Mélanie is a teenager who feels rather uncomfortable with her overweight. She privileges friendships with girls and thinks that the boys find her “fat and ugly”. In spite of this, Mélanie chats the boys up - it's even her favourite pastime – although she prefers to remain single to safeguard her freedom. She convinced us with her natural ways and her outspokenness. Mélanie has a very good relationship with her father and reserves her outbursts for her mother, whom she accuses of preferring her little brother to her.