I heard this on the radio today, on a very mainstream station. By two normally obnoxious morning jock guys. They went on and on about how Jordin isn’t fat, how Kelly looks like every girl they see on teh street, how they’re sick of everybody going on like the fat police… it was refreshing! To hear this from mainstream guys. Could it be that people are just getting sick of the fat hatred?

I can only hope.

Suzy, I think that’s part of the issue. IMO Me!Me!Me! is totally delusional, but part of what even gets FauxNews (or any other outlet, considering what they regualrly broadcast as ews) to invite her on and for her views to become part of the public discourse on the subject is that any woman’s body that is NOT a size 0 or 2 is AUTOMATICALLY presumed to be “fat”. I’ve heard Venus and Serena Williams called “fat”. In the on-season. I’ve heard Mary Lou Retton and Nadia Comaneci at their present sizes derided as “fat”.

You all have heard my rant about media distortion of sizes. I work in entertainment, and some of the people that we consider to be “normal-sized” are tiny tiny TINY — heightwise as well as weightwise, which completely distorts our perceptions. It’s when people start thinking that those perceptions, without filtering them through the cognitive analysis of “the camera is distorting that person’s size”, think of that as REAL. (Think of all the actors derided as short in real life — SAME phenomenon. Identical.)

The other thing that happens is that women who are just BIGGER — in comparison, perhaps, to some tiny men — are ALSO seen as “fat”. Just because they LOOK larger next to someone else. I think this is part of what’s happening with Jordin (in addition to the fact that she’s not necessarily ripped to shreds). Women can have 10 percent body fat and be SEEN AS FAT just because they’re standing next to some 4′11″ 98-pound person.

Critical thinking and excessive comparison, people. You’re going to get sick of hearing me say it.

Jordin isn’t fat. She’s beautiful.

I think all she’s saying is that trying to maintain your weight as it was at the time you reached physical maturity, your early twenties, is a good goal to have, for health and other purposes.

This assumes that you weren’t fat as a kid. But since many people are normal weight through adolescence and then gain weight steadily as they age, the advice applies to a lot of people.

Of course you could track your weight in many ways, by weighing yourself regularly, having your doctor weigh you during visits, measuring your waist, etc., but Ms. Roth is just using the wedding dress for its PR imagery.

While I agree that we should all admire and “Idolize” healthy people, 1) I don’t see how MeMe gets off postulating that Jordin is UNhealthy, and 2) it infuriates me that rather than commending the American public for choosing somebody based on talent and NOT looks, she is criticizing for not being superficial enough! What tripe.