Comments on: Jay McCarroll On Celebrity Weight Loss

By: Irrsinn.net - Quasi-daily linkage

Irrsinn.net - Quasi-daily linkage — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:01:20 +0000

[...] Big Fat Deal » Jay McCarroll On Celebrity Weight Loss – "Because you have an audience, and people rooting you on, and then suddenly that audience feels ownership in your results. And so then you’re like Carnie Wilson or Kirstie Alley, constantly having to publicly humble yourself and beg forgiveness for gaining the weight back." [...]

By: AlicePrice

AlicePrice — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:04:36 +0000

I watched this episode and it was great to see his honesty and transformation!

By: KMc

KMc — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:29:36 +0000

I like your comment about having a public audience and how that changes things, and the kind of sick aftermath of the real world when all of the cameras and support are gone. It’s like CW & KA and Oprah all apologizing for being human, but it feeds the hungry money machine, I guess.

By: ChloeMireille

ChloeMireille — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:58:08 +0000

Actually, I think Jay was selling stuff on QVC either last year or the year before, and his line went up to a 3X. It was around the same time a bunch of other PR folk were doing collections there too. I know Laura Bennett and Chloe Dao had one for sure at the time.

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meerkat — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:43:12 +0000

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By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:51:17 +0000

Wow, he articulated all of this really well. In the past I have confessed that I would love to go on Biggest Loser if it didn’t have all the weight crap. I could just work out for a few hours a day! No work, no uni, just working out. I love exercising, but I also love, you know, people not publicly shaming me because I don’t want to force my body into something it is built against.

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:46:32 +0000

I was actually really nervous to read that bit, as I often am when one of my favorite tubby celebrities loses weight but I love that Jay doesn’t candy coat it or try to pretend like it was/will be easy, and I like that he’s not afraid to say that he’s nervous about what people might say if he gains it back, etc. Just fabulous.