Master Idris, the palace cook, announces the first banquet from the head of the hall: dates, lamb, and an innocent amount of honey. Roast lamb steams on three shallow brass dishes beside honey cakes. Roxxana stands in her usual place beside the feast table, holding a piece of lamb over a plate of dates, and bites. At 260 lb the dancer's waist is gone and a soft, rounded belly leans over the low blue bottoms.
She has already lost the argument with her waistband, and she says so. It surrendered early, she tells the room, which seems a sensible beginning. Then she turns to a honey-soaked almond cake. The camera frames only her lips and cheeks as she closes them around it, chews, and swallows.
Both hands go to her belly above the waistband. It swells with the swallow and settles against her palms, heavier each time, and her halter top has the first slight strain along its upper edge. The gold coins have begun to tilt, just barely.
Behind her, the emptied dishes are stacked so high that the top one reaches the lower curve of a hanging lantern and settles with a small metallic tick. It is the film's way of counting without a scale, and it is funny every time.
The scene closes on a shot of her full belly after the last bite, her own hand resting on it, her top and waistband in view. Nima, the platter-bearer, stands beside her with a copper bracelet on one wrist and one empty platter. She brought just one, she says, and it now feels rather unambitious. Roxxana says nothing. She strokes her belly in a slow circle and looks at the next dish.
Idris“First banquet: dates, lamb, and an innocent amount of honey.”
Roxxana“My waistband has already surrendered. A sensible beginning.”
Nima“I brought one platter. That now feels rather unambitious.”
Her outfit at 260 lb: The blue halter's coins start to tilt over a fuller bust, and the bottoms sit lower under a rounded belly, with her gold chains still looped on.
Follow the whole Roxxana weight gain timeline, see this stage as a panel in the Roxxana weight gain comic, or read it in her own words in Roxxana's Feedee Diary: Journal of the Seven Banquets, 170 → 1,100 lb. See every woman at this size on BBW feedee, or meet the cast on feedee girls.