The trailer for Margitte Kristjansson's documentary, "The Fat Body (In)Visible" discusses the erasure of fat women from many facets of life, which consequently leads to the discomfort many people feel when they see people of size enjoying their bodies. As Jessica Luxery-Legay, one of the women interviewed, says, "We've noticed that it's really powerful to see more than one fat body enjoying each other's company in public." She goes on to say, "I was walking home and a woman called me a 'fat piggy bitch'...by purely existing she felt it was necessary to take me down." This reaction to a person of size feeling confident reflects the fear of fatness that has been embedded into our ideological values due to media misrepresentations of fat people as unhealthy, dirty, lazy, and other such misconceptions. In media, fat people are rarely represented, and when they are they are almost never depicted as desirable, happy with themselves, and healthy, which is one of the main causes of fatphobia in the United States.
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