Assessed whether clinically depressed healthy-weight, overweight, and obese females would differ on self-esteem and suicide risk measures. Data on clinically depressed females from an inpatient psychiatric unit indicated that the three groups did not differ significantly on measures of self-esteem and suicide risk, but depressed, obese, white females had significantly lower self-esteem and increased suicide risk than depressed healthy-weight and overweight while females. (Contains references.) (SM)