Caleb Hearon talks about the anxiety he feels getting dressed for things as a self-described fat person
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Caleb Hearon talks about the anxiety he feels getting dressed for things as a self-described fat person
Posted by mlg1981
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I love him, highly recommend his HBO special!
Right on
dressing while fat you’re either sloppy or trying too hard. can’t win.
Same anxiety i felt when going clothes shopping with my dad in grade school lol
I really like what I have seen of Caleb, and I like that he uses the word fat as a descriptor and clearly doesn’t have any negativity attached to it
He’s so influential moreso than someone like Mr Beast
Not saying this to judge the other actors here because I have no idea what was said before or after, but it’d be really nice to hear smaller actors speak up to sets that aren’t ready for (or interested in) working with fat people and praise the ones that are. I don’t expect them to know the total fear of losing your luggage and literally not being able to replace anything but your socks. I don’t expect everyone to relate. But I hope they take the indignity of the situation seriously, because a lot of us can all relate to being made to feel like we don’t deserve to exist because of our physical traits. We’ve slid way backwards and I’d love to hear some solidarity.
He’s so cute. Theo James and him should play brothers in something.
Why are so many women dressing like Paula Poundstone in the year of our lord 2026?! It’s so perplexing!
I love Caleb. He seems like a really warm, genuine, personable person. His podcast is really entertaining too and he’s really good at making his guests feel comfortable and has chemistry with everyone.
“Self-described fat person”?
I really like that blue shirt he was wearing in the movie, its really his colour
There are no nice clothes for fat men. Women have torrid. We have… DXL to get polos.
as a fat kid going shopping was my worst nightmare and to this day i still struggle to shop. i also feel like finding a sense of style is something i’ve struggled with bc growing up i never saw clothes as something creative, i just had to wear whatever fit me
I love Caleb. My fat queer hero! 😍
We need more “fat” representation. This is great and so real. My appreciation for Caleb is never ending
I know nothing about this guy! I just saw the movie The Devil Wears Prada 2. And still don’t know why he was casted. Is he famous for something?
So good to see and hear stuff like this. Wish there was more of a conversation in Hollywood about fatness, especially since some of the most visible overweight actors and singers of the last couple of decades all did Ozempic.
Sometimes fatness feels like the last truly universally socially acceptable thing to openly and systematically discriminate against. (Not to say fat people have it worse than any minority, but it’s often not included or thought about when people are thinking about privilege, DEI, or accessibility, and some of the most radical anarchist leftists I know are still low key fatphobic because it’s still thought of as a lazy choice.)
If the comments have made you thoughtful and you wanna learn more, I highly recommend Leslie Kinzel’s book Two Whole Cakes, and Aubrey Gordon’s Maintenance Phase podcast (the Your Fat Friend documentary about her was great too.) For fiction, the ABC show Huge was pretty revolutionary and My Mad Fat Diary and Shrill can also help build empathy even if they’re imperfect.