These sound like the same sort of people who would think that FDR couldn't be President because of his polio-based problems, or Lincoln because of his height, or.... These are called "parochial little minds" and they are not found only in one place.

Growing up one of my neighbors wore a special "polio shoe" and another had lost a leg in WW2. We didn't think anything of -- that's just the way things were. I wore glasses, my mother had false teeth, my g-g-aunt walked with a cane.

I think we have a rather warped idea of what an ideal body is and we don't look beyond the externals.