This toolkit provides creators in entertainment and media with recommendations for improving the representation of fatness and more types of bodies on screen. The full report, Body Representation and Portrayals in Children’s Television, analyzes the representation of body size in new English-language scripted children’s series that originated in the U.S. from 2022 to 2024, across cable, broadcast, and streaming platforms, based on data from Luminate Film & TV, by Variety.
In this toolkit, we use the term “fat” as a value-neutral descriptor that is not rooted in harmful medical practices (such as “obese” or “overweight”). As a description, “fat” is not suggestive of being outside of some sort of “norm” or “average” (unlike terms such as “plus size” or “bigger”).