I Blame Widescreen TV for Snooki. (The Repreportioning of North America)

Television broadcasts have been  formatted for standard 4 by 3 beginning of tv time. In the late ninety's widescreen 16 by 9 televisions began to hit the shelves and shortly after, our living rooms. It hasn't been until recently that tv broadcasting has begun to catch up with the 16 by 9 format. Click your tv setting over to normal, you will likely see black bars on each side of a 4 by 3 picture. Now click it back to wide you'll see the picture stretched to fit the 16 by 9 format. The net result is the people on tv or 4 times wider but only 3 times as tall.
Snooki was born in 1987 and was 13, just entering her teenage formative years when widescreen TVs hit...she has always seen her tv role models as being proportioned shorter and wider than they really are.  She, and a whole generation with her, grew into that wider body image because tv gave it tacit approval.
It's not your fault Snooki... blame widescreen TVs.