The actress Emma Thompson, who has spoken out about Hollywood’s unrealistic body standards for women, took social media heat this summer after a photo went viral of her apparently in a fat suit ...

The sauna suit group also had an average 2.6% reduction in body weight and 13.8% decrease in body fat. The exercise-only group averaged a 0.9% reduction in body weight and an 8.3% decrease in body ...

Those “body transformation accoutrements” are a reminder of Hollywood’s history in casting naturally thin actors as fat characters. And while show creator Ryan Murphy defended Paulson ...

A major online retailer apologized for selling a “fat-suit game” after criticism that it was insensitive to the plus-size community. British e-commerce site ASOS stocked a product called ...

Given recent controversies surrounding fat suits in entertainment, Wonka should’ve known better than to reduce a character’s entire story arc to morbid weight gain for a few quick laughs.

The suits were built in pieces: an upper body that zips up the spine and a lower half, from the 48-inch waist to the kneecaps, that zips up the front like a pair of pants.

Fat suits allow thin people to create fictions about fat people’s lives for the benefit of other thin people. Then those same stories are used as a justification to discriminate against them.

Since it already had the tech to make a body-measuring suit, it might as well be put to ... You’ll also get the app’s rough calculation of your body fat percentage, which it clocked at 35.6 ...

Fat Suit: Proposed Law Would ... I totally get it, you don't want otherwise qualified individuals to be discriminated against based on their body shape, ... The suit, filed Dec. 11 in New ...