You know, I remember the first dream and the first time I realized what I like, I’ll start with my dream. I had a dream of my teacher at the time (I was 13) gaining weight over time until she was really large, like the 600-700 range, I didn’t really realize then because I thought it was weird and it probably had to do with something I had watched earlier, because we had watched that episode of “The Simpsons” where Lisa has like, a flash forward of her life and she’s in a hammock or whatever and fat. But yeah, didn’t really notice or care about that dream, but I had the realization almost a year later, one day I guess I was just really horny or some shit so I used my imagination to think of another teacher that I had, gaining weight. I know, not really that imaginative. Spent some time thinking of some girls in my class being larger, and then it clicked in my head, “Oh, shit…I don’t think this is what other people think about.” I went on the internet and looked up if this was normal and got results saying stuff like, “Fat Fetish, is it consensual?” Which I got to say, yeah, most of the time it is consensual and there are a few people who enjoy stuff like force feeding, and even a smaller amount that actually do non-consensual stuff in real life. But yeah thank god I knew how to delete the history, but it did lead to a conversation with my dad about internet porn, because he thought I was looking at porn and deleted all of the history. I also remember doing the worst thing I could’ve done, talked to my friends about it. Thank God they didn’t tell anyone. So yeah, what’s your story?
I remember vividly when I first realized there was something “different” about what I liked. If you remember a show called “Class of 3000” there was a character that was the hot teacher, and in one episode she had an allergic reaction to something I don’t recall, and she ballooned to be super bloated and fat. I saw that and later seeing the infamous passion patties episode of totally spies, I was very intrigued by these events and looked it up on google and the rest is history. I told my close friends about it much later on as before then I haven’t told a soul about it and nobody knew about my fetish for a long time. They didn’t mind at all and that was that. I’m now in a loving relationship with my partner who knows I’m into it and they love and support me. So that’s my story.
Well when I saw Prisonsuitrabbitman’s art I didn’t have a phone or tablet at the time so I used other ways to watch weight gain videos like the 3ds YouTube app but the videos were very limited at the time because I had no YouTube account
When I saw my childhood crush again
Nuff said from this hound
I was into inflation first, and then weight gain from association.
I first started scribbling inflation stuff when I could first hold a crayon, around 3 years old. I would ask for papers to be taped together so I could draw them bigger.
Interestingly enough for me it started from a really early age (maybe 11?) but with pregnancy rather than weight gain. I remember walking into a cafe and then thinking that a pregnant lady was really attractive. My curiosity got piqued, started looking stuff up on Google, and eventually got into weight gain. Now my main focus is WG and preg stuff is on the side, but really any form of expansion or control oriented fetishes float my boat.
I can’t forget that, it was so bizarre when it came to me, ahah.
By the way, I’m French so I may have a different use of grade names.
It was when I was in college (in France, it’s four years from 11~ to 14~ years old)… I don’t remember the exact age I was but I think I was 12. I was just posting something on DeviantArt, actually nothing to do with a fetish, and in my recommendations, there was a woman with a round belly washing a plate. I’m the curious kind and I wanted to see what it is, so I clicked on it and I really liked what I was seeing actually. It was strange to me, just as you said, awawesome, but I wanted to know more about that. I got to see more and more pics of this kind on Dev and I even came to watch girls on StufferDB, even talk to them on a live.
Thank God I always had a computer for myself because I was so scared about my parents finding this. At this point, I knew why I was attracted by round girls in my college and I felt like I was weird, you see. It is really uncommon in France, you know, there isn’t that much people who loves fat people, and I was too young and afraid to talk about this. So I kept that secret for a long time, and when I was 16 I decided to talk a bit about my tastes in girls, that I like them round. They don’t mind about that, well, that’s my tastes. One of my friend even told me that soft girls are nice to him too, just a preference, not a fetish.
I consider this as a preference too, I’m not a feeder, I just like fat girls.
My girlfriend knows about that also, and she is chubby. 
It all started when I was a child, and I’d watch the famous scene found near the end of Space Jam over and over again. Afterwards, in 2003, I temporarily got out of it after watching a few scenes of the Totally Spies episode Passion Patties that, IIRC, took place in the middle of the episode as Clover was wearing the same incognito outfits as Sam and Alex and wasn’t as fat as the climax of the episode where Dr. Bittersweet became fat herself, where after telling her master plan to the trio, she tries to silence them with what she called “Death By Cookie”, and for a long time since, I had avoided scenes related to it in shows like Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi (specifically the episode with the talking koi fish) up until I stumbled upon DeviantArt in either 2009 or 2010 after I got my Nintendo Wii, where I first found the site by visiting the Super Mario Wiki, then going to the part of the site where links to related (and mostly non-wiki) sites were, finding a fansite dedicated to Princess Peach and clicking one of the links that actually led to a DeviantArt fan group called peach-club, visiting a user that posted works on the group and looking at one of their Favorites galleries, and coming across the user named AxleGrease-75 (formerly MikeMedia) who made a series of fake magazine covers (alongside standalone WG and inflation artworks, including parodies of the Powerpuff Girls and MLaaTR) featuring fat or inflated (mostly female) cartoon characters that he dubs BLOAToons (which is also the name of a fan group on DeviantArt that sometimes posts Journals detailing weight gain or inflation scenes that not even The Big Cartoon Wiki knows about), which renewed my interest mostly, save for a character from the Kirby anime that, following my discoveries on a now-defunct fan site named Kirby’s Rainbow Resort regarding the Japanese names of the anime’s episodes, I was too scared to even come near the inflation-related fan art of the character, even before a user named Mistystuffer got their DeviantArt account purged and banned before moving to Pixiv where three fan arts of the character existed before the purge, until one day I befriended someone who not only had an interest in inflation of certain females, but also enjoyed series outside of Kirby like Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, One Piece, and especially Godzilla. After befriending the user, whose name I won’t disclose due to past negative experiences on message boards like BBW-Chan and the defunct Inflate-Chan, my fears were put to rest regarding the character, but a different fear rose in its place due to another user who I’m at odds with whose real name is William Saunders. Saunders, whose first account was named X-Chanel, used to post things like inflation art prior to a story arc in Adventure Time where Finn once dated Flame Princess, before declaring the character Princess Bubblegum to be “evil” and creating hate-art of the character, one example being a picture, IIRC, of what he conceived to be a monster form of the character based on the episode Mortal Recoil that he named Princess Monstergum. After the “Flame Princess Arc” of the show ended with Finn breaking up with Flame Princess (I actually began to stop watching the show episodes prior after I saw that the events of the episode Fionna and Cake were revealed to be a fanfiction of Ice King’s creation, meaning I never got to actually see the breakup scene), he got tamer in regards to Princess Bubblegum, even after she declared in an episode prior to the final season that she was never a bad person. Me and Saunders eventually came to a temporary truce that was eventually broken in 2016 following the release of the 3DS game Kirby Planet Robobot where a picture showing the character from the Kirby anime that I mentioned earlier was vaporized by the character introduced in the 3DS game, Susie, due to the anime character being deemed “annoying”, which was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me, as I effectively ended the truce once and for all and relentlessly defended the anime character, even shooting down Saunders’ fake apologies to the anime character’s fans, due to Saunders’ friend, a DeviantArt user currently named TRC-Tooniversity, making hate-art of the character (including one that had the character Susie punch with her armor so hard that the anime character slammed face first into a tree) under Saunders’ orders until I sent him a somewhat threatening note telling him to stop, with the last known piece of art TRC-Tooniversity made regarding the anime character showed her being inflated by a Reef Blower first seen in the first episode of SpongeBob Squarepants (as well as the episode Squidville) as his interpretation of Kirby and a character from a pilot for a show that never came to be were exploring the pilot character’s laboratory. Years after, I discovered another friend on DeviantArt who mostly makes fat fanart based mainly on the recent cartoons The Loud House and The Casagrandes (the latter being a spin-off of the former running concurrently with the former), as well as other shows, alternate universe versions of the shows she mainly makes fanart of, and even the Fat Princess series of video games. One day, she posted a Journal that was made in response to Saunders’ comments regarding younger characters gaining weight or inflating. And currently, the last known sighting of Saunders’ handiwork from my point of view was one of TRC-Tooniversity’s works where Saunders’ balloon-like alien OC was inflating TRC-Tooniversity’s two elastic clown girl OCs (one of which TRC-Tooniversity revived after cutting her from another series involving a character he made that was inspired by The Flash, as well as Dash Parr from The Incredibles) to huge proportions without going uber.
Sorry for my long-winded history, but I just wanted to tell you how I got into, out of, and back into, my fetishes.
Really hard to pinpoint the exact moment, but it was back in the days of dial-up internet. I was around 12-14, but I don’t remember my exact age. I had discovered the glory of the internet, and typically rushed home after school.
Hey, it took twenty minutes to download a one minute ad from Bang Bros, I had to use all the time I could get.
I was already vaguely aware of my tastes at this point. I’d stuffed my clothes with pillows and such, burst buttons on old shirts and pants, etc. However, it was while surfing the net while waiting for my download that I found Dimensions magazine forums. There were two things that really, REALLY spoke to me on that site.
One was their photo section, especially the images of the inimitable Kelligrl. She was truly special.
And the other was their fiction section, especially the work of Zarbon. His “I Hate My Twin” series, most notably part VIII, was a huge influence on me, and I can safely lay my usbbw and immobility fetishes at his feet. I still go back and re-read that series now and again, and I’ll admit, some of my WG fiction that I post is probably borderline plagiarism.
Ultimately, it was the discovery of DImensions that really set my preferences in stone.
Back when I was 12 or 13, I was a sonic fan googling sonic fanart, then one day through browsing google images I found a site called deviantart.
This is the earliest definitive evidence of my fetish on my phone on 25 January 2023
But I very certain that my love for it goes far farrrr back
I remember searched Wg/ fat cartoons on YouTube and google a lot of times before I enter deviant art 2 years ago
but my earliest time I remembered is like a weight loss advertisement (ironic I know ) before the time I have a personal phone
i saw the first two episodes of Stripperella at what, 4? and they just stuck with me forever, me unable to forget the concept of people spontaneously gaining weight. im glad my tastes are much more narrow and specific now, but i sincerely do not wish anyone such an exposure at an early age 
Dude, I am not even sure I am into this lol.
For me the slight chub/hourglass things turns me on. Like not fat but with that kind of goth momy look…
But in general I can mostly get off to anything as long as it is just woman. The reason I ended up conditioning myself to this is because over the years I would just look up picture of woman online and eventually somehow sexy became thic became chubby and slightly overweight etc.
There was no real “this is it” moment like you had but I guess pregnant woman allways looked more attractive because of the bigger boobs and larger hips.
Somehow bellies and “imobility”/"vulnerability” also get me going… I wonder if I could have turned out a BDSM kind of guy had I besn exposed to diferent things growing up lol.
PS: Curently experimenting with girls/relationships irl to try and figure out what actually works for me. I dont care too much about looks, for long therm personality wins all, but we will see what happens with some of the situationships (as much as I hate the concept) that I am cultivating XD
I second this. I have beat myself up about this for a long time and the only thing I can come up with is early age exposure.
Me and my friends have talked about this a lot (I dont know what their kinks are and they dont know mine but just in general about early age sexual exposure), not sure if it is ethical to expose your children to sexual stuff, but I sure am happy I grew up with Disney butts and boobs in my face from superhero series, etc.
Not sure I would take the risk of not exposing my kids with those “natural” / “mainstream” sexual stuff and risk them getting some wierd ass kink that is actually detrimental to their lives. (for me weigh is kind of chill ngl, not the most normal but quite common even if barely anyone will actually admit it to you irl, the amount of couples with fat woman or men or both is very high)
It’s allways fucking deviantart lol
There’s a similar thread to this aleady, but nobody’s commented on it in ages, so easy to miss -
https://forum.weightgaming.com/t/what-got-you-into-this-fetish/6511/65
I was lucky.
Last year of middle school, there was a girl on our bus who looked like she could have been the sister of my neighbor, albeit a twenty-pound-heavier one. She and I didn’t get along, barely knew each other, and my neighbor was a good person and a good friend… but I felt things about her chubby doppleganger that I hadn’t ever felt towards her.
Two years later, and we had moved. Now in high school, there were a pair of identical twins in my grade, one super fit and one just slightly-fitter-than-average. You had to either pay very, very close attention to the sound of their voice, or focus on the curve of the flesh around their jaw and the way their cheeks rested to tell them apart. One was more physically attractive to me. Data point two noticed.
I think the kicker was seeing something with an actress with a Thin-By-Hollywood-Standards body in something and having two friends oogle while I felt nothing stir.
So, like I wrote, I got lucky. My realization that I generally preferred the ascetics of well proportioned chubby-to-fat-to-fat-plus ladies came about simultaneous with puberty, as did the realization that that physical attraction could wane or grow relative to their ‘softness’. Weight Gaming just followed naturally - I randomly stumbled on The Weighting Game and thought “Oh, yeah, of COURSE this would be a genre. And the nature of videogame fiction allows it to bypass all the ethical concerns about my real-life concerns over weight gaining as attraction boosting mechanism, mainly the health issues, in the same way I can shoot soldiers in a FPS without resolving issues around the morality of killing.”