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I became enthralled with big bellies at a young age. Growing up in an Italian family where food was the center of everything and family get-togethers meant everyone stuffing themselves, I think this had an impact on what turned me on later in life. Watching my aunt and female cousin stuff themselves and then lean back in their chairs and rub their swollen bellies really turned me on when I reached puberty. That same cousin getting married at a young age and promptly gaining 50 lbs. also fueled my weight gain fantasies. My uncle completely gave in to gluttony and packed on over 100 lbs. during my teenage years. My aunt kept feeding him and I loved how the buttons on his shirts looked as though they would explode after a big meal. He lived to eat and became an inspiration for me.

In junior high I found myself turned on by chubby and fat teachers. In high school, I really enjoyed watching my female classmates fatten up over the 4 years we were together. Senior year I found myself dating 4 different chubby girls and my friends would tease me for liking fat chicks which quite honestly turned me on. It wasn't until my mid-thirties that I decided to let myself go and I gained 130 lbs. over a 12 year period. I found my own fattening really turned me on as well. My desire for fat women has only increased with age. I think it is an inherent part of my DNA. This along with my family and real world experiences have only heightened my desires. Now that I am older I truly love fat women of all sizes and SSBBWs 300 to 600 lbs. really light my fire. I just love all things fat!

Cartoons were definitely something that contributed to mine - especially the ones when the subject is forced into gaining weight.

Pigs is Pigs was one for sure, as well as Hansel and Gretel.

The fair scene in Charlotte's Web as well...

I became aware of my fat fetish in junior high school. After the summer and I started back to school, my best friend returned to school 30lbs heavier. By the end of the school year, she was well over 225 lbs. I couldn't help but feel fascinated with the weight gain. Even now, when I think of that experience, I want to gain more weight.

Makes you wonder. If you went about secretly exposing chubbophobes to belly play and weight gain content to convert them, what kind of success rate would you see?

Same

When I was 16, I was really into a super hot girl that I hooked up once. Then she got really fat. So my brain shortcircuited and had to either stop liking her or like fat girls.

In my case, I see the sexy and beautiful fat.
you are born with it

Interesting. It almost sounda like you were in love with that girl back then. But i could be wrong.

Your story reminds me of an article i read somehere online about a guy who said he didn't realize he liked fat women until his wife got fat...and he loved it! My hypothesis is that, sometimes, an individual isn't initially attracted to fat people , but cares about a second individual a great deal. Then that second person gets fat. And if the love/attraction/lust/ whatever you want to call it that the first individual has for the second person is too strong for their initial disenterest/disgust in fat people to overcome, the brain unconciously reconciles the contradiction by "deciding" that first person is attracted to fat people after all. Thus, cognitive disonance is resolved in the first individual.

But i could be wrong. Maybe that wasn't your experience at all.