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#1

I would like to know what happened to all the fat people - and I don’t mean regular fat people because you could still find those - I’m talking about the fat actors and such you used to see in movies and on television; John Belushi, Chris Farley, John Goodman and, er, that guy who played Mr. Belvedere in the '80s.

Where are the successors to these people? I mean, even Santa isn’t fat anymore. I would like to know how being overweight became so revile that they have to take someone like Santa and slim him down so that he’s not a bad influence on the children. :-\ Now, all these little kids are leaving out health cookies for Santa every year. If I was Santa, I would be pissed.

What also hurts me is that people in the media who were once fat suddenly reappear, magically thin, including Peter Jackson, that guy from the Blues Traveler and that [i:8dfu7299]Black Leather[/i:8dfu7299] dude. All of these people were once fat and somehow became thin in a matter of weeks, magically.

If you ask me, this is the type of crap that sends a bad message. It’s like if we’re fat, we have to lose weight by getting our stomachs stapled or get some fat-removing surgery to get ourselves down idealistic way required by our jobs. Yeah, that’s a good message. :roll: Forget the healthy exercise, kids; have a doctor staple your stomachs.

Then, every once in a while, one of these informative jerks come down to the woodwork and gets all preachy in people’s faces about how being fat is bad and how everyone who’s overweight should go on a diet. I dislike these people. It’s not like everyone has directed [i:8dfu7299]Lord of the Rings[/i:8dfu7299] and is able to afford getting their stomachs stapled or have a fat-scrapping done on their butt. It doesn’t work that way.

Oh, and the best ever is when some of these former fat people reappear in the public eye, they just look goofy, as if their head doesn’t match their body anymore. It’s like some people are just meant to be fat, and when you take that away, they look really stupid. Alright? Really stupid!

I say, if folks that are fat are actually happy with themselves (assuming they don’t have some weird outfits that would kill them), then they should have every right to be fat and happy without being influenced or just plain screwed with. For folks who want to be happy with their current physique? Lose weight the old fashion way: EXERCISE! Don’t go get some freaking surgery for a quick fix. It’s freaking lame. It’s freaking stupid.

Yeah, I know that as the years have gone by and scientists have isolated the fat gene, I understand that this kind of surgery has become more and more acceptable amongst people - not me though. To me, it’s a cop-out for losers who can’t handle a little jogging, unless, of course, you are so fat you can’t move under your own weight. If so, then go get the surgery, okay?! If you can’t fit through your doorway, that’s when you get your stomach stapled.

Anyway, with that being said, I’m going to get a cookie with high fat, okay? No cookies for you! Leave me alone! :P

sings You cannot have a cookie… because the cookies do not belong to you!

~ Flare

#2

I know what you mean. These days to be famous you have to starve yourself. Or do drugs. Whatever works.

And the celebrities that ARE a bit overweight (say, Raven Symone) everyone makes fun of. It’s awful.

You know what? Yesterday at swimpractice I was saying how you practically have to starve yourself to be a model (Why are there so many stories of them dying of anorexia?) and a girl turned up her nose and said that “That was untrue and that comment was ignorant.”

Ignorant…right. Ya know, when I can look through a store catalouge and not see ribs on every other picture, maybe I might consider that as “ignorant.”

#3

Well, although the majority of people in the media eye are thin, there are definitely some notable larger celebrities. Beth Ditto is pretty big right now (I mean in terms of her stardom, not her size), Stephen Fry has always been in the public eye and has only recently lost weight for health reasons, Jack Black isn’t slim, and so on.

I actually recently saw a newspaper article about how having larger people on television is apparently a ‘bad thing’ because it’s saying that being fat is okay!

It seems like there’s no pleasing some people. I definitely agree that too many celebrities are underweight and are encouraging others to become underweight too, but at the same time the solution isn’t to have loads of fat people on TV either. There is a happy medium- normal sized people!- but they’re the ones that never get publicity about their weight.

And I also agree that surgery for over-weight people should be the absolute last resort. I think there should be some kind of rule that says that if you have genuinely tried to lose weight through other means, and if you have done this for a certain amount of time, and if you are so overweight that you are in danger of dying sometime soon, then you can have an operation.