Much nicer than the other one (ok it was only jeans). I wish she could see how beautiful she is as herself, curves and all. I wish she could see that she doesn’t keep having to try and be something she’s not and never will be.

Oprah – you look gorgeous whatever size you are. I just wish that I too could afford a personal dressmaker that made clothes to measure and suit me, whatever my size.

“That’s a pretty big commitment,” says [University of Guelph obesity researcher Paula] Brauer. “We really underestimated how much it takes to lose substantial weight and keep it off.

Laughs till she almost cries at the level of “NO DUH” here.
Happy New Year, y’all.

I so agree with you about the Oprah pic. Then I read that she’s 5’6″ and weighs 200lbs and I thought “but that’s me!”. It made me think that if she can look that good then I can too.

One thing I liked about the article is that they chose a really flattering picture of Oprah at 200 lbs. She looks gorgeous in that dress! When people see that pic they will have to adjust their perceptions of “ZOMG 200LBS!!” because Oprah bears no resemblance to the headless fatties that usually accompany articles about fat and fat people.

I don’t understand why the article talked about sizing at all. The only way it made sense was if the point was supposed to be that we’re all bigger anyway; many women have crossed the threshold physically, just not psychologically. If that is the case, I wish the writer had spelled that out more clearly. Otherwise it seems like she’s saying that people don’t know they’re fat, like Kate said.

Truth be told, a lot of people wouldn’t know they were fat if we had no scales and no insane media. Like that island in the south Pacific (don’t remember which one), where women began to care about being fat and developed eating disorders after getting American TV and media.

dying laughing over here