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Michelle Buteauโ€™s Survival of the Thickest Gets the Greenlight

Toni Wilson by Toni Wilson
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If you donโ€™t know who Michelle Buteau is by now, itโ€™s clear you are of the mind of Patrick Starr and could possibly be sleeping under a rock! Michelle is a comedic genius and rom-com star.

Maybe you have seen her in the BET+ series First Wives Club or romantic comedies like Someone Great and Always Be My Maybe. Perhaps youโ€™ve taken to her comedic timing in her debut Netflix stand-up special, Michelle Buteau: Welcome To My Buteaupia, or seen her host the Netflix reality show, The Circle? If so, then you know when Michelle is on your TV screen โ€“ she is gold. So, when I saw the news that Michelle Buteau was picked up for a new show on Netflix, I screamed!

Michelle Buteau's Survival of the Thickest Gets the Greenlight
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Michelle Buteauโ€™s Book: Survival of the Thickest

Buteau released her book, Survival of the Thickest: Essays of a Plus Size Girl in A Small-Minded World, in December 2020, and I rushed to get my copy. Even though Michelle wouldnโ€™t be able to showcase her book with a book tour due to the pandemic, I was invested in hearing more about her story and how this vivacious, bright, spirited, plus size woman came to grace our screens. Michelleโ€™s comedy is transparent, relatable, and infectious, so I expected her memoir to be all those things and more.

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Michelle Buteau's Survival of the Thickest Gets the Greenlight
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When I read Survival of the Thickest, I laughed, then cried, then laughed some more, and then cried a little bit more. Her book explored her life growing up as a thick & plus size girl, being a light-skinned Caribbean Black girl in Jersey, dating, her journey with Catholicism, and her path to motherhood.

A Memoir Becomes a Sitcom

Itโ€™s no surprise now, in 2022, Michelle Buteauโ€™s book finds a series home with Netflix, where she can share her creativity and explore her book coming to life. Not only will the show be based on Buteauโ€™s memoir, but she will also star in the show.

In Netflixโ€™s description of the show, the streaming service shared, โ€œthe series will revolve around the newly single Mavis Beaumont who unexpectedly has to rebuild her life after putting all her eggs in one manโ€™s basket.โ€ When asked about her continued partnership with Netflix, Michelle shared, โ€œItโ€™s been so damn amazing finding a home with Netflix. To say Iโ€™m excited to continue my relationship with them is an understatement. Iโ€™m over the moon and under it!โ€

Itโ€™s also important to note that one of the masterminds behind helping this show be greenlit is a cultural, social, and innovative creator, Jasmyn Lawson. Jasmyn Lawson is also responsible for bringing some of our favorite 90โ€™s and early 2000โ€™s shows to us during the onset of the pandemic and the heigh of quarantine.

I know yall remember that Sister Sister, Moesha, The Parkers, Half & Half drop that left us all floored in 2020! I think itโ€™s important to note that Jasmyn is also a plus size Black woman and creative, and she saw the value in spotlighting Survival of the Thickest and believed in the project from the very first time she met Michelle.

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As a plus size Black creative myself, Iโ€™ve seen and known the power of walking into a room and having someone who sees themselves in my work and wants to see it grow. I have also been this person for someone else. Iโ€™m looking forward to seeing a show centered on a newly single plus size Black woman! Iโ€™m excited to see the ways her life will shift, the ways Michelleโ€™s character, Mavis will adapt, the dates she will go on, the ways sheโ€™ll explore her body, and the way sheโ€™ll find joy in all of it.

Survival of the Thickest is set to be an eight-part series giving us eight more reasons to smile. Survival of the Thickest will be available paperback on February 1st, ahead of the showโ€™s production.

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