The Plot Thickens

It may be the 2026 Winter Olympics, but our focus is fully on a show that took place about ten years ago - My Big Fat Fabulous Life! Recapping MBFFL is OUR Olympics. We start off this week with another update from Ryan Andreas' "Ask Me Anything" segment on instagram, which received a lot of excitement from the MBFFL community (and a lot of boredom from Ryan's wife)! Episode 3 was another packed one in Season 3 of the show - we had to break it down into two pieces. Last time, we saw Whitney beg Will, her former trainer, to take her back and Will accepted Whit with open arms. In this half of the episode, Whitney's back with Will and she's possibly starting to regret that decision as he puts her fitness to the test in a bit of a challenge to assess her current level. Will Whit falter at the challenge or rise to the occasion?

Welcome back to an extremely tense episode - there’s heart-pumping, cardiologist-rolling drama left and right! In this first half of Episode 3, Whit makes a speech at her Alma mater, Appalachian State! Will she be crushed by questions she can’t answer, like “you’re not a doctor! What entitles you to an opinion on health at any size?” Or will she rise above by telling stories we wish Babs and Glenn didn’t have to hear about intimacy issues while being overweight?  Whit also visits her cardiologist for the first time, and begs for  Will, her former trainer, to take her back as a client.

Never have I ever: Attended my own FUNE. Have y'all ever attended your own fune, and what would you wear? We're here at Whitney's FUNE (how many times can we say "fune" before Whit actually coins in the term in Season 13?) and she is PISSED. None of us would want to be in that room with her, even once she takes her MBFFL headshot off the altar! Hot pink? For a funeral? Interesting choice! We're all holding our breath to see how Whitney absorbs the news that she's died (spoiler alert: it's not good). But at least Whit, Lennie, Buddy and Heather have a fun way to recover: a fun-filled couples trip to Boone! Don't worry, though, this is the first of many couples trips the show covers that ends in much more drama than happiness.

This episode: Brace yourself, because we’re having an intervention! As all previous efforts to convince Whit that (eating-related) crime doesn’t pay have failed, Babs and Glenn are taking things to a new level. With Tal at the helm of this rapidly sinking ship, Whitney’s family and friends decide that throwing her a phony funeral (a “fune” for those who have meowed ‘Amazing Grace’ with us in Season 13). Will attending her own fune be enough to kickstart Whitney’s weight-loss journey once and for all? Or will it make her so mad she backslides to spite her fake-fune-throwing friends and family? Join us and find out!

How has this day come? Are we really, truly, finally on Season 3 of our start-to-finish recaps of My Big Fat Fabulous Life? Yes (you're sayin' yes, right?) we sure are! And don't you worry, Season 3 doesn’t take a MINUTE to get up to speed - there's a medical emergency in the first episode! Plus, we've got adorable animals, a twist in a character's love life (hint: it's already been going on for months...), and a multi-hour Dance-a-Thon! Will Whit's new lifestyle changes help her push through the nonstop dancing, or will she crumble under pressure (and a potential "heart attacky" issue)? Tune in now to find out!!