Euphoria is giving a fat teenage girl her own storyline, powered not by her friends or a boy she wishes liked her, but by her ability to find joy and power in her own body.
’s soft-core predecessor from the early aughts. Terri had such low self-esteem and felt so inadequate next to her skinny friends that she was convinced no boy could possibly like her. So, she started dating a shy but cruel boy named Rick, who brought a gun to school and put a boy in a wheelchair .
Kat has a makeover, which has an unfortunate history in the trope of “the fat friend,” but rather than getting subjected to a makeover by her friends who want her to lose weight or look more conventionally pretty, Kat gives herself a makeover after her sexual awakening. When she starts doing cam videos, she uses the money she gets from submissive men online to fund her new wardrobe. Most onscreen makeovers are about becoming: becoming hot, becoming less fat.
We see her in a skin-tight latex top and dog collar at the fair and a sexy nun costume at a Halloween party. She’s no longer afraid of her body, like many teenage girls — especially fat teenage girls — are told to be. At the end of the fifth episode, we get to share Kat’s moment of self-actualization: “My whole life all I’ve tried to do is take up less space … afraid people were gonna find out I was fat … there’s nothing more powerful than a fat girl who doesn’t give a f**k.
This actualization doesn’t mean she isn’t vulnerable, or that she’s immune to criticism. Kat can be cruel: She blows off Maddy when she’s in the midst of a very serious crisis with her abusive boyfriend, Nate. And then, episodes later, when Cassie asks if she should tell her boyfriend, McKay, that she kissed another boy, Kat honestly but unthinkingly tells Cassie that it doesn’t matter because they are never going to stay together anyway.
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