I Want to See a Fat Carrie

Friday the 13th during prom season is the perfect day to acknowledge the blood-spattered prom queen was plus-sized on the page.

Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons
7 min readMay 13, 2022

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Carrie White was fat. Surprised? I know, right, because a chunky girl is not what springs to mind in conjunction with prom’s most infamous moment: A waifish Carrie stands on stage in a pink slip, glittering…

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Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

Writer, educator, and producer of No, YOU Tell It! (noyoutellit.com) Stalk my Insta adventures @KJ_Fitzsimmons @noyoutellit