Did Michelle Obama Send the Wrong Message With Obesity Comments?

ABC News ^ | 5 Feb 10 | HUMA KHAN

[aruanan]

"I thought my kids were perfect -- they are and always will be -- but he [the doctor] warned that he was concerned that something was getting off balance."

I think the doctor was referring to the kids having deranged parents. Michelle personalized it in a way that she was most closely connected with.

[theDentist]

Did Michelle Obama Send the Wrong Message With Obesity Comments?

I don't know. Does anyone listen to her?

[haywoodwebb]

IT HAS IT'S OWN ZIP CODE!!

[Froufrou]

Wait. Isn’t that Oprah?

[haywoodwebb]

LOL!
One of her "SISTAs" for sure!

[Froufrou]

I thought people just looked to her for help with their wardrobe [/rolling eyes]

[theDentist]

...people just looked to her for help with their wardrobe

and for continued uses for old tablecloths, shower liners, and beach towels. It's a two-fer.

[Froufrou]

ROTFLMAO.

I still remember all the flap about that ONE dress, from White House, Black Market stores. It’s the only thing I’ve seen her in that could pass for (wait for it...)

...”Fashion”...

[Joan912]

Yep, “do as I say, not what I do” - the privilege of American royalty...

[Joan912]

I have never seen so many deleted posts ever! LOL!

[paulycy]

[SkyPilot]

I have never seen so many deleted posts ever!

No kidding. I just came in to check the responses and saw all the deletes.

What did they say?

[SkyPilot]

I think fat ass has self esteem issues.

Precisely.

We have all known someone who delights in pointing the spotlight of criticism on others, knowing that it is off of them.

For someone to do this to their own daughters is borderline psychotic.

[SkyPilot]

I am no fan of Michelle 0bama, but wow - what is the problem here? She just stated that while she thought her girls were healthy and eating properly, testing showed that there were imbalances, so she made adjustments. That’s a good message for ANYONE

1. If she really felt that way, she would have used herself as the example and left her daughters out of it.

2. Michelle helped hand-pick the Surgeon General of the United States - Regina Benjamin.

The Surgeon General’s Weight Struggle

In an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Dr. Benjamin responded to the criticism. “Health and being healthy and being fit is not about a dress size,” she said.

Do you see a problem here?

Michelle has thrown her daughters to the media wolves vis a vis weight and obesity, and had a major role in this woman wearing an admiral's uniform?

[twigs]

She should have been a lot more careful with what she said.

[WKUHilltopper]

LOL! Has she looked in the mirror and checked out that basketball in the back of her drawers lately?

[lonestar]

To me, it’s much ado about nothing!

[Salamander]

This freaky digital scale I have does “body mass”.

I’m 5’ 4” and weigh 103-105 on a “fat day” and it has my BMI at something like 27??

What the...!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Gawd....those poor kids. Between ‘mommy’ saying her kids were ‘fat’.....to ‘daddy’ saying he doesn’t want his kids ‘punished with a baby’ (kids are punishment for a romp). Unbelievable. *shakes head*