How and when did the term " thick" become a complimentary term to describe a woman's body?

[curious28]

I might have to do a podcast episode on this topic, but a lot of terms that you hear in the lifestyle were started by black man in the hip hop culture.
PHAT
THICC
WHOOTY
PHATTY
PAWG
SlimThick
JUNK
BRICKHOUSE
snow bunny

We use totally different words to describe women. A lot of white women will be TOTALLY CONFUSED unless you hang out with black men

The other day I was doing a photoshoot with a very Curvy cute white woman. She had never heard the term PAWG before in her Life. I had to break it down for her

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you'd have to go all the way back to the Commodores when they made the song "Brick House" in 1977.
That might sound offensive, comparing a woman to a house, but that's actually a high compliment meaning a woman has a very curvy body

 

[CurFilipinaHW]

Where I grew up, thick was always complimentary. NorCal we always said “Damn she’s thick” as in “nice legs, nice ass, nice titties,etc.” I never heard it as a bad thing.