In Brittany Runs a Marathon, being fat is portrayed as a starting point instead of just a state of being, and the community of proud, fat runners gets ignored
Photo: Jon Pack/Sundance Institute Brittany Runs a Marathon opens with Brittany, played by Jillian Bell, going to the doctor. She’s trying to scam an Adderall prescription, telling her doctor, who smells bullshit and spies fading club-entry stamps on her hand, that she’s having a hard time focusing. Instead of the drugs she’s seeking, he suggests she get “healthy” and lose 55 pounds, a figure Brittany calls “the weight of a Siberian husky.
Over the course of the film, Brittany — and Bell — loses 40 pounds. Nights of binge drinking and drugs and single-serving boxes of Dunkin’ Donuts Munchkins turn to glasses of water and early bedtimes and salad after salad after salad. She makes friends through running: a dad looking to get in better shape for his kid and a wealthy divorcée fighting a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband.
A year later, Brittany — who now has a job in advertising writing jingles and an exposed-brick apartment where she lives with Jern, who is all but begging her to marry him — does run the marathon. When she crossed the finish line, I cried. I cried from the first shot of the bus taking her to the starting line on Staten Island to the scenes of the party at mile eight in Brooklyn. I cried when she cramped up and collapsed in the Bronx, remembering the same moment around mile 22 where I hit a wall.
Not eating much and running off the measured calories I did permit myself wasn’t sustainable. The weight slowly crept back, but the running habit stayed. It stopped being something I did to punish myself or to change how my body looked and instead became something I enjoyed. I liked the mental clarity. I liked the ritual. I liked how I felt and how I looked, ridiculously defined calves and a sharp tan line where my spandex stopped.
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