History Main / FormerlyFat

* ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'': Sanford Scolex (Claw) is svelte in the present day, but a Forbes magazine cover shows that he was obese at age 19.

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

* Discussed and deconstructed mercilessly in the ''Podcast/WeHateMovies'' review of ''Film/{{Madhouse}}'', where the hosts all denounce the cruelty of casting a fat child actor just to be a subject of mockery in a flashback sequence.

* Kae Serinuma, the protagonist of ''Manga/KissHimNotMe'', was a chubby {{otaku}} YaoiFangirl who, after her favorite anime character is killed off, locks herself in her room for a week and loses weight. She then finds four of her male classmates and one {{Bifauxnen}} attracted to her, even though [[ShipperOnDeck she'd rather ship them with each other]].

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** Usagi/Sailor Moon is slightly overweight at the start of the manga (Naoko's notes to the animators even say she should be drawn as chubby), but progressively slims down as the series goes on. {{Justified}} by her idolizing Sailor Venus, who spends a lot of time training herself and the others (in fact in the manga she was training them even before they met in person) and superheroing (it's actually shown they go around as a superhero duo, with Sailor Moon as a sidekick).

* Creator/AlysonHannigan in ''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Date Movie]]''.

* 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).

->'''Phoebe:''' ''(pulls out a large swimsuit)'' Hey, Mon, what is this?\\

* Otohime Ryugu in ''LightNovel/OokamiSan'' was called "turtle girl" in her youth due to her chubbiness until Taro encouraged her to slim down.

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* Discussed and deconstructed mercilessly in the ''Podcast/WeHateMovies'' review of ''Film/{{Madhouse}}'', where the hosts all denounce the cruelty of casting a fat child actor just to be a subject of mockery in a flashback sequence.
-->'''Andrew Jupin:''' "Oh, great! What am I doing?" "You're being made fun of by an entire neighborhood of children for being overweight." "...What?"\\
'''Chris Cabin:''' "We're going to pretend that you're a float. In a parade."\\
'''Eric Szyszka:''' "And you, uh... you get paid in food, right?"\\
'''Chris Cabin:''' Cake. Paid in cake.\\
'''Andrew Jupin:''' "Patrick, you're okay with getting paid in cake, right, honey?"\\
'''Eric Szyszka:''' "Don't worry, Patrick - 3 slices of cake, SAG minimum."\\
'''Andrew Jupin:''' "Patrick, we're going to need you to take off that baggy button-down shirt and put on this skin-tight polo."\\
'''Eric Szyszka:''' With horizontal stripes?\\
'''Andrew Jupin:''' He--he looks like Creator/JerryOConnell in ''Film/StandByMe''.\\
'''Chris Cabin:''' "The bottom of your stomach has to be in 85% of this footage."\\
'''Andrew Jupin:''' ''[laughing]'' That poor fucking kid!

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* In flashbacks, Ryan Weston from ''{{Machinima/Anon}}'' is shown to have been overweight as a child and as an early teen. By the time the flashback catches up to the present day, Ryan had lost all the weight.
* Frédéric Molas, aka the ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'', lost a lot of weight for real between 2012 and 2014 (around 50kg according to him), which is reflected InUniverse. The second RPG episode (made in 2014) notably lampshades this when a flashback from the ''first'' RPG episode (made in 2011) pops up [[https://youtu.be/73QVIj3bzeY?t=1 and a bystander asks if this is supposed to be the same person.]]

-->'''Amy:''' Dad, if you're gonna make fat jokes 'till I get cute again, I'm just gonna stay in my room!
-->'''Leo:''' Stay in room? You so fat, you gonna stay all around room!

* Minnie Mouse, of all people, is revealed to be formerly overweight in the Paul Rudish ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS2E14DoggoneBiscuits Doggone Biscuits]]", when she attempts to slim down an accidentally fattened Pluto by locking him in the steam room, stating that it worked for her while the camera pans out to show a picture of Minnie being morbidly obese.

* HarpersIsland: A deleted scene reveals the trim Beth to have been this in High School, something she admits she was sensitive about.

* [[spoiler:Mizuki Himeji]] from ''[[LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu]]''.

* ''Manga/OnePiece''.

* The male protagonist of ''Manga/MasamuneKunNoRevenge'' was once mocked and nicknamed "Piggy" for his weight by the girl he confessed to. Out of revenge, he eventually got himself thinner, a new surname and, taking advantage of the fact she doesn't recognize him, tried to get her to fall in love with him just to dump her.

* In Anime/LesMiserablesShojoCosette, [[spoiler:Madame Thénardier is shown to have lost a lot of weight by the time she was in prison.]]

* In Anime/{{Shirobako}}, the heavyset production manager Yutaka Honda ends losing a ton of weight after [[spoiler: resigning from Musashino Animation and pursuing a career as a baker.]]

* In ''ComicBook/{{Guardians 2004}}'', Nick Armstrong was a fat kid, but years of strict dieting and exercise made him a skinny adult.

* Nadeshiko of ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'' was formerly fat due to her [[BigEater huge appetite]]. She is thinner in PresentDay because her sister Sakura made her to a lot of cycling in the countryside, which also explains why she is StrongerThanTheyLook.

->''"I owe it to my high school self. I never let her eat."''
-->-- '''Monica''', ''Series/{{Friends}}''

* Takefumi Tonami from ''Manga/KareKano'' was this as a child and was heavily bullied, and was somehow protected by Tsubaki, who in turn would ''bully'' him, and he gets VERY annoyed at her because [[spoiler:she was asked to by the teachers, as he thought she did it willingly.]] Years later, he comes back as a slimmer, more handsome boy to [[RevengeOfTheNerd use his charms against her]], but she doesn't recognize it at first. [[spoiler:They fall for real later in the series.]]

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick was once a fat, wangsty EmoTeen who listened to ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' because he knew her pain.
* Now LeanAndMean, WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses used to be the size of a bulldozer and felt dead inside.

* Danny from ''WebAnimation/BravestWarriors''. It was a very, very large contributing factor to his extremely terrible ([[BlackComedy and hilarious]]) childhood.

* Frédéric Molas, aka the ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'', lost a lot of weight for real between 2012 and 2014 (around 50kg according to him), which is reflected InUniverse. The second RPG episode (made in 2014) notably lampshades this when a flashback from the ''first'' RPG episode (made in 2011) pops up [[https://youtu.be/73QVIj3bzeY?t=1 and a bystander asks if this is supposed to be the same person.]]
* ''WebVideo/NormsBarStool'': Norm lost a great deal of weight after growing tired of being ridiculed.
* In flashbacks, Ryan Weston from ''{{Machinima/Anon}}'' is shown to have been overweight as a child and as an early teen. By the time the flashback catches up to the present day, Ryan had lost all the weight.

* The ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' HalloweenEpisode shows [[TopHeavyGuy Launchpad]] was quite chubby as a little kid.

* In flashbacks, Ryan Weston from ''{{Machimina/Anon}}'' is shown to have been overweight as a child and as an early teen. By the time the flashback catches up to the present day, Ryan had lost all the weight.

* The ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' HalloweenEpisode shows [[HeroicBuild Launchpad]] was quite chubby as a little kid.

* Alvida in ''Manga/OnePiece''. Sometime between losing to Luffy and joining Buggy's crew, she ate the Slip-Slip Fruit and slimmed down considerably.

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* 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.

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