What episode does Monica lose weight?

In "The One With All the Thanksgivings," a young Monica and Chandler (Matthew Perry) finally meet and though she develops a crush, she is put off by him when she overhears his disgust at her weight and then gets "revenge" on him a year later by losing weight and finally revealing herself as — what the show deems — an ...
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When did Monica Geller lose weight?

Monica lost the weight because of an incident during Thanksgiving 1987, when she overhears Chandler say to Ross: I just don't want to be stuck here all night with your fat sister. That prompted Monica to lose weight, which she successfully managed by Thanksgiving 1988.
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How many episodes was Monica fat?

If you're unfamiliar with Fat Monica, let me explain: She's the apparently unsightly flashback version of Courteney Cox's character, Monica Geller, showing up in precisely four episodes (and employing what has to be the world's worst fat suit, with apologies to Betty Draper).
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How did Monica lose all that weight?

She heard Chandler tell Ross he didn't want to be stuck in all night with his fat sister, prompting Monica to break down and refuse the food offered to her by her mother. She lost the weight by Thanksgiving of 1988, Rachel also lost the big nose.
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How did Monica stay so thin on Friends?

She Once Ate the Same Salad Every Day

"Jennifer and Lisa [Kudrow] and I ate lunch together every single day for 10 years," Cox told the Los Angeles Times. "We always had the same thing – a Cobb salad.
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Did Monica wear a fat suit?

The fat suit had to be ventilated

Monica's fat suit and her “fat” appearance was a key plot line in numerous episodes of the show, but it turns out it was pretty hot to be in for Courteney Cox. The suit was made of foam and the wardrobe team would pipe air in the back to keep her cool.
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Why does Monica look fat in the last episode of Friends?

The reason for all this, as some might have guessed, was Courtney Cox's pregnancy with her daughter Coco Arquette. This was obviously tough to hide, as Courtney's growing belly was more than visible in a few scenes.
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How much weight did Monica Geller lose?

Monica in Friends lost around 110 lbs but I don't know how she maintained her weight after that. We have seen her working out in season 1 and 2 and that's only.
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Is Phoebe wearing a wig in Season 6 of Friends?

But in season 6 she wore a wig because her hair was too short for the character phoebe.. they didn't think this is something the character would have done, cut it that short.
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Did Monica really wear a turkey?

The original Friends scene did not feature a real turkey.

But the truth is, that turkey was not real. "We wanted—I especially wanted—a real turkey," writer Greg Malins told Entertainment Weekly in 2016. "The prop department did their due diligence, but it didn't exist.
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Why did Monica's face change?

Courteney Cox explained to NewBeauty that she ended up getting too many procedures in part because she kept seeing different doctors. “What would end up happening is that you go to a doctor who would say, 'You look great, but what would help is a little injection here or filler there.
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Is Chandler missing a toe?

"Friends" fans know that Matthew Perry's character, Chandler Bing, was involved in a freak accident back in the day that resulted in him losing part of his right pinkie toe.
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What episode does fat Monica dance?

The One That Could Have Been, Part 1.
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What is the glass of fat in Friends?

The fat is presumably to poor over a joint to baste it. However Ross goes to drink it because he wants to show Rachel that he's sorry for yelling at and humiliating her, that he loves her and needs her at this talk he's giving. (Earlier Joey had taken a sip when Chandler suggested he taste it to see.)
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Is Monica Geller infertile?

Of course, we know that it was both Chandler and Monica who had fertility issues. According to their doctor, Chandler's sperm had "low motility," while Monica's uterus was an "inhospitable environment." It was a big blow to Monica, who was the perfect host, thank you very much!
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Was Monica really sick on Friends?

Much of the episode is focused on Monica being sick, which she claims last happened three years earlier, but according to IMDb she was actually ill just two seasons earlier.
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Was Monica pregnant in the last season of Friends?

Courteney Cox strategically hid her pregnancy during Monica's final on-screen moments. Toward the end of filming season 10, Cox was pregnant with her first child, her daughter Coco, who was born just a few weeks after the final episode of "Friends" aired on NBC.
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Why did Monica name her son Jack?

Trivia. According to Monica in "The One Where Rachel Has A Baby, Part 2", she had wanted to name her future son Daniel. However when she did have a son, she named him Jack. Jack was the first of the twins to be born.
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Did Betty Draper gain weight?

No. While the actress, who was pregnant with her new son at the time, had put on weight, she wore a fatsuit and prosthetic facial and neck appliances to make her appear fatter than she was.
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How long would it take to film an episode of Friends?

But do you know it would take hours to shoot each one of them? Yes, as per factinate.com, each episode of the show used to take around 5 hours to be shot as several scenes required multiple takes.
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Who played Fat Joey in Friends?

The backlash would be vicious," one person tweeted before another chimed in, "I LOVE Matt LeBlanc with a little weight on him." The National Enquirer even went so far as to report that both Matt and Matthew Perry delayed filming the Friends reunion to get back into shape.
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