Wake Up, Carnie Wilson!
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 1999, tells People Magazine, “I need help.”
I keep thinking of how celebrities are allowed to be fat if they’re also very apologetic about it. (At least we have Gabourey Sidibe on Team Unapologetic.) It’s the same dynamic behind The Biggest Loser: beat yourself up, and we’ll forgive you for being fat. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!
“I have to be a teacher to my daughters…Lola [her four-year-old daughter] started to notice commercials on TV with people who are trying to lose weight, and she looks at me. She’s thinking about this stuff, and it’s getting to her.”
Here’s where I want to shake her, because I’m afraid for this poor four-year-old of hers, watching weight loss commercials and hearing her mother constantly apologizing for her size. I don’t think you’re teaching your daughters the right thing unless you teach them to love themselves. Please, please, whatever else you do, teach them that.
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That is so sad. She is right, she needs to be a teacher to her daughters. And when her four year old is looking at her after seeing the commercials, instead of showing shame she should be using the opportunity to teach self-acceptance.
I agree with you whole heartedly on this. The Carnie Wilson issue is a frustrating one. In case you haven’t seen it, Lesley over at http://www.Fatshionista.com has been recapping the show up until now and I think she makes some very good points regarding what you’ve said and much more. I would encourage anyone to check it out for more on this Wilson situation.
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!
Hello Carnie!!! You’ve spent your life dieting and even went under the knife and you’re STILL GETTING FAT.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
You would think the lightbulb would come on at this point and you’d realize that YOUR BODY IS MEANT TO BE FAT.
And you’re setting your four-year-old up for a lifelong struggle against genetics if you don’t get off this ridiculous roller coaster. Gargh!
Okay, I’m going to go take a breather before my head explodes.
Peace,
Shannon
The main problem I’m seeing is that there’s too much focus on the number on the scale, and not on the actual condition of her health. Maybe she is eating terribly and/or living in an unhealthy way, but maybe she isn’t. I don’t know, and may I remind everyone else that no one knows this woman and what her eating habits and lifestyle are like. The point is, she needs to forget about her number in pounds and ask herself how she can improve her health, physically and mentally. Then she will be on right track towards being a good role model for her child.
Off-topic with regardsd to Carnie Wilson, but there’s a nightline special discussion on the fat acceptance movement on tonight,
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/FaceOff/weight-debate-fat/story?id=9911743
I’m hoping to catch it, or watch it online if I can’t stay awake long enough!
My mom was like this. She’s 5’2″ and round and cuddly like Mrs. Santa Claus. She’s also stunningly beautiful, and I’m not exaggerating. So when I was young & she always called herself a “water buffalo” and tried EVERYTHING to lose weight, what did that do to me? It gave me a complex about my weight for YEARS. I, too, tried everything. Then after WW failed spectacularly, I came to the “I’m meant to be this weight” conclusion & found fat acceptance.
I have since then dragged my mother into fat acceptance as well and she hasn’t called herself a water buffalo in years. I hope Carnie Wilson kicks this crap to the curb before HER daughter has to do what I did.
I don’t think being fat matters. What I do think that matters is health. Accepting your self is good, but how is your health? Does she exercise, eat healthy? Does she binge eat, starve herself, or binge drink. We don’t know. In my opinion, if you are healthy, then you should accept your body as it is. :) Incuding Carnie Wilson.
I am fat, but I try to live a very healthy lifestyle. Becuase of this, I love myself, and so do the people in my life.
Ugh, what she’s teaching her daughter is to do battle with her body her whole life, that food falls into moral categories, and that physical activity must be done in the name of “fat-burning” and “tightening.” (You know, instead of physical activity being something you do for fun, enjoyment, and the general good-feeling adrenaline gives you). Break the cycle, Carnie!
@April: “And when her four year old is looking at her after seeing the commercials, instead of showing shame she should be using the opportunity to teach self-acceptance.”
This. And a basic explanation of the function and questionable veracity of advertising wouldn’t come amiss, either.
That’s horrible. Poor woman. I wonder if she’ll ever wake up and smell the genetic determination.
Well, if she’s still feeling bad about herself maybe she DOES need help, but help learing to LOVE herself regardless of the number on the scale, not necessarily help losing weight.
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