"The sentence that really marked me was the recruiter who said to me: 'The intelligence quotient is inversely proportional to the body mass index'". Gabrielle Deydier fights against the grossophobia of which she is victim since her adolescence. Suffering from overeating, she must fight her addiction for food. Mocked by her comrades, discriminated against by employers ... she thought of suicide more than once.

Author of an essay entitled "We are not born fat", she denounces the treatment suffered by obese people in society. His documentary "We finish the big ones well", adapted from his book and co-produced with Valentine Oberti and Laurent Follea, talks about his daily life and his fight against grossophobia. "No longer apologize for being fat, it took me a long time because I had to write the book. It is not for all that that I like this body. This body, I do not I don't like him but I live with it because I only have him. "

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