You think overweight people have it as bad as they claim? Ali Schmidt wasn’t so sure until she went undercover as an obese high school student for a network news special in 2003. The Lifetime network has made a telefilm based on Ali’s experiences which will air on the network next week. The movie, titled To Be Fat Like Me will star Kaley Cuoco (‘8 Simple Rules’) and ‘Biggest Loser’s’ Caroline Rhea.
Cuoco will play Ali’s role as Aly (with a “y”), a popular high school junior whose goal of getting into college on a softball scholarship gets dashed after an injury leaves her sidelined. She decides to enter a documentary film contest in the hopes of winning the prize money to help with college tuition. Aly, not believing her overweight brother and mother’s struggles are as bad as they claim, decides to go undercover at a rivaling school to see if it’s really that bad for a fat kid in high school. She arms herself with a hidden camera, dons a fat suit and some makeup and the project begins. Thinking she will be able to win people over with her bubbly personality, she quickly learns just how cruel kids can really be when you’re the fat kid.
‘To Be Fat Like Me’ will air on Lifetime on Monday, January 8, 2007 at 9pm ET/PT.
Check Aly’s before and after photos below:
