One of the things about most retailers who have several, separate lines of clothing is that for some reason, the plus-size clothes never seem to be anywhere close to as nice as the clothes in the other sizes. It’s like they design a whole cavalcade of items for their petites and their misses, and then […]

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Do you remember when Karl Lagerfield was fat, and you got the feeling he sort of hated himself? He wore a lot of big, black clothes that covered him all the way up, and wandered around flapping a little fan in front of his face, in order, one assumes, to hide his double chin. It […]

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I’m pretty much just lifting this post wholesale from Jezebel: Men Who Are Obsessed With Obese Women. On today’s episode, Tyra interviewed men who are “obsessed” with obese women. However, it seemed a lot more like a fetish than an obsession. One guest, Scott has been attracted to 400-pound women ever since he was a […]

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Oh my GOD, Ralph Lauren! Keep your Photoshop brushes in your pants! What is wrong with you people? Earlier this month, an insane Ralph Lauren ad appeared, in which their long-time model Filippa Hamilton was photoshopped into a creepy, unrecognizable insectile creature from outer space. Hamilton was reportedly horrified by the image, and said “I […]

Filed under: Advocacy, Celebrities, Fatism, Gossip, Magazines, Media, Photoshop, Politics | 11 Comments »

So are you guys watching Glee? The awesome, Jane-Lynch-starring, musical-theater-celebrating, football-team-singing-Single-Ladies-scene-having, Glee? Which is on tonight? If so, then you have noticed Amber Riley, who plays Mercedes, and is a plus-sized chick. Check out this post about her from All My Jiggly Bits. Though in many ways the characters fall into the same old categories […]

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nicole eggertOriginally uploaded by mo pie This is a picture of Nicole Eggert, recreating her Baywatch character for Celebrity Fit Club, where it will no doubt be cast in the light of, “ew! she was so hot on Baywatch and now she’s so fat!” Well, I’m going to go out on a limb and say […]

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I don’t have any news about Jim Carrey’s weight gain, although I will keep an eye out for you, many Google searchers. But I did get a hot tip in the comments last week, and I wanted to share it: Jadet Cadet’s post on Gender and Size in the Action Genre. She’s responding to a […]

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It’s Sunday night, and my brain is tired from Mad Men and William Blake and getting ready for another week of school. So I give you, another batch of Google alerts that I just clicked on! 1. Expectant Parents Should Be Weighed To Prevent Fat Children. “Tam Fry, a trustee of the National Obesity Forum, […]

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I’m giving Gabby Sidibe her own category because I don’t want to be caught unawares when she’s walking down the red carpet on Oscar night and we need to post about how hot she looks and/or what insane thing she’s wearing. Gabby is the star of the film Precious, also starring Mo’Nique, who is also […]

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Lord ByronOriginally uploaded by jadc01 My life these days is almost 100% schoolwork, as I am currently teaching five classes at two different colleges. (I spend my entire weekends grading; it’s exhausting.) This week, my literature class is going to start on the Romantics, and I was doing some reading about old friends like John […]

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It really works! In fact, this is a blind item via Gawker: “Which dieting model shunned the LFW after party buffet table, instead opting for her own bespoke gourmet feast – crushed horse tranquilizer washed down with a litre of diet coke? She swears it quick fires her metabolism. Your extra clue: We wonder if […]

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Jennifer Love Hewitt is on the cover of Shape magazine in a bikini, looking perfect(ly photoshopped), with “My weight-loss trick!” next to her in big letters. Crazy Days and Nights has the story, and I’m just going to post it all: Although there will be some trashing of Jennifer Love Hewitt in this post, my […]

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Gavin Newsom, the hottie mayor of San Francisco and California gubernatorial candidate, is proposing legislation to tax stores that sell soda, including grocery stores like Safeway, but excluding restaurants. (Voters need to approve a tax on individual soda sales, which is why this is sort of secondhand legislation.) Newsom is calling soda the “new tobacco.” […]

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I was glad to see this post from Fatties United bringing up the bit Jon Stewart did on The Daily Show last night. My husband and I watch TDS and Colbert on a daily basis; like so many people, it’s where I get most of my news. When I saw this sketch, I wavered between, […]

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Kelly Osbourne has recently written an autobiography (who knew?) and has also lost weight. According to the Sydney Morning Herald: Kelly Osbourne, a one-time champion for curves, is also proud of her recent weight-loss of seven kilograms. This was achieved by a revolutionary diet where Osbourne swapped her usual fare of chips and soft drink […]

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At least that’s the gossip on E! online. In case you hadn’t heard, two women (Wilson and Michaela Watkins) were fired from the show as two women were hired. (Still no new black comics, though; I love how a show that prides itself on its political satire has exactly 0 black people in its cast […]

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fat boxerOriginally uploaded by mo pie Show History has a fascinating compilation of names and pictures and brief biographies of fat people who worked as attractions in carnival sideshows. (They were also known as “freaks.”) A little background: Professional Fat Folk of an earlier age lived to astound a public for whom not having enough […]

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This is so cool: a collection of antique photographs of beauty queens, sent in by BFDiva and tipster extraordinaire Jez, who says: I stumbled upon this collection of antique beauty queen photographs. Unfortunately, they do not date them, but I would guess around the late 1920s based on their hair and makeup. I thought it […]

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Is apparently in, with hipsters, as a rebellious gesture in light of Obama’s hot abs. And they’re calling it the “Ralph Kramden”–at least the New York Times is. Oh my god, fashion, you are so weird. Too pronounced to be blamed on the slouchy cut of a T-shirt, too modest in size to be termed […]

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I saw this video on Wil Wheaton’s site, and even though I wasn’t familiar with The Guild, (other than seeing Felicia Day mention it on Twitter) I watched it. The song is incredibly catchy and the video is cute, and I also noticed that one of the actors in it is a fat chick. And […]

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Nonk sent in a post from Alas, A Blog about Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse—the character of Mellie, in particular. Mellie is played by Miracle Laurie, who is like, a size four, instead of the size zero of co-stars like Eliza Dushku, Amy Acker, and the absolutely fantastic Dichen Lachman. Miracle Laurie is quoted in the post: […]

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fat supermanOriginally uploaded by mo pie So I saw this link in my referral logs, to a site that seems to be… Norwegian? Swedish? Finnish? Anyway, whoever they are, they link BFD in their sidebar, so thank you, people of Snorwinnland! Scrolling down the home page, I spotted this entry, with the arresting image of […]

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I’m writing this post in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, after a long and taxing Monday that those of you who follow me on Twitter are sick of hearing about, I’m sure. So my brain is broken, and instead of a real post, I give you… the five Google Alert e-mails that I clicked […]

Filed under: Celebrities, Exercise, Fatism, Humor, International, Links, Magazines, Ricky Gervais, Science, Sex & Romance, Tidbit, Weight Loss | 13 Comments »

So Kelly Clarkson has been photoshopped again, this time on the cover of SELF. From Jezebel: On the new cover…the editors did everything they could to obscure what her body actually looks like. Her right arm is totally invisible and much of her left arm has been cropped out. A yellow dot strategically obscures the […]

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celebrity fatwatchOriginally uploaded by mo pie I get a lot of press releases… no, a lot. Most of them are for weight-loss products, so that’s a delightful waste of time. Today I got one about a diet plan, so I deleted it, but the first paragraph was interesting. (The headline, clearly capitalizing on the fact […]

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