Fat Girl Best Friend

In Fat Girl Best Friend, Sarah Grant takes the reader on a pop culture voyage which encompasses the Bridgerton, Bridget Jones Diary, The DUFF, Encanto, My Mad Fat Diary, Orange is the New Black, Pitch Perfect, Pride and Prejudice, Shrek, Sleeping Beauty, Star Wars, Stranger Things, to name but a few. We all want to live our lives with oodles of Main Character Energy, but for some of us, we just don’t look like your average entertainment thin Leading Lady. While we live in an age of body positivity, we are not seeing that reflected in the cinema or on our television screens. From Fat Monica to Fat Amy, plus size women in film and television are a rare commodity, and if we see ourselves represented at all, it’s not a pretty picture. We’re either the pitied bully victim or the empty, sympathetic and disposable best friend. Through the lens of Female Friendship, Fat Girl Best Friend dives into the treatment of plus size women in film and television.