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I think mine was a part of me since I was as young as 4 when first forming memories. I remember watching weight gain in cartoons as a kid and that awakening something within me; however, I had always fantasized weight gain and feedism fetishes since I could form and remember thoughts more decently about the sexiness of a woman just being a total glutton suddenly expanding from an endless desire for junk food. Sorry for veering off track! I’m so blazed right now! ☺️

I was 4 or 5 and the book was the Fat Cat a Danish folk tale by Jack Kent. Basically a cat that starts eating every one he meets. And in the process just expands and expands I was memorised by the idea and physical changes. From that time i wanted to be able to get fatter and fatter, now I just try.

For me it was an outworking of my gluttonous appetite that I got tired of trying to hold back, what caused that gluttony was probably my extreme diet I had in early adulthood, either was now I long for more soft poundage

Finding the fat girl's attractive in school from my teens.

Ima be deadass, I was doing an online zoom meeting in 2020. I was looking at pictures of girls on a website, and I stumbled across a girl who had a slightly protruding belly. I looked up girls with a belly, and after a few hundred searches, my journey in feederism started.

4 years strong!

It’s neat hearing such background stories! I find it possible for genetic-inclination being a thing as I had feedism feelings so young. I don’t recall any external factors that led me to feedism feelings at such a young age. The external stimuli just let me know the feedism feelings I have always had to begin with. I would love to see more studies on fetishes when it comes to the genetic side of the discussion.

It's interesting to hear others have such similar experiences. It was a part of me since I was 4 or so, I distinctly remember weight gain in cartoons exciting me. I can't think of any external factors that could have caused it, either.

Definitely seeing women showing off their bellies. I enjoyed how they looked, but they were all thin. I wanted to see women showing big bellies!

Interesting

I do enjoy reading people's villain origin stories ;-)

Here's mine, copy-pasted from another similar thread and lightly edited:

I was a fat kid and a "healthy eater". Like, my earliest memories are feeling nice and full and stuffing pillows under my top to make my tummy stick out even more.

Once everyone stopped finding me cute, I got put on a diet... with limited success as I'd still spend holidays at my grandparents, and they let me eat whatever, and let me sneak sweets on the side even though they said they shouldn't and my mother wouldn't like it. Anyway, I usually came home with a bigger tummy than when I left, and then got put on a strict diet.

But one year I must have gained more than usual or maybe just seeing me stick out my belly unexpectedly did it - anyway, my mother had come to pick me up, and I'd just run up to use the bathroom after lunch before we drove home...

I've always loved feeling full and I had a habit of petting my big round tummy. although I was self-conscious enough at that point to only do it when no one was looking. So like I said, I came out the bathroom upstairs, thinking everyone was downstairs. I was feeling nice and full and round so I had my shirt tucked up under my chin still and was sticking out my naked tum and rubbing it with both hands and admiring how round and soft it felt...

...when i heard my mother cry: "Heavens how on earth did you get such a big gut!" She'd come up to see what was taking me so long and I hadn't noticed...

Then she made me show my gran, lift up my shirt again and all, and said: "Would you just look at that big belly? Do you realize how FAT it is?"

She must have been completely shocked because she usually avoided calling me fat under any circumstances, she knew all the euphemisms in the book. I got a very long speech about how worried she was about me, and if there was a reason why I was eating so much on the ride home, and I was soooooooo embarrassed all I did was try and hide my tummy with my arms and suck it in, I could barely listen to her.

Well that did it. Ever since I've been both embarrassed but also insanely turned on by my fat tummy. Not even getting fat all over or gaining - really just feeling how big and round my belly is, and eating - overeating - to make it even bigger and rounder.

Like, nothing triggers the urge to gorge as much as feeling a bit bloated or noticing my tummy is a bit bigger than usual. And even when I see another fatty with a nice sexy belly, I want to feel mine, rub it, poke it, and fill it up till it hurts.