Being Irish makes you more good-looking: when Austen wants to tell her readers how hot captain Wentworth is, she has a minor character look at him and ask whether he's Irish.

The one Irishwoman I know (from Belfast, protestant side) is very beautiful, and full-figured like you I would say. She took early retirement after quarreling too often with her French boss, who resented her correcting his English. We like each other a lot, though I see her much less since she retired, she spends a lot of time traveling.