Posted on 04/24/2005 8:22:33 PM PDT by InHisService
I wasted $3.99 last night renting "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason." Well, I hated it. First of all, it is quite annoying to me that everyone treats this girl like she is so unbelievably fat, what with all the references and snide comments about her weight.
What does she weigh, like 135-140? Hello, I haven't weighed that since... 9th grade. Give me a freakin' break. I have news for you fat-phobes out there, I am well over 200 pounds and I don't have as much of a problem with my weight as this gal, who is maybe 10 lbs. overweight, has with hers. Additionally, I have men ogling me all the time, big as I am, proving there are men out there who like us full-figured gals.
There's nothing really likeable about her character, her hair looks like crap, and she needs an extreme makeover. Why the man in her life is in love with her, I can't figure out. She is portrayed as a bumbling, insecure and flighty woman who always ends up in precarious situations that make her look even worse. I read a bunch of reviews of this movie that seemed to agree with my take on it, only they of course focus on how fat she is, and therefore unworthy of love.
I think I will protest by gaining more weight just to make a point. These women in Hollywood are such starved waifs I want to take them to my house, tie them up, and force feed them Big Macs followed by an entire Pepperidge Farm chocolate layer cake. Well, they'd only go and throw it up anyway, why bother.
I'm sick of Hollywood and their ideal of how a woman should look. I will be thrilled to the gills to get down to a size 14, which as they say, is the average American woman's size. Why do we have to be 2s and 4s and sixes? Aren't you at a higher risk for osteoperosis, or something, when you're that small?
According to all reports, Renee Zellweger had to (horror!) gain all this weight, and then immediately lose it again, lest she become unemployed at the huge weight of 130 something. That's why I appreciate women like Queen Latifah, who I think, looks great, and is very comfortable with her size, and doesn't make apologies for it. You go girl, and maybe I'll see you at Dairy Queen, where us "Queen's" hang out.
Actually, I was referring to the idea that it's best to be rail thin. I'm not saying it's best to be very large, however there are some large women that are very healthy.
Good for you! Most people think I'm advocating being "fat" while I'm more about changing the mindset of people. We have been subjected to super skinny models, Hollywood "Superstars" and the like, and this body type, quite frankly, is impossible for most of us to achieve.
Oh, was there something wrong with the way Bridget looked? I was too busy looking at Colin Firth. ;-)
I think she is confusing ogling, with pity.
My grandmother, who is fat, likes to say, "There are two kinds of men in this world: those who like fat women, and those who like really fat women."
Dear Lauralee,
No, not anyone can be fat. If they could, we wouldn't be having this discussion. My daughter can eat anything she wants and is very thin, she seems to have inherited this from her father. It takes no work at all for her to be thin, she has a high metabolism.
I accept your right to find attractive what you find attractive. We all have our preferences. But why call another person a heifer? I can tell you right now, you might be the best looking thing on two feet, but your attitude makes you ugly. You have no idea what is going on in these peoples lives. There are various reasons why people are overweight. Maybe some can get it off and others can't, no one is perfect. Not even you.
Fat acceptance is about accepting people where ever they are. It doesn't mean fat is better. It doesn't mean you can't make yourself better. It's about loving and accepting yourself where ever you are on your journey to improvement.
The camera takes off from 20 to 30 pounds.
Just for the record, I'd like to know, what size is acceptable to you? What weight?
As far as I know (and having been on TV,) the camera adds 10 pounds.
Don't like looking at a big ass? Avoid mirrors..
Then theres the health angle, like in diabetes and all that..
Good for you, sweetie! I love you, even though you are under 130 pounds!!! :-)
And you know what else? When I saw Renee Zellwegger at the Oscars right after BJD, I thought that she looked smokin' hot. She was packed into that red dress and, well, she was just hot. Just, mmmmmmmmm ... yummy. She hadn't had time to lose the BJD weight yet.
Then, the next year, it was after she had starved herself to look "Hollywood hot" again, and she looked AWFUL. Sagging and skinny in her white dress. Poor girl looked all pinched and pale - it was just plain sad.
I don't like the way that those women look! It's not that I can't achieve that, it's just that it isn't very pretty.
120 pounds is a lot on me. I'm one of those bird-like women with very delicate bones and not a lot else. At 120, I am positively overflowing!
That was very well said. For a site that proclaims itself to allow various opinions, its members fall short.
It was a joke.
Most people have to work at being thin. But yes a FEW minority can eat anything and still be very thin. How old is you're daughter. She reminds me of my friend- that fast metabolism stopped when she turned 19.
As for me I'm 115, and yes I have to work at it. I don't beat myself up about food I just have certain things in moderation.
""Fat women of America: No. You are not sexy. You are fat. Stop stuffing you pie hole and get your sloppy bottom into some kind of physical fitness routine""
You know this article is a self written Vanity. Wow, that was mean!
Everyone is different. I have a friend who beats herself up with Diets- but she's naturally not a rail and she can't be, some people are just like that.
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