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Obesity is an important problem of health in teenagers. The obesity-related stereotypes become more important issue nowadays, which gets the idea that the person is lazy, sporting less, greedy etc. Thus, this study aims to establish an obesity-related stereotypes scale and to examine the effect of the obesity-related stereotypes among Taiwan and Macau senior high school girls. In this research, this pilot study (N=138) selects an appropriate figure scale and the standard and obesity figures were occupied in main experiment. Then, the main experiment (N=221; 103 Taiwan & 118 Macau girls) conduct a Chinese–version obesity-related stereotype scale with three factors (with 13 items), which are: Unwell personal performance (6 items), poor interpersonal perception (4 items), and ―inappropriate life style (3 items). Results show that: girls in stereotype activation condition show high scores of stereotype scores; there is no significant difference between Taiwan and Macau sample; girls with underweight and normal-weights tempt to expect lower body weight rather than standard body weight group, but not with overweight. The senior high school girls have the obesity-related stereotypes. While stereotypes have been activated by using the obesity figures, girls will show obvious stereotype on the scale. There is no difference between Taiwan and Macau girls.