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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has heightened a multitude of stressors across the United States. Parents, in particular, have experienced increased psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Concurrently, weight stigmatizing language related to potential pandemic weight gain has become prevalent. Experienced weight stigma may contribute to and maintain internalized weight bias, which has been associated with numerous negative psychological and eating-related outcomes. The current study aimed to examine the association between internalized weight bias and COVID-19-related distress, uncontrolled eating, and emotional eating among parents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were parents of youth ages 7-17 (N= 189; Mage= 40.8 yo; 66.1% female; 82.0% White, 93.1% non-Hispanic) who were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk between June …