Episode 3: Play It Dumber

We discuss Hollywood using actors in fat suits instead of fat actors and how that corresponds to fat people getting marginalized in real life. We also give tips for finding a fat-friendly doctor, and a crazy weight-loss scheme from an Uber driver.  

Materials Referenced

John Lithgow, Fat Suits, and Fat Actors

• Indie Wire | John Lithgow on Suiting Up to Play Roger Ailes in ‘Bombshell’: ‘We Decided He Really Needed Man Boobs’

• Vulture | John Lithgow on Wearing ‘Blobs’ on His Teeth to Talk Like Winston Churchill

• Gen | It’s Time to Start Casting Fat Actors in Fat Roles 

• NPR | Alex Borstein On 'Mrs. Maisel' And Being Her Family's 'Comic Relief' As A Kid

• Hollywood Reporter | Hollywood Flashback: When Jared Leto Gained 67 Pounds to Play John Lennon's Assassin

• Glamour | Chrissy Metz Says It's in Her Contract to Lose Weight for This Is Us

Fat Friendly Doctors

• YourFatFriend on Instagram

• Cat & Dragon | Fat Friendly Health Professionals List

• HAES Community

• Vice Article by Charolette Zoller

Weight-Loss Betting Companies

• Today | Weight-loss wager: Couple loses 120 pounds, gains $6,000

• Diet Bet

• Healthy Wage 

• Stikk

• Fatbet 

• Lose It Or Lose It

• The Winning Skinny