History Main / HollywoodPudgy

* Creator/JewelStaite was asked to gain a few pounds to play Kaylee in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' to look like 'the kind of girl who enjoys a burger once in a while'. While her figure is not that of the waifish River or the Amazononia Zoey, she's still a very slim young woman. Staite was thinner in the movie though. Official comic art naturally tends to endow Kaylee with [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b7/92/6a/b7926a33a0aa6f6672f4b051470971b9.jpg a very skinny figure]], ignoring both the comparative curves of the character, and the bagginess of her habitual clothes.

Older works and period pieces tend to contain this a lot due to ValuesDissonance. Since actual obesity was relatively uncommon until the last quarter of the 20th century, a person who was only twenty or thirty pounds overweight back then would have been seen as the equivalent of a modern person weighing 400 pounds.

Older works and period pieces tend to contain this a lot due to ValuesDissonance. Since actual obesity was relatively uncommon until the second half of the 20th century, a person who was only thirty pounds overweight back then would have been seen as the equivalent of a modern person weighing 400 pounds.

Older works and period pieces tend to contain this a lot due to ValuesDissonance. Since actual obesity was relatively uncommon until the second half of the 20th century, a person who was only thirty or forty pounds overweight back then would have been seen as the equivalent of a modern person weighing 300-400 pounds.

* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndThePiratesCurse'': Sky is twice mocked for being fat, once by her own mother and once by Risky and considering how she claps back at him, seems to believe it as well. Sky has the ''exact same figure'' as Shantae, which is a rather thin and attractive body type.

* Occurs accidentally in ''[[Series/{{Blackadder}} Blackadder the Third]]'', where several people describe Prince George as [[InformedAttribute fat]] The '''historical''' Prince George was actually fat, but here he's played by the tall and lanky Creator/HughLaurie, so the insults just seem to come out of nowhere. Which of course just serves to make it even funnier.

* ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'', at least once per season. There is always the "curvy" girl that everyone treats as hideously overweight. In reality, those girls are ''maybe'' average weight. Maybe.
** Particular notice of one girl, who got told "Look, you entered this as a plus-sized model, and you've lost weight. Either you gain it back, or you lose enough to compete with the other models." by Tyra.
** This came to a head during the season where the "plus-sized" girl actually won. Many people felt it was disingenuous of ''Top Model'' to continually praise themselves for crowning a "plus-size model" when the girl in question, Whitney, barely looked heavier than the rest of the girls. [[http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/6200000/ANTM-Whitney-whitney-thompson-6256483-500-752.jpg A comparison of her and the runner up.]] She's the one in pink; the runner-up, in black, is not plus-size.
*** It's also true that in the high fashion world, she would actually be considered plus-sized. In one of the episodes, the girls were supposed to find a fashion sponsor or something, and at least two told this girl that they did not carry her size. In another season, there were two plus-sized models, and often the clothing selected for them were quite ill-fitted for curvy women, causing commentary about how "big" the girls were.

* Wrestling/TheUndertaker developed a bit of a gut during his "Bikertaker" stint, causing fans to mock him for being out-of-shape (the fact that this is the DorkAge of Taker's career and that his workrate declined during this period doesn't help much). He lost the extra weight around the same time that he returned to his Deadman persona.

* In ''Film/TheMadnessOfKingGeorge'', King George III and Queen Charlotte both gave their son, the Prince of Wales, a hard time about getting fat. In real life George IV was rather portly, but when portrayed by Rupert Everett, not so much.

* In the glory days of ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'', the show's host, Christine [=McGlade=], and her cohort, Lisa Ruddy, would constantly taunt each other as being "fat." While a case can kind of be made for the [[http://web.archive.org/web/20090211203020/http://www.ycdtotv.com/cast/index.php?p=ruddy slightly chubby Lisa]] at the time, [[http://web.archive.org/web/20090211203010/http://www.ycdtotv.com/cast/index.php?p=mcglade Christine can hardly have been described as having a weight problem]].

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': Ness is considered "chubby", "chubs", or called other names poking fun of his weight by several characters, such as being called "fat boy" by a cop, although Ness doesn't look noticeably chubbier than any of the other kids in the series. As a matter of fact, due to the art style, everyone looks the same, albeit somewhat chubby. Though, Ness does happen to know a certain fat jerk named [[FatBastard Porky Mitch.]]

** The fandom often speculate that Russia looks fat due to his round face, massive size, and thick clothing.

* It should be noted that by some accounts, Japanese culture is extremely lipophobic. In a country where people eat mostly fish and rice and typically do 2 hours of aerobics every day, [[ValuesDissonance body image standards can get pretty warped]].

** This can be justified (in-show, at least) with the series' protagonist, as she was formerly a ''very'' petite aspiring model. Not so much with Margaret Cho, however.* ''Series/EmptyNest'': Carol spends the entire run of the series obsessed with her weight and convinced that she's fat, to the point of denouncing herself as "a fat pig" should she weigh more than 120 pounds. This borders on body dysmorphic disorder, as not only is she not fat, for all their relentless teasing of her, none of the other cast members tease her about her weight.

** In "No Apologies", Eminem makes a crack about how he's "''got jelly, like [[spoiler: Music/{{Beyonce}}'s]] pot belly''" which he backmasked due to not wanting [[Music/JayZ beef with her then boyfriend (later husband)]]. This was a reference to an uptick of stories in celebrity rags about how Beyoncé was fat in 2002 -- well forgotten by the time "No Apologies" was released (in 2006). Beyoncé, in 2002, looked... well, like Beyoncé.

* PlayedForLaughs on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''--when [[FatBastard Cartman]] is sent to juvie, the boys conclude that [[StaticCharacter Clyde]] is the next fattest character, even though he's basically the same size as everybody else. They spend the rest of the episode mocking him as though he was as fat as Cartman.

* In the ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'' manga, Greg is referred to as fat. He's stout (but nowhere near obese) compared to the rest of the rail-thin cast.

* In ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'', Shinomi is FormerlyFat, but from the "before" picture and flashback scenes of her, she really doesn't look ugly at all (definitely not {{gonk}} like some female characters) and not that fat either. Of course, the ComicalOverreacting of the boys saying "Who's that monster!?" could be intended to show how immature and shallow they are.

** In "No Apologies", Eminem makes a crack about how he's "''got jelly, like [[spoilers: Music/{{Beyonce}}'s]] pot belly''" which he backmasked due to not wanting [[Music/JayZ beef with her then boyfriend (later husband)]]. This was a reference to an uptick of stories in celebrity rags about how Beyoncé was fat in 2002 -- well forgotten by the time "No Apologies" was released (in 2006). Beyoncé, in 2002, looked... well, like Beyoncé.

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s video for "We Made You" features 'Fat Music/JessicaSimpson' ([[RetroactiveRecognition played by]] Creator/TrishaPaytas), who cavorts in Daisy Dukes with Slim Shady and guzzles down burgers. This had been intended to satirise a then-current tabloid teardown about Jessica Simpson's weight. Eminem admitted, both on set and in interviews, that he felt awful about doing it because Jessica Simpson ''wasn't'' fat and he was contributing to her media bullying; he was also protective of Trisha, who was pudgier but not by much, and praised their body and beauty to try to mitigate the fat-shaming. His discomfort with this [[note]]Eminem himself had been shamed by the tabloids for becoming obese in 2007, then again for losing too much weight in 2009, something he mocks on the later song "Baby"[[/note]] was likely a factor in his CreatorBacklash against the [[BlackSheepHit novelty celeb-bashing songs]] that had once been his signature. He has never done a song or video exactly in this style since.

[[caption-width-right:350:"And by fat, I mean 'thicker than a {{noodle|People}}'"]]

* Players of ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'' usually would make jokes on how Sisteena Foriner is a fat amazon, due to how her sprite is drawn (which had her wear rather loose long clothes). She has a slimmer builds in official arts (while still wearing her long clothes.

*** Classic Sonic is considered chubby by design, although he is only designed a round shape because he's based off of classic cartoon characters. Real hedgehogs are also round. By Knuckle's logic, that would make classic Mickey Mouse fat too because he has a more pear-shaped body compared to modern Mickey.

* [[NiceGirl Filia]] from ''Videogame/{{Skullgirls}}'' is 5'4, and weighs 142 pounds, and is 16 years old, which is fairly heavy for a girl her age, and is about 0.6 BMI from being considered medically overweight.[[ImpossibleHourglassFigure This]] [[BareYourMidriff is]] [[http://skullgirls.com/characters/filia/ Filia]], by the way... the parasitic monster on her head might have something to do with that, though.

* ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'': Nep-Nep gets called out on her weight and eating habits a few times, but you can't really tell due to her oversized jacket and the only time we can see her tummy besides her requisite pretty SuperMode is when she wears swimsuits, portraying her with a realistic build. Presumably, being an goddess gives her a little leeway in terms of metabolism.

* In the fourth episode of the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' anime Serena/Usagi is worried that she has gained a little weight. Visually, she hasn't changed at all. Fortunately, in the ''show'', nobody except Usagi notices. The dub even exaggerated this a step further by having "Serena" freak out about gaining a grand total of...half a pound. The rest of the episode shows [[StarterVillain Jadeite]] preying on women with body issues by using machines that make them skinny while sucking out their life energy until they become emaciated (and it is implied that they will die after enough sessions). Strangely, the dub attempts to pretend the machines don't work despite the fact that all the victims are visibly skinnier and skeletal. Either way, it's still not ''enforcing'' a certain body type, but mocking the obsession with being skinny that leads perfectly attractive women to starve themselves.