THE OVERWEIGHT STIGMA

Women’s perspectives

An episode from the series OUR BODIES, OUR MINDS

Synopsis

It's summertime, the newsstands are flooded with magazines with covers devoted to the cause of the summer body. A quest for perfection that excludes the fat.

Caught between normative images and medical pressure, these bodies considered antagonists to success are put to the test.

But does the shape of success really exist? Are fat people destined to fail?