updated: 21/06/2002
To coincide with the release of Shallow Hal, Stern TV did a feature on how a thin actress is transformed into a fat woman with prosthetic makeup and a fat-suit. Nina Bott (one of the stars of GZSZ) volunteered to be the victim.
Jürgen Fischer, Chief Makeup Artist at Müncher Kammerspiele, designed Nina’s new look which he applied within two hours (with the studio audience waiting) while being filmed by a DV camcorder on the makeup table. Most these images were taken from the camcorder footage hence the variation in image quality. The makeup itself is clearly not movie closeup quality but is surprisingly good considering the time constraints (and the presumably preparation and cost constraints): for exampleas you can see in the bottom-left image the cheeks of the appliance is not blended but simply hidden by the wig.
There is a separate page illustrating the finished makeup.