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Netflix’s Survival of the Thickest, co-created by Michelle Buteau and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, follows Mavis Beaumont, a plus-size stylist dealing with a bad breakup in her 40s while surviving in New York. The show is based on Buteau’s book of essays of the same name which is thematically about self-love.

The first season was a big hit, and in February 2024, Buteau excitedly announced the next season with a post on Instagram, saying in a video, “We did it bitches!”

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So will there be a season 3? Here’s what we know so far.

Has season 3 of Survival of the Thickest been confirmed?

Yes, it will be the third and final season.

For Buteau, being renewed for season three has been “such a beautiful every-day-is-a-birthday-gift with no gift receipt,”

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