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When a major actor receives a role that requires obesity, there are two options: [[DyeingForYourArt go on a high-calorie diet]] as Robert [=DeNiro=] did for ''Film/RagingBull'' and ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'' or Vincent D'onofrio 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 [[{{Burlesque}} low comedy]].

* Pauline Quirke wore a fat suit for the title role as a convicted murderer in ''The Sculptress''. Unusual in that the actress was already overweight at the time.

* The thirteenth season of ''Series/LaQueSeAvecina'' features a storyline in which Yoli has put on a lot of weight after quitting smoking; therefore, actress Miren Ibarguren wears a fat suit while playing her in this season (WordOfGod has it that this storyline was devised to work around her pregnancy).

* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] wore won while going as a sumo wrestler for Halloween. When she tried to actually wrestle a match in the suit, it didn't got too well.

* A recurring feature in ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'', as the title character and his lover Eva Kant are [[MasterOfDisguise Masters of Disguise]] with a extremely fit and athletic bodies, and will need fat suits to play the part of someone fatter.

* Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} wore fat suits during a show in Memphis, where they were "Fat Elvis" and "Really Fat Elvis".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfBatman'' episode "A Sweet Joke on Gotham City", Robin wears a pillow stuffed under his shirt in an attempt to go undercover to infiltrate the morbidly obese villain Sweet Tooth's gang of fat teenagers in order to foil their nefarious plot to turn Gotham City's water supply to chocolate. [[TemporaryBulkChange After eating like Sweet Tooth's minions for a while, the 'suit' part no longer qualifies.]]

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/Batfink'' called "Fatman Strikes Again", someone is stealing valuables from fat men's clubs, so Batfink dons an inflatable fat suit to find them.

* In the episode of ''[[Series/Batfink]]'' called "Fatman Strikes Again", someone is stealing valuables from fat men's clubs, so Batfink dons an inflatable fat suit to find them.

* In the episode of ''[[Series/Batfink]]'' called "Fatman Strikes Again", someone is stealing valuables from fat men's clubs, so Batfink dons an inflatable fat suit to find them.

** [[AvertedTrope Oddly enough]], Jim Broadbent didn't wear ANY appliances, even though Slughorn is described in the books as montrously fat, bald and walrus-like.

* Matthew Lewis wore this in the later ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies.

* Pistachio Disguisey in ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfBatman'' episode "A Sweet Joke on Gotham City", Robin wears a pillow stuffed under his shirt in an attempt to go undercover to infiltrate the morbidly obese villain Sweet Tooth's gang of fat teenagers in order to foil their nefarious plot to turn Gotham City's water supply to chocolate.

* Oscar Madison on ''Series/TheOddCouple'' did this, because he had lost a lot of weight on "Fat-Away Diet Pills" and needed to take pictures for the "Before" portion of the ads.

When a major actor receives a role that requires obesity, there are two options: [[DyeingForYourArt go on a high-calorie diet]] as Robert [=DeNiro=] did for ''Film/RagingBull'' and ''Film/TheUntouchables'' or Vincent D'onofrio 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.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', Roberta's teacher forces her to wear a fat suit to see that it's like to be a fat kid who is treated poorly by her peers.

* Creator/PruittTaylorVince wore one to play a 500-pound patient of the week on ''Series/{{House}}''.

* In an episode of ''Series/Mom'' set in the future Christy (Creator/AnnaFaris) wears one in the case of BigFatFuture.

* Munro Chambers wore a fat suit and makeup effects in the show "Series/TheLatestBuzz'', showing what his character would look like in the BigFatFuture.
* Brett Delbuono wore one to play a 500 lb teenage boy on an episode of "Series/PrivatePractice".
* Patrick Thomas (as Greg) wore one plus a fat face prosthetic in an episode of Series/{{Goosebumps}} called "Say Cheese and Die...Again" about a skinny boy who turns obese by an evil camera
* 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/{{Frasier}}'', when Jane Leeves (who plays Daphne) was pregnant. As part of the HideYourPregnancy, the script-writers gave Daphne a storyline where she started over-eating out of insecurity over Niles' highly idealised view of her. As a result Jane Leeves had to wear a fat suit over her pregnant belly until she could be PutOnABus for maternity leave.

* In a episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' the boys babysitter Patty (Melody Perkins) wears one in a flashback of her high school days.