History Main / FormerlyFat

* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbzWVH1a7yo Yuzuriha]] was chubby in high school, and she was made fun of by other students. She lost weight and became a successful celebrity years later. Only one person, Yuri was supportive of her, and helped her lose weight.

->'''Phoebe:''' ''[pulls out a large swimsuit]'' Hey, Mon, what is this?\\
'''Monica:''' Oh, um, that was my bathing suit from high school. I was a little bigger then.\\
'''Chandler:''' Oh, I thought that's what they use to cover Connecticut when it rains.
-->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}''

* One episode of ''WebAnimation/SekaiNoFushigi'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haDaxE-Y90o Mei]] was fat and loved to eat. Her boyfriend broke up with her and she decided to lose the weight. When he tried to get back with her (he didn't recognize her at first) she rejected him saying she did it for herself.

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Josh has noticeably lost weight by the third season and became slightly skinnier by the fourth season.

* Minnie Mouse, of all people, is revealed to be formerly overweight in the Paul Rudish ''WesternAnimation/{{Mickey Mouse|2013}}'' 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.

* 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.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' Majin Buu lost weight while training for the Tournament of Power, making him an example of this trope he soon reverted back to his fat self though, making him an example of FormerlyFit, afterwards.

* Emil from ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'', [[http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=134 before joining the military]].

** [[https://derpibooru.org/images/2173766 One of Luster Dawn's friends]] used to be [[https://derpibooru.org/images/561493 chubby as a colt]]

'''Chandler:''' Oh, I though that's what they use to cover Connecticut when it rains.

* A villainous example occurres in the second season finale of ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'', when coop traveling to an AlternateUniverse/ BadFuture, where his BloodKnight got so bad, his alternate self made a HeelFaceTurn, laid waste to the world, made an enemy out of his best friend, took over what was left of Earth, and apparently decided to start working out. Coop, being FatAndProud and with a tendency to have SkewedPriorities, was most offended by the last one.

* [[FemmeFatale Rachel]] [[TheCheerleader Gatina]] from ''Series/OneTreeHill'' was originally obese before undergoing plastic surgery treatments to alter her appearance.

* In the backstory to ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'', Shinomi Fujisaki was the fat kid (though the picture of her looks more like HollywoodPudgy) who hung out with Eikichi and his friends, and got a crush on him after he saved her from thugs. A couple years later, she transfers to their high school after slimming down and [[SheIsAllGrownUp getting a lot prettier]] (to the point that Eikichi doesn't recognize her at first).

* Momoko from ''Manga/InuBaka'' claims that she used to be chubbier during her high school days, and they boy who helped her lose weight is her BastardBoyfriend. This is one of the main reasons why she is reluctant to leave him, despite knowing how bad he is to her.

* Sheldon Hawkes from ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' had been overweight in college as well.
** The killer in season 4's "Personal Foul" 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.

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* Takefumi Tonami from ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'' 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.]]

* Matt in ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty''. We meet the chubby version first in AMinorKidroduction. It's lampshaded when he's reunited with the high school AlphaBitch, "wow, you lost all that baby fat".

* Fat Charlie Nancy of ''Literature/AnansiBoys'', who was only fat for just long enough to acquire the nickname. It stuck. According to himself, he wasn't particularly fat either, he just had a few years where he ate a bit too much and didn't get quite enough exercise.

* Martha Abbott in Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ''Literature/TheChangeling'' begins as "a little fat for a seven-year-old" and is labeled "the quiet fat one" by her classmates. By the time she enters high school, she's slimmed down and turned into EveryoneLovesBlondes (intelligent edition) and is referred to as "the cool blonde who's in all the school plays."
* Augustus Gloop at the end of ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' after being squeezed through a pipe.
* Dudley Dursley from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' started out very fat, but diet and exercise programs imposed by his school nurse eventually made him impressively muscular and athletic.
* In The ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'', near the end of the book, Eragon sees [[spoiler:Sloan]] once again and for the last time. The book says that Eragon for a moment, mistook him for an elf and considering that he was under the care of the elves of Ellesméra, this was probably the case.
* Elsie Edwards goes from a morbidly obese girl in ''Literature/NothingsFairInFifthGrade'' to a slim beauty in ''How Do You Lose Those Ninth-Grade Blues?'', but the latter book shows in depth how she still suffers from crippling self-esteem issues from a childhood of being neglected by her parents and mocked by her peers even after she's slimmed down.
* ''Literature/SecretSanta2007'': In the second book, ''Be Mine,'' Natalie was a bullied fat girl until she stopped eating most high carb foods, exercised more, and had a growth spurt.
* Jacqueline Carey's ''Literature/TheSundering'' has secondary characters Dani TheChosenOne and his uncle Thulu The Fat. As they travel through deserts, jungles, mountaintops, and a Mordor-expy, all on berries and supplies while on the constant run from enemy forces, Thulu's title in the book goes from The Fat to The Lean to The Slim.

* ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'': Arata Minami used to be chubby in middle school, as seen in the picture he shows Kuroe Akaishi. This is why he's reluctant to eat his share of the pancakes at Cafe Serizawa during their date. Kuroe convinces him to eat anyway, saying "whether you're a fatty or a beanpole...I don't care." This is a major factor in Arata wanting to continue dating her, as he felt he had to stay thin to maintain his "popular guy" image at school.
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Kushina Uzumaki used to be chubby when she was a little girl starting ninja school. This, combined with her red hair, got her nicknamed "Tomato."
* Fatman's teenaged little sister in the ''Manga/{{Ratman}}'' manga is conventionally slender now, thanks to years of dieting. She does not like it when her big brother shows people pictures of her as a chubby child. (Fatman is the "jolly" type who doesn't understand why she's so ashamed of her past.)
* Overweight Reika from ''Anime/GingaEKickoff'' is accepted in a soccer team mainly because they need one more player to be legal for an upcoming tournament. She eventually becomes more fit.

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Reedus Jonah after the time skip (and likely before Makarov expanded his belly to aid in his magic) is quite slender. In contrast, Droy [[PostStressOvereating gets much fatter]].

* Miku Sanada from ''Manga/{{Judge}}'' used to be fat, but eventually got liposuction and other cosmetic surgery, to make herself thin. [[spoiler:The money for it came from the bribe her grandfather took from the judge overseeing Atsuya's trial, which is why she is being targeted by the mastermind behind the titular game.]]
* The male protagonist of ''Manga/MasamuneKunsRevenge'' 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.
* 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 a {{Bifauxnen}} attracted to her, even though [[ShipperOnDeck she prefers shipping them with each other]].
* Takefumi Tonami from ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'' 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.]]
* In ''Anime/LesMiserablesShojoCosette'', [[spoiler:Madame Thénardier is shown to have lost a lot of weight by the time she was in prison.]]
* Sakiko Takashima from ''Manga/SketDance'', who used to be overweight in middle school. [[spoiler:She gets blackmailed into smashing a number of classroom windows by a girl, Saori Yasuda, who holds a grudge on her due to an occurrence in middle school. She complies, as Saori threatens to expose her old pictures of her chubbier self, which would potentially harm her popularity.]]
* As a middle schooler Mizuki from ''Anime/TribeCoolCrew'' was a shy, glasses wearing girl who dressed in lolita and carried around a teddy bear. As an adult she's considerably more confident and more thinner. She also dresses in an "urban" fashion and has ditched the glasses. It's possible street dancing caused her to lose weight.

* Yuta of ''Anime/{{Kiznaiver}}'' is popular with girls and otherwise charming, but his biggest secret is that he was overweight as a middle schooler until he went on a diet.
* Nadeshiko of ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'' was formerly fat due to her [[BigEater huge appetite]]. She's thinner in the PresentDay because her sister Sakura made her bike laps around Lake Hamana to lose weight, which also explains why she's [[StrongerThanTheyLook stronger than she looks]].
* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', Goshi "M" Asougi is this, having ended up losing a lot of weight when Pitohui ran him ragged as her servant in real life, and shows Karen "LLENN" Kohiruimaki and Miyu "Fuka" Shinohara a picture of him in the past. Miyu, amazed, suggests that he could promote the "henchman diet."

* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' Majin Buu lost weight while training for the Tournament of Power, making him an example of this trope he soon reverted back to his fat self though, making him an example of FormerlyFit, afterwards.
* Isami Aldini of ''Manga/FoodWars'' used to zigzag between this and FormerlyFit, slimming down during summer and gaining his weight back during autumn. However, by his second year at Tootsuki the pressure is so high, he remains slim for the entire year. The DistantEpilogue implies this was permanent.
* Momoko from ''Manga/InuBaka'' claims that she used to be chubbier during her high school days, and they boy who helped her lose weight is her AbusiveBoyfriend. This is one of the main reasons why she is reluctant to leave him, despite knowing how bad he is to her.

* In ''Film/GetSmart'', during the flight to Russia, Smart proudly shows an old picture of himself to Agent 99, wherein he weighs much, much more than he does at the time. In fact, when speaking to the Chief, earlier we see a FlashbackCut wherein he exercises rigorously so he can have the proper shape to be a CONTROL employee. In return for Smart showing his photo, 99 produces a photo showing her MagicPlasticSurgery. Later in the film, Max even has a nightmare about regressing back to his obese self while in prison.
* In ''Film/DragMeToHell'', Christine was an overweight, poor country girl in her youth. She's dropped the weight, lost her accent, and is dedicated to climbing the social ladder. Her boyfriend is from an elite, wealthy family that still makes her feel inadequate. This is what motivates her to jockey for a promotion by refusing the gypsy woman's loan extension.
* Matilda from ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'' has a grudge against models because her obsession with body image made her bulimic.
* The Creator/EddieMurphy version of ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1996}}'' turns into a thin Buddy Love.

* Ryan Reynolds' character in the film ''Film/JustFriends'' was really obese in high school.
* Debbie Salt in ''Film/{{Scream 2}}'' used to weigh 60 more pounds. [[spoiler:Back when she was Mrs. Loomis. That's how Gale didn't recognize her.]]
* Joan Cusack's character in ''Film/InAndOut'' is stated to have lost a ton of weight before the movie started. Former student turned Oscar winning mega-star, Cameron Drake, says that he had a huge crush on her when she was morbidly obese, and doesn't find her as attractive now that she's lost the weight, though he supports her. [[spoiler: The end credits start to roll over the sight of the two of them cuddling in the audience at a wedding, as Cameron handfeeds her a large bag of cheese puffs, with her clearly intending to fatten up again.]]

* Han Solo Berger ([[Music/TheLonelyIsland Andy Samberg]]) in ''Film/ThatsMyBoy''. He still has to take insulin to treat his diabetes though (since his dad let him eat cake and lollipops for breakfast as a kid).
* Ira in ''Film/FunnyPeople'' has recently dropped a lot of weight. His roommates mention it a few times and say he's less funny and looks weird because of it. This is some RealitySubtext, as Seth Rogen had lost weight to play ''Film/TheGreenHornet''.

* Matt in ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty''. We meet the chubby version first in AMinorKidroduction. It's lampshaded when he's reunited with the high school AlphaBitch, "wow, you lost all that baby fat".
* Alluded to in ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve''. Adrian says that every time he finished a book, his father would give him an ice cream cone. Then adds "I was a fat kid".

* In ''Film/BloodyReunion'', Sun-Hee was once obese and teased by her teacher Ms. Park but then became skinny and obsessed with her appearance and weight.

* In The ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'', near the end of the book, Eragon sees [[spoiler:Sloan]] once again and for the last time. The book says that Eragon for a moment, mistook him for an elf and considering that he was under the care of the elves of Ellesméra, this was probably the case.

* Jacqueline Carey's The Sundering has secondary characters Dani TheChosenOne and his uncle Thulu The Fat. As they travel through deserts, jungles, mountaintops, and a Mordor-expy, all on berries and supplies while on the constant run from enemy forces, Thulu's title in the book goes from The Fat to The Lean to The Slim.

* Elsie Edwards goes from a morbidly obese girl in ''Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade'' to a slim beauty in ''How Do You Lose Those Ninth-Grade Blues?'', but the latter book shows in depth how she still suffers from crippling self-esteem issues from a childhood of being neglected by her parents and mocked by her peers even after she's slimmed down.

* The TLC series ''My 600 Lb Life'' is a series about morbidly obese people weighing over 600+ pounds who realize their problem and go to Dr. Younan Nowzardian (aka Dr. Now) in Houston, Texas for help in getting their weight down with gastric sleeve surgery. While there are episodes that play it straight and the results are astounding, other episodes show the work was AllForNothing when the subject does little to change their lifestyle for the diet.

* Mary from ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' was fat as a kid, and has a lot of issues with her parents about it to boot.

* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': Tim used to joke about his mother-in-law Lillian being fat. The first time she shows up in the series (the season 2 episode "Much Ado About Nana"), she's very skinny, explaining that she and her husband are now able to watch "Tool Time" (and all of Tim's jokes about her size, which she describes as "the best motivation a fat person could have") thanks to the satellite dish they'd gotten.
* In ''Series/JustShootMe'', it's revealed that Elliot used to be fat back in high school, which caused him to be teased a lot by his classmates. Going back for a teacher's funeral, he was hoping to rub it in their faces that he had now lost weight and was the photographer for a successful fashion magazine. Instead, they end up teasing him for now being bald.
* A contestant on the makeover series ''The Swan'' used to be overweight but lost it through consistent dieting. The sudden weight loss left her with a lot of excess skin the show then removed through a tummy tuck.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', Ai Ebihara, the Moon Social Link. Excessive bullying and a sudden upgrade in her family's wealth led her to shed all of it in an effort to abandon her past life.
* ''VideoGame/Persona2: Innocent Sin'' reveals this to the be past of Eikichi Mishina, who completely changed his image after frequent bullying culminated in a thug pulling his pants down in front of the girl he liked. He is now extremely attractive and popular and nobody at his current school realizes his past.
** Done across [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo games]] - Miyabi Hanakouji appears fat in ''Innocent Sin'' but is thin in ''Eternal Punishment''. [[SubvertedTrope It's not a straight example of this trope though]] - Miyabi gained the weight before ''Innocent'' began [[spoiler:due to eating ComfortFood for the incident which inspired Eikichi to lose his weight]] but remained slim throughout the time of ''Punishment''.
* Eva from ''VideoGame/GrimFandango''. She refers to her life in the land of the living as "the fat days".
* Duncan from ''[[VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns Shadowrun Hong Kong]]'' was always the muscle of your outfit, but in his teens he was decidedly pudgy (to the point that people referred to him as [[IncrediblyLamePun Duncan]] [[EmbarrassingNickname Donut]]). That quickly vanished when he joined [[PrivateMilitaryContractor Lone Star]].
* 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 Prompto).

* In ''VideoGame/AtelierSophieTheAlchemistOfTheMysteriousBook'', Oskar is your BigFun party member. By the time of [[VideoGame/AtelierFirisTheAlchemistAndTheMysteriousJourney the sequel]], he's lost a lot of weight. Apparently his metabolism makes it easy for him to burn calories, an ability which makes Liane very jealous.

* 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.

* Sharon of ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'' used to be much heavier than she is. Some harsh comments made to the obese Dexter regarding his weight cause him to nearly turn down a full-time position at GPF, but Sharon was motivated by concern for him and apologizes.
* Ritz of ''Webcomic/BoxerHockey''.

* The demigod Jagganoth of ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'' used to be a tubby guy in an elephant mask. Now he is described as "his own fortress of blood and horn [...] the greatest warrior creation has ever known, a brutal tyrant-king, unconquerable and unassailable." The guy is a thirty foot tall monolith of muscle and is worshiped by an insane order of knights who try to kill everything they meet because they just couldn't kill him.

* WordOfGod [[AllThereInTheManual claims]] that Heather from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' was fat and unpopular up until she started high school (and got bullied a lot as a result), but now she "overcompensates for it with a mean veneer and lots of makeup." It's very likely that Heather's experiences with being bullied were a factor in her turnout as a mean person.
* Connie Benge on ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' used to be chubby, but in later seasons it's revealed she lost a lot of weight at summer camp. Unusually, the character started out chubby, but was retooled to have lost it in the Disney spin-off.
* Nazz from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', who's the resident [[HeadTurningBeauty 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".
* In ''WesternAnimation/ProducingParker'', various {{Flashback}}s and {{Embarrassing Old Photo}}s show Parker as fat from infancy to her teens.

* Marsh Merriweather from ''WesternAnimation/HighSchoolUSA''
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow,'' Cleveland feels unappreciated by Donna, and winds up reconnecting to an old high school friend who used to have a crush on him. Donna is more amused than threatened, until she meets old "Fatty Patty" and realizes she now looks like a supermodel. Unfortunately for Cleveland, though, Patty turns out to be a StalkerWithATestTube; Donna eventually gets Patty to relent by convincing her to "stop thinking like a fat girl" and realize she could get a better man for real. (Yeah, Donna isn't very nice in this episode.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': In season 4 Bumi has lost a lot of weight going back to his appearance in season 1.
* It's shown in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' that Numbuh Two will lose a lot of weight as a teenager and become lanky. He'll gain it back somewhere in his adult years.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Chocolate with Nuts", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to sell chocolate bars to a fish who refuses the candy, and he shows them a photo of himself obese at 13. Patrick proceeds to buy 10 copies of the photo.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'', flashbacks to Dr. Fox's childhood shows her as chubby with a double chin, in contrast to the standard build she has now.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In the episode "Arthur Weighs In", Mr. Ratburn reveals that he was pretty chubby as a kid until he discovered table tennis.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' HalloweenEpisode shows [[TopHeavyGuy Launchpad]] was quite chubby as a little kid.

* Joan Cusack's character in ''Film/InAndOut'' is stated to have lost a ton of weight before the movie started.