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Psychologizing childhood in the reality show Biggest Loser


 Obesity and overweight are central issues in contemporary western societies, and the public debates in media are
 extensive. This paper investigates stories from participants in the reality TV-show Biggest Loser, and how the participants invoke
 temporal identity changes and childhood traumas to produce discursively accepted narratives about the causes for being obese. This
 study analyses personal stories about being overweight, and narratives of living a life of obesity. The findings illustrate
 narrative trajectories in personal stories used to explain overweight within a contemporary therapeutic discourse, and how the
 participants use chronology and childhood as narrative resources to explain their obesity. These narratives do not only produce
 preferred explanatory narrative elements, but also highlight that a number of psychologized explanatory storylines must be used in
 order to produce a culturally valid and discursively accepted personal obesity-narrative.