History Main / FatSuit

* Terry Jones as Mr. Creosote in ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife''

** Paltrow's characters mother also wears one at the end of the film.

* Jim Broadbent playing Harold Zidler ''Film/MoulinRouge'' (2001) wore a fat suit.

* In the the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode, "The Yellow Badge of Cowardage", Milhouse reveals to Bart that he's secretly been training for the annual school race, and has been wearing a "dummy tummy" so people don't notice how lean he's gotten.

* In French sketch-comedy show ''Series/vousLesFemmes'', Judith Siboni and Olivia Cotê are clothes-shopping together. The visibly slender Judith takes a summer sundress from a rack and asks Olivia for a honest opinion as to whether she'd look fat wearing this. Olivia suggests trying it on. Judith retreats to the changing room. When she comes out, she is visibly about four clothes sizes larger under the new dress.[[note]]she is also wearing a fat-suit that makes her look possibly eighty pounds larger with exaggerated stomach and arse[[/note]]. Olivia takes a critical look and says "Yes, it does make your bum look ''a little bit'' bigger".

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-->'''Darlene:''' Seriously Dennis, you ''need'' to lose the weight.
-->'''Dennis:''' OK, OK, I will... '''[[TheReveal right now!]]'''

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* In ''Moon Over June'' Professor Hatsuki Akagawa [=PhD=] uses an understated[[note]](vaguely full-figured rather than distinctly overweight}[[/note]] version along with a black wig on campus to avoid (further) complications resulting from students and faculty recognizing the dyed pink hair and [=skinny-with-DD-implants=] body she displays in her only somewhat scaled back porn career.

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* At the end of ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'', Creator/BenStiller wears one while dancing the Milkshake Dance and jiggling his prosthetic man boobs

* Creator/ChrisHemsworth as Thor after the five year time-skip in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.

* Creator/AmyAdams wore one in her intial scenes as Joli in the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Craving", before GreenRocks turned her into a skinny fat-vampire.

* JamesAWoods wore one in the show ''Series/TheBusiness'' in a TemporaryBulkChange.
* Sam (BretHarrison) is forced to wore one on a flight in ''Series/TheLoop''.
* JonnyFreeman (as Frank) wore a fat suit for a gag in an episode of ''Series/MIHigh'' during a TemporaryBulkChange

* ''Series/LaRoseDeGuadalupe'' has an episode where a young woman is fattened up by her abusive, controlling boyfriend so that she will become dependent on him as she becomes self-conscious about her weight. She starts wearing more and more padding as the episode and time marches on.

* John Travolta in [[RecursiveAdaptation the movie of the musical of]] ''Film/{{Hairspray}}''.

* In ''Film/RevengeOfThePinkPanther'', Clouseau impersonates a Mafia don with a fat suit and cotton in his cheeks, which he nearly chokes on at one point.

When a major actor receives a role that requires obesity, there are two options: [[DyeingForYourArt go on a high-calorie diet]] as Creator/RobertDeNiro did for ''Film/RagingBull'' and ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'' or Creator/VincentDOnofrio did for ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', and go through the effort of ''losing'' that weight afterward -- or just wear a Fat Suit. Sometimes a role requires the character be overweight for just a brief period in a film, and to gain and lose weight in such a rapid time is impossible.

Sometimes, a ''character'', who is otherwise supposed to be skinny, athletic, or at least normal-sized, will don a Fat Suit as a plot point, a disguise or just cheap comedy.

* In ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' an adaptation of the short story "Consider Her Ways" see's both the lead actress and two other actresses wear fat suits in a case of BigFatFuture.

->''"This could have been a fat actor. This could have been their big breakout role. This could have been their Golden Globe or their Emmy nod. This could have been their paid off student loans or their first house. Instead it's Creator/SarahPaulson in a fat suit."''
-->--'''Kristin Chirico''' [[https://twitter.com/lolacoaster/status/1387531319517745154?lang=en reacting to]] thin actor Paulson's casting as the plus-size Linda Tripp in ''Series/{{Impeachment}}''

When a thin or average-built actor is given the role of a fat character, there are two options: [[DyeingForYourArt go on a high-calorie diet]] as Creator/RobertDeNiro did for ''Film/RagingBull'' and ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'' or Creator/VincentDOnofrio did for ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' -- or just wear a Fat Suit. Sometimes a role requires the character be overweight for just a brief period in a film, and to gain and lose weight in such a rapid time is impossible.

This practice has become extremely controversial in recent years for multiple reasons--the most prominent of which being the rampant fatphobia in Hollywood, almost entirely shutting out fat actors while allowing thin actors to not only play fat characters through the use of prosthetics and/or weight gain on a deadline, but have them go back to appearing thin immediately after filming the project, bolstering misleading information about how easy it is to lose weight.

Not to be confused with [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088178/ the Big Suit.]]

This practice has become extremely controversial in recent years (as indicated by the page quote), for multiple reasons--the most prominent of which being the rampant fatphobia in Hollywood, almost entirely shutting out fat actors while allowing thin actors to not only play fat characters through the use of prosthetics and/or weight gain on a deadline, but have them go back to appearing thin immediately after filming the project, bolstering misleading information about how easy it is to lose weight.