If she is a fat guy in Alabama, that would completely devastate Wreck and his view of me. We can't have that.
And unless the fat guy has a girl who does his bidding for him, then it's safe to say she's very much a female. And it STILL doesn't matter either way, aside from the psyche, as you put it.
As I said before, it seems like a failure if it's an attempt to get attention. She keeps it all bottled up, unless you manage to squeeze a VERY tiny bit of information out of her. She pretends nothing's wrong, and only a few people out of a greater number will notice otherwise, while a fewer number from that might actually care. If she wanted attention, she'd get it other ways, or she'd make these thoughts much more public to get more people to take notice. So I really do doubt it's a play for attention. If she wants attention for me specifically, she knows she can get it without making up something like this.
I'm not saying there obviously isn't a chance it's not true. But it seems overly complex and flawed to be a lie.