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Why did they make Adella the fat girl?


Anyone else notice that Adella (raven hair, gold tail) is chubbier than the other sisters and food-obsessed?

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She's only chubby in half of the episodes xD So she must be a binge & purge kinda girl *cough*

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Haven't seen one yet. She obviously lost her sea-baby fat before the movie.

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I noticed too. Not that I don't think fat girls aren't pretty I just think they should have kept her thin to make her design look more like the one in the movie. Plus she's supposed to be one of the more vain sisters (Arista and Adella are the most look obsessed ones) so being fat isn't really her. But I'd just say she lost the weight or dieted seeing as she was only fat in some episodes.

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She's differently shaped than the other sisters in the movie, too. All of them are insanely skinny hourglasses except for Adella, who is a little more chunky. In the movie, it was probably done to show some variation. If I remember correctly, she's also the only one besides Ariel to have different colored shells than her tail.

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^Nope, her shells were the same colour. =) Weird mustard colour. I just checked.

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