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The ways in which we understand bodies and fatness are complex. While coloniality unduly influences and shapes normative meanings of the body in everyday contexts, Maori conceptualisations of the body and of fatness remain inscribed within the moana, the whenua, te reo Maori and our whakapapa. These understandings provide insight into fatness and bodies from a Maori worldview. Our whakaaro in this article speaks into Maori ways of being and knowing, including meanings of momonatanga as bountiful, rich, fertile, and powerful. This article develops an expansive and holistic Maori understanding of bodies and fatness from the whenua, from the moana, from our whakapapa.