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 [...]
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Are you feeling down, low, sad, lonely, lacking in happiness and needing a tiny little boost to get you through that last patch of Friday and boost you into the weekend? Are you feeling cynical, hateful, sure that the world is bigoted and there are no positive, body-friendly messages left on earth and that everyone [...]
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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 [...]
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According a recent study, overweight women have a decrease in self-esteem when looking at models, regardless of the size of the models, whereas underweight women experience a boost in self-esteem, again regardless of the size of the models (thanks La Wade for the link).
We get a LOT of e-mail from PR folks about random stuff [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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fat boxerOriginally uploaded by mo pie
Show History has a fascinating compilation of names and pictures and brief biographies of fat people who worked as attractions in carnival sideshows. (They were also known as “freaks.”)
A little background:
Professional Fat Folk of an earlier age lived to astound a public for whom not having enough to eat [...]
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This week is all videos and Whedonites and internet drama, apparently! Thanks to a spammer (apparently a very effective spammer) following fat chicks or girls who say they’re fat on Twitter, I found this video, called “Fat Girls,” at Funny or Die.
Is it a “BBW tribute” as they claim? Or is the “BBW” the [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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I found out on Twitter that Kimberley Locke from American Idol is hosting a reality show about fat people joining a band:
“Making the Curve” — in which talented, plus-size women “prove that they have what it takes to form a hit pop musical group.”
Because… everyone in a band… needs to have… the same body type? [...]
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So this is a teen (tween?) band called Chair, with a song called “I’m Fat And Nobody Likes Me.” Finkbuilt describes it as “Awesome teen angst comedy mischief pop by Chair. Kind of NSFW, sophomoric and juvenile.” On YouTube, they are being compared to everyone from Jack Black to Moldy Peaches. Take a [...]
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The Gruen Transfer is an Australian show about advertising which dissects and analyzes the affects of advertising on the average human brain. As part of their show, they frequently issue challenges to agencies–create This Kind of advertisement. Sell this seemingly impossible-to-sell idea. This time around, it was make an ad about fat discrimination.
One entrant came [...]
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Hooray, Star Jones news! It’s been almost a year since we even mentioned her. But Star was on Oprah on Wednesday, facing the music about her gastric bypass and the fact that she hid it from the general public–whether on purpose or just by omission.
In the clip I saw on Jezebel, Star apologizes to her [...]
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More Hollywood news! It’s Hollywood Monday! There’s a reality show in development at Fox that will basically be a fat version of The Bachelor. It’s called More to Love.
For six years it’s been skinny-minis and good-looking bachelors, and that’s not what the dating world looks like,” Fox president of alternative Mike Darnell said. “Why [...]
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Matt sent along a bit of interesting celebrity news last week. He writes that according to Aint It Cool News, Jim Carrey is going to gain 40 pounds to play Curly Howard. He adds:
In the FA community, it’s pretty accepted that fat actors have a better shot at success than fat actresses, but here’s [...]
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Now that Big Love is off the air, those of you lucky people with HBO will need something else to watch to pass the time. Well, as Entertainment Weekly reminded me, this week is the premiere of the TV series version of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
I can’t wait to hear what you [...]
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BFDiva Michaela posted a link to this video on Facebook; in poking around, I also found a story to go along with it. The surgery is “deep brain stimulation” in the parts of the brain believed to control feelings of hunger and satisfaction. Here are the words of the woman, Carol Poe, who is [...]
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I received this letter from Sara, and immediately asked if I could post it here and get your feedback.
Hello Ms. Pie,
I am having a bit of a dilemma. I am about to lose my virginity (at 22) to a man who I really love. That’s not the problem. The problem is that I am so [...]
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congratulations, kate!Originally uploaded by mo pie
As if I was going to let the fact that MY GIRLFRIEND KATE WINSLET WON AN OSCAR go unrecognized. When I was waiting for her name to be called, Ian turned to my cousin and her boyfriend and said “Be careful. If Kate doesn’t win, you’re going to [...]
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BFDiva Meredith alerted me to the below “Dear Prudence” video advice column from Slate. In her e-mail, she sums up her outrage nicely:
The advice requester explains that he has a fat coworker who eats all the communal chocolate at a meeting, and he wants to say something to the fat man about how his [...]
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You may remember my husband Ian from that one time he waved at the camera when I was on The Mike and Juliet Show. But he has his own claim to fame; his macaroni and cheese box collection.
I was gone this week (thank you, Jen, for holding down the fort) because I accompanied him to [...]
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Ricky Gervais—creator of my favorite television show of all time and another show that makes me enjoy, of all people, Chris Martin from Coldplay—must you keep making me sad?
I feel like we’ve talked about this before—his description of himself as a “fatty,” his standup routine where he mocks Dawn French’s weight, his self-loathing, and so [...]
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If you have never heard the Dresden Dolls, check out “Coin Operated Boy” as soon as possible. If you have heard of them, you may have also heard that singer Amanda Palmer was recently told by her record label that her “fat belly” makes her “uncommercial.” The F-Word UK says:
This comes from a metal [...]
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