chapter 21

From a surface examination, you might have said Peggy and Marci were a lot alike. Physically that was undeniably true. Both were tall and both were, or at least had been, painfully thin. Marci, of course, had spread out nicely fitting in with the theme of our little establishment, FEEDERS. Peggy stood five feet nine inches tall and weighed an almost skeletal one hundred and eight pounds.

Marci had always been thin but harbored the desire to get nice and fat. She relished having curves, accentuated by rolls of fat. Peggy, at one point in her life had been chubby. In her senior year in high school she weighed a chunky 171 pounds. But her mother wanted a daughter who was stylishly thin and so she sent Peggy off to "fat camp". She lost forty-three pounds that summer and just continued losing because her mother kept pressing her to lose more and more weight.

Fortunately for Peggy, she had a remarkably beautiful face, which opened up a career in modeling for her. She was moderately successful, even pulling down three or four Cosmo covers. One day she passed FEEDERS and saw Marci and Maria flaunting their fat, flabby bodies and she found herself "aroused". She had repressed her desire to be fat and have curves for so long that just the sight of two fat women waddling around in short skirts and tight tops turned her on. So when her agent mentioned a modeling gig at FEEDERS, she practically jumped out of her skin. She knew she'd move heaven and earth for a shot at the job.

She spent a week there, posing in tight, slinky dresses that showed off her fashionably thin figure. She also got to know Marci and Maria very well, telling them her life story and how much she LONGED to finally give up control and become the kind of women she had always desired to be. That's why she jumped at the chance to work at FEEDERS full time as a waitress.

Unlike Marci, who had to overcome a power-charged metabolism that made her growth painfully slow, Peggy dove right into the gaining game. The thing is, Peggy just LOVED food. She had a passion for virtually every cuisine you could name and being let loose in an atmosphere that encouraged eating massive quantities suited her to a tee. Within a week of starting, Peggy put on nine pounds. It was Maria who very cagily observed that we ought to build an entire advertising campaign around Peggy. That's how the "Watch Peggy Become A Piggy" campaign got started.

Needless to say, FEEDERS got attention immediately. Most of it was negative, as you might expect. We were criticized for encouraging gluttony, obesity, bad health, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and every other fat related problem you could think of. But we also attracted the attention of men with feeder tendencies, women who longed to be feedees, and ordinary people who hated the whole "thin is in" mentality that dominates our culture.

Early on, a lot of our customers just came in to check out how fat Peggy was getting, and believe me she didn't disappoint them. Within a month of starting the "Watch Peggy Become A Piggy" campaign, Peggy went from 116 pounds to a decidedly chubby 151. People would come in to feel her belly or to pinch an inch of fat. But they also stayed to eat Mario's amazing cooking. We were doing so well that we made plans to go full diner mode, being open 24/7. We hired two more VERY skinny waitresses as part of a "Porking Up Pretty Piggies" campaign and put them on a Mario inspired regimen that added pounds and inches almost before your very eyes. We were full every hour of every day as we were attracting a clientele that refused to be dictated to by fashion mavens who designed dresses for skinny girls who more closely resembled little boys than full-fledged curvy women.

FEEDERS made magazine covers and got most of us involved interviewed on television more times than we could count. In fact, Maria suggested that we franchise the concept and open "Fat Emporiums" all over the country. We had restaurants, to be sure. But we sold clothes, started a dating service, created our own fashion line for the fashionable fat. We started a wave across the country that celebrated calories and what those calories could do for the human body. It made us rich and it made scores of once thin waitresses VERY FAT!! Suddenly the idea of giving up control and allowing yourself to grow to huge proportions became the new fashion trend and we at FEEDERS reveled in it.

Yes, we've come a long way since I started at DeMarco's and it was worth every pound I've gained, all six hundred and seventy-nine of them!!