As a big-boned TV creative, I’ve sat through talk about how fat is funny, witnessed weekly staff weigh-ins and had senior colleagues explain ‘the problem with fat people’. Enough is enough
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I have witnessed first-hand the discrimination and lazy stereotyping levelled at people who are big both in front of and behind the camera. It’s a form of discrimination that is perhaps not surprising, given that I meet few people who look like me, or are bigger, in the TV industry – and certainly no one of that size in senior commissioning roles.
My self-worth has sunk fielding questions on just how fat a person we might be able to throw out of a plane, followed by palpable disappointment from a commissioning editor when they discovered that 15 stone wasn’t even as fat as me – that they need to be much fatter for it to be funny. When, on occasion, the fat-phobia has become too much to bear, my attempts to challenge those opinions are met with disinterest or disbelief. I suggested to a former producer of The Biggest Loser that shaming, crash dieting and over-exercising were damaging to large people, given that a study of the US version of the show revealed that the majority of former contestants put the weight back on, and the extreme dieting resulted in.
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