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12:06 p.m., March 04, 2022
Teva takes up a delicate subject on Friday evening. The M6 group channel broadcasts the documentary at 10:10 p.m. Fat: the weight of success, which traces the difficulties that fat women encounter in order to succeed in their professional lives. Because one statistic is particularly feared: in France, a thin woman is eight times more likely to be hired than an overweight woman. It is also proven that regardless of social background, obese people are less likely to obtain a university degree.
A first click on the sidelines of a highly watched program
It is for these reasons in particular that the director Aline Thomas wanted to deal with the subject, she who has also experienced this type of discrimination. “Fat women are much more discriminated against than women of other minorities,” she says at the microphone of Europe 1, “they are still extremely invisible.”
The director says that she had a first click two years ago: “I was editor-in-chief of a highly watched program, and a press secretary, who was looking for the editor-in-chief, passed me three times. . I told her it was me, but she wouldn’t listen to me. She ended up coming to see me a third time, and I yelled at her. She looked at me and said, ‘Usually , they are not editors-in-chief like you. I realized that I could be President of the Republic, I will always be fat in the eyes of people.”
The story of eight overweight women
To tell the story of the difficulties that fat women face in order to succeed, the director collected the testimonies of eight overweight women. They are singers, illustrators, or sports coaches. Aline Thomas explains how and why she selected these women with inspiring backgrounds.
“I wanted to show, by example, portly women who had been through things but got to the places they wanted. Just because you’re fat doesn’t mean you’re reserved for the gym. waiting, the waiting room like, ‘You’ll see, your life will be great when you’re thin’.”
“It’s much more complex than that,” adds Aline Thomas. “I wanted to talk about free will, freedom, what makes you make decisions for your body. Are these the injunctions of society, or do you make the decision because that’s what we will make you feel really good, without expecting a miracle solution?” asks the director in this documentary. To discover this film, go to the Teva channel on Friday evening at 10:10 p.m.