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== [[Advertising]] ==
* There was an ad for Weight Watchers (or some other diet system) that invoked/exploited this trope. A black & white shot of a pudgy woman staring at the camera, with moist eyes, as her [[Inner Monologue]] says "do you think I don't hear what you're saying behind my back?" etc.
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* Hiro in ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''.
* Mio and Mugi in ''[[K-On!]]''
* Chizuru from ''[[
* Akane in "[[Kitchen Princess]]", though this is more of the Very Special Chapter variety and is resolved pretty easily. However, apart from that, the chapter does a surprisingly good job of portraying an eating disorder.
* Usagi of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' at times.
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* ''[[Cathy]]'' ''defines'' this trope. (Ack!)▼
* Fred Andrews, father of the title character in ''[[Archie Comics|Archie]]'' is perpetually dieting and cheating on his diet.
* There was an arc in ''[[Spider-Man|The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' with Mary Jane's teenage cousin Kristy, who appeared shortly after Peter and MJ's marriage. She was constantly eating, despite being thin as a rail. As it turned out, she was bulimic. Of course, most of the fans figured ''that'' out quickly, but [[Abusive Parents|the reasons why ran deeper]].
* A [[Running Gag]] with Wanda in ''[[Baby Blues]]''. One story arc was solely about her trying to lose weight.▼
* [[Garfield]] is sensitive about his weight and dreads measuring himself (especially since he has a talking scale that keeps insulting him).▼
== [[Film]] ==▼
* Eating disorders are the subject of many a Lifetime Movie Of The Week.▼
* In the movie ''[[Zoolander]]'', Matilda confesses that she suffered from bulimea when she was a teenager. The other two characters, who are both male models, respond by saying that they do it all the time (once they figure out what she's talking about).▼
* The movie ''[[Fatso]]'' is about a man (played by [[Dom De Luise]]) struggling with being obese, his food addiction, and his enabler mother.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'', the book series, had Blair as bulimic. They touched on this during the first season Thanksgiving episode of the TV show, but it was never shown to be as much of a problem as the book series, where Blair binged and purged at least once a book if not more.
== [[Live
* The 2 part episode "Our Lips Are Sealed" from ''[[Degrassi]]'' has Emma developing anorexia as a way of dealing with the stress in her life.
* Elliot during season 7 of ''[[Scrubs]]'' treats a woman with anorexia. Dr. Cox points out that Elliot weighs even less. By the end of the episode, she realizes that she is there to help her patients whether she is healthy or not. A year later, the same patient comes back, even more underweight, and Elliot is convinced that it is still anorexia, when in reality it was AIDS. However, Elliot puts the patient through a lot before eventually figuring this out.
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* During Season 8 of Frasier, as a way to mask Jane Leeves' pregnancy, Daphne gained considerable weight. While Niles pretended not to notice, she was the target of many fat jokes. She was sent to a weight loss clinic, and the psychology behind her weight issue was explored, in a sensitive and realistic way, in the episode "Daphne Returns."
== [[Magazines]] ==
* Anyone who has read ''[[Playboy]]'' knows that centerfolds have a lot of info included, like age, height weight, waist, bust, and the like. One issue in the 90s had an article where the editors listed the highs and lows of this info throughout their history, like tallest, shortest, and lightest, but heaviest? "We'll never tell," it said under that one.
▲== [[Film]] ==
▲* Eating disorders are the subject of many a Lifetime Movie Of The Week.
▲* In the movie ''[[Zoolander]]'', Matilda confesses that she suffered from bulimea when she was a teenager. The other two characters, who are both male models, respond by saying that they do it all the time (once they figure out what she's talking about).
▲* The movie ''[[Fatso]]'' is about a man (played by [[Dom De Luise]]) struggling with being obese, his food addiction, and his enabler mother.
== [[Music]] ==
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* ''Sophie'' by Elanor McEvoy tells the story of a girl with Anorexia.
* Canadian band Furnaceface's song "She Thinks She's Fat" includes the lyrics "She calls herself a cow/I say how 'bout a little bestiality." While it's Played for Laughs, the subject is also bulimic: "She eats ten buttered popcorns/and then she throws up..."
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* ''[[Cathy]]'' ''defines'' this trope. (Ack!)
▲* A [[Running Gag]] with Wanda in ''[[Baby Blues]]''. One story arc was solely about her trying to lose weight.
▲* [[Garfield]] is sensitive about his weight and dreads measuring himself (especially since he has a talking scale that keeps insulting him).
== Toys ==
* [https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/April,_the_Ninja_Newscaster_(1992_action_figure) April, the Ninja Newscaster] for the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'']] toyline. Her weight is given as "105 lbs. We Think. She won’t tell us."
** Although, other versions of April's figure have different (and lighthearted) ways to give this information. For the 1992 figure, it says, "105 lbs.without pad and pencil", and for [https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/April,_the_Ravishing_Reporter_(1992_action_figure) April the Ravishing Reporter] it's "99.9 lbs. wearing chains."
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Amy Rose took this [[Up to Eleven]] in ''[[Sonic Battle]]'', being obsessed with boxercising and later being coached by [[Robot Buddy|Emerl]], who instructed her to do 100 push-ups and eat nothing but salad with no dressing. This is taken to creepy levels as, rather than merely lamenting about her weight and failing to maintain a diet like most examples, Amy really appears to be suffering from an eating disorder.
** Almost every female in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series keeps their weight a secret.
* Subverted in ''[[Persona 4]]''; Hanako claims to be dieting, and uses it as a justification for [[Fat Bastard|not sharing some of her food]] [[Big Eater|(despite having more than enough to share)]] [[Fat Bastard|with the starving
* Possibly Chun-Li in the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' franchise, as it is never revealed among her other statistics.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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** Brian's dumb exgirlfriend Jillian is bulimic. Stewie calls her fat to make her throw up, and she makes comments about how she is losing her teeth.
** When Lois becomes a Hollywood starlet, she shows off her newfound anorexia by having her friends play her ribcage like a xylophone.
* Both Toyman and Dr. Trapp on ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]''; neither is overweight, but both seem pretty serious about dieting, even having a wager with each other on who can lose the most weight. Toyman is pretty upset when Batgirl starts a [[Bar Brawl]] and hits him in the face with a cake; when she starts trading blows with Trapp, she "generously" uses the salad on him instead.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* Karen Carpenter of the popular 1960/1970's pop-rock group The Carpenters suffered from anorexia nervosa, and died from complications of the condition at age 32.
* [[Lord Byron]] - [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/byron-was-severely-anorexic-1176779.html obsessed with his weight and fasting]
* Hard to name even ''one'' female supermodel who has not had a joke using this Trope made at her expense.
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[[Category:Fat Tropes]]
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