Bad and Negative Fat Representation in Romance Books.




Caution Warnings and Trigger Warnings on all these books!!

All genres in romance can be added.

This list is supposed to be a Helpful/informative and “Cautionary” list !!

To Know and Remember which books have these issues and problems in them and to AVOID them or be able to know to AVOID them.

But also to be able to have a SAFE and ENJOYABLE reading experience that ALL readers deserve.


Caution Warnings and Trigger Warnings on all these books!!

These books have a abundance and plethora of all kinds (including internalized issues) of fat-phobia and fat-shaming and body-shaming, sizeism, anti-fatness, anti-fat bias, fatmisia.

But they also overall have VERY BAD and NEGATIVE fat representation.

These books are the TOTAL OPPOSITE of empowering and positive or “safe”.

They have NEGATIVE and TOXIC themes and undercurrents but also negative and toxic “messaging”. (directly or indirectly.)

There is very little or NO acceptance or positivity in these books (Which is Surely and Severely needed.)

They can also have main characters that are contradicting, they say and act like they accept or like their bodies but then the messaging and underlying tone is that they do NOT like or accept their bodies but they hate their bodies and really have issues with internalized fat-phobia and fat-shaming and body-shaming.
NONE of this is fat acceptance or plus size acceptance and it is NOT good but BAD and Negative Fat Representation!!


Info about the books has either been obtained by having read them yourself (unfortunately), or by reading reviews, excerpts or blurbs.
Or by information from friends and fellow readers that have read them.