fatphobia

fat +‎ -phobia

fatphobia (uncountable)

1. (neologism) Fear and dislike of obese people and/or obesity.
   • 2008, Lee F. Monaghan, Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study, Routledge (2008), →ISBN, page 1:

     This is because medical authorities and proponents of public health are drawing from and amplifying the Western cultural fear and loathing of fatness, or fatphobia, with claims about a global 'obesity epidemic' (WHO 1998).

   • 2009, Crystal Renn (with Marjorie Ingall), Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, Simon and Schuster (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Celebrity culture is intricately tied to fatphobia.

   • 2012, Abby Weintraub, "Truce", in Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (ed. Virgie Tovar), Seal Press (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     From long-lost high school friends found on Facebook to total strangers whom I'll probably never meet in person, I get asked questions from where to buy a good bra (my minimizer days are dead and buried) to how to deal with a spouse's fatphobia.

2. Fear or obsessive avoidance of consuming fat.

• obesophobia

• fatphobic
• fatphobe