General

Being the fattest kid in school and secretly stuffing my clothes with cushions and pillows to look like I was bursting my clothes. Eating whole cakes in my bedroom. Fat kids in comics - Hungry Horace, Fatty in the Bash Street Kids, on TV, Doughnut in the Double Deckers. Preferring the before pictures of Weight Watchers slimmers of the year. All signs that I was a true FA.

Not sure If someone wrote this already, but the show Totally Spies. there was an episode in which the main character started getting addicted to cookies and got really fat as a result. Her clothes got really small and she couldn't stop stuffing her face. It was not a trigger for the kink, but had a big impact on me as a kid

I was at a wedding at the age of about 7 and it was the first time I enjoyed stuffing myself and playing with my belly under the table.

Classic art.

I was the sort of dork who would read the encyclopedia for fun. I spent a bit of time on Renaissance paintings.

Being young and fat, cartoons, the usual. However, my first... arousal, was a movie where Kaley Cuoco wears a fat suit and fat face.

I can remember being strangely mesmerised as a kid by the chubby/fat kids, but never really understanding why. In hindsight, it was just pure arousal, but there was probably a touch of jealousy, too.

I can’t quite remember what drove the realisation, but I do recall being stunned as a teenager when realising that it was fat and the idea of being fatter (much fatter) that turned me on; it was just so contrary to what was perceived as “socially normal”.

My first time gaining (60 pounds or so within 12 months and planning on getting bigger), I remember going through the occasional bout of hesitancy and reservation which, of course, was all society-driven, but wow was it a turn-on when the scale showed a good gain.

Some moments from film/TV would be The Simpsons episode, King Size Homer, where Homer gains to 300 pounds to work from home, and Adam Sandler waking up circa 400 pounds in Click; both left just such powerful impressions on me at the time (and still do). I even used my own pot of gold (in the episode, 300 pounds shines at the top of the mountain) from King Size Homer to help encourage me in my first time gaining XD

It was several thing's for me,

I already deep dived into vore, thanks to the dark side of YouTube and the glorious Mewtwo/Charizard comic... so that was a thing.

Then during my first relationship my bf always commented that I was too skinny and I heard through one of his friends that he preferred curvy women. I was pretty heartbroken by that but was already into stuffing and ate massive amounts of food, I simply couldn't gain at that age/ activity level.

Later on I gained weight for a brief period when I was 18, I started bulking in the gym and got lots of comments about how thick and juicy I was looking. The attention sure helped and I felt better then ever not only mentally but physically too.

I definitely prefer women looking heavier and guys who got that bulky/fit/fat look.

There's more to it but this is it in general.

Personally, I always kinda had it but it wasn't until I stopped having growth spurts and actually gained a little bit of weight that I started to really look into it.

When I was a 15, I had a friend who was a couple of years older than me but we had been friends since junior school.

I can not remember exactly how it started but we would listen to each others tummys after eating, the stomach noises were always better and louder after a bigger than normal meal or chugging a drink. We did both often to see who's tummy would make the most noise 😄

I loved feeling my face pressing into his slighty chubby belly.

For me that was my awakening, especially after he got a summer job on an icecream van and put on some extra lbs. He made an excent pillow!

I remember we lost contact for a while and he stopped by a few years later. He must have been 400lbs, we never spoke of his weight gain but he seemed very happy with his new life and girlfriend.

I remember listening to the story of Hansel and Gretel when I was a kid, idk why that story just stuck with me, but that's definitely where it first started. I've always enjoyed the feeling of power dynamics, but I have never vulnerably explored my feeder fantasies in real life... I myself prefer to remain very athletic.