"Everyone has seen a kid who is pudgy and has a growth spurt and gets taller and is no longer a pudgy kid," Mr. Troiano said.

"I was just a pudgy kid who didn't really do much."

IT began with few eyes watching, a big, pudgy kid and a basketball at the Dunbar Heights Apartments in Peekskill.

She was a loud, pudgy kid with milk-bottle-thick glasses, and when she finally settled into high school in Nebraska, she immediately ran for class president.

One of the Scouts, a pudgy kid named HERMAN, steps away from his horse, bends over and pukes.

Was Fiddy a pudgy kid?

I was a pudgy kid, but in my teens I had thinned out.

"Timmy was a little pudgy kid, but he was belting out these songs so loud you could hear him over the P.A.," said Mr. Johnson.

And he reports an exchange in which Clinton seems to pour out his inner pain over having been a pudgy kid.

Here's what I see: pudgy little kid in a moss-green knit cap with a tassel.