Blake Lewis Was Robbed
May 25th, 2007
Because Jordin Sparks is too fat to be the American Idol. At least according to MeMe Roth (an Ann Coulter lookalike) from the National Action Against Obesity. And of course Fox News gives her a platform to make these claims.
MeMe Roth, president and founder of NAAO, is host and organizer of the Wedding Gown Challenge, where women enter into marriage at a healthy weight and maintain it for a lifetime.
Is this woman kidding? She is seriously defining our entire lives based on how we look on our wedding day? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?
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All this crap about fat people somehow encouraging other people to get fat just by appearing in public really pisses me off.
Maybe MeMe would feel better if we all pinned a Surgeon General’s Warning on our clothes?
I watched the video link included in in this entry and all I could do was stare at the screen with my mouth wide open. I honestly wanted to hit that MeMe woman!! How dare she say that someone the size of Jordan from A.I. is obese?!?! If anything, the girl has an average body and an image that young women can look up to for inspiration because she is not the “fad” size of 00.
Things like this just make me sick. Ugg!
The guys listening to her seemed to think she was an idiot, too – I loved how they jumped all over what she was saying.
ARRGGH I just responded to this on another blog.. that MEME woman is a idiot.. Jordin is a great example of good health.. this freak of a woman Meme probably would love to see our children behave more like the Lindsay Lohans and they Paris Hiltons.. uhmm after all.. aren’t they thin??? oh wait.. uhmm is one an irresponsible alcoholic… is the other one an icon of good behavior.. duhmmmm I do not think so… GIVE me a MILLION JORDINS.. for my children to emmulate…
What a piece of work that MeMe is! Is this NAAO some kind of Nazi-type “final solution” group to rid the world of fat people? Scary, very scary. Hopefully there are enough sane people in the world to keep these people marginalized and ineffective.
That woman MeMe has issues. Maybe she is just bitter because she doesn’t have talent, and must resort to being rude to those who do? I don’t know, but either way the two men that were with her thought she was a complete idiot.
WHAT? I don’t think Jordin is fat at all. In fact when Melinda was voted off (who I voted for because she had the best voice) I KNEW Jordin was going to beat Blake because of all the people voting because of “sexiness”.
How is Jordin fat? I’m watching that video now and you can see the muscles in her arms. She looks like she works out. (Sorry if I’m going to end up catching hell for saying that but I’m trying to say she looks TONED and in shape and stuff.)
If you check out Meme’s little spiel about herself on the NAAO website, she references that her family was fat and that she had a really awful experience during her wedding. So, yeah, clearly issues. She’s definitely internalized fat hatred and, it seems, is using it to justify some bizarre-ass attitudes. She has no other credentials than, I’ve-never-gotten-fat-so-you-shouldn’t.
Eh?
Is all I’ve got to say about that.
(Mind you, I did use my wedding as a handy exercise-motivator – and it worked – but I didn’t achieve my original goal weight and it didn’t ruin my life or my marriage.)
I am of the belief that people this stupid, should just not even be talked about.
I think its sad that the this MeMe chick thinks the only way someone can be a good role model is if they are too thin. Perhaps Jordin has more meat on her than most teeny-boppers, but she is beautiful! I agree with other commenters that having a fuller-figured role model doesn’t make people fatter! Did American get fatter after Reuben was voted in? I think we’d all agree he was obese, but somehow people didn’t look at him and say, oh, he’s fat and he’s famous, that must mean its okay for me to eat chips and ice cream all day to be just like him!! I just think this is a sexist and sizist attack on a lovely talented young woman. I wish Jordin lots of love and success.
Here’s a Nevada judge being ripped to shreds for being obese. thought you might find it interesting.
http://www.abovethelaw.com/2007/05/judge_of_the_day_elizabeth_hal_1.php#more
Read this.
Her name really is MeMe? How appropriate. She seems to think the world revolves around her POV. My take on angry people like this is that they can’t handle their own issues and so they project them onto a convienient target in an effort to master those uncomfortable feelings. Of course that tactic always fails.
Is Jordin a former Torrid model? I thought I’d heard that somewhere.
This is the same idiot who was trying to shame mother’s on Mother’s Day and blaming them for the obesity epidemic in the U.S. We’re fat, Roth says, because mother’s don’t love their children enough.
S – I read through the links, and I don’t find the Nevada judge being ripped to shreds for being obese…
It sounds like she is being ripped to shreds for being unprofessional. (Throwing a pencil and ordering her bailiff to pick it up? Paranoid and bringing her own unauthorized bodyguards to secured areas of the courthouse?) The articles about her behavior and treatment of staff don’t seem to be about her size. The lead in page does mention that, oh, by the way, she is really large, but that seems to be the only real comment on her weight.
I found this whole thing so sad and pathetic that I don’t even know what to say. I don’t watch American Idol, but I did catch Jordin on a talk show last week, after her win, and before I read any of this drama, I remember thinking to myself, “wow, she has a nice, normal, real-girl, toned healthy body… I’m impressed with America’s youth for selecting her.”
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.
Joke’s on her I guess. My wedding dress was a size 18. And also? I looked fantastic. :)
“She is seriously defining our entire lives based on how we look on our wedding day?”
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.
This woman is deranged. Jordin is seriously the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. And it’s not because of her size one way or the other, she’s just lovely.
Place MeMe at the top of the list of “Things I don’t understand”.
Jordin isn’t fat. She’s beautiful.
Ha, I was fat on my wedding day. And, I’m still fat. I’ll always be fat, even as I lose weight, I know I’ll never be a skinny woman.
“I’ll always be fat, even as I lose weight, I know I’ll never be a skinny woman.”
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.
“Kelly Clarkson and Jordin Sparks don’t need to lose weight, they need to keep on singing!”
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.
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