Back from vacation and trying to catch up! Did I miss anything exciting? If so, leave a comment or Tweet me up!
In the meantime, here’s the Fug Girls’ take on Gabby Sidibe’s dress at the Oscars. I have to say I don’t love it; I don’t love the color and I don’t love the applique [...]
Filed under: Beth Ditto, Celebrities, Fashion, Feminism, Gabby Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Movies, TV, Tidbit | 10 Comments »
No, I still haven’t committed to a name that isn’t Fattie Quickies, although I did enjoy your suggestions. (And Emily also came up with the Round pun in the comments. Yay, Emily! E-mail me; I’ll send you a present.)
Anyway, I’m going out of town this weekend and am teaching classes up until the [...]
Filed under: Advocacy, Celebrities, Gabby Sidibe, Health, Kirstie Alley, Links, Meta, Mo'Nique, TV | 11 Comments »
People are still letting MeMe Roth say things on TV, whereupon fat people say things back. Ah, memories. Thanks to Rosemary in the comments and KMc in e-mail for reminding us that the Nightline piece is on tonight!
From plus-size to big boned, pleasantly plump to succulently shapely, and Rubenesque to curvy, no [...]
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I just want to shake Carnie Wilson when I read articles like this. She had weight loss surgery a while back and since then has regained some of the weight she lost. And she’s still flagellating herself for it.
The Wilson Phillips singer, who currently weighs 212 lbs. despite undergoing gastric bypass surgery in [...]
Filed under: Biggest Loser, Carnie Wilson, Celebrities, Gabby Sidibe, Kids, Magazines, TV, WLS | 11 Comments »
This morning I was enjoying my morning coffee with Brad, and he told me about the Christina Hendricks controversy. (I mean, first we talked about how she is hot, then we moved on to the controversy. I mean, come on.) She was wearing a dress by Christian Siriano that got a lukewarm response from T. [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Christina Hendricks, Fatism, Mad Men, Media, Project Runway, TV | 42 Comments »
I’d never heard of The Book Group, which is apparently a British show about, well, a book group. The second episode features a nice moment with an actress who presumably would be considered OMG FAT by the standards of American television, but is allowed to be sexy in Britain!
You can see her at [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Fat Positive, International, TV, Video | 22 Comments »
More celebrity gossip, only not in blind item format this time. Marissa Jaret Winkour is leaving as the host of Dance Your Ass Off. She will be replaced by Mel B., of Spice Girls fame.
This is what Marissa had to say: “Marissa’s reasons for not returning to season 2 are the following: the format [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Dance Your Ass Off, Hairspray, Music, TV | 9 Comments »
It’s Feel Good Friday, and as such, I’m going to throw out some links to a few things on the Internet I read this week with pleasure.
I already recommended this on Twitter, but Roger Ebert’s essay about no longer being able to eat or drink is fantastic. The man is a national treasure. (Via.)
When [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Feel Good Friday, Feminism, Movies, Question, Race & Ethnicity, TV | 9 Comments »
I knew about Madison magazine from Project Runway Australia, as it is the Elle/Marie Claire of that show (“The winner of Project Runway will receive a spread in Madison magazine…”). Now Beautiful You has a post about the plus-sized celebrities who posed nude for their October issue. More pictures at the link; mildly NSFW.
The woman [...]
Filed under: Advocacy, Biggest Loser, Celebrities, International, Magazines, NSFW, Project Runway, TV | 8 Comments »
Watching less TV = weight loss! At least that’s what the headlines will be saying about this “not statistically significant” study of 20 people whose TVs were electronically restricted. When their TV watching was cut by half, they burned more calories.
Overweight and obese individuals whose TVs were fitted with an electronic “lock-out” device to cut [...]
Filed under: American Idol, Glee, Humor, Science, TV, Weight Loss | 21 Comments »
Oh Neil Patrick Harris. How I love you. How everyone loves you! However. Not only was last night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother very upsetting (we can talk in the comments, fellow viewers) there was also a whole lot of “Barney eats! Barney gets fat! NPH puts on a fat suit!” humor. (Also [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Fat Suits, Humor, TV | 14 Comments »
Oh, Kirstie Alley. You’re a ridiculously beautiful woman. You’re reasonably talented, you’re fairly charming, you’re actually pretty hilarious, even. My point is, you have many excellent qualities, all of which are ripe for the picking and/or exploitation. You could have a career, Kirstie Alley! You could be an Actress, full stop. You don’t have to [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Cold Hard Cash, Diet Talk Warning, Fatism, Gossip, Humor, Kirstie Alley, Media, TV, Weight Loss | 14 Comments »
I’m pretty much just lifting this post wholesale from Jezebel: Men Who Are Obsessed With Obese Women.
On today’s episode, Tyra interviewed men who are “obsessed” with obese women. However, it seemed a lot more like a fetish than an obsession. One guest, Scott has been attracted to 400-pound women ever since he was a [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, TV, Tyra Banks | 31 Comments »
I just found out there is a second season of Project Runway Australia, so of course, I had to look it up on YouTube. Watching the opening credits I spotted a fat chick, who reminded me of the awesome Jessica Biffi on Project Runway Canada. Then I started watching the episode, and I found [...]
Filed under: Fashion, Feel Good Friday, Humor, International, Project Runway, TV, Video | 2 Comments »
So are you guys watching Glee? The awesome, Jane-Lynch-starring, musical-theater-celebrating, football-team-singing-Single-Ladies-scene-having, Glee? Which is on tonight?
If so, then you have noticed Amber Riley, who plays Mercedes, and is a plus-sized chick. Check out this post about her from All My Jiggly Bits.
Though in many ways the characters fall into the same old categories of [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Glee, Music, Race & Ethnicity, TV, Theater, Video | 24 Comments »
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This is a picture of Nicole Eggert, recreating her Baywatch character for Celebrity Fit Club, where it will no doubt be cast in the light of, “ew! she was so hot on Baywatch and now she’s so fat!”
Well, I’m going to go out on a limb and say she looks [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, TV | 20 Comments »
I don’t have any news about Jim Carrey’s weight gain, although I will keep an eye out for you, many Google searchers. But I did get a hot tip in the comments last week, and I wanted to share it: Jadet Cadet’s post on Gender and Size in the Action Genre.
She’s responding to a [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Feminism, Meta, Movies, Question, TV | 14 Comments »
I was glad to see this post from Fatties United bringing up the bit Jon Stewart did on The Daily Show last night. My husband and I watch TDS and Colbert on a daily basis; like so many people, it’s where I get most of my news.
When I saw this sketch, I wavered between, “come [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Fat Suits, Humor, TV, Video | 39 Comments »
At least that’s the gossip on E! online. In case you hadn’t heard, two women (Wilson and Michaela Watkins) were fired from the show as two women were hired. (Still no new black comics, though; I love how a show that prides itself on its political satire has exactly 0 black people in its [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Fatism, Humor, Politics, TV, Video | 25 Comments »
It’s Project Runway night, and we still haven’t talked about who we love (Shirin for the win, people) or plus-sexy designer Qristyl Frazier. She was featured before the season on Tom and Lorenzo’s blog and Fat and Fab Chic, where Fabby said:
I absolutely love this show, it is definitely among my top five on my [...]
Filed under: Fashion, Project Runway, TV | 9 Comments »
Alternate title: Only Skinny People Are Allowed on TV Unless They’re Part of a Fat-Themed Reality Show.
According to the New York Post:
Sources say that when Brian Williams left his desk to deliver Wednesday’s nightly broadcast from the middle of the newsroom, producers brought in some ringers. “NBC newsroom staffers don’t look like Vogue staffers,” said [...]
Filed under: Fatism, Media, TV | 9 Comments »
I saw this video on Wil Wheaton’s site, and even though I wasn’t familiar with The Guild, (other than seeing Felicia Day mention it on Twitter) I watched it.
The song is incredibly catchy and the video is cute, and I also noticed that one of the actors in it is a fat chick. [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Humor, Meta, Question, TV, Video | 19 Comments »
Nonk sent in a post from Alas, A Blog about Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse—the character of Mellie, in particular. Mellie is played by Miracle Laurie, who is like, a size four, instead of the size zero of co-stars like Eliza Dushku, Amy Acker, and the absolutely fantastic Dichen Lachman. Miracle Laurie is quoted in [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, TV, Video | 23 Comments »
The new TWoP editorial team is at it again; this time with “overweight versions of our favorite shows.” Including Gross Anatomy and Large and Obese. Oh, how clever. Jennie in the comments pointed out an especially dumb one:
My least favorite? “Gained (Lost),†described thusly:
“On their way to a fat camp in Australia, a plane [...]
Filed under: Fatism, Humor, TV | 12 Comments »
So Kelly Clarkson has been photoshopped again, this time on the cover of SELF. From Jezebel:
On the new cover…the editors did everything they could to obscure what her body actually looks like. Her right arm is totally invisible and much of her left arm has been cropped out. A yellow dot strategically obscures the area [...]
Filed under: American Idol, Celebrities, Kelly Clarkson, Magazines, Photoshop | 11 Comments »
