My Mad Fat Diary

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She is the author of the 2007 book My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary (published in the U.S. as My Mad Fat Diary in 2016), a collection of the diaries she wrote as a teenager in the late 1980s. The diary describes the tribulations of being a fat girl with mental health difficulties, who lives in a council house with her mother and her mother's new Moroccan boyfriend. [1] A follow-up book, My Madder Fatter Diary Vol. 2, was published in 2014. Yes, it was very odd. But you kind of have to say "Okay, it's me, but it's not me." Sharon's recreation, like I say, is me, but it's not me. It's a moment caught in time. Once I got over that, I just bloody enjoyed it, I think it's a great piece of work. I really liked the diary layout of the book, but I found the writing basic and non descriptive sometimes. The first episode of the third and final series attracted 548,000 viewers on E4, whilst the second episode attracted 537,000 viewers. The final episode of the series attracted 450,000 viewers. All viewing figures exclude those who watched on All 4 and on E4+1.

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Becoming a mother between the publication of the two volumes made the difference, she says. “ My Madder Fatter Diary was written after I’d had a child and I thought do I want my kid to see that? Do I want to share that? I thought, no.” Rae herself isn’t immune to this treatment at all, making her all the more engaging as a protagonist. In series two especially, you’ll be hiding behind a cushion unable to watch as often as you are cheering for joy. Again, realism plays a part here. Maintaining a friendship for years isn’t easy, especially when honesty is a difficult policy to maintain. That’s what, in an ideal world, makes social media such a useful tool Earl suggests – it can bring together all sorts of people from all over the place and show them they’re not on their own. What’s less helpful though, is “the fallacy of this perfect adolescence. That really needs to be shot out of the water because it’s nonsense.” Sharon Rooney as Rachel "Rae" Earl, a funny, music-mad 16-year-old who, despite an eccentric mother and her own body image and mental health issues. This book was originally published in 2007 and I was unaware that in 2013 became a hit television series starring Sharon Rooney. As I reached the halfway point in the book I kept thinking that it should be made into a movie.Sophie Stanton as Principal Dixon (series 2–3), Rae’s firm but fair headteacher at college who gives her several ‘second chances’ and encourages her to go to Bristol University. Series two is the darkest of the three sets of episodes, and it pretty much pushes this teenage friendship group to its breaking point. At one stage, three of the group aren’t talking to each other and another goes missing because they’ve got in with the wrong crowd. The stakes get pretty high at some points, too, the show isn’t without a sense of danger. She admits she’s under more pressure than ever with the final series of Mad Fat Diary because she wants to get it right for the fans who have supported her. But she’s already got work lined up on Stag, a dark comedy for the BBC about a stag weekend, starring Reece Shearsmith. Then there’s Mountain Goats, a sitcom about a family of mountain-rescue volunteers, but Rae has clearly been the life-changing part. That’s the one she talks affectionately of, that brought recognition when buying lip gloss in Boots. Post Rae, she still has to fight for jobs, she insists. Every actor does. The future? “I don’t know,” she says brightly. “I’ll just need to go out and find one.”

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You decided to go down the route of publishing them. What did you do in the way of editing them first?I am seriously baffled because never in my life have I liked a tv show/movie better than the book version. But that's most probably only because I'm a book snob or something. Epstein, Robert (20 January 2013). "TV review: My Mad Fat Diary - Whoever said that fat was funny?". The Independent. London . Retrieved 26 June 2013. It was a different time,” she explains. “If I’d said things then and shared things like I have now, I don’t think it would have been helpful. I don’t think I necessarily would have got the right care. If I’d revealed then just how poorly I was—I don’t know this for sure but I don’t think there would have been a level of appropriate care available.” To my surprise, a lot of situations, anecdotes, characters and even dialogue were, if not exactly the same, then obviously based on Earl's real experiences. Rooney received a Scottish Bafta nomination for best television actress for her performance as Rae. Now 26, she was also named in the 2013 Bafta breakthrough Brits list, an initiative to support the UK’s emerging talent. Yet until Mad Fat Diary, based on the 1990s diaries of author Rae Earl, she had been limited to working for Theatre in Education, a school-touring group, and was about to quit acting. “I said to my mum: ‘I don’t want to do this any more. It’s too hard. I’m not getting any decent parts and I don’t want to compromise who I am.’” What would she have done instead? “I wanted to be a nurse. I helped look after my gran when she was poorly and I always think there’s something really rewarding about helping people. That’s why Mad Fat Diary is so special.” Teenage viewers write to her about their problems – and Rooney has done a lot of research into mental health issues. “You’re not just making a TV show,” she says. “You’re helping people to see that life is good.”

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La verdad es que no me esperaba para nada que la historia cambiara tanto del libro a la serie. Ni siquiera aparecen los mismos personajes (realmente personas, ya que es el diario de la escritora) y algunos que se asemejan a los de la serie, tienen un nombre distinto.Sophie Wright as Tix (series 1, 3), a resident of the psychiatric hospital and Rae's other best friend. In the series 2 opener, it is revealed that she had died due to over-exercising and refusing to eat at the end of the previous series. She makes a cameo appearance in the final episode of series 3 as Rae reflects on her teenage years and when Rae sees everyone in the reflection of the train window. In the show, Rae has mental health issues, and struggles with her body image. Her biggest problem, as the show itself suggests, seems to be that she doesn’t like herself. When things go badly for her, she assumes they were meant to. When things go right, she’s sceptical to the point of ruining the good situation. My Mad Fat Diary is a British teen comedy-drama television series that debuted on E4 on 14 January 2013. It is based on the novel My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary by Rae Earl. [1]