Marie-Noëlle's father thinks that she eats too much, but she is a happy child. However, "you should see how Marie-Noëlle eats." As a pre-adolescent, food has become an obsession, and her father's not-too-malicious observations are joined by those of those around her. One afternoon, in front of the mirror, Marie-Noëlle has a revelation: she is ugly, she is fat. The spiral grabs her and does not let go until, as a young adult, she finally decides to seek help. A raw and moving story, without concessions, about the prejudices linked to physical appearance and the canons of beauty of the female body, Fat and Ugly tells the author's process of reconciliation with herself and with others, how she managed to transform the hatred and contempt that her body had long produced in her into a powerful driving force of creation. A lesson in humility, a cry of denunciation, a song to the woman's body, an ode to the value of friendship, this autobiographical graphic novel goes beyond mere catharsis.