My nine year old daughter thinks she needs to lose weight?

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My ex husband and I have had a heated debate this past week but I am hapy to say I finally made realize what a idiot he was. He has been pushing out nine year old daughter to diet because he thinks she is to fat. She was telling me last week that her dad is wanting her to exercise alot because he thinks she needs to lose weight. She even asked me if she should go on a diet. Well when she said that world war three started. She pushes herself to far and has been excessively exercising which has caused her to use her inhaler more. So I called her doctor and he said she is not overweight and doesnt need to lose any weight. She is at a healthy weight and she gets good checkups. She does has asthma so she has to be careful sometimes. Well my ex and I argued and I told him what the doctor said and that the only reason he wants her to lose weight is because he is ashamed of his own daughter that opened his eyes. He said he wouldnt push anymore and that he woul;d leave her alone about her weight. I want Erica to have a high level of self esteem and not be self concious of her weight. I dont want her to be unhappy or sad and develop a eating disorder because she believes that she is fat and unatttractive. I want her to be a self confident woman who is happy with the body she has and knows that whatever size she is that she is still beautiful and sexy. She is a very sensitive girl and I am afraid this will cause her to develop a bad image of herself and bad eating habits. When she found out her dad wouldnt make her exercise anymore unless she wanted to she was so happy because she was doing to please her dad. Well I want all my kids to realize what ever type of body you have as long as your healthy and active is the way to go because thin is definitly not in. I was a size 2 all through my school years and I was absoulutly miserable. My nickname was Olive Oil and I hated school. MY mom was like my ex and always opointed out the negative instead of the positive about my appearance. Well today I have very low self esteem and I am very self concious about my body. I dont want that for my kids so I will always point out the positive atttributes so they wont ever feel ugly and stupid like me. My ex husband did call me and apologize and tell what a stupid idiotic thing he did and he was so glad I called him on it. Erica is a beautiful nine year old girl with a fun bubbly outgoing personality and I intend to keep it that way. So would you have done the same thing if you were in my shoes or did I make a total idiot of myself?