To Be Fat like Me
2007 television film directed by Douglas Barr
To Be Fat like Me is a 2007 American drama television film directed by Douglas Barr and starring Kaley Cuoco. It premiered on Lifetime on January 8, 2007.
Plot
Aly, who is beautiful, popular, and athletic, has been relying on a softball scholarship as her path to college. She leads an active lifestyle and is always on the go. Given her mother's history of weight issues and lifelong struggle with depression, Aly has made it her mission to maintain her health and fitness. However, when an opposing player accidentally steps on her knee during a game, causing an injury that jeopardizes her scholarship prospects, she faces the reality that she may need to explore alternative means to finance her education.
It is revealed that as a consequence of binge eating, her mother got sick and had to use the money set aside in her daughter's college fund to pay for treatment, a decision for which Aly has always resented her. Aly also showers scorn on her family for their high-fat diet and lack of exercise, to the point of refusing to eat a cake that her mother purchased just for her.
To get the money, Aly decides to enter a documentary contest with a large cash prize. Convinced that her overweight younger brother and mother use their struggles with weight as an excuse for everything wrong in their lives, Aly decides to go undercover, using a fat suit and facial prosthetics to make herself obese and unattractive, while deploying a hidden camera to record herself at school to prove personality can outshine physical appearance.
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