History Main / FormerlyFat

* [[http://garfield.com/comic/2003-01-12 One of Jon's female acquaintances, Bertha, lost 200 pounds.]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' was disappointed.

* Woody on ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. One episode has a former girlfriend (also Formerly Fat) from home showing up to visit. They begin to binge-eat to repress their sexual attraction to each other, but once they figure it out (and sleep together), they go back to eating normally.

* The DistantFinale of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' has Majin Buu as fat as he ever was ([[JustifiedTrope which is justified]] because he is a SweetTooth), but ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' reveals that he lost weight while training for the Tournament of Power, making him an example of this trope in ''Super'' and an example of FormerlyFit in ''Z''.

* In ''[[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame The Hunchback of Notre Dame II]]'', there is a brief scene where the Archdeacon is shown to have become skinny.

* Prompto Argentum from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' is revealed in prequel/tie-in anime, Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV to have been formerly fat, becoming motivated to lose weight to work up the confidence to make friends with Prince Noctis. This is slightly touched upon throughout the game in side-conversations and personal quests, and ''[[DownloadableContent Episode Prompto]]'' has some scenes somewhere between flashback and introspection that show his chubby young self (and a loading screen that appears early on to make sure the players know that's him).

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* Nazz from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', who's the resident [[HelloNurse hottie]], was revealed to be [[http://ed.wikia.com/wiki/File:Vlcsnap-2017-03-19-16h07m58s522.png quite]] heavy when she was younger in the episode "Every Which Way But Ed".

* A killer on an episode of ''Series/CSINewYork'' turned out to be a formerly fat young woman who poisoned her male tormenter from when she was fat at a basketball game after arranging for him to be the random fan chosen to make a prize-winning free-throw shot.
** Warrick Brown from ''Series/{{CSI}}'' had been overweight in high school.

* In ''Fanfic/THeVictorsProject'' Abram Mills, Victor of the 69th Hunger Games, was a bullied fat kid who survived mainly due to generous sponsors (gamblers who'd bet on him at nearly 400-1 odds and stood to rake in huge payoffs if he won) and knowledge of how to find moisture in the desert. After the Games he's so sick of pundits mocking his obesity that he spends the next several months vigorously lifting weights, to the point that by his victory tour he's one of the most muscular victors around.

** [[https://derpibooru.org/images/561493 This chubby background colt]] [[https://derpibooru.org/images/2173766 becomes a stallion with an average build]] as Luster Dawn's friend.

** [[https://derpibooru.org/images/561493 This chubby background colt]] who is [[https://derpibooru.org/images/2173766 later]] shown to be friends with Luster Dawn.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic'': This happens to two characters in the finale's TimeSkip:

* Matilda from ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'' has a grudge against models because her obsession with body image made her bulimic, and AMindIsATerribleThingToRead.

* The Creator/EddieMurphy version of ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor'' turns into a thin Buddy Love.

* The [[RealityShow reality series]] ''Series/TheBiggestLoser'' attempts to invoke this trope in their competitors.

* An episode of ''Series/{{Law and Order SVU}}'' dealt with a girl who was sodomized and beaten. When they found the motive behind the attack, it turned out she herself had attacked and beaten an obese man (her own attackers being relatives of his taking revenge). She took part in victimizing the man because of her own self loathing and anger at herself for having once been like him.

Whenever a celebrity loses weight, expect an InternetBackdraft over whether they looked better before or after, with plenty of size-shaming getting tossed in both directions.

* Prompto from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' is revealed in prequel/tie-in anime, Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV to have been formerly fat, becoming motivated to lose weight to work up the confidence to make friends with Prince Noctis. This is slightly touched upon throughout the game in side-conversations and personal quests.

* Late in Wrestling/{{ECW}}'s lifespan, Brian Heffron, better known as Wrestling/TheBlueMeanie, lost over 100 lbs and obtained porn star Jasmine St. Claire as a valet. Of course, he also became a {{heel}} who looked down on the audience for staying fat instead of losing weight and hooking up with a porn star like he did.

* Woody on ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. One episode has a former girlfriend (also FormerlyFat) from home showing up to visit. They begin to binge-eat to repress their sexual attraction to each other, but once they figure it out (and sleep together), they go back to eating normally.