Review of To Be Fat Like Me (2007) by Danielle S — 21 Jun 2008
To Be Fat Like Me stars Kaley Cuoco and Caroline Rhea. Kaley's character, Ali (based on an actual person), is a pretty, popular, "jock", who needs a scholarship to be able to go to college, due to her mother getting ill six years earlier.
Her mother, played by Caroline Rhea, was fat, and when diagnosed with diabetes, did nothing to improve her eating, and ended up in the hospital. Her medical bills wiped out the college fund, so Ali has a huge resentment that she must work double shifts and rely on a softball scholarship to be able to go to "State".
During the game in which a college scout comes to see her, Ali's leg is injured, while sliding to a base. Her scholarship is blown, or so it seems. An opportunity to make a documentary to win a scholarship is presented to her, and while watching her brother get bullied because of his weight, she decides that she will go undercover as a fat girl to prove that weight has nothing to do with popularity.
Her neighbor is a makeup artist and agrees to help her with her fat suit, which she hides from her family.
This review of To Be Fat Like Me (2007) was written by Danielle S on 21 Jun 2008.
To Be Fat Like Me has generally received mixed reviews.
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