"Fitness Influencer to Fatness Influencer"

Here's a quick story I wrote to post on Deviant Art as part of ExtraBaggeClaim's weekly prompts. The prompt was SCAM. Expect a quick exclusive cut sequel to this story later.

Enjoy!

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“Hey, everyone. It’s your gorgeous girl, Courtney, your favorite fitness influencer. I’m here to show you what to do to get a body like mine, so let’s get started.”

Courtney had a body to die for. She was a very popular fitness influencer who had been fit her entire life. She was used to being slim and sexy and confident. Her entire life had come easily to her. She was blessed not just with a stereotypically fantastic body, complete with perky butt and six pack abs, but she also had an incredible metabolism that seemed to give her an endless amount of energy for working out while also allowing her to eat whatever she wanted.

She loved to have fun, but she also loved to work because what she really loved more than anything else was the attention and praise that her fit body had earned her. She craved the attention, lived to turn heads and receive loads of praise from her followers, and could never get enough of it. She was a role model to them, and they hung on her every word which she used to her great advantage to achieve a significant financial gain while achieving an even greater boost to her ego.

Courtney used her platform to flaunt her body and gently chastise others. She wasn’t as aggressively fat-shamey as other fitness influencers, but she certainly wasn’t an angel.

“There’s no reason to not be fit. Everyone can have a body like mine if you just eat right and work hard enough to earn it. You too can be slim and sexy working alongside me. And if you need a little help? Well, that’s what I’ve got my new sponsor for.”

She held up a big container of protein powder.

“VitalEdgeX was kind enough to send me a full selection of their wonderful products including this protein powder and a range of supplements that I use to ready my body before and refuel my body after workouts. They let me work harder and stronger and keep my metabolism burning like crazy. If you use their supplements, I guarantee you’ll see the results you want!”

What Courtney didn’t know was that VitalEdgeX was actually just an elaborate scam, a company set up by a group of secretive and wealthy entrepreneurs whose entire goal was to create a fitness product that would actually lead to vain fitness freaks packing on the pounds. And why was Courtney the perfect patsy for their brand? Well, to put it simply, several of the secretive board members of VitalEdgeX were people that Courtney used to make fun of in high school and they were eager to see her plump up in revenge.

Courtney didn’t know what her body was in for, but she was going to learn the hard way.

She was contractually obligated to use the full range of products and show them off, and some of the supplements Courtney found so delicious, especially the protein powder, that she often used them more than she was required to. 

The weight was slow at first, barely noticeable. It started with just a slight hint of softening where Courtney’s abs were once so prominent. But who would ever notice just a hint of softness? You’d have to be looking in the mirror every day, really inspecting yourself. And Courtney prior to this deal might have been doing that, but Courtney now? This was a Courtney way more concerned with counting her money and having fun than counting calories and inspecting herself in the mirror. 

No. She had nothing to worry about, even though deep down she knew she was partying more and probably indulging a bit too much, but she didn’t care. She had her metabolism and her supplements to take care of the rest. She was unstoppable, untouchable, absolutely perfect.

That little softness?

It got a little larger.

Her middle got a little softer, noticeably softer. But that softness was quickly just dismissed as water weight. Courtney figured she must just be getting closer to her period. Of course, this was ignoring the fact that that little bit of softness hadn’t grown thicker around the middle and settled there. It had spread. Soon her athletic thighs had lost a bit of tone and gained a bit of jiggle, and the growing of Courtney’s gut was an easy distraction from the thickening of her thighs or the extra bounce that was beginning to be present in her thighs.

In fact, it wasn’t until some eagle eyed commentators pointed out a little less definition of her jawline that Courtney even recognized that something might actually be wrong. Once that line of thinking started, it was only a matter of time before people began looking through all of her pictures and videos and tracking any signs of imperfections.

At first, Courtney just stopped reading comments. She wanted to ignore all the trolls, but then her pants stopped fitting, and that was impossible to ignore. The day she couldn’t button her pants was the day she determined that she needed to double down at the gym, and doubling down at the gym meant doubling down on her supplements, especially her protein shakes.

And that meant she was secretly doubling down on her weight gain.

Courtney used to love to run. It was more than just a hobby and closer to a passion. She would always start her days off with a nice long morning run. But as her thighs got thicker and weighed down with fat, and as her butt collected more junk in the trunk, those runs got harder to do. And because she was spending so much more of her time partying and indulging in junk food she was getting up later. This means that those runs got progressively shorter and shorter.

But they also still ended with one of her sponsored protein shakes. 

So Courtney was still loading her body with a ton of extra calories while burning less and less of them.

Courtney’s entire body would wobble as she stepped into frame to begin her workout. It became clear as these workout streams went on that Courtney was becoming winded sooner and sooner. With every move her fat jiggled and bounced, and her movements were no longer as effortlessly coordinated as they used to be. It was clear that Courtney was becoming clumsy and chubby, and her followers were not afraid to let her know it.

“Look at her getting winded already, it’s probably because she’s gotten so chunky. #Fit2Flab #Flabby”

“Yeah. She’s blowing up because she’s spent so much time blowing out. #Gut”

“Of course working out is harder now that she’s carrying so much extra weight. Now she knows what other people go through. It’s not easy. #Weak #Fatso #BlubberButt #Potbelly”

“I love seeing her like this. She used to flaunt her fit body like she was better than the rest of us. Now she’s learning what it’s like to be a fatty. #Fit2Fat #Fit2Fatty.”

“The fat keeps moving even when she stops. What a tub of lard! Way to gain, fatty! #Chubs #Chunky #Piggy”

“It’s the damn supplements! I started using the things she’s promoting and gaining weight like crazy. She deserves this for promoting such garbage. #SCAM #FAKE #FitnessFail #WeightGain”

“It’s not just supplements. She must be piggy out pretty regularly to pork out like this. #PorkBelly #Pig #Oink #Cow #Moo”

It was far too late before Courtney stopped taking VitalEdgeX products. When she first accepted that the products were definitely aiding in her weight gain, Courtney tried to stop taking them only to be informed much to her horror by the executives that she used to make fun of that she was contractually obligated to keep taking them or she would take a huge hit financially.

Eventually, enough people got hip to VitalEdgeX that a class action lawsuit was put together and police investigations were started. But by then two things were true: Everyone in VitalEdgeX has packed up shop and disappeared into the night. And Courtney had gotten very fat.

Courtney’s abs had long since vanished and been replaced by a rather prodigious pot belly, a girthy gut that hung over the waistband of her pants and jiggled at the slightest movement. It was a heavy sack of fat that consistently got in her way whenever she was trying to work out and regularly threw off her balance. The weight of the wobbling flesh caused her to get winded very easily. Her flab was so frustrating that she would frequently slap and squeeze it in anger while on camera without even realizing she was doing it until she was noticing the rude comments.

Her thighs now pressed together which definitely made working out more difficult. Her running days were over. (Which meant she piled on weight even faster.) And even walking was starting to get harder to do. Courtney never thought in her wildest nightmares that she would end up becoming one of those fat people that waddles, but here she was. She was on the precipice of doing just that, and she had to admit that she was much more likely to fall over and into obesity than ever getting thin again.

Courtney’s ass was supremely chunky now. It was a bloated and blubbery mess covered in cellulite and very heavy as it sagged downward toward her thunder thighs. Her arms had grown soft and flabby and weak with wobbly bingo wings. Her breasts had grown slightly larger and a lot saggier, and her face had grown round with a doughy double chin. She was undeniably a fatty.

And fatties don’t make for the best fitness influencers, at least not when they’ve put all that weight on in front of the camera while clearly not being able to control themselves. And Courtney’s previous comments didn’t exactly make spinning her career into one focused on body positivity. 

Even worse was the fact that when people couldn’t find the executives for VitalEdgeX, they came after her. Even though Courtney technically hadn’t done anything wrong since she didn’t know that the products she was promoting were frauds that were making people fat until it was too late, it didn’t stop others who had felt the effects of the products from coming for her head. And while she wasn’t being found guilty of any kind of liability, just defending herself from numerous lawsuits ate up all of her sponsorship money and then some in lawyers fees.

Courtney soon found herself desperate for money and out of sponsors and options.

There was only one thing left for her.

Courtney realized that, as many of her followers dropped off, there were plenty who stayed who were now staying specifically to see her because of her weight gain. She realized that she could pivot to more weight gain specific content and make money by stuffing herself, playing with her fat, and putting up with leaning into the fit girl gone fat theme with a bit of self-degradation. So that’s what she did. She would get on camera and give her intro.

“Hey, everyone. It’s your chunky chick, Courtney, your favorite fatness influencer. I’m here to stuff myself silly and show you how I got this fat. You’ve loved seeing me go from fit girl to fatty, and I’m going to get fatter just for you. So let’s get started.”

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If you want to see what happens next with Courtney, you can read the patreon exclusive sequel HERE.