No, I don't think it's out of place. I have mixed feelings, though. I mean, obviously we all read our own issues into stories; that's how we connect emotionally with them, and I gathered from the comments she only made it partly through the story before it upset her too much to continue. And I do think the first part of the story is a lot less nuanced; it does sound, at the beginning (especially I think Jensen's conversation with the doctor) like they're just outright blaming Jensen (and I guess, by association, fat people) for his condition. It's not until later in the story that we get acknowledgement that being thinner doesn't mean your life is perfect.

And I do think even if you have a certain level of security in yourself, being constantly bombarded with messages that being fat means you're lazy, self-hating, unloveable, etc. gets hard to take. So if that's the message she took from the story, I can see where she's coming from. (I don't think that *is* the message of the story--but since I've bailed from stories over issues that are far less emotionally weighted, I certainly don't blame her for not finishing a story that triggered her).