Phat Girlz is a 2006 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Nnegest Likké and starring Mo'Nique, as well as Kendra C. Johnson, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Godfrey, and Joyful Drake.

Jazmin Biltmore is a smart-mouthed, plus-sized, aspiring fashion designer and department store employee who is obsessed with her weight.

During a bout of depression, Jazmin is contacted from one of her diet plan agencies and told she won a trip for 3 to Palm Springs for the weekend at a five-star resort.

At home, she is depressed, ignoring phone calls, comforting herself with food and television before having a breakthrough and realizing she is beautiful and worthy of being loved.

Bursting with new confidence, Jazmin approaches the head buyer of the Bloomfields where she works and shows him her designs.

Impressed he helps develop Jazmin's fashion line "Thick Madame" becomes popular and is launched worldwide.

Mia piles food on her plate, stating that she wants to bulk up so she can find a rich Nigerian doctor as well.

The San Francisco Chronicle praised the film, saying "Clumsily directed yet entertainingly written by Oakland native Nnegest Likké, Phat Girlz is like Rocky with cellulite.

"[4] Variety magazine's Joe Leydon said that the film "feels torturously padded at an overlong 98 minutes",[5] and also claims that the romance between Jazmin (Mo'Nique) and Tunde (Jean-Louis) is too drawn out, "quite possibly because writer-director Nnegest Likke has nothing else in her scenario to sustain audience interest".

Almost every scene in Phat Girlz — the fancy z is for Z-grade — is about how she's fat",[6] and concluding that "the movie reduces her to a single discernible characteristic, which is a telltale mark of many a wholly awful comedy.