To Be Fat like Me

To Be Fat Like Me is a movie starring Kaley Cuoco. It was filmed primarily on-location in the Fairfield neighbourhood of Victoria, British Columbia, with the in-class scenes shot at Mount Douglas Secondary School. It was released on January 8, 2007 on Lifetime Television. The film was inspired by actual events. Pretty, popular and athletic Aly has been banking on a softball scholarship as her ticket to college. She has an active life and never seems to sit still. When she injures her knee, she realises that she will have to fund her education in other ways. She resents her mother because a few years ago, her mother became ill as a consequence binge eating and used the money from her daughter's college fund in order to pay her hospital bill. Aly is overly critical of her family's high-fat diet. She even refuses to eat a cake that her mother purchased for her. Aly enters a documentary film contest in hopes of using the prize money in order to fund her further education. Convinced that...