Norbit Albert Rice (Eddie Murphy) was brought up in the Golden Wonton Chinese Restaurant and Orphanage in Boiling Springs, Tennessee after being abandoned as a baby. Mr. Wong (Murphy), a Chinese whaling enthusiast, owns the restaurant and orphanage. As a child, Norbit meets Kate Thomas (Thandie Newton), another orphan, and they became best of friends (they "got married" under the oak tree in the orphanage s back yard) and were always together until Kate was adopted two weeks later. Norbit is slightly older when he meets Rasputia Latimore (Murphy), a morbidly obese, overbearing, vain bully of a girl who makes Norbit her boyfriend. As they both grow up, they become closer and eventually get married. At the wedding, Norbit is reluctant to kiss Rasputia but puckers up any way, but Rasputia insists on tongue kissing. Norbit opens his mouth and Rasputia sticks out her tongue. The audience (except for Rasputia`s three brothers) is disgusted. Rasputia, whose catchphrase is "How you doin ?", mistreats Norbit, insulting and dominating him, and making sure she keeps him all to herself. Rasputia fancies herself as a sexy stripper-type and is crazy about having sex and repeatedly launches herself onto Norbit while "in the mood", often injuring her husband in the process. While this is happening, Rasputia and Norbit dress up as policemen, historical figures, and holiday icons. Rasputia`s costumes usually are very small and revealing, much to Norbit`s dismay. Rasputia turns this around when discussing it. She says that Norbit is the one that throws himself all over her instead of vice versa. Norbit hates every minute of sex with Rasputia, but has no choice because she practically traps him in the bedroom. Rasputia seems to be very enthusiastic about it however and likes being on top of poor Norbit even though it usually crushes him. Norbit mentioned in a deleted scene that the sex usually lasts all night. Whenever Rasputia jumps on Norbit, the bed breaks but this doesn`t stop Rasputia from making love to him. Norbit works for Rasputia s three brothers: Big Black Jack (Terry Crews), Blue (Lester "Rasta" Speight) and Earl (Clifton Powell), at the Latimore Construction Company. Although the brothers run a legitimate business, they also, unbeknownst to Norbit, run the local extortions racket, and have spent years "shaking down" Norbit s friends and neighbors. In the meantime, Rasputia attends a dance class and she becomes smitten by her wacky, ugly dance instructor (Marlon Wayans). She invites the instructor over for a "private lesson" and they end up sleeping together. Norbit comes home and catches them having sex but they both continue to deny it. Norbit calls Rasputia "The Queen of Whores" and she becomes angered and chases him a couple of blocks. He escapes her and throws away his wedding ring due to her deception. Norbit is performing a puppet show for the children at the orphange when he sees Kate. She tells him of her plans to buy the orphanage from Mr. Wong. Kate and Norbit agree to meet up and catch up with each other on Tuesday. However, when Norbit meets Kate, he finds out she is engaged to Deion Hughes (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), a sneaky, slick-talking businessman. At a carnival, the Latimores find out that Kate is buying Wong s orphanage. This surprises them, as when they attempted to buy the place, Wong (the only one in the town not afraid of the Latimores) chased them off with a harpoon. They later confront Deion, who is mysteriously on the verge of leaving town. He tells them that he has his own "problems" to deal with. They tell him that if he married Kate, the orphanage would be as much his as it would be hers, and that they plan on turning it into a strip-club. Deion agrees to marry Kate so he can have a share in the club. The Latimores need Kate to sign papers to have the liquor license in the restaurant transferred over when she buys it. To do this, they intimidate Norbit into giving Kate the papers to sign. Later, Kate invites Norbit to help her pick food for the wedding, however according to two ex-pimps: Pope Sweet Jesus (Eddie Griffin) and Lord Have Mercy (Katt Williams), the event is a date. Rasputia finds out about Norbit and Kate s date and she drives around town to find them. Norbit and Kate then have a wedding rehearsal, where they end up kissing. Rasputia witnesses this and faints, crashing her car. Kate runs sobbing and Norbit goes after her, catching her at her doorstep. Norbit apologizes for kissing her, but she tells him that she wanted him to kiss her. When he gets back, he hands the Latimores the transfer papers, which he got Kate to sign during the date. Rasputia threatens to pour hydrochloric acid on Kate if Norbit should associate with her again. Next day, Friday, Kate questions Norbit about the papers she signed the night before, after Deion tells her about the unknown clause. Remembering Rasputia s threat, Norbit claims that he doesn t care about the orphanage, that he was happier with Rasputia and that he was merely trying to "score" with Kate last night. She runs away upset. That night, Norbit prepares to leave town for good, and has a talk with Mr. Wong, who tells him not to run from his own problems. He checks his letterbox, and finds the results of a background check for Deion he had sent a few days earlier. Upon returning home, Norbit calls Kate, but she doesn t want to talk to him. To make things worse, the Latimores and Rasputia lock Norbit in the cellar to stop him interfering with the wedding and their inevitable, evil plan, but not before making a few calls on the phone. On the day of the wedding, all but one of the Latimores (Blue stays behind to keep an eye on Norbit) heads to the church. He manages to escape and rides his bicycle to the wedding. On the way, Norbit is being chased by Big Jack, Earl and Rasputia. Pope Sweet Jesus and Lord Have Mercy managed to stall the wedding for as long as possible by preaching about love and condoms to the congregation and even having the choir performing a gospel song. Deion, impatiently, stops the ruckus, quiets the congregation down, and orders Pope and Lord to shut their mouths so that the wedding can commence. Norbit finally bursts in and reveals the background check on Deion: he had cheated his three ex-wives out of $300,000 in divorce settlements. He also reveals the Latimores plot to take over the orphanage. Kate doesn t believe him at first, as the papers were ruined when Norbit fell into a pond during his escape and the chase. But when Norbit reveals he called each of Deion s ex-wives and told them to come to the wedding. They all reveal that he has cheated them out of thousands of dollars and got them all pregnant. He has also being lying about his name and orientation, by using fake names such as "Antoine" and "Luther". He tries to cover it up by telling them the women has him confused with his "gay twin brother, Antoine-Luther". The women become angered and threaten to kill him. Deion runs out of the church and the Latimores, enraged that their plans for a strip club have now been permanently ruined, advance on Norbit. Outside the church the townspeople take up arms against the Latimores in defense of Norbit, who attempts to run away but is tackled by Blue. Rasputia grabs a spade and fights her way through the crowd towards him. Before she can finish him off however, from the church steps Mr. Wong throws a curtain rod as a harpoon at her. This causes her to run away from the crowd screaming in pain. She is followed out of town by her brothers, who are being chased by the mob of townspeople, never to be seen or heard from again. Kate apologize Norbit for not believing him and give him a kiss. Later, Kate and Norbit buy the orphanage and get married, while the Latimores set up "El Nipplopolis" in Mexico with Rasputia, who has become their most popular and lucrative stripper. Although, Norbit has changed her. She now only has sex with rich men. She still dresses in revealing outfits and is still sex crazy.