Famous Fat People: Jane Darwell, Academy-Award Winning Actress

Jane Darwell, Academy Award-winning actress Periodically on this blog, we look at the lives of famous fat people of the past just for fun. S...

Famous Fat Folk: Sophie Tucker, Last of the Red-Hot Mamas

One of my favorite Vaudeville performers was Sophie Tucker (1884–1966). She was known as the "Last of the Red-Hot Mamas." She comb...

Famous Fat Celebrities -- Sharon Jones: "Too Fat, Too Black"

I just came across the biographic details of an amazing entertainer with whom I was unfamiliar. Her name was Sharon Jones. She was a soul an...