too fat to dance. Dolly’s response:

“Honey, I’ve got it all over these skinny girls. All I have to do to shimmy is run, stop suddenly and let nature take its course – like this!”

Now that must’ve been quite a show!