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Individuals with obesity face weight bias and stigma throughout their lifespan. The social consequences of weight stigma include denied opportunities in employment and education, reduced access to and quality of health care, and impaired interpersonal interactions and peer relationships. Weight bias can also become internalized and stigma self‐directed within individuals with a higher weight. Experiences and internalization of weight stigma have an adverse impact on mental and physical health beyond the effects of obesity itself. More research is needed to develop and test interventions for effectively preventing and reducing weight stigma and its negative downstream effects at the institutional, interpersonal, and individual levels.