For current updates and discussion, please Like the new Big Fat Deal Facebook page. (The old group, BFDivas and BFDudes, is being retired.) I’m 15 minutes into Pitch Perfect, so in about an hour, I’m going to need everyone to come by and talk to me about Fat Amy. I hope everyone out there is […]

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When Kathy Bates got hired for Harry’s Law, I wrote a post with the headline “Role Written for a Man Goes to a Plus-Size Woman.” I thought of that headline immediately when I read that Jason Bateman, in his upcoming film ID Theft, pushed for the role of his co-star to be rewritten so he […]

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melissa mccarthy , a photo by mo pie on Flickr. Character: Megan, played by Melissa McCarthy Credits: Before Bridesmaids, probably best known for Gilmore Girls and Mike & Molly, though she started off in the Groundlings. As far as her reputation among comics goes, this interview is worth reading. Plot points: Megan is one of […]

Filed under: Celebrities, Humor, Melissa McCarthy, Mike & Molly, Movies, TV, Wide Screen | 10 Comments »

Wilhelmina Anne was born at 11:43 pm on May 17th. (She was born via C-section, 50 hours after my water broke in the parking lot of a movie theater after seeing Bridesmaids.) (Which totally reminds me to write about Melissa McCarthy’s character in Bridesmaids.) She weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces, and was 20.87 inches long. […]

Filed under: Kids, Mommyblog, Movies, Personal, Tidbit | 38 Comments »

There are two new Uwe Boll films coming out: one is a documentary on Auschwitz and the other? I am not making this up: “a film about an overweight half-vampire who takes her hungry vengeance out on Hitler and his band of Nazis.” You’ll love the title. Without further delay, I give you the official […]

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Apparently I’m on a movie kick, but I couldn’t resist sharing this great article in Newsweek exploring the subtle sexism in recent kid movies. …One in four female characters was depicted in “sexy, tight, or alluring attire,” compared with one in 25 male characters. The female characters were also more likely than men to be […]

Filed under: Disney, Fatism, Feminism, Kids, Movies, Question, Weetabix | 48 Comments »

We’ve talked about how much we love Mindy Kaling here before. In this great interview, she talks about the problem with writing realistic women characters and the rom-com she’s writing and how much she loves You’ve Got Mail (me TOO! OMG Mindy Kaling, let’s be bffs!) She touches upon this interesting trope of the fictionalized […]

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Cindy in the comments alerted us to a couple of posts on SF Gate that I thought were worthy of their own post. First, an article with the headline Fat people deny their [sic] plus size: In the same way as anorexics may have a distorted self-perception of being fat, some overweight and obese people […]

Filed under: Celebrities, Fatism, International, Media, Movies, Queen Latifah, Sex & Romance | 40 Comments »

1.    I thought this was really fascinating: A professional model talks very personally about her body image issues and the modeling industry, in a guest post on the always awesome Already Pretty. I started modeling in 1998, at the age of 19, at 5’11” (180 cm) and 120 pounds (55 kg). I grew up hating […]

Filed under: Celebrities, Eating Disorders, Gossip, Kevin Smith, Kirstie Alley, Links, Media, Movies, TV | 14 Comments »

Okay, I know almost nothing about Elena Kagan at this point, except what Jezebel told me. So this isn’t about politics. It’s about the fact that as soon as I saw her picture, I knew exactly what was coming: fat jokes. A random sampling: First Impressions: Kagan looks like a fat drag queen. Yeash that […]

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You have to admire the creativity of PR people sometimes, desperately trying to shoehorn their products into stories about whatever might be making headlines, and then blindly sending those stories to bloggers whose blogs may or may not be at all related to the products they’re trying to sell. Here are some ridiculous pitches I’ve […]

Filed under: Advertising, American Idol, Celebrities, Feel Good Friday, Hairspray, Humor, Kids, Magazines, Meta, Music, TV | 7 Comments »

1. Thanks to La Wade for this link: Chelsea Clinton asks her dad to lose 15 pounds before walking her down the aisle. “She doesn’t think I’m in shape to handle it. You know, she told me the other day, she said, ‘Dad the only thing you gotta do is walk me down the aisle […]

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Raymond de Felitta, writer/director of the film City Island, discusses his film’s attention-getting subplot in this article in Salon. A subplot involves the Rizzo family’s youngest son (the brilliant Ezra Miller) who is secretly ashamed of his adolescent yearning for the woman next door, an Internet “goddess” named Denise who is 400 pounds and a […]

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In an interview with the Examiner, Amanda Seyfried admits she’s “not naturally thin,” and goes to extremes to make sure she gets acting work. “I’m on a raw-food diet,” says Seyfried. “It’s intense, and sort of awful. Yesterday for lunch? Spinach and some seeds… If I didn’t run and work out, there’s no way I […]

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Back from vacation and trying to catch up! Did I miss anything exciting? If so, leave a comment or Tweet me up! In the meantime, here’s the Fug Girls’ take on Gabby Sidibe’s dress at the Oscars. I have to say I don’t love it; I don’t love the color and I don’t love the […]

Filed under: Beth Ditto, Celebrities, Fashion, Feminism, Gabby Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Movies, Tidbit, TV | 10 Comments »

I do link roundups from time to time, to try and cover links people send me or things I might otherwise miss. I was thinking of making it a regular feature, especially given how much I enjoy the Morning Shots at Monkey See and Fugs and Pieces at Go Fug Yourself. But I have a […]

Filed under: Art, Celebrities, Fashion, Gabby Sidibe, Humor, Links, Magazines, Meta, Movies, NSFW, Race & Ethnicity, Sex & Romance | 23 Comments »

This article from the L.A. Times runs down some recent examples of fatism, such as the save-the-whales PETA ad, the mandatory “fat class” graduation requirement, and the proposed bill outlawing restaurant dining by obese people in Mississippi. The pattern, the Times posits, is that slim people are “fed up” with the obese. Some choice quotes, […]

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More celebrity gossip, only not in blind item format this time. Marissa Jaret Winkour is leaving as the host of Dance Your Ass Off. She will be replaced by Mel B., of Spice Girls fame. This is what Marissa had to say: “Marissa’s reasons for not returning to season 2 are the following: the format […]

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It’s Feel Good Friday, and as such, I’m going to throw out some links to a few things on the Internet I read this week with pleasure. I already recommended this on Twitter, but Roger Ebert’s essay about no longer being able to eat or drink is fantastic. The man is a national treasure. (Via.) […]

Filed under: Celebrities, Feel Good Friday, Feminism, Movies, Question, Race & Ethnicity, TV | 9 Comments »

I’ve been alternately sick, or busy, or sick and busy. In the meantime, here are some things that have been going on lately… In Case You Missed Them! Even though you most likely didn’t. 1. Shapely Prose leaves the Fatosphere! As we’ve tried saying a gazillion times, [Shapely Prose] is not the movement. It is […]

Filed under: Art, Celebrities, Fatism, Gabby Sidibe, Kids, Links, Meta, Movies, Race & Ethnicity | 16 Comments »

As you may have noticed (at least if you’re not reading on a feed reader) BFD has just been given a facelift! Thanks to Jennette at Make My Blog Pretty for all her hard work, both on the front and the back end, to make the site look great. The mudflap girl is a little […]

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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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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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I found out on Twitter that Kimberley Locke from American Idol is hosting a reality show about fat people joining a band: “Making the Curve” — in which talented, plus-size women “prove that they have what it takes to form a hit pop musical group.” Because… everyone in a band… needs to have… the same […]

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Nia Vardalos, star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding who is married to Ian Gomez from Felicity, talks about “fatist” Hollywood (bolding mine): On the publicity tour of My Big Fat Greek Wedding I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to […]

Filed under: Celebrities, Feminism, Gossip, Magazines, Media, Movies, Seth Rogan, TV, Weight Loss | 18 Comments »