I was wondering because I remember reading somewhere(might have been a Reddit comment) that pharaohs were overweight, since they didn't walk a lot, and they ate a lot of milk and honey.
Is that true? If they were overweight, which for that time is probably different than being overweight at this day and age, why are they all depicted as skinny in statues and coffins?
There is always more to be said! But in the meantime:
/u/cleopatra_philopater wrote an amazing answer on the historical accuracy of the Assassin's Creed: Origins portrayal of some rich Egyptians as overweight!
Merneptah the son of Ramses II was obese when he became Pharaoh over age 60. that is evident from the conditions of his mummy. The representations were not how he looked like but when he was in his prime. No pharaoh is represented old , fat or defective regardless of his actual looks. Among the Ptolemies there was a pharaoh called Ptolemy VIII Evergetes called Physkon who was morbidly obese. He ruled from 169 to 112 BCE. Died at 66 to 68 years old.
Follow-up question, after reading the link provided by /u/sunagainstgold and finding the snarky remark by Scipio, how fit were Roman politicians on average? If I remember correctly it was fairly common for them to have prior careers in the military (as Scipio did, though I could be overstating how common this was) so I would assume many of them were quite fit in their younger lives, did that carry over at all into their later years?