Body Portrayals and TV
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The Bachelor delves into body image issues even as it's been notoriously fatphobic
Monday's episode featured former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe moderating a discussion between Clayton Echard and his bachelorettes on body image.
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Posted Tuesday 1/18/22 at 7:55PM EST
Allison Tolman urges TV writers to "take the jokes about weight out of your scripts"
"I promise they aren’t funny.
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Posted Friday 12/24/21 at 2:15AM EST
Kate Winslet: The discussion around my Mare of Easttown appearance "blew my mind"
“People were asking, ‘Did she gain weight? Didn’t she look frumpy? Wasn’t that brave of her?’" Winslet tells The Guardian.
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Posted Tuesday 10/26/21 at 3:51AM EDT
Renée Zellweger photographed wearing facial prosthetics and a fat suit for NBC's The Thing About Pam
The Oscar-winning actress is the latest skinny star to wear a fat suit for a TV role, months after Sarah...
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The Simpsons praised for new breast cancer survivor character Dr. Wendy Sage
Sage made her debut Sunday as a hypnotherapist and breast cancer survivor who has had a unilateral mastectomy and is also...
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Posted Wednesday 9/15/21 at 10:36PM EDT
Impeachment: American Crime Story is further proof that fatness remains a costume in Hollywood
"Even as the conversations around body acceptance and positivity have advanced – and representation of people of all body sizes...
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Posted Saturday 9/11/21 at 2:39AM EDT
Impeachment: American Crime Story's fixation on women's bodies is gratuitous and cruel
"In the opening scene of American Crime Story: Impeachment, Monica Lewinsky (Beanie Feldstein) is on her way to meet her...
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Posted Monday 8/30/21 at 1:19PM EDT
Sarah Paulson admits "regret" but defends wearing a fat suit playing Linda Tripp in Impeachment: American Crime Story
Paulson, who spent three hours in hair and makeup to transform into Tripp, addressed the controversy over her wearing a...
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Posted Saturday 9/19/20 at 2:57AM EDT
Tatiana Maslany was a good choice to play She-Hulk, but it would've been nice to see a thick, muscular-bodied woman in the role
"In the comics, She-Hulk is Jennifer Walters, a lawyer and cousin to Bruce Banner/Hulk," says Mae Abdulbaki.
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Posted Friday 8/07/20 at 2:01PM EDT
Debra Messing regrets dropping from a Size 8 to Size 2 while starring on Will & Grace
Messing discussed Hollywood's untraditionally thin beauty standards in the late 1990s on Jameela Jamil's I Weigh podcast.
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Posted Friday 7/03/20 at 4:09AM EDT
Kumail Nanjiani has come to hate his shirtless beefcake photo
“Listen, it got so much bigger than I thought it was going to get,” Nanjiani admitted during a Hollywood Reporter...
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Posted Tuesday 4/21/20 at 5:39AM EDT
Merritt Wever is too good for Run: Why does her character have to spend time loathing her body?
"It is true that Wever does not necessarily resemble a typical leading lady," says Philippa Snow of Wever's new HBO...
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Posted Tuesday 4/14/20 at 3:09AM EDT
Kumail Nanjiani was surprised Silicon Valley writers didn't incorporate his ripped body into the final season after giving them a head's up
“I told them, ‘I’m gonna look pretty different,'” Nanjiani said in an Instagram Q&A, referring to his swole body for...
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Posted Tuesday 3/10/20 at 1:23PM EDT
Kumail Nanjiani struggled with "some body dysmorphia" following his physical transformation for Marvel's The Eternals
"I don't want to discount people who genuinely have debilitating body issues," the former Silicon Valley star says in Men's...
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Posted Saturday 3/07/20 at 3:38AM EST
Why Love Is Blind made the right choice in excluding fat people
The Netflix reality show is accused of being fatphobic.
