My Life With Naked Ladies

The last fat girl I ever shot
by Gern

My nude magazine market was for busty cute women. But
there were many other markets that purchased nude
layouts of various types of women. One of my markets
was bugging me to shoot some fat girls for them.
Specialty publications that were put out for the adult
book store market. Fat Fucks was one of their titles.
I was photographing about 8 layouts for month for this
publisher and he kept asking me to shoot him some fat
girls. They were offering good money for them, but who
wanted to shoot them. The type they wanted was the
really big ones. At lest 300 pounds. It was made clear
that I would be doing them a favor if I shot a few for
them and they would purchase more of the cuties from
me.

So, how do you pose a fat girl? Its not easy, there is
nothing you can do to make them look even fatter than
they already are. You not trying to hide anything
either, so what left except various shots of
undressing and perhaps some eating of sweets. Ice
cream and chocolate  surip smeared  gives the model
something to do. Just forget about trying to make them
look good. This is just not anything you can do.
You’re a journeyman poser and photographer, you have
learned all the tricks to make a model look better
than she looks in real life. A girl has a long nose,
no profiles please. A girls got fat legs, keep them
apart when you pose them, don’t mash them on a bench
or chair, take the weight of them, etc.

So I shot a few fat one from time to time, no big deal
I thought, but shooting those big ones would upset
your style for a day or two. You just could not go
back into the studio and shoot a winner. You had to
recover from the experience. Get your sense of beauty
back. The straw that broke the camels back came with a
450 to 500 pound “beauty” that that Fat Fucks magazine
wanted real bad. This model can’t remember her name,
she later became kind of famious for her fatness. She
did a line of greeting cards that had her nude on them
and with cute saying inside. I didn’t make her
famious, someone else did. O use to see in the
supermarket pulp magazine :” worlds fattest model tell
all”

I wasn’t sure this 450 pound model could even make it
up to the second floor walkup studio, but she, did
even though it took her 5 minutes to make it up a
flight of stairs. Once she inside the studio she could
not fit in the makeup chair. So the makeup girl had to
do the makeup job with the fact girl on the bed.

After makeup was done, the makeup girl pulled me aside
and said she is sweating under her layers of fat and
it smells in the makeup room. The model had to pickup
her rolls of fat and put babypower in the fold to dry
the sweat. I was not looking forward to the more
gritter encounters….

I f I were Diane Arbus or Joel peter Witkin: the
approach to shooting this would have been different
story. There is a limited market for fatwomen and if
you don’t understand the fetish, you will not know
what to shoot. I am thinking make her look appealing,
but the fact was, there was no way in my mind that
could be done. One roll of film and I had exhausted
all of the possibilities as far as I was concerned,
but art directors need some variety go get enough for
a 80 page magazine  to justify the $15.00 cover price.
I was quite a challenge to get about 5 rolls of film
shot. I put the model on a bed about half way through
and she broke it in half, I suggested we just shoot her on a
mattress on the floor. She said it was a bad idea. 
The last time she tried a shoot like that she couldn’t get up
and the photographer had to get four guys to help her to her feet.
She did not fit in any of my
other sets, I think I ended up with her in a very
large shower we had in the studio and finished by
hosing her down. I couldn’t shoot right for about a
week. My makeup girl told me she that was the last fat
girl she ever wanted to makeup and I told the art
director please give someone else the job, I was just
burned out on his fat girl series.

A few years later I was shooting in a rental location
in the Hollywood hills and the photographer I had
rented the house from shot a lot of gay stuff, he had
a real feel for that type of stuff as he was gay. He
would also shoot nude girls, but he was never as good
at it as he was at shoot guys.

We started to chat at lunch one day talking about
models, magazines, payrates etc. I brought up the
subject of the fattest girl I ever shot, and he said,
oh ya I know her I shot a lot of greeting card stuff
on her. It was the same model, but she had gotten even
fatter than when I had shot her a few years before.

He told me a very bizarre story about how she had a
good career as a fat model and she met some guy: my
friend refered to the guy as a “feeder” What the hell
is a feeder I asked?
A feeder is guy who has an extreme fetish for fat
women. It’s a very dangerious fetish because he get
off on making her gain weight and just getting fatter
everyday. She gained several hundred pounds with this
“fat lover” and was on her was to an early grave. This
guy cut her off from everyone and was very possessive.
Finally her parents had to do an intervention to
rescue her from a fatal heart attack.

Not sure what ever happened to this model, but I was
stuck on the story, Never heard of a feeder before, a
beater yes, but not a feeder Anyway, she was that last
fat girl I ever shot.

                                                   
Gern