Women Take Back Their Lives in AMC's 'Dietland'

Dietland wants to teach you how to say the word fat. The new dark comedy from AMC—premiering on June 4—is based on Sarai Walker’s 2015 best-seller of the same name. The story features a character, Plum Kettle, who is not “heavyset,” “chubby” or “curvy.” She’s fat.

Joy Nash, the actor who plays Plum, weighs 293 pounds. She’s fine with fat. In fact, she’ll have a problem if you don’t use the word. “It’s a bit of a litmus test,” says Nash. “You only need a euphemism when the truth is so terrible you can’t talk about it. There’s nothing wrong with being fat.”

is not, in other words, going to be, which lost points with many in the fat community after Chrissy Metz, its Emmy-winning star, with NBC to lose weight along with her character.