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The woman suing is named Jennifer Portnick. A more detailed account of her lawsuit can be found here. She maintains several websites, including one called Full Moon Fitness, and Fitness Fun Central, which carries a picture of her.

She's not a bad looking woman, IMHO. I may not flip around to check her out if she was walking down the street, but if she worked in the same office with me, I certainly wouldn't hide my eyes when I saw her coming.

Unlike some of you, I don't think beauty only comes in sizes 0-6, and some of the most wonderful women I have ever known are overweight.

As for her qualifications to do the job: It should be remembered that world-class female athletes whose stock in trade is physical strength do not look like supermodels. For every statuesque, long-legged runner like Mary Decker or lithe Teutonic blonde like Grete Waitz, there is a short, efficient, and unremarkable-looking running machine like Joan Benoit Samuelson. Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova are tennis legends. Jennifer Capriati, with her flat chest and larger-than-you-would expect posterior, is either the best or the second best female player in the world. OTOH, Anna Kournikova is a footnote, and will be forgotten like yesterday's news if she should ever get a little pudgy.

To be fair, we aren't talking about world-class athletes in this case. We are talking about fitness instructors, who have to do more than play the part; they have to look the part. The person who is shouting at you with disco music blaring to work like a beast of burden in order to lose your abdominal roll shouldn't have her own.

Like I mentioned in my previous post in this thread, this is a suit made possible by SF's constant meddling in business affairs in the name of multi-cultural-sexual-racial policing. Jazzercise has a right to their own look unless they are being unreasonable in their standards, and based on what I have read so far, I don't believe they are. Besides, Portnick already has her own deal going, but I guess she decided that if she couldn't fit into Jazzercise's suit, she would file one of her own, and get some free and frivolous publicity.

I vote for the footnote. Now let the Anna FR pictorial begin.

Unlike some of you, I don't think beauty only comes in sizes 0-6...

Pardek's Rule Of Life #12 -

For a woman to catch Pardek's eye, said woman's butt must be greater than or equal to the size of Pardek's butt.

Call me old fashioned, but I've never gotten used to the "12 year old boy" look that's constantly pushed by fashion mags. Who wants to grab a woman's ass that's indistinguishable from one that belongs to some Junior High dude?

She's not a bad looking woman, IMHO. I may not flip around to check her out if she was walking down the street, but if she worked in the same office with me, I certainly wouldn't hide my eyes when I saw her coming.

If you want more like her, move to Ohio. We've got plenty of them here.