I remember when I was a teenager, Boy Meets World made an episode about Topanga getting fat, this her being "fat":
@RickiTarr Ugh. I also remember how Bridget Jones was supposed to be overweight... and Renée Zellweger put on "a lot of weight" for the role, but she was just a regular size 6 woman?
Sorry for the Reddit link, but if you don't know this community, I think you might appreciate it:
@_elena Omg yes, and Kate Winslet was supposed to be fat in Titanic and Drew Barrymore in Charlie's Angel's, absolute madness.
@RickiTarr @_elena Phoebe in Friends was coded as the fat friend.
@blogdiva @RickiTarr OMG.
I also found an article with a compilation of all the examples from the 2000s onwards of female actors who played "overweight" characters when they were in fact absolutely average sizes. I won't share it here, I feel like having a cry after reading it
