The good fatty is a dancing fatty: Fat archetypes in reality television

2025-01-23 Classification：Dance Click()
Author：Cameron, Layla

Article Title：The good fatty is a dancing fatty: Fat archetypes in reality television

Abstract：
While fatphobia runs rampant in traditional reality television programs, the advancement of the body-positive movement has made media representations of fat people far more complex. Utilizing TLC's My Big Fat Fabulous Life as a case study, the author addresses how the introduction of body positivity into the reality television industry has offered freedom from fat shame only to those who fit into a good fatty archetype.

Keywords: Reality television; body positivity; fat activism; media representations; body diversity; social media activism; fat positive; fat archetypes

DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2019.1549400

Source：FAT STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF BODY WEIGHT AND SOCIETY

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