Celebrity Fat Suit Epidemic

It seems that every show these days has at least one episode where one of their slim stars dawns a fat suit. There was Tyra and her fat “experiment” where she put on a fat suit and glasses and was horrified to learn that her bitchy diva behavior was rarely tolerated. There was Vanessa Minnillo’s fat suit episode, that I’ve never seen but heard all about. Now I just heard that another famous person is going to put on the fat suit and talk about how hard it is to be fat. Doesn’t this seem totally fucked up? I thought I’d put some pics of famous people in fat suits here so we can see this epidemic spread.

First up we have Tyra Banks in her infamous fat suit experiment. While I never watch her show because I find her soul-destroying, I saw a lot of clips from this episode and it was completely priceless. It was basically Tyra in costume being a huge bitchy diva and then saying “people were treating me so badly!”

Vanessa Minnillo also dawned a fat suit for some social experiment or something, or maybe just to make fat people feel bad about themselves. I think it was her doing some kind of parody of Ugly Betty.

Ryan Reynolds also put on the infamous fat suit for a movie he did called Just Friends. The movie was a flop, but it still represents another time a famous person put on a fat suit to make the statement that fat people suck.

Even classy ladies like Paltrow are not above making fun of women who are fatter than them. Paltrow put on the fat suit for her role in the Jack Black comedy Shallow Hal, a film about a guy who only dates really hot chicks until getting hypnotized by Tony Robbins and seeing the “real beauty” in women. Of course, the real point of the film was to see how many fat jokes could fit into 113 min.

Of course, the fat suit craze has been going on for years. On Friends, Courtney Cox rocked the suit when she was fat Monica…

And Eddie Murphy also made the fat suit famous in The Nutty Professor and all the sequels.

The best fat suit joke I’ve ever seen was by Rachel Dratch on SNL a few seasons back. She did a whole segment on Weekend Update about how celebrities had been putting on fat suits for their little “social experiments” and how that was total crap. The best part of the whole segment was her last line. She said, “So the next time you’re rude to a fat person, think twice about it because it could be a celebrity in a fat suit.”