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Your Fat Friend is a documentary film directed by Jeanie Finlay.It follows author Aubrey Gordon for several years before and including the publication of her first book, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, including breaking her anonymity as a blogger, the launch of her podcast Maintenance Phase, and the impact of her writing, including on her relationships with her parents.
Gordon's second book, “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People, was published on January 10, 2023, by Beacon Press. [10] A documentary following Gordon's life in 2020 and 2021, Your Fat Friend, directed by Jeanie Finlay, was released in 2023. [11] It premiered at the 2023 Tribeca film festival. [12]
The DUFF (teen slang for "Designated Ugly Fat Friend") is a 2015 American high school teen comedy film directed by Ari Sandel. The screenplay by Josh Cagan was based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Kody Keplinger. The film stars Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne, Nick Eversman, Skyler Samuels, Bianca Santos, Allison Janney, and Ken ...
The film follows fat activist Aubrey Gordon over a period of six years. “It’s not a clean story of there’s a good guy and a bad guy,” she revealed. New documentary ‘Your Fat Friend ...
Fat Friends is a British drama that aired on ITV from 12 October 2000 to 24 March 2005, consisting of 25 episodes over four series. Set in Leeds , the series explores the lives of several slimming club members, with a focus on the various ways their weight has impacted upon them.
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His other early feature film appearances include Slackers, SLC Punk!, The Good Humor Man, and Dead Man on Campus. In 2007, he appeared in Knocked Up, directed by Freaks and Geeks producer Judd Apatow. Segel starred in the lead role of 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a film he wrote and Apatow produced with Shauna Robertson for Universal Pictures.
The film received generally positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 74% based on 87 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "The controversial Fat Girl is an unflinchingly harsh but powerful look at female adolescence."