History Main / WeightWoe

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' when the writers did an intentionally {{Anvilicious}} episode about eating right after being told by the company that they had to make at least one Aesop episode. In "Grande Size Me" Ron tries to rally against Mr. Barkin's lectures on a balanced diet by eating Bueno Nacho every day to prove it's not dangerous. Sure enough, Ron starts to get tubby and pretty much everyone, including the villains, shows concern over what Ron is doing to his body. However, after being submerged in a mutagenic growth formula, Ron's appetite increases, and he gradually becomes much fatter, taller, and more aggressive, until he finally mutates into an orange parody of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk. The only solution to reversing the mutation is to get him to eat healthy food. During the end credits, however, Ron delivers a lecture about not falling into strange chemicals [[NoFourthWall to the audience]] even though everyone else has no idea who he's talking to.

* Fujiwara starts trying to lose weight over winter break in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. The fact that she applies very loose logic to her eating habits like "cold foods don't have calories because calories are a measurement of heat" and "eating lots of spicy food is the same thing as exercise because both make you sweat" doesn't really help.

** Amy Rose took this UpToEleven in ''VideoGame/SonicBattle,'' being obsessed with boxercising and later being coached by [[RobotBuddy Emerl]], who instructed her to do 100 push-ups and eat nothing but salads with no dressing. This is taken to creepy levels as, rather than merely lamenting about her weight and failing to maintain a diet like most examples, Amy really appears to be suffering from an eating disorder.

** Brian's dumb ex-girlfriend Jillian is bulimic. Stewie calls her fat to make her throw up, and she makes comments about how she is losing her teeth.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'': Discussed when Ursula says that one example of her alleged altruism is making a woman thinner who wants to be.

* As she was in real life, Empress Theatre/{{Elisabeth}} of Austria was extremely conscious about her figure and her RapunzelHair. In addition to weighing herself up to three times a day and following the strict eating and beauty regime detailed in "Our Empress Must Weigh Herself" and [[OfCorsetHurts over-tightening her corset for a tiny waist]], she also overexercises and fasts/starves herself to the point of fainting and falling off her beam in her workout room in "The Malady/The Final Chance". She often ate only oranges, and/or drank milk, alongside periods of consuming only meat juices or a mix of egg whites with salt. Her milk bath (for skincare) is stated by Lucheni in "Milk" to have caused a nationwide shortage while people are starving and dying. This is because she realized her beauty could be used as a weapon to get what she wants, having to fight back in the Viennese court which was actively hostile to her. The corset actually led to her death in real life, as she was stabbed with a thin blade and didn't feel the effects until she fainted from blood loss and her attendant loosened the laces (that had been holding her body together) in order for her to breathe. Historians have diagnosed her with ''anorexia nervosa'' after the fact, along with a host of other disorders.

* On ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' Stan became anorexic. While he is shown to be getting heavier during the course of the episode, this is really a delusion and he is finally shown to be NothingButSkinAndBones. It's actually taken fairly seriously. At another end of the story, Stan devises a way to not eat with one method including giving his food to Klaus. Klaus eventually gets so big he bursts out of his fishbowl.

* "Arthur Weighs In," an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', had the titular aardvark discovering that he needed to wear a "husky" suit for a play (despite not looking any different) after [[CompressedVice abruptly developing lazy habits that had never shown up before]]). He struggles to lose weight by going on a diet; Brain then tells him that restrictive diets don't work--a surprising case of TruthInTelevision for a kid's show--and are ''especially'' dangerous for children, instead suggesting that he eat a variety of foods and make healthier choices instead. Mr. Ratburn (who turns out to be FormerlyFat himself) then helps Arthur out by encouraging him to exercise by providing the whole class with pedometers. The combination of better eating and more physical activity helps Arthur shed the excess pounds, and he wears a smaller suit for the play.

* ''Film/[{Enchanted}}'': When Pip, a chipmunk, weighs down the troll, he wonders if he's getting too heavy and needs to eat fewer nuts.

** ''Weight Gain ': Cartman tries to bulk up using protein powder, but doesn't understand he needs to use the powder alongside an exercise regime. By the end of the episode, he's a morbidly obese blob and seriously believes he's a well-muscled hunk. BEEF CAKE!!!

* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'': In "Weight to Go, Andy", all of the Larkins except Andy start freaking out about their weight, dieting, and weighing themselves because Al wants a promotion from a man who's a "health nut", Frida has been invited to a party where one of her former classmates and an ex-AlphaBitch is attending, and Jen's class is about to do a gym meet. This escalates when Andy pranks Jen (who's usually the only Larkin who weighs herself) by making the scale register whoever stands on it as heavier than they are.

* French actress Isabelle Caro gained world fame when she posed for a [[http://img.welt.de/img/prominente/crop102009797/7009732832-ci3x2l-w540/jw-hunger-DW-Politik-Rome.jpg ''No Anorexia'']] campaign that specifically targeted the film and fashion industry for forcing actresses and models to be unnaturally thin, encouraging anorexia. She died in 2010 of pneumonia at the age of only 28 since her body was too weakened to handle the sickness. Her lowest weight had been only 25 kg(~) at age 24.

These ([[AlwaysFemale usually female]]) characters are obsessed with dieting in order to reach the ideal; commenting on their figure is often [[BerserkButton a sensitive point]] for them. However, not all characters with Weight Woe are overweight; many are just HollywoodPudgy, and some are even told in-verse that they don't need to diet at all.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Cathy}}'' ''defines'' this trope. (Ack!)

--> '''Noelle:''' My stomach's a little... heavy, but I'll try to make up for it. Gliding is a necessary skill for a knight, after all.

* In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'' Blue Beetle grappled with weight gain and a heart condition for a while. His diet was going very poorly until his doctor got the idea to use Ted's {{Manchild}} tendencies to their advantage, by pitting him against someone ''else'' who was also on a diet and making him see it as a competition. That person happened to be ComicBook/PowerGirl (during her "diet root beer" phase) and Ted managed to develop the willpower to slim back down for good for the sake of rubbing it in Karen's face.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'':
** During the Silver Age, Matter-Eater Lad once got hit by a ray gun which altered his alien metabolism. As a Bismollian he can consume any form of matter and his metabolism processes it rather quickly. However, the ray had slowed it down to that of a normal human, which caused his body to swell up after he devoured a ton of dirt to form an escape tunnel. He was stuck like this for a while until a doctor managed to undo the ray's effect.
** Conversely, Bouncing Boy once lost his power to inflate into a ball-like form and became so slim his teammates didn't recognize him. Rather than worrying about his looks, Bouncing Boy was sad that he couldn't be in the Legion anymore without a power. His powers were eventually restored. He'd lose them again a few times afterwards, but during those times his weight wasn't affected at all.
** Lightning Lad in the comic tie-in to the Legion cartoon once had his powers swapped with Bouncing Boy due to an alien virus, causing himself to get fat in the process. The end of the issue implied Garth was going to be stuck like that longer than his teammates because the virus lasts longer on people with greater mass.
** During the Five Years Later era, Cera Kesh tried to join the young Legionnaires only to be mocked for her bad skin and weight by Live Wire, who called her a cow, and Inferno. HollywoodPudgy comes into play because Cera wasn't even that chubby. When Cera became the new Emerald Empress, she briefly used the Emerald Eye to exact some revenge on Inferno by giving him zits and making him fat, so he would know what it's like to be "a cow." It should be noted that the two aforementioned Legionnaires were the only ones who had a problem with Cera's looks, and the rest of the team were very disappointed by their bullying.
** Averted with Five Years Later Dream Girl, who indeed put on some weight since she left the Legion and became High Seer of Naltor, but became a BigBeautifulWoman instead of lamenting her size.
** A more subdued version of this trope occurred during the "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes" arc. The majority of the Legion who were still present in the 31st Century after the Justice League of Earth drove them underground were featured with redesigns by artist Gary Frank. In Frank's notes, it's mentioned the Legionnaires were purposefully drawn with a certain amount of gauntness, even in the ones who still looked muscular, in their builds (most noticeable in their faces), a likely indicator that many of them lost weight from lack of sleep and being unable to eat properly while on the run.
* A certain running gag pertaining to the Franchise/{{Superman}} Family during the Silver Age had most of the characters getting fat one way or another. This includes Superman, his younger self Superboy on ''four'' separate occasions (including most of Smallville save for Jonathan and Martha Kent on two of those occasions), Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Supergirl in her secret identity as Linda Lee.
* [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]], ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, and Jean Grey all let themselves go in the BadFuture world of ''ComicBook/EarthX''. Peter as a result of retiring from superheroics and the police force, and Logan and Jean (in that world married) as a result of retirement and AwfulWeddedLife. Logan even smugly stated he couldn't get fat because of his healing factor. Peter went back to being Spider-Man and started to lose weight near the end of the first Earth-X book though, though a few people snarked about him being bitten by a "radioactive spare tire" due to his badly fitting costume.
* In an issue of the second volume of ''[[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]]'', Raven discovered she had six evil brothers with powers corresponding to the SevenDeadlySins, and her evil side manifested as {{Pride}}. After taking down her brothers, she planned to transfer their powers to her teammates using Beast Boy as the transference catalyst (which would've killed him). Roy Harper was briefly turned into the conduit for Gluttony and became fat, though this was immediately reversed when a BatmanGambit Raven implemented stopped her evil side. This appeared to have been a StealthPun reference to Roy's thrill-seeking womanizing tendencies, and his history as a recovered drug addict rather than any BigEater tendencies. So this worked to tie in the stereotypical association of fat people with gluttony and the sin's actual nature as excessive over-consumption.
* This is just one of the many insecurities that plague the titular heroine of ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}.'' She's not really overweight (apart from a naturally big butt, although she's the only one who considers this a problem) but because her super suit is skin tight to the point that she can't even wear underwear, she's very insecure about her looks. She admits to starving herself and exercising constantly.

* Inverted with the Blob following ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''. Upon waking up to discover his mutant power is gone, he immediately tries to commit suicide. The problem is he has so much excess skin from his weight that he can't find a nerve to cut.

* Played with during Adam Warren's run on ''ComicBook/Gen13'' with a BadFuture issue showing the fates of most of the team. Roxy struggled with her weight and binge eating frequently before finally dying as the rest of the team did (except Grunge). The issue turned out to just be a bad dream Grunge was having. Though in a follow-up issue, Roxy decides to gorge herself on a big fast-food dinner after getting mad at Grunge, and for the rest of the issue was starving herself.

* The lighthearted ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #34 showed an Earth where [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] had an eating problem instead of a drinking problem. He once ordered an ''entire cow'' for dinner along with [[AndADietCoke a diet soda]]. He eventually couldn't use the rockets in his suit and had to get his armor on using a crowbar.
* The Machinist in ''ComicBook/StormwatchPHD'' has let himself go since he first battled Jackson King and is ordered to go on a diet as a requirement for being on the squad.
* Luther Hargreeves of ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' had gotten out of shape between the first and second volumes of the series from doing nothing but eating cookies and watching infomercials all day out of depression.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'':
** Barry Allen and Wally West have dealt with this a couple of times.
** Gorilla Grodd once turned Barry into a thousand-pound amnesiac by making his body absorb moisture in the air.
** Wally's suffered under this in two alternate reality stores. In a BadFuture seen in ''JLA'', Wally had lost his connection to the Speed Force in an out-of-shape, sickly body. In ''{{Superman}}: Emperor Joker'', a power-mad Joker warped Wally into "The Flab: The Fastest Fat Man Alive," a compulsive eater who had gained super-speed after he was struck by lightning while trying to steal candy from a vending machine.
* Autumn Rolfson, who would become Famine of Apocalypse's Horsemen in ''ComicBook/XFactor'', suffered from anorexia as a result of her ability to disintegrate living matter. By the time she appeared in ''Uncanny ComicBook/XForce'' she resembled a corpse.
* During the GoldenAge, Franchise/WonderWoman had Etta Candy, a FatAndProud PluckyGirl for a best friend. When Diana had mentioned to Etta the benefits of losing weight, Etta had made a compromise with Diana. If she lost ten pounds and felt better about herself, she'd lose fifty more. By the story's end, Etta had lost her ten pounds but was unhappy, so she simply asked Diana for her candy back. [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Post-Crisis]], however, Etta had suffered from anorexia for a while.
* Christian Walker began sporting blonde hair and a beer belly after he left the force for a time in ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'', as he was kind of depressed and felt he had nothing better to do than sit around and eat.
* In the Phantom Stranger one-shot released under ''Vertigo Visions'', one of the condemned souls seen was a morbidly obese woman named Elba Benchley. It's implied that, before she died, Elba had been found chained in a basement when she was a little girl, alongside the partially eaten remains of her brother and sister.
* As a result of the Shadow King possessing her body, Karma of the ComicBook/NewMutants had become disgustingly obese because of his tendencies as a VillainousGlutton. For a small period of time, Karma was understandably ashamed of what her body had become like until she'd been stranded in a desert dimension and worked off the extra weight in order to survive.
* Pre-Crisis, Alfred Pennyworth of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' fame was a little on the round side before he spent a vacation at a health spa and became as thin as the comic book fandom fully knows him as.
* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': This was what led to the Smurfette's [[MagicPlasticSurgery magic makeover]] in her debut. Jokey led the others in a series of pranks tricking her into believing she was overweight. After Papa finds out, he gives her the makeover to help restore her confidence.
* Just as its cartoon namesake has done a few stories about this trope, so has ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Simpsons Comics]]'' tackled it a few times.
** In one issue, the heftier townspeople of Springfield are ordered to lose a set number of pounds by Rainer Wolfcastle and the President of the United States. If they can, everyone gets treated to an all-expenses-paid vacation at a water park. Everyone is able to lose the amount of weight required, except for Homer who gains three pounds and has to work even harder after the town labels him a pariah.
** In another, Mr. Burns tries to cut costs by giving his workers highly addictive and delicious donuts instead of pay. The plan works, although Homer and the other employees are starting to put on a couple of pounds. It's not until a month goes by that Burns has to stop making the donuts, as it's costing him millions and productivity has dropped significantly because his workers are too obese to get anything done.
** In another story, Nelson Muntz starts living with the Simpsons and spends a lot of his time making repairs around the house due to Homer's stupidity. As a result, he spends most of his time in school asleep. Without Nelson's bullying, the kids are able to use their lunch money to actually ''buy'' lunch, but because the cafeteria food is grossly unhealthy (they serve Cream of Lard), most of the student body becomes very overweight. Lisa's an exception because she brings a vegetarian lunch to school.
** In a summer special, Homer can't accompany the family on their vacation trip because he's too fat to be allowed on an airplane. He's given an alternative route on a flight company owned by Mr. Burns specifically for heavyset people, but the plane is in such a need of repairs Homer has to fix it himself. In his [[TheDeterminator determination]] to be with Marge and the kids, Homer ends up losing a lot of weight by accident through all the physical labor he employs. However, when he finally gets on the cruise the rest of the family is on, he's shocked to discover Marge and the kids have all gained weight. Without Homer's hijinks to keep them occupied, they had nothing to do but sit around and eat. Marge and the kids are then told that ''they'' are the ones too fat to fly home.
* In the ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' revamp ''Dial H'', the main character, Nelson Jentm is a FormerlyFit example whose life started going down the drain after he lost his job and his girlfriend. His friend Darren is concerned over the fact that Nelson had a heart attack and he's not even past 30.

* ''Common Grounds'' #4 had a short story about a support group for superheroes struggling with their weight, with a Batman expy named Red Fox insisting they be called "density challenged" and suggesting they embrace their overweight status. It's pretty clear the guy is only suggesting this because of deep self-loathing with his body image, and the other members leave because they just want to lose weight.

* Longtime member of the ''ComicBook/GlobalGuardians'' Rising Sun has not aged well by the time he appeared making things difficult for the SuperYoungTeam after ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''. Originally a well-revered hero of Japan, he started excessively drinking and grew a BeardOfSorrow and a beer gut, ranting about Japan's shallow superhuman community.

* Two examples from ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'':
** Mrs. Sprat, the wife of Jack Sprat, has a complex over being one of the few physically ugly women in a community of fairy tale princesses and queens because she's fat. And her sour personality makes her look even uglier because no one can stand to be around her. [[spoiler: As of the hundredth issue, Mrs. Sprat joins the side of Mr. Dark, and gradually becomes thin, beautiful, and completely evil.]]
** Jack Horner, in his spin-off comic, claims to have never been fat a day in his life, which is why he's horrified when, in an issue appropriately titled "Fat Jack," he's suddenly sporting a large beer gut. Not only that, but he's also getting progressively uglier and losing his hair. [[spoiler: It turns out Jack's obesity and ugliness are part of his transformation into a dragon, due to his years of hoarding an obscenely large treasure inside his magic briefcase.]]
* The villain Joker's Daughter was anorexic in the past.

** In "Say Cheese and Die Again!", the cursed camera caused protagonist Greg to become morbidly obese while his friend Shari slowly became emaciated. At first, his classmates found it amusing, but much later everyone felt bad and stopped considering the situation to be funny, except for Greg's {{Jerkass}} teacher Mr. Saur.
** "Don't Go To Sleep!" had protagonist Matt wake up in an alternate universe where he's morbidly obese. He's apparently so fat his mother doesn't recognize him and refuses to let him in the house.

** ''Literature/GossipGirl'', the book series, had Blair as bulimic. They touched on this during the first season Thanksgiving episode of the TV show, but it was never shown to be as much of a problem as the book series, where Blair binged and purged at least once a book if not more.

* ''Literature/TheGirlsSeries'' has Ellie begin to develop an eating disorder in ''Girls Under Pressure''. She gains a healthier self-image after seeing the effects of a friend being hospitalized with anorexia.

* Not played for laughs at all in the ''Literature/FearStreet'' special ''Literature/FearHall'', where Hope Mathis' abusive mother treated her like garbage because Hope was a little chubby when she was a kid. By the time Hope was in college, her weight was still something of a sore subject, and while she herself doesn't consider herself ugly, she hates being called fat as an insult and is extremely bitter about her mother's neurosis.
* Mary from the first three ''Literature/{{GONE}}'' books is bulimic and addicted to diet pills, laxatives and exercise. This is definitely '''NOT''' played for laughs, and her story goes from being uncomfortable to tragic to cautionary.

* In [[Creator/CathyCassidy ''Summer's Dream,'']] the aspiring dancer protagonist becomes convinced that she's too fat to be a ballerina, although it's actually the mental effects of anorexia making Summer think that way, and she's really far too thin.

* Two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' have this theme:
** In the Nickelodeon episode "Doug Tips The Scales", Doug gains weight while on vacation at his grandma's and tries to slim down before Beebee Bluff's pool party.
** In the Disney episode "Doug's Chubby Buddy," Patti Mayonnaise becomes obsessed with weight loss after she overhears Doug commenting on her weight (he was actually referring to a homemade vehicle he was making).

* A weird variation in ''Literature/HowToBeComfortableInYourOwnFeathers'' where the bird wants to lose weight... in order to be able to flutter like a hummingbird.

* {{Deconstructed}} in ''Renegadepress.com'''s "A Very Thin Edge"; Zoey is startled to learn her friend Melanie belongs to a local pro-anorexia website and because of stress at home the site almost seduces Zoey. When she learns that the webmaster is actually bedridden and under constant nursing care because of her disease, Zoey realizes how dangerous the sickness can be.

* The 2 part episode "Our Lips Are Sealed" from ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' has Emma developing anorexia as a way of dealing with the stress in her life.
* Elliot during season 7 of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' treats a woman with anorexia. Dr. Cox points out that Elliot weighs even less. By the end of the episode, she realizes that she is there to help her patients whether she is healthy or not. A year later, the same patient comes back, even more underweight, and Elliot is convinced that it is still anorexia, when in reality it was HIV. However, Elliot puts the patient through a lot before eventually figuring this out.
* The TV Biopic of Gilda Radner (from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'') portrayed her as bulimic.
* Cassie on ''Series/{{Skins}}'' is shown to have anorexia, in addition to problems with drug abuse, low self-esteem, and some personality issues...In one episode she demonstrates to Sid how she fakes people out by pretending to eat.
* Hurley on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' deals with stress by overeating. In the episode where it's discovered that the Hatch has a huge supply of food, he's put in charge of rationing it, only to start devouring the less-healthy items because of the responsibility. He eventually devises a solution by simply handing out ''all'' of the food to everyone at once, and letting them choose their favorites because he realizes that the idea of rationing will just cause tension and fighting. [[spoiler: The episode's TearJerker flashback structure reveals that he suffered a similar problem after winning the lottery -- people buttering him up and becoming dishonest with him, for example--and it's implied that he wishes he could do the same with his newfound riches.]]

* During Season 8 of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', as a way to mask Creator/JaneLeeves' pregnancy, Daphne gained considerable weight. While Niles pretended not to notice, she was the target of many fat jokes. She was sent to a weight loss clinic, and the psychology behind her weight issue was explored, in a sensitive and realistic way, in the episode "Daphne Returns."
* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'':
** A season 7 episode addresses this when Topanga realizes she's bigger than her friends (where "bigger" means "has sexy, sexy curves") and starts dieting. It finally comes out that everyone is self-conscious because of society's unrealistic portrayals and no one thinks Topanga is anywhere near fat.
** That same episode Eric was also dealing with body issues of his own, although his weren't as serious as Topanga's. In fact, he even admitted that he called her fat just so he could get her pizza.
* ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'':
** Tommy starts getting tubby due to his wolf-like appetite getting the best of him. Eventually, his cravings--and his going to public fast food joints to stop them -- drum up angry publicity and lead to everyone in town trying to capture the werewolf for a cash reward.
** In another episode, Merton falls in with a group of black-clad teenagers who start giving him a nectar-like substance that makes him fat. Merton is at first horrified until his new "friends" say they like him bigger, so he starts drinking more of the stuff. It turns out the kids are actually spiders in human form, and they've been fattening Merton up so they can eat him.
* ''Series/MyMadFatDiary'': Rae's issues with her weight form one of the bases of the plot. She says she used to binge regularly, but not anymore, and is shown binging once. She describes herself as 'a body dismorphic without the dismorphic, a bulimic without the sick'. Her friend Tix also has issues with eating food: she has anorexia and is afraid of losing control. She rarely eats and overexercises. She's told she needs to drink high-calorie shakes so she won't get a feeding tube. [[spoiler: She pours them down the drain. In the end, she gets a heart attack due to exercise, goes into a coma, and dies as a result.]]

* Penny from ''Series/HappyEndings'' went on a diet for an episode but couldn't keep it up. In general, neither she nor the other characters comment negatively on her curviness. And even in that episode, it was less of a diet to lose weight and more of a cleanse for better general health.

* In ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Dick begins stress eating as a result of his break-up with Mary in ''Moby Dick''. He tries dieting and tries using a girdle, but upon learning Mary has also been stress eating, Dick decides to just buy bigger pants.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' has dealt with this a couple of times. In "The Non-Fat Yogurt" Jerry, Elaine, and George discover that the supposed non-fat yogurt they've been enjoying every day actually contains fat and they've gained weight. Though this actually involves HollywoodPudgy since none of them look any bigger. Even so, Kramer starts calling Jerry names like "chubs" and "tons-o-fun".
* Sylvia Fine is constantly dealing with this in ''Series/TheNanny'' though she has yet to curb her BigEater tendencies.

* An episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' had London and Maddie wanting to go on a fashion show hosted by one of London's [[RichBitch snobby friends,]] who tells them they can't be on it because London is too fat and Maddie too Skinny. After they respectively starve and gorge themselves to attain the "ideal weight", they mess up their chance on the runway, and after they find out that [[ACupAngst London's friend stuffs her bra,]] they decide to accept themselves for who they are.
* ''Series/StElsewhere'': In "Cramming", it is revealed that Wendy Armstrong has struggled with bulimia for years. In the following episode "Rough Cut", she tells Helen Rosenthal that it is because she always felt pressure to be the perfect daughter, the perfect student, and more recently the perfect doctor. [[spoiler: The resulting depression leads Wendy to commit suicide in the latter episode.]]
* Sam in ''Series/BetterThings'' in the episode "Chicago". Sam is a victim of this trope at the beginning of the episode when she was trying on most of her old clothes and discovered that she has put on a few pounds when they don't fit.
* ''Series/FantasyIsland2021'': Christine suffered from anxiety for years about even gaining a little weight, and consequently didn't eat most of the food she craves. On the island, her wish is to eat whatever she wants with no weight gain.

* Mitsuba from ''Manga/{{Mitsudomoe}}'', although she [[BigEater doesn't put much effort into dieting]].
%%* Rihoko in ''VideoGame/{{Amagami}}''.
* Mari "Monroe" Morino in ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'' is the only cast member who is anxious about her weight; this is apparent in [[HotSpringsEpisode Chapter 6]], she forgoes dinner since she noticed she has put up a few pounds. Sakura thinks it's her breasts more than anything else.
* Koboshi gets this in an episode of ''Manga/PitaTen'' in an attempt to be more feminine.
* Kagami in ''Manga/LuckyStar'' frequently diets. She, however, has a SweetTooth.

%% * Chizuru from ''Manga/SquidGirl''

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** Usagi at times, particularly in episode four of the first anime. WordOfGod is that Usagi is meant to be slightly bigger than the other Senshi, however, this isn't apparent by her actual design:
---> "Time to weigh in. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! '''''I'M A TOTAL FATSO!!!!!'''''"[[note]]Please note that this line was in Creator/DiC's English dub. Furthermore, she wasn't really that fat.[[/note]]
*** At another point in the same episode, Luna simply advises that Usagi should avoid overeating or eating junk food and that she'll get plenty of exercises just by being Sailor Moon. However, Usagi notices Luna is drawing something on a sheet of paper. Luna reveals a drawing of an extremely overweight Sailor Moon, saying it's future Usagi.
** This is occasionally PlayedForLaughs in Chibi-Usa's side stories, usually in regards to her SweetTooth. One such story told of two celestial lovers who were pretty much barred from being together because they didn't focus on their heavenly duties. The wife ended up alleviating her boredom by snacking and watching TV, resulting in her gaining weight. This coupled with her rather plain face caused her to worry that her husband was cheating on her. [[spoiler:He wasn't and shows up to conclude that skinny girls are best for dating, but strong women are the ones for marrying.]]
** In another side story, it's mentioned that Ikuko is putting Kenji on a diet because he put on a little weight.
** In an episode of [=SuperS=], the MonsterOfTheWeek traps Sailor Moon in a tutu that forces her to dance endlessly. However, Sailor Moon's gut causes the tutu to break, allowing her to finish the monster off. Tuxedo Mask says he feels like advising Sailor Moon to drop some weight, but it ended up helping her this time.
** Happened on large scale in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'', as [[MonsterOfTheWeek Debrine]]'s plan involved getting as many people as possible fat and then lure them in her fake health center to drain their energy. The only people known to have completely escaped it are Artemis (a rather hyperactive ''alien cat''), Wakagi (a cop that hates sweets, and Debrine's plan was based on chocolate), and Hikaru (who ''didn't even notice'', as she always eats healthy foods), while Minako, upon being informed she was getting fat, trained so much she not only missed Valentine but lost the weight in a few days and then regained it in ''muscles''.
* Natsumi from ''Manga/SgtFrog'' sometimes fusses over her weight. This even drove the plot of one chapter in the manga.
* ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'' had a story called ''Diet'' which dealt with three people and their personal struggles concerning their weight; a chubby young girl who wanted to slim down to get her boyfriend back before a school dance, a boxer who is trying to keep his weight down before his next match, and a model whose colleague visited Count D's shop for a miracle diet pill.
** The girl receives a personal trainer who helps her lose the weight for the dance, but in doing so, the girl has come to take pride in herself with a new sense of self-confidence, and realizes that her ex-boyfriend is a total ass. When she asks Count D what happened to the trainer, he tells her he doesn't know but suggests that she look after the trainer's cat. [[spoiler: Which just happens to have the exact same eyes as the trainer.]]
** The boxer receives a parakeet that constantly tries to get him to eat or drink something while training, which the boxer considers as a form of motivation. He loses his next match but is grateful that he gave it his all and decides to retire.
** The model is able to eat and drink anything she wants without gaining a pound, just like her colleague. [[spoiler: But soon she is unable to sate her appetite no matter how much she eats or drinks. Her hair begins to fall out and her nails begin to chip off with ease. Pretty soon, her skin starts to crack, and... ''something'' emerges out of her, looking exactly like the model. It's implied the diet pill was, in fact, some sort of parasite which uses humans as a cocoon before hatching, looking exactly like the host, and the same thing had happened to the model's colleague before the story began.]]

* A RunningGag with Akko from ''Manga/GirlFriends'', who is easily distracted by food and will often attempt various methods to lose weight as quickly as possible whenever she noticed that she gained some pounds.

* A one-shot horror manga story ''[[http://imgur.com/a/F400R Fasting]]'' featured a chubby girl named Tomoko brutally mocked by the boy she likes. Tomoko is so hurt by this she starves herself out of desperation to become beautiful. One night her mother finds her sitting in front of the open fridge, content to just look at the food but never eating it. Sometime later, Tomoko discovers that she's become slender and attractive and decides to speak to her old crush. The jackass doesn't even recognize her as the girl he called a whale and they start to make out. [[spoiler: At that point, Tomoko is so overcome with hunger, she ''bites off the guy's face'' and starts eating him. She doesn't even realize what she's doing until her hunger is sated.]]
* Happens in the ''Literature/KaiketsuZorori'' episode "The Out of Control Robot Maid." While waiting for a bridge to be repaired, Zorori and the boar twins take up residence in an old castle. The castle comes with a robotic cat maid capable of cooking large and exquisite meals. When Zorori tries to tell her she doesn't need to cook so much the maid bursts into hysterical tears, so not wanting to upset her, Zorori, Ishishi, and Noshishi eat everything she makes. A few days pass, and all three have become very large and very fat, so much so that they aren't allowed to cross the repaired bridge because they might break it. Zorori finally takes matters into his own hands and has to reprogram the maid so she won't have any more crying fits... of course, Zorori and the twins are still fat and have to work off the excess weight the slow way.
* ''IC In A Doll'':
** One chapter focuses on Hanako, an award-winning author suffering from extreme bulimia. In her adolescence, Hanako was repeatedly molested by her stepfather and makes herself vomit to stay thin in order to wear clothes for younger women to give herself a second childhood. Her maid doll, Cherry, silently stood by and only laid out towels whenever Hanako prepared to purge, but Cherry goes against her orders and tries to stop Hanako when she has a nervous breakdown. The final chapter of the series shows a much healthier and happier Hanako preparing to get married.
** The first chapter in the series focused on the relationship being a nameless boy doll and a rich woman named Kaya. When Kaya was younger, she was also bulimic like Hanako. Unlike Hanako, Kaya ended up [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome severely damaging herself]] and [[TruthInTelevision lost the ability to have children]].
* PlayedForLaughs with [[ChronicHeroSyndrome America]] of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''. He's often seen [[BigEater eating copious amounts]] [[FastFoodNation of junk food]], but is shown several times to be self-conscious about his unhealthy eating habits; in one strip he's seen anxiously weighing himself, and seeing that he's gained weight, trying out several diets according to the advice he receives from other countries. But according to WordOfGod, he's gaining ''muscle'' rather than fat.
* Despite being fairly thin, Yun from ''Manga/NewGame'' worries about her weight constantly. Though this probably comes from her absolute hatred of any form of exercise.
* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'':
** ''Elma's OL Diary'' has a chapter where two of Elma's coworkers get jealous of her ability to eat inhuman amounts of food without putting on any weight, though they quickly forgive her due to the sight of her stuffing her face reminding them of cute animals like chipmunks.
** Tohru cooking foods that are high in fat for the cold weather in chapter 51 of ''Kanna's Daily Life'' causes Kobayashi to put on a bit of weight and leave her unable to fit into her pants. Fortunately, a single day of playing with Kanna in the park proves to be a strenuous enough workout to help her lose all the weight.

* This downplayed (and discussed) in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' with Sakura (and Ino) mentioning that she was on a diet to make herself pretty enough to win Sasuke.
* ''Manga/PlusSizedElf'': Most of the heroines are fantasy creatures from another world struggling with their weight for one reason or another. Elfuda's trying to balance her need to stay relatively slim so she can go back to her world with her [[TrademarkFavoriteFood fondness for french fries]], Kuroeda wants to stay skinny enough to fit into her magic-enhancing outfit, Oku was always bullied for being chubby even for an orc, and so on.
* As combat sports have weight classes, this is a recurring plot point in the series dedicated to them. Some examples:
** Often PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe'' due to various boxers finding serious trouble at staying in their preferred weight class:
*** Nishi is a natural heavyweight (weighing over 200 lbs at his license exam), but the scarce number of heavyweight boxers in Japan pushes Danpei to put him on a diet for a middleweight-meaning he has to slim down to 160 lbs ''at most''. Needless to say, he has ''immense'' trouble, and for a while, he would sneak out of the gym to eat more.
*** Joe and Rikiishi had all but promised themselves to have a professional bout... But the former was a natural flyweight (up to 112 lbs) fighting as a bantam (between 115 and 118 lbs) specifically to work his way up to Rikiishi's class, and the latter a welter (between 140 and 147 lbs) that, to work his way ''down'' to Joe's class, was fighting as a featherweight (at the time between 118 and 126 lbs)-prompting Rikiishi to take a nightmarish diet to get in the bantamweight limits before Joe can get too fat. [[spoiler:It plays a part in [[CasualtyInTheRing Rikiishi getting killed by Joe]], as the toll taken by the diet means his body cannot survive long enough for him to be brought to the hospital and possibly healed after one of Joe's punches caused him a brain hemorrage]].
*** Later in his career, Joe gets a late growth spurt that makes it hard for him to stay in the ''featherweight'' class, when, out of respect for Rikiishi and Carlos Rivera, he's planning to take on Jose Mendoza, the bantamweight world champion. With great hardship, Joe manages to stabilize himself at exactly 118 lbs, but [[spoiler:it may have played a part in [[HeroicRROD his death by exhaustion]] against Mendoza]].
*** Averted with Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation bantamweight champion Kim Yongbi, who not only has no problem staying at exactly 117 lbs and half, he just ''cannot put more weight'' due [[spoiler:the shock from when, during UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, he discovered that the soldier he had killed to steal his food and survive a few days more was his father, who had deserted to bring him that food]].
** This is one of the main driving points of ''Manga/OnePoundGospel''. Kosaku Takahara is an incredibly talented boxer... who is also an incredibly {{big eater}}. He has very little control over his appetite and as such he keeps switching weight classes. He goes through multiple crash diets as a result of this since his coach is trying to keep him in one weight class, and he's been disqualified a couple of times due to vomiting in the middle of his matches.
*** Amusingly enough, a rival boxer named Matsuzaka has the opposite problem: after Kosaku passed his license exam by knocking him out with one punch, Matsuzaka trained to have his revenge, but every time he was about to issue his challenge he'd find out Kosaku had got in a higher weight class. When he ''finally'' got around to challenge him he instinctively threatened Kosaku when he heard him considering switching weight class again, as he couldn't get any heavier... And on the ring, differently from Kosaku, he's visibly pudgy (for non-heavyweights, a whale).
** Not as important as in the previous examples but still featured in the UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts manga ''Manga/AllRounderMeguru'': while Meguru doesn't have much trouble with his diet, at least one fighter was disqualified from the Kanto Amateur Shooto Championship for failing at the weigh-in (allowing Meguru to enter in his place, as he had been admitted as a reserve only), and Maki is quite creepy as she savors the incoming release day, the one day of the week she doesn't have to be on a diet.
* In ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'', Haruyuki Arita is an overweight boy who has severe self-esteem problems that, among other things, are related to his weight. In the second OVA, Haru's weight means that he's in danger of possibly being forced to attend a special health session, which would prevent him from participating in the territory battles.
* The central conflict of ''Manga/HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift'' is BigEater Sakura Hibiki trying to lose weight by exercising properly after getting teased about her weight one day (despite the fact that she's [[HollywoodPudgy only slightly soft rather than outright fat]]). The manga has proper (albeit FanService laden) exercise techniques [[OnceAnEpisode once per chapter.]]

* Fujiwara starts trying to lose weight over winter break in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. The fact that she applies very loose logic to her eating habits like "cold foods don't have calories because calories are a measurement of heat" and "eating lots of spicy food is the same thing as exercise because both make you sweat" doesn't really help.
* Mari is the only cast member of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'' who is anxious about her weight; this is apparent in [[HotSpringsEpisode Chapter 6]] as she forgoes dinner since she noticed she has put up a few pounds. Sakura thinks it's her breast than anything.
* ''VideoGame/LapisReLights'' has Millefeuille of supernova. She's a BigEater and the TeamChef but is so terrified by the prospect of gaining weight that she refuses to step on the scale to know. One has to imagine that her frequently having to perform in public in revealing outfits doesn't help.
* ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala'':
** Pamie nearly develops an eating disorder after Walter and his brothers compare her to a balloon. Her friends are only able to convince her that her refusal to eat isn't healthy when she faints after going out on a jog.
** The Koala family decides to have Papa needs to exercise more after he accidentally busts his belt during dinner. Miss Lewis meanwhile decides to write a story about it in the paper, showing before and after results. He's absolutely miserable during all of it, and in the end, [[AllForNothing and it ultimately does nothing. He ends up breaking another belt the next time he sits down to eat.]]
* Team Rocket from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' in the episode "A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine" has gained weight and had their own weight woe moment; Meowth's moment is when his charm on his head sinks into his head due to the extra fat, Jessie's moment is her laughing so hard, [[PoppingButtons her button pops right off]] followed by claiming that [[IAmBigBoned she needed a new uniform]], and finally, James' moment is when he recalls his stomach hanging over his belt when he was getting dressed.
* Itsuki Nakano of ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'' is often either poked fun of, or being self-conscious about her BigEater tendencies. True to form, one of the manga's omakes implies she's a fair bit heavier than her sisters, something she's not happy about.
* In ''LightNovel/NoRin'', episode 7, it starts with Kosaku and Kei noticing that they both have big bellies. At first, they thought it was muscle, but after seeing Yuka and Minori very chubby, they concluded they the 4 of them are getting fat, thanks to Yuka's cooking.

* ''Take Responsibility For My Stomach!'' stars a young woman who gets fat, partly due to her best friend's cooking and partly due to her own bad habit. The plot of the series involves the best friend helping the protagonist lose weight in an efficient and healthy manner.

* This is downplayed in ''A Good Day'', where Ryuuko (who is chubby but not fat) is upset with her weight and considers herself to be not as pretty as Satsuki (who is slimmer) because of it and that she gets bullied for it. Satsuki helps breaks her out of this.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17488496/chapters/41189594 Perfect The Way You Are]]'' is a ''Love Live!'' fanfic where Nozomi develops an eating disorder.
* An M-rated ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' fic, in one chapter, has a pregnant-with-twins Rarity lamenting her weight (which has increased all around since her pregnancy began) and wailing about how she's become a big fat cow. She calms down somewhat after the father points out that in their eyes, Rarity's weight gain has made her even more attractive.

* Eating disorders are the subject of many a Lifetime Movie Of The Week.
* In the movie ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'', Matilda confesses that she suffered from bulimia when she was a teenager. The other two characters, who are both male models, respond by saying that they do it all the time (once they figure out what she's talking about).

* In ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'', writer Helen Sharp develops an eating disorder to cope with losing her fiance to her bitter rival Madeline Ashton, and spends a few years being belittled in a mental hospital because of her psychotic obsession with Madeline. Some years later, Madeline has begun to notice she's getting older and not as svelte as she used to be but took some comfort in knowing Helen was a blob... until she sees Helen for the first time in ages and discovers she's gorgeous. [[spoiler:Because of an immortality serum.]]
* One of the side characters in ''Film/MenWomenAndChildren'' is a teenaged devotee of a "thinspiration" website, with a wall covered in ultra-thin models for extra body image issues. The fact that the character is played by waifish Elena Kampouris lends extra oomph to the plotline.
* Played with both ways in ''Film/TheSantaClause'' and its sequel. As a result of Scott Calvin becoming the new Santa Claus, Scott wakes up one morning and is startled to discover he's put on a great deal of weight. And as his bathroom scale indicated, he was getting heavier by the second. At first, his transformation is solely due to magic, but later it becomes due to his newly increased appetite for sweets. In the second movie, Scott gradually begins to lose weight and revert back to the way he was before he became Santa. [[spoiler: His body promptly swells back up the moment his marriage is made official.]]
* In ''Film/TheMagdaleneSisters'' the epilogue reveals that [[spoiler: Crispina]] died of anorexia.

* Maureen "Puddin'" in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's short story ''Cliff and the Calories''. She thinks her boyfriend would like her better if she were thinner, so she tries desperately to lose weight.

* ''Literature/GossipGirl'', the book series, had Blair as bulimic. They touched on this during the first season Thanksgiving episode of the TV show, but it was never shown to be as much of a problem as the book series, where Blair binged and purged at least once a book if not more.

* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': In book #4 (''The Cat Who Saw Red''), Qwilleran has to go on a diet for the duration of the novel and is angered to discover in the first fifty pages that he's actually gained three pounds since his doctor's appointment. He never realizes it's because Koko was also standing on the scale at the same time.

* ''Literature/BoneChillers'' had two cases of FatteningTheVictim present in ''Frankenturkey II'' and ''Romeo And Ghouliette''. The former is the result of a JackassGenie wish, with the victim actually looking forward to getting fattened up and eaten for Thanksgiving, while the latter is played straight and involves ghouls wanting to eat the protagonist's best friend.

* ''Literature/HannahSwensen'':
** There are times where Hannah has to struggle with her weight problems, as in ''Lemon Meringue Pie Murder'' and ''Cream Puff Murder''. Not that Norman and Mike mind her size at all. ''Lemon Meringue Pie Murder'' in particular focuses on Hannah trying to fit into a pair of jeans by dieting. [[spoiler:She eventually discovers the truth: she and her sister Andrea had gone out shopping together the year before and bought the same brand and style of pants, but in different sizes, and one of them accidentally took the other's bag when they got home. End result: Hannah was trying to fit into the pants sized for ''Andrea'', who is naturally thinner than Hannah. On realizing the mixup, Hannah promptly ends her diet.]]
** Andrea gets concerned about putting on so much as a single pound, fearing her husband will leave her if she looks anything less than perfect.
** ''Mike'' of all people works out constantly so as to avoid gaining weight and dropping any excess he gets.
* ''Literature/{{Wintergirls}}'' by Laurie Halse Anderson tells the story of Lia and Cassie, two best friends who were literally in competition to see which of them could become the thinnest. Cassie became bulimic as well as anorexic, which led to her death when her esophagus ruptured while she was throwing up. Lia continues her quest to stay as tiny as possible while being haunted by Cassie's spirit.

* ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub'':
** Subverted with Stacie. Her "dieting" is an excuse to hide her diabetes.
** In the book ''Jessi and the Awful Secret'', Jessi meets a child ballerina who she believes has an eating disorder. This character never appears again.
* ''Literature/NancyDrew'''s friend Bess is eternally obsessed with losing five pounds.
* ''Literature/SkippyDies'': Lori, Janine, and their other friends are all obsessed with being thin, and buy diet pills on the black market from Carl to maintain their weight. Eventually, Lori becomes addicted to the pills and is hospitalized for anorexia, although that is triggered more by a pregnancy scare and a need for control in her life than self-image per se.
* In ''Literature/OnlyEverYours'' girls are artificially engineered and raised in "the School", which trains them as future wives or prostitutes to serve men. They are strictly monitored on a target weight and actively encouraged to develop eating disorders. After [[spoiler:being chosen as the Father's companion, isabel]] compulsively eats and balloons massively, then [[spoiler: has her stomach forcibly pumped and shrunk]] and stops eating completely, becoming emaciated. Christy, who is frequently berated for being "fat", struggles with binge eating and abuses the "kcal blockers" the girls are given to control their weight.
* ''Literature/TheGirlsSeries'' has Ellie begin to develop an eating disorder in ''Girls Under Pressure''. She gains a healthier self-image after seeing the effects of a friend being hospitalized with anorexia.
* In ''[[Literature/DreamPark The Barsoom Project]]'', the Fimbulwinter Game is a "Fat Ripper", intended to teach the participants better eating habits over the course of the adventure. All but one of the Gamers are overweight and hoping to lose the excess, save for dangerously-skinny Kevin who needs help overcoming his bulimia.
* In Literature/JackieBoy, Morgan quietly suffers from an eating disorder, their mental health worsening as their boyfriend Jackie's mental health improves. All of the members in Morgan's polyamorous group focus on Jackie's mental health as they consider it a top priority after him attempting suicide. Morgan only comes clean about how ill they are when another one of their lovers hears them throwing up in the bathroom.

* In [[Creator/CathyCassidy ''Summer's Dream,'']] the aspiring dancer protagonist becomes convinced that she's too fat to be a ballerina, although it's actually the mental effects of anorexia making Summer think that way, and she's really far too thin.

* An episode of ''Series/FullHouse'' had D.J. crash-dieting so she'd look good in a bathing suit for a pool party. As per usual, she was talked down by a heart-to-heart with her dad and a big hug. This episode gets a little slack in that D.J. ''isn't'' said to have an eating disorder--rather, the adults warn that crash dieting and overexercising could ''lead'' to one. It's still a VerySpecialEpisode, but it didn't go so far as to outright say she developed and got over an eating disorder in a matter of days.
* ''Series/FatActress'' has Creator/KirstieAlley (a fictional version of herself) trying to deal with being an [[WhiteDwarfStarlet aging]] and [[HollywoodPudgy somewhat overweight]] actress in Hollywood. The way people treat her veers between CringeComedy and DudeNotFunny.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had this come up quite a few times in the show's run--which was somewhat realistic, considering that the main characters were middle-aged to elderly women, a group that (stereotypically) often tries to lose weight and diet:
** A ClipShow episode (made of original clips) focused on the previous attempts at self-improvement the girls have gone through, including dieting. Sophia was actually trying to gain weight after learning she lost a pound, and one episode implies she was at least '' heavier'' when she was much younger. In the dieting episode, the girls all weighed themselves and poked fun at each other, which of course involved HollywoodPudgy since none of them look heavyset. In Blanche's case, it would've helped if she had taken her high heels off ''before'' she got on the scale.
** A later episode dealt with Blanche dieting to fit into her wedding dress for her anniversary. She almost goes insane with hunger and practically assaults Rose when Rose accidentally eats Blanche's diet food. She does manage to fit into the dress... [[spoiler: except the zipper on the back didn't fit. Rose takes a picture without Blanche knowing.]]
** Blanche's estranged daughter Rebecca had put on a great deal of weight since the last time the two saw each other. Though Rebecca [[FatAndProud admitted she was overweight]] and didn't seem to care, she had also started dating a JerkAss named Jeremy who did nothing but insult her -- even ''as he was proposing marriage.'' Dorothy was ready to beat the stuffing out of him, but Blanche kept holding back because she was afraid of Becky leaving her again. In the end, though, Blanche told Rebecca how she really felt, and Rebecca admitted that she was only planning to marry Jeremy because she feared that no one else would be interested. The intervention worked, and Blanche and Becky's relationship was gradually healed. In her next appearances, she was ''much'' slimmer, but she was also being played by [[TheOtherDarrin a different actress]] in those appearances.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': Multiple:
** Amy Rose took this UpToEleven in ''VideoGame/SonicBattle,'' being obsessed with boxercising and later being coached by [[RobotBuddy Emerl]], who instructed her to do 100 push-ups and eat nothing but salads with no dressing. This is taken to creepy levels as, rather than merely lamenting about her weight and failing to maintain a diet like most examples, Amy really appears to be suffering from an eating disorder.
** Almost every female in the series keeps their weight a secret.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/Persona4''; Hanako claims to be dieting (which means she only eats one bucket of curry), and uses it as a justification for [[FatBastard not sharing some of her food]] ([[BigEater despite having more than enough to share]]) [[FatBastard with the starving protagonists]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': Multiple:
** Inverted with Bob, who deliberately grew fat to be a combination of striking power, muscle mass, and speed. In one ending, he goes completely berserk after losing all his weight.
** Played straight by [[FatAndProud Rufus]] and [[RatedMForManly Zangeif]] in their ending for ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken'', when the two are suddenly transformed into svelter, bishounen like fighters. They're utterly horrified at having lost their "Perfect bodies."
* Some of the women in ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'' make a big fuss over their fear of gaining weight from the Eating Contest event, even though all of them are fairly slender and are never ''shown'' to gain weight. If you play as a male protagonist, Nancy has to remind you that women are always going to obsess over their weight so it's best not to ask questions.

* Pyra from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' seems to suffer from this, as evidenced by her reaction when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s55H26qors8&t=33s Rex proves to be unable to reel her up from a lower platform]] with his arm-mounted GrapplingHookPistol. With that said, [[AllThereInTheManual her concept art]] maintains that the bulk of this weight is in [[{{Stripperiffic}} what little armour she wears]].
-->'''Azurda''': Now see here, Rex. You can't just go and call a lady heavy!
* Nearly every character in the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' series has their height, weight, and other stats about them listed openly. The exception is Chun-Li's weight, which has been consistently listed as "secret", rather than "unknown" like other characters. It's possible that her [[ShesGotLegs famously muscular legs]] might add more to her weight than she's comfortable with.

* ''VideoGame/EternalSeniaHydrangeaAfterTheRain'': Briella: One of her system quotes has her bemoan that she's putting on weight... and then another quote has her immediately blame Seti for giving her so many treats.
* High Rank Hunter Ayame from ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise'' claims to be gaining weight thanks to eating tons of dango and being unable to burn it off thanks to an injury preventing her from working as a Hunter. While she isn't happy about it, she manages to be a good sport and quips "My zenny pouch keeps getting lighter and my pants keep getting tighter!"
* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'':
** Noelle is extremely conscientious of her weight and figure. As such, she dislikes banquets as she is obliged as a maid to taste test all of the dishes to ensure their quality. Characters note that in the days following a banquet, Noelle readily volunteers to take part in night patrols. Her comment in the Brightcrown Canyon Floral Freefall scoreboard has her lament that her heavy stomach may impede her gliding skill.
--> '''Noelle:''' My stomach's a little... heavy, but I'll try to make up for it. Gliding is a necessary skill for a knight, after all.
** Ganyu is overly concerned about her physique. Even though she is a vegetarian, she is also a BigEater and she struggles to maintain her appetite in a city known for its various delicacies. She was also FormerlyFat: back in the Archon War, she was once SwallowedWhole by a giant monster, only for the monster choke to death as her waistline was wide enough to make her get stuck in its throat. [[{{Irony}} Even though her fatness saved her]], the whole experience was so embarrassing to her that she swears to not let something similar happen in the future.

* Natalya from ''VisualNovel/MissingStars'' is implied to suffer from an eating disorder. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment involves her trying to make the protagonist eat her lunch, only for her twin Sofiya to catch her and scold her for not eating as she promised.

* The ''WebAnimation/ActuallyHappened'' video ''I Couldn't Stop Vomiting To Keep Myself Slim'' is about a girl's struggle with anorexia-bulimia.

* [[http://explosm.net/comics/1440/ This]] ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' strip features RecurringCharacter Charles and his long-suffering girlfriend, who's suffering from this trope. She worries that her legs are getting fat, and Charles reassures that that's not the case...only to remark that her "huge ass could be throwing off [his] frame of reference."

* [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]] WebVideo/Boogie2988, noted for weighing in at over 550 pounds, takes this issue very seriously[[note]]since August 2017, he's taken drastic measures by getting weight loss surgery, and is (as of late September 2019) in the lower 350s[[/note]], and is particularly known for giving advice on dealing with weight problems and psychological issues.
* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eOty1tn7FM Fatty Girl,]]'' Cinderella is cursed into being overweight and her boyfriend rejects her over it. The rest of the series follows her quest to lose weight.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Harold becomes insecure about his size and strives to lose weight when he overhears Sid and Stinky mocking him. He goes on a cruise with the purpose of helping kids lose weight, but is even ''bigger'' when he returns. He manages to [[StatusQuoIsGod lose the extra weight]] with some help from Arnold, though.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'':
** The episode "Arts and Crass" is centered around Daria and Jane creating a piece for the art competition about a girl with bulimia. The piece was meant to be supportive of people who didn't want to be judged for their looks and to get people to question the cost of beauty by the standards of society.
** Played straight with HollywoodPudgy added in "Fat Like Me" when Sandi breaks her leg and is out of school for a few days. When she comes back to school, she's put on a couple of pounds and ends up having to resign from the Fashion Club due to the strict weight requirements ''she'' implemented. Quinn helps Sandi get back to her regular size because the Club was on the verge of falling apart without a steady leader.
** Reoccurring extra Mrs. Johannsen is a morbidly obese woman who suffers from hypoglycemia. In her first appearance in ''Cafe Disaffecto'', she passes out while Daria and Jane are attempting to sell her chocolate for a school fundraiser. She insists on buying all their chocolate even though she tells them her doctor wouldn't approve. When she comes to, Daria states she can't sell her the chocolate out of fear for her health. She later appears in ''Psycho Therapy'' where it seems her weight and overeating stem from a traumatic childhood and feelings of abandonment after once being told she was an accident. When Quinn barges into her therapy session to talk to the cute therapist speaking with Johannsen, Quinn suggests vertical stripes will fix her problems.
* On ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' Stan became anorexic. While he is shown to be getting heavier during the course of the episode, this is really a delusion and he is finally shown to be NothingButSkinAndBones. It's actually taken fairly seriously. At another end of the story, Stan devises a way to not eat with one method including giving his food to Klaus. Klaus eventually gets so big he bursts out of his fishbowl.
** In another episode, Roger and Klaus have spent a year driving around the country to see the car pedometer get over 100,000, and have both gotten pretty fat from doing nothing and eating nothing but fast food. When the car breaks down, Roger tries to physically push it and has a heart attack. In the far future, Roger's shown trying this again (after what's implied to be numerous times and long after Klaus has died) and he's ''much'' more obese than he was before.
** One episode revealed Francine has to put a tremendous amount of effort into keeping her body tight, which includes powerlifting furniture and a diet of tea and laxatives. After realizing Stan only married her for her looks, she cuts off her exercise regime and gets a bit chunky (among other things).
** When put under the test of whose parenting skills are superior, Francine is allowed to raise Steve exclusively while Stan raises a clone called Steve-arino. Francine's HandsOffParenting for the sake of giving Steve space to learn from his mistakes turns him into a slovenly fat brat with bad hygiene. Naturally, Steve's extra chub makes it harder for him to get away from Steve-arino when [[spoiler: Steve-arino turns out to be a cat-torturing sociopath planning to murder Steve for emergency body parts.]]
** While working as a newscaster in "Anchorfran", Francine's celebrity status gets her free meals whenever she wants at a Mexican restaurant. Stan starts exploiting this and puts on a lot of weight from constantly gorging himself on free food, even admitting he's been treating himself to 16 burritos a day. Stan remains fat for the rest of the episode, and while no one has any visible problem with this, Stan mentions all that spicy food [[spoiler: made his colon fall out, which he is apparently holding in place with ''duct tape'']]. He's later seen shoving a sheet cake into his face and eating it like a dog.

* Nitz in ''WesternAnimation/{{Undergrads}}'' was horrified to discover he put on the Freshman Fifteen just before the Exposed Expo, an annual streaking event, and tried to slim down in time.

* A ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode had a villain creating girl scout cookies that were highly addictive and fattening as revenge for a childhood trauma of being booted out of the organization. Both Clover and Jerry became hooked on the cookies and became obese by the episode's end, as did the villain herself when the spies made her sample the "highly addictive sugar extract" she invented which made the cookies so addictive. An antidote was made and Clover and all the other victims of the scheme were turned back to normal.
** While Clover learned to appreciate her regular size by episode's end (she was obsessed with buying a large hat), she hardly complained about her sudden weight gain during the mission.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', Bugs suggested to Porky during his brief stint as a caterer that he try some of his grandmother's old recipes since Porky's own dishes weren't that good. The recipes all call for an unhealthy amount of butter but are rather delicious, so much so that Bugs gets hooked on them and is finding excuses to throw parties just so Porky can cater to them. Sure enough, Bugs starts off with a noticeable belly, then gets ''huge'', to the point that he causes a tidal wave when jumping into a pool to save Daffy from drowning. That serves as Bugs' wake-up call and he manages to cut back on the junk.

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' at one point, where Dag is concerned that he's unable to gain weight for winter and worries about freezing to death, while Norb has got no problem at all. The episode ends with Dag deciding to spend the rest of winter living in morbidly obese Norb's fat folds.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' Timmy once wished that every meal was dessert. At first, everyone is utterly hyperactive from the extra sugar rush, until a month passes by and everyone is so bloated they can only get around by rolling until the extra weight causes the Earth to fall out of orbit and spiral into the sun.
** During ''Timmy's Secret Wish'', after Timmy's retroactively stripped of his godparents for [[spoiler: freezing time]], Jorgen Von Strangle starts binge eating frosting out of depression since he doesn't have Timmy's antics keeping him busy. He remains fat for the rest of the episode.

* There was a ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' episode which revolved around Brendon and Jason enabling each other's poor eating habits, before the ending showed the now obese kids making fat-themed parodies of famous movies.

* AVerySpecialEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/BeverlyHillsTeens'' had Tara go on a crash diet in order to drop five pounds so she would qualify to enter a particular beauty contest.
* Done twice in ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'':
** The overreaching story of one episode concerning Henry and June focused on the two being out-of-shape, to the point that they could barely get through the opening credits. They learn that a physical is coming up and try to lose weight with help from Richard Simmons, but they're not able to concentrate long enough to make any progress and sadly accept they'll be out of a job soon. Then they learn that their physical was only testing them on surviving cartoon physics via dumping anvils on them. Upon passing the said exam, they go back to eating junk food with gusto.
** An WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow short was basically a reversal of ''Literature/{{Thinner}}'' with the Chief getting cursed into obesity by a scam fortune teller with actual powers.
* An ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' short called ''Star Truck'' had the Warners meeting a group of expies of the cast from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Wakko introduces the Scotty stand-in to Earth doughnuts, and he progressively gets fatter as the short goes on until he's too big to reach the control panels.
* Played with in two senses in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo''. In the earlier "Jumbo Johnny" episode, Johnny worries that he's not as buff as he could be and seeks to gain weight in terms of musculature. He's sold an experimental protein shake, but he doesn't follow the instructions correctly and drinks every can in a single night. By morning, Johnny is extremely fat and deludes himself into thinking he's ripped until he takes more of the protein shake and essentially becomes a fat giant. Johnny accidentally destroys most of the city looking for the protein shake salesman, who finally gives him the antidote to slim down. But Johnny ''still'' doesn't follow the instructions, drinks every can he's given, and while he does slim down [[spoiler: he's basically a two-inch stick person with a normal-sized head.]]
* Lucky Piquel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' is often the butt of some fat jokes since he's a very big guy. In one episode he's stressing out about having to lose some weight for an upcoming physical, which is made extremely difficult when the case of that episode involved the mascot of a snack cake company. However, thanks to sheer willpower, Lucky manages to reach the required weight level for the physical (even though he doesn't look any slimmer). Bonkers, on the other hand, had spent most of the episode gorging on junk food and had gotten pretty fat.
* "Chew On This" from ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'' had Adam complain about the fact that there wasn't any human food in the cafeteria. Fearing he might sue, Principal Pixie Frog changes the lunch menu to feature nothing but stuff humans eat. Jake and just about everyone else in the school (except Adam) get addicted because they're not used to eating pizza, french fries, and tater tots, and become very obese. When Adam is almost mobbed for his lunch, he threatens Pixie Frog that if he gets hurt he'd have grounds to sue the school, and offers not to in exchange for the menu being set back to the way it was. It then ends with everyone, the students and the staff, trying to lose weight.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'' opened up with Gonard significantly tubbier than usual, and Ozu orders him to get back in shape because he's an action star. Gonard's forced to use Ozu's workout equipment, and while he becomes much more chiseled than he was before, he's now obsessed with exercising.
* Half of [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} Dethklok's]] band members have body image issues. Pickles and Skwisgaar are both rather slender and Toki's absolutely ''ripped'' under his clothes, but Nathan and Murderface are on the heavy side. Nathan is a FormerlyFit example but is seen as a BigBeautifulMan due to the fact that he's more heavy than fat, while Murderface is out of shape and unattractive. Although in a later season episode, Nathan becomes increasingly concerned with his weight after accidentally breaking the hot tub by jumping into it and being labeled unattractive on a recent news editorial.
* Explored in a very unusual sense on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', in which the "woe" aspect comes not from fat or musculature, but ''gravity''. Phoebe is concerned that she is unable to perform a special basketball feat for an upcoming game, and Ms. Frizzle uses this as an opportunity to teach the class about the concept of gravity. The bus transforms into an artificial planet, and the gravity is altered depending on how small or big the bus is. Unfortunately, someone knocks the gravity controls into high gear, enlarging the bus and increasing the gravity to such a degree that the kids are barely able to move and in danger of being crushed. Thankfully they manage to reach the controls in time before something bad happens.
* Done a number of times in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** ''Weight Gain ': Cartman tries to bulk up using protein powder, but doesn't understand he needs to use the powder alongside an exercise regime. By the end of the episode, he's a morbidly obese blob and seriously believes he's a well-muscled hunk. BEEF CAKE!!!
** ''Jared Has Aides'': Butters is forced to gain fifty pounds as part of a convoluted scheme by the boys to make money doing a bunch of commercials for City Wok similar to Jared from Subway. They then put Butters through a homemade liposuction treatment, which is literally just putting a tube in his side and pumping the excess fat out by punching his stomach. ''It works''.
** ''Fat Camp'' featured Cartman getting sent to a fat camp against his will. He starts a lucrative business undermining the camp's efforts by smuggling junk food and selling it to the other kids. The rest of the campers, on their part, are all legitimately unhappy with how overweight they are, and their equally overweight parents don't have much hope for them as they believe their obesity is caused by genes. By the end of the episode when the camp is about to be shut down, one of the campers comes forward and admits they were cheating on their diets but wants to stay and make a more earnest attempt to slim down. When it looks like even Cartman has decided to make an effort to diet, the counselors (who were shown as upbeat and genuinely trying to help the kids) decide to have him banned because of what he did. Cartman curses them off... and then starts eating junk food and crying while he does.
** ''Make Love, Not Warcraft'': The boys spend weeks doing nothing but killing boars to power up in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' so they can finally stop the one player who keeps killing everybody's characters whenever they try to go on quests. In the process, Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman become overweight, greasy-haired shut-ins with horrendous acne.
** ''Raising The Bar'': As obesity becomes more widespread, Cartman finally stops denying he is fat... and then intentionally gains more weight to qualify as obese and get a mobility scooter of his own. Cartman then takes advantage of his new handicapped status the way every other obese person in the episode does.
* Pam from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' gets mocked a lot for her weight, and was especially stressed out by it in the first season. By the second season, Pam evolved into a BigBeautifulWoman MemeticBadass who shot back by mocking Cheryl's skinnier frame. However, during the fifth season when ISIS starts smuggling cocaine, Pam gets addicted and ends up losing a lot of weight. For a number of reasons, including that Pam TookALevelInDumbass, everyone says they liked her better before, not after, she got addicted. The sixth season reveals she gained back the weight she lost after beating her cocaine habit.
* An ongoing plot point in ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' was Cleveland Jr.'s sudden obesity, apparently brought on by the depression caused around the dissolution of his family when Cleveland and Loretta divorced. Though [[spoiler: a later episode (possibly) revealed the obese Jr. is a secret agent who murdered the original and took his place to enact a complex sting operation on Cleveland's neighbor, Tim the Bear, supposedly a ruthless terrorist leader]]. In one particular episode, Cleveland starts wearing a man girdle to trick Donna into thinking he's lost weight, using it as an excuse to gorge himself. By the end of the episode, he's gained so much weight he finally bursts out of the girdle looking fatter than usual.
* A one-time segment on ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' featured "Fatman and Boy Blubber," two morbidly obese superheroes who protect the overweight people of the world. After saving the chubby Louis from bullies, they deliver (supposedly) inspirational lectures about their own struggles with obesity, including their attempts to stay healthy and tendency to eat fast food and snacks while traveling. It all turns out to be a sham, as the segment ends with Fatman and Boy Blubber trying to steal Louis' sweet buns for themselves.
* "Arthur Weighs In," an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', had the titular aardvark discovering that he needed to wear a "husky" suit for a play (despite not looking any different) after [[CompressedVice abruptly developing lazy habits that had never shown up before]]). He struggles to lose weight by going on a diet; Brain then tells him that restrictive diets don't work--a surprising case of TruthInTelevision for a kid's show--and are ''especially'' dangerous for children, instead suggesting that he eat a variety of foods and make healthier choices instead. Mr. Ratburn (who turns out to be FormerlyFat himself) then helps Arthur out by encouraging him to exercise by providing the whole class with pedometers. The combination of better eating and more physical activity helps Arthur shed the excess pounds, and he wears a smaller suit for the play.
* Happens occasionally on ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''
** Jon puts on a noticeable amount of weight in one episode and decides to go on a diet, especially after seeing an appetizing-looking diet program on tv. [[VeryFalseAdvertising He along with Garfield are both sorely disappointed when the food turns out to be the size of a grain of rice and tastes terrible.]]
** Jon's neighbors, the Burnsides, decide to move, tired of Garfield always stealing their food. They soon realize, however, that with Garfield no longer around, they both put on a lot of weight in a very short amount of time. They quickly move back before they end up "looking like elephants by Christmastime".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In the BeachEpisode, Kaeloo decides to play volleyball because she realizes that she's getting fat; however, the plot becomes so sidetracked by the end of the episode that the audience never finds out if she ever ''did'' lose the extra weight.
* Played for BlackComedy in one Dr. Weird sketch from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''. In it, Dr. Weird shows off to Steve that he's lost weight. Manually. [[MeatgrinderSurgery With a chainsaw]]. Everything below his knees has been reduced to literal bare bones.
-->'''Dr. Weird:''' ''(revving up the chainsaw)'' I need to lose twenty more pounds, or I'll never be pretty!
* Betty Hart from ''WesternAnimation/BlessTheHarts'', in the episode "Pound Pinchers". She thinks that because of her extra wisdom pounds, construction workers don't find her attractive anymore. Her woe even gets worse when she steps on the scale at the pound pinchers meetings.
* Coco from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' in the episode "The Big Picture" suffers this trope when Duchess says Coco has a [[TemporaryBulkChange huge belly]]. It even gets worse because it's the annual picture day at Fosters.

* In ''Anime/YuriOnIce'', in the first 2 episodes, Yuri has put on some weight and has been insecure about it, [[TemporaryBulkChange but loses the weight in episode 3 and for the rest of the series.]]

* In ''Anime/No-Rin'', episode 7, it starts with Kosaku and Kei noticing that they both have big bellies. At first, they thought it was muscle, but after seeing Yuka and Minori very chubby, they concluded they the 4 of them are getting fat, thanks to Yuka's cooking.

* In ''Anime/{{NoRin}}'', episode 7, it starts with Kosaku and Kei noticing that they both have big bellies. At first, they thought it was muscle, but after seeing Yuka and Minori very chubby, they concluded they the 4 of them are getting fat, thanks to Yuka's cooking.

* In ''Anime/NoRin'', episode 7, it starts with Kosaku and Kei noticing that they both have big bellies. At first, they thought it was muscle, but after seeing Yuka and Minori very chubby, they concluded they the 4 of them are getting fat, thanks to Yuka's cooking.

* In the ''WesterAnimation/BeingIan'' episode "What's Combover You?", Ken found out that he's put on 20 pounds, due to middle age, and his new pot belly is making him feel old and fat.

* In ''Anime/No-Rin'', episode 7, it starts with Kosaku and Kei noticing that they both have big bellies. At first, they thought it was muscle, but after seeing Yuka and Minori very chubby, they concluded they the 4 of them are getting fat, thanks to Yuka's cooking.