Nikky Blonsky Brings the Quotes of the Day
June 24, 2010 in Celebrity Quotes by Versus
21 year-old Nikky Blonsky is the star of a tv show called “Huge”, a show about a group of teens sent to a summer weight-loss camp. Nikki recently opened up about her role, about prejudices and being plus-size in an interview for The Frisky:
Nobody really looks like that, unless you have the means. Most of America doesn’t have the money to have a trainer 24/7 and a meal service to bring you meals, because if they did, we’d all be a size 2. And that would just be too perfect.
Every single issue skinny people go through, plus-size people go through, too. We’re all human beings and we have to remember that our looks are something that are only with us for a certain time. It’s our spirit that people will remember us for as time goes on and we grow older.
See the entire interview HERE!
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“Every single issue skinny people go through, plus-size people go through, too.”
And evey single issue plus-size people go through, skinny people do too.
If people think that only plus-sized people go through prejudices, or are forced to feel unattractive, the are sadly mistaken. I’d love to find one naturally thin person who hasn’t been accused of having an eating disorder at some point in their life (or been called derogatory names like “prepubescent boy”).
Sadly, this is an all-people thing, not just a plus-sized issue, even though the plus-sized side is able to be more vocal about it.
I am sorry, but I think it is probably much harder to be plus size than skinny. People make fun of plus size people far more than skinny people. You don’t see size 16 women on the cover of Vogue do you?
I think the REAL issue is that normal sized women like me (size 6) are the true rarity in Hollywood. Sure, some women are naturally skinny and some are naturally “big boned.” But most of us fall in the middle, and our media doesn’t try to appeal to us.
Most people don’t care who’s on the cover of what magazine in their day to day interactions.
Yes, skinny people have it just as hard (by skinny I mean size 2 and under). Malicious comments get swung both ways…the skinny/normal people attack the fat people, and the fat/normal people attack the skinny people. It’s 50/50.
The only difference is, no one cares about the comments swung towards skinny people because, “they are the attractiveness standard so it couldn’t hurt them that much.” Unfortunately, when you’re a thin person and all you’re hearing is people around you calling you skeleton and anorexic, you probably never feel attractive inside even if Hollywood or high fashion is putting you as a standard.
yeah skinny people get no sympathy from me.
I second that.
sounds bitter
“yeah skinny people get no sympathy from me.”
That’s exactly the point of my post. That’s sad.
I don’t have much sympathy either. Everybody knows when women get called names for being too skinny it is just out of jealousy. When women get called names for being fat it is out of hatred and disgust. And I’m an average size 6 so I think I have a pretty neutral opinion. It’s a million times worse to be called a pig than a stick.
padme it’s still not right to bash women who are thin because of what you see. and thin women get negative, disgusting comments about how they look. you see it on internet, t.v but i guess no one will ever understand because of whatever reason. and amy sounds bitter for writing what she said.
I didn’t say it was ok to bash anyone, just that it is a lot worse to be too fat than too skinny. Telling a girl she looks way too skinny is practically a compliment so it’s kind of annoying hearing them whine about it.
and how is it annoying? no woman wants to be made to feel bad about her body, regardless of what shape she has. if you call a skinny girl cruel names it will hurt just as much when you bash bigger people. it’s not right and it’s not fair. unless you know what it’s like to have people make comments about your body then skinny women have the right to whine.
It’s annoying when people act all offended about what amounts to a compliment. I do know how it feels to be teased for my weight. I’ve lost over 60 lbs and I heard plenty of cruel comments about what a fat disgusting whale I was (topping out at 190 mind you). Once losing weight I started hearing things like, omg you’re getting too skinny! Are you starving yourself? Your bones are practically popping out! Sure, it’s always uncomfortable hearing comments about your body but being insulted for being skinny doesn’t even come close to the pain of being called fat. Go walk around town in a fat suit for a day then I bet you’d never again complain about being too thin.
that doesn’t change the fact that being called names about skinny women is right. there is no excuse for it period. either way it still hurts and even if i was in a fat suit that won’t change the fact thin women are constantly bash and being accused of being anorexic, knowing that is a serious disease. why joke about that? unless you know what it’s like to be criticize for being too thin and having people judge you and say you’re not a real woman then i won’t stop complaining.
Well I never said it’s ok to bash anyone. Personally I never comment on anyones body ever (except on this site!), even if it’s meant as a compliment because you never know how they’ll take it. The point is it’s much harder on bigger girls. It’s like if someone had a bad cold and they started complaining about it to a cancer patient. Sure the cold probably really sucks but I doubt the cancer patient would have much sympathy.
i still disagree. thin women have it just as hard as bigger women. people choose not to talk about it or even acknowledge it. and that’s something i don’t like period.
Cute Boy Talking to girl A: Girl, you need some meat on your bones.
Cute Boy talking to girl B: Girl, you need some jenny craig.
Somehow it doesn’t even out. sorry, naturally thin women. fatties have it harder
“Cute Boy Talking to girl A: Girl, you need some meat on your bones.
Cute Boy talking to girl B: Girl, you need some jenny craig.
Somehow it doesn’t even out. sorry, naturally thin women. fatties have it harder”
Well that’s because the comparison you’re making is not even.
Try the following:
Boy talking to Girl A: Girl, you look like a prepubescent boy.
This may be hard to do if you’re not naturally thin and can gain weight easily, but try to put yourself into the position of a person who cannot just put meat on their bones, and who has noticed that men chase after the girls with the bigger butts and the bigger breasts.
The issue is the same, for the heavy set and the underweight.. By me saying that both sides go through hardship, I thought it might bring everybody closer together and stop some negative sh** that gets thrown around from both sides. That way everybody suffers less.
What I don’t understand is why some of you are so strongly resistant to that idea. You absolutely refuse to even entertain the notion that those who are thin might have it difficult too. Why? Would you like a big ol’ pity party? Woe is your life, you have it so much harder than everyone else, poor you? Or is it because you would like to have the option to insult thin women whenever you feel down, to give yourself a self-esteem boost?
Absolutely pathetic.
I think that skinny people are not only size 2 and under… I know some girls with bmi 17 wearing size 6 and they are really underweight and skinny.
I completely agree. I feel like skinny people are ridiculed just as much as plus-size, overweight, big boned, or curvy people are. So many people say that skinny is the ideal, but then so many of those same people turn around and ridicule people who are actually thin or skinny.
Also, it seems like if women are slim, so many people ridicule them and say things like “she has an eating disorder,” “she needs to stop being so vain,” etc.
” Everybody knows when women get called names for being too skinny it is just out of jealousy.”
When you’re young and on the recieving end of one of those comments, you DON’T know it’s just out of jealousy. You start to believe the stuff that is said about you.
I hate to keep bringing up my personal experiences because I don’t want to make this about me (I’ve known other thin women that have gone through the same thing), but as a teen I had 32B cup size, a 0.7 WHR, and a decent butt. And I still never felt attractive, never felt womanly. In fact, despite the fact that I never looked bony like Erin Heatherton, I thought that’s what I looked like to others.
That’s pretty bad…it’s distortion of reality. Repeated cruel comments like that can really mess with a person’s head and self esteem, even if it is just “out of jealousy.” In the same way that normal women can feel fat thanks to the fashion industry, thin women can feel grotesque thanks to comments from people around them.
It’s not cool and it’s not excusable just because “thin is in.” It’s sad.
like i said people won’t feel sorry for thin women because we have the so called media. who gives a damn?? thin women have feelings too and why do we have to feel ashamed about the way we look? the media may praise thin women as the standard of beauty but that does change the fact that people bash skinny women to make themselves feel better. how can we sit here and talk about change when we sit here and criticize women, mainly thin women, because of the way we look? the point is we deserve respect whether people like it or not.
Exactly bigvinamac. To be able to insult someone else simply because you’re jealous of them or because you feel bad about your own body is ridiculous.
By that standard, when I was younger I had the right to insult everybody who was larger than me, because I felt bad about my body and wanted to be bigger. I should have gone around calling everyone fat so that I could have made myself feel better. Because hey, if they can make themselves feel better by insulting me, I should be able to do the same!
And thus the cycle of women hating and bringing women down continues. It’s sad because it’s not even men that make us feel fat, skinny or unattractive. It’s each other.
i agree casey. men do play a role of bashing thin women but you’re more likely to hear it from women all the time. why should i bash someone who is bigger than me to make myself feel good? instead of blaming the media we need to take a look at ourselves and see what we can do to change this. i’ve known plenty of thin women who wish they can gain weight and look more fuller. but like you said if bigger women have the right to pick on thin women then maybe i should the same huh? no it’s not right but is it right to put down thin women because of what the media says?
are you amercian? because its not something anyone i know gets called- i’m british. i am a size 6/8 british which is i think 2/4 american. i have friends skinnier than me, no one calls them anorexic. conversely they all still call themselves fat, and many would like to lose weight- interestingly one of them has decided to go on a diet (a size 0/2) because she is going to see friends in the states and they are all skinnier than her and she doesn’t want to be the fat one in her bikini.
Yes. I live in America. I’ve also lived in the Balkans, and the same thing. Not necessarily anorexia accusations, but being thin is either percieved as modern/modelesque and therefore attractive, or unhealthy and therefore “eat more.”
Don’t try to act like their aren’t tons of fatties walking around Great Britian. I live in Stockholm, Sweden., home of the tall, tan, skinny bitches. They are documentaries on television ALL THE TIME about how fat the English. I think it’s hilarious how they try to hide behind American fat all the time. I’m sick of hearing about how fat Americans are. Has anyone been to London, England lately?! Fat city, people!! FAT CITY! Yes, there are skinny bitches too, but clearly being skinny ain’t no where near as heinous as being fat is if a size 2 is trying to be a size 0, mmmkay?
Thin or skinny people are no where near as “picked on” as fat people are. How many skinny people have YOU not wanted to sit next to on an airplane, train, or bus? Imagine how it must feel to have the entire train or bus fill up before someone will sit down next to you because you’re overweight. Now THAT is sad.
Yes, they are. You’re comparing apples to oranges. They don’t get picked on or judged in the same way, but they get judged.
So no, people are not likely to avoid skinny people on buses or planes, but that’s not the same as there being no judgement passed. That just means that there is not that particular judgement passed.
Sorry, but if you’re a particularly thin and lean girl, people assume you’re starving yourself to achieve that frame and that there is something “wrong” with you. They aren’t likely to try to make friends with you, and try to avoid you. They even make rude comments behind your back, as if anorexia is some big evil thing that people choose to do rather than a mental illness.
And honestly, unless you’re a size 0 I don’t particularly care for your opinion on this matter because you wouldn’t have experienced what I am talking about. All the judgements are subtle and masked by the fact that current beauty standards favor slim women.
People clearly do not want to admit that they spew hate towards thin people because of the media’s lack of variety. Sadly, is not those thin people’s fault that the media came up with that standard. And even sadder, being surrounded by people who don’t want to talk to you, who insult you to your face and behind your back…that matters more than magazine covers.
So the thin standard in Hollywood doesn’t actually improve the self-esteems of thin people.
Are you saying since plus-size people have it harder than slim people, it’s okay to attack slim people? Because somebody chose to make only slim people models it is okay to make nasty comments about slim bodies? I think plus-size women have it harder than average women too, so is it all right to insult average bodies as well?
Agreed!
I’ve been accused of being anorexic, as well as being overweight. I would have to say that it was worse being called overweight because I knew that no one was impressed with my figure. However, the women who call me anorexic are usually the envious types that just like to spread their venom. It’s much easier for me to let the “anorexic” comments roll off my back because I know that those women have their own body image issues that have nothing to do with me. On the other hand, I have never heard of a woman saying that she wants to be overweight or “fat”. People don’t envy overweight and out of shape people.
i’ve been called anorexic so many times but it doesn’t bother me. i’ve a bmi of 16.5 and have been trying to gain weight but it’s tough. however i feel that overweight people definitely have a much tougher time than me. two of my close friends are overweight and they get so upset over what people (complete strangers, mind you) say to them, call them names etc, that i think they feel quite depressed at times. i can’t be in the shoes of overweight ladies but even so, from the point of a skinny person, i feel that skinny people should stop whining about how they are unfairly treated because the larger women are certainly more badly hit
1) Size 16 is not unhealthy if you are tall and have a large skeleton, in which case you would not appear to have an excess of fat on your body like Nicky does, because a big boned person at size 16 has the right amount of fat (and muscle) to cover their dense, broad bones. Serena Williams is big boned, thick and healthy. Nicky is morbidly obese, big boned or not. She needs to loose a LOT of weight.
2) Vogue does feature a lot of unhealthily skinny models, which is terrible, but featuring overweight models would be equally irresponsible. However, some models are genetically very thin and they’re healthy. No one is healthy being obsese. Only models who are a healthy weight should be featured, but a wide range of BUILDS and shapes…. Large builds like Serena Williams and Crystal Renn, thick pear shapes like Beyonce and J.Lo, small pears like Nina Dobrev, fit apple shapes like Liv Tyler, ruler shapes like Cameron Diaz, slim hourglasses like Scarlett Johansson, bigger boned hourglasses like Christina Hendricks, and finally some naturally skinny people too, like Twiggy was in the 60′s. All perfectly healthy women, all look totally different. Overweight or underweight people should not be featured at all.
3) Obese people do get picked on, true, and i never condone bullying. It’s someone’s choice to be overweight and, even if it’s detrimental to their health, other people don’t have a right to victimise them for it. That said, obesity is a choice (less than 1% of people have a rare metabolic disorder which makes them unable to loose weight – hardly anyone, in other words). Plenty of people in the world are genetically thin – there are even some ethnic groups are naturally very skinny. Oriental and Indian/Pakistani women tend to be very lean, as well as certain tribes in Africa. For these people, it isn’t a choice to be skinny. And besides, it doesn’t look strange because these people were designed to slender. No one is genetically designed to be obese and it looks terrible, hence the nasty comments from some people. Although it’s NEVER acceptable to bully, you can understand why obese people would attract negative attention, and thin people wouldn’t.
Well this is: one word: Unbelievable.
Nikki is famous for being obese. And she says she feels CONFIDENT? Look, woman, you aren’t known for your spirit and personality if that’s what you want, you’re known for being huge. That’s what your TV show is called. You’re a reality TV star on a weight loss show and you’re saying you feel confident and happy about your body? You look terrible, unhealthy, and right now don’t deserve to have your own show, because while there are real people who want to have higher self esteem to lose weight, you’re there promoting an unhealthy image. And unlike some people said, it’s not her business since she’s sharing it on TV and the media.
She needs to shut up and get on the treadmill.
Casey is right, I am a size 2 and when I have been a bit bigger (size 4) from over eating and not exersizing, I didnt like it, size 2 is my normal size when I eat the normal amount, 2000 cals a day, and dont just sit on my ass all the time. Thats just the way my body is made, however even though I didnt like being a size bigger, I still am made to feel bad for being skinny, but never by guys, only by women, and it sucks! Average-size women bitch about us thin girls because they think, what, we need to be brought back down to earth because we are full of ourselves, or we intimidate them, what is it? Its a lose-lose situation because as I am I will get bitchy comments from some girls, but if I’m bigger than im really meant to be, then I am not as healthy. Really I dont know. I’m a girls girl, I love hanging out with girls, I prefer female company to guys, I’m a good girlie friend, I dont see why any female should be against me because I’m thin.
Women are so competetive about what is “hotter” to guys, please, you think guys are hating on each like this? We need some solidarity.
This actress is right, people of any size outside the norm face discrimination. And at the end of the day it is not our looks that is the most important thing, it is who we are on the inside. Sometimes people need to remember that.
agree!! when i was size 4 i felt so uncomfortable, i had gained 10 pounds because of the pill and i wanted to lose weight. all of my friends nagged on me, “why do you wanna do that? you’re not fat” no, but im pudgy and i feel big. i had to explain myself all the time! when i went down to a 2, nobody congratulated me, they said i was “disappearing” in front of them and all sorts of bs.
women are too competitive, they thought i would get all the guys if i were a tad smaller etc etc. makes me sick when i met people who are that petty.
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This makes me so grateful for my friends. I lost a bunch of weight (size 6 to size 0) and my friends were all really supportive. They knew I was trying to live healthier, not “look skinny.”
If you don’t feel at home in your body, as long as you don’t have some kind of body dysmorphia, no one should criticize you for wanting to get a little bit more in shape so you can feel your best.
Lovisa, that’s completely true. Psychologists say that the reason some women don’t want their friends to loose weight/tone up/dye their hair, ect ect, dates back to cave man days when a more attractive/desirable friend could have taken mates away from other women in the tribe. Hence, as a self protective response, cave women would have either out cast, or “bitching” in the modern world haha, the “more attractive” female in order to protect their chances of finding mates and reproducing.
These responses have existed to the modern day, which is why your friends were behaving so annoyingly. Blame it on our ancestors lol!
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I eat close to 2000 calories a day and maintain a size 2-4 @ 110lb-115lb….it depends on how much muscle you’ve got and activity level. Someone sedentary with little muscle will need less calories than someone active with lots of muscle.
You see chubbiness probably because you lack muscle and therefore have a higher percentage of fat. You’ll still feel the same even if you got to 113lb (which would be terribly underweight for someone your height).
Try lifting weights and increase protein intake. It worked for me.
snoops, same here.
At my skinniest I ate AT LEAST 2000 calories every day, and had a BMI of 17.5. No known medical or thyroid issues.
Now I’m almost normal, but it’s thanks to a 2500 high protein diet and lots of weight training.
At both weights, I’ve been called lots of rather rude things. Anorexia accusations, been called a skeleton, been called unwomanly (and felt unwomanly, despite the fact that male attention was not absent, and despite the fact that I have a good WHR) etc etc.
To me, it wasn’t easy to have the comments roll off my back, because I cannot change my body. I am on the thin side, and will always be on the thin side. It did not matter that when I open a magazine that a lot of the women look like me…the hurtful comments I had to endure from the people around me were enough to keep my self esteem low for a long time. Until I realized that those women were going through issues of their own and were just lashing out.
When I hear plus-sized women talk about the things they had to endure because of their weight, I can’t help but notice many similiarities between their experience and my own. So I wouldn’t say that they have it worse, I’d say it’s pretty equal.
I agree. But i think the fact that male attention wasn’t abscent says it all. =D
Wow, you must have an insanely slow metabolism. I can’t imagine eating that little.
I’m 5’0″ 105 lbs, curvy & muscular (my body is like a slightly more fit version of Kelly Osbourne’s body — size 0 to her size 2). I eat (roughly) between 1500-1800 calories a day. I burn about 300 calories per day with exercise.
Good on ya! U sound healthy and fit
oh I feel for you my sister is the same and she is VERY muscular and atheltic but she has to eat a very strict calorie controlled diet or she balloons, its just the way she is.
im not sure why no one else seems alarmed by this comment, but let me just say that eating 600 calories a day is EXTREMELY dangerous! Of course none of us can diagnose you with any sort of eating disorder, but you should know that eating that little can have detrimental effects on your body and can even lead to death.
You’re right, I deleted the comment. Sorry, but I can’t accept comments that promote / talk about starvation diets.
As someone who suffers from an eating disorder, comments about how “tiny!” and “cute!” I am are extremely uncomfortable. How do you deal with that?
I can’t even take a compliment graciously because, for one, I don’t see myself as being any of those things at all. Secondly, by saying “oh, thanks” it feels like I am being vain or taking credit for something that I really shouldn’t be. I know people intend it as a compliment, but I really don’t think anyone should boldly comment on anyone’s weight, big or small.
you are not being vain by saying thank you. it’s a compliment. even though you have an eating disorder you must be delicate/attractive/fit if people mention they like your physique. it’s better than receiving criticism. i can relate ~ having a distorted perception of myself, but i take my compliments where i can.
it changes from day to day, really. Some days I just take it and move on, but other times it bothers me because it makes me think I must be doing something ‘right.’ :\
so, you feel guilty for having an eating disorder? what do you mean by doing something “right”?
@Becca no, I mean those comments make me feel conflicted. My eating disorder isn’t about looking good, since nobody with a disorder ever feels like they look right. What I meant was, when I get complimented, it’s hard to take because I know what I’m doing to myself. It’s kind of like I’m being rewarded for being sick just because I look good, ie thin.
i know how you feel. i have always really struggled with comments on my looks. this one older woman at work always used to tell me how pretty i was, which is a nice thing, but she was known for being very honest, and i was always terrified she would suddenly come in one day and realise i was actually hideous and tell me!!!
on the other side though, most comments about my looks are not pleasant. maybe because i am a normal weight I usually get comments on my height. snide little digs about being a midget or hobbit. some say little and cute as if its a compliment and then pat you on the head, what grown woman wants to be treated like that???
many women do get competetive and will undermine, in subtle ways people they are jealous of.
so now i always try and find something good to say about a friend, and most like getting compliments.
I do have to say I disagree. I am even thin myself (size 2).
Take an example form this: I have never met a man who has rejected a woman for being too thin, only too large.
I’m saying this because the “women make women feel bad” has already been said.
Anyway, all I had to add.
yeah yeah, but she’s still obese.
lose a little, then you’ll be around much longer and actually will grow old.
“Nobody really looks like that, unless you have the means. Most of America doesn’t have the money to have a trainer 24/7 and a meal service to bring you meals, because if they did, we’d all be a size 2. And that would just be too perfect.”
how about the rest of the world? for example, sweden is a healthy and slim country, we can be slim without meal services and personal trainers. stop making excuses for your and others obesity! the problem is that you eat too much and don’t move around enough. weight loss and staying slim is simple math, +-=0
exactly
you are absolutely right… on the other hand, it is only her business and if she is satisfied the way she is and if she doesnt mind not taking care of her self – she has every right to do that, but making excuses about obesity of her country.. come on! and speaking about money… in my opinion, obesity is usually (when it is not caused by some disease or ilness) quite expensive. to keep your self obese or overweight you need a lot of food = a lot of cash. so being slim or at normal weight is economically more reasonable
I agree with everything you said blake, except that obesity is expensive.
It’s actually the opposite. Obesity is cheap and convenient. Fatty food, processed food, unhealthy food…it’s low price and pre-made. That’s why so many people are obese. I don’t know where you live, but where I live there’s a fast food chain restaurant on every block. Not to mention in the stores, all the packaged dinners, fatty meat, and processed snacks tend to be a lot cheaper than lean meat, fruits and veggies, etc.
And poor people typically have to work longer hours and harder jobs, so they don’t have time to cook dinner, therefore they go for the quick and cheap alternative. And if they do cook dinner, they don’t have the option of getting that lean tuna steak…they go for the fatty pork chops because it’s cheaper.
There’s a reason why low economic status is strongly correlated with obesity, even when you hold education level constant (meaning, the poor people know about nutrition).
Though I don’t agree with what she said about the catering thing.
Yes, the food is cheap and convenient. But food is just one part of a person’s budget.
Medical bills are obscenely expensive. Obesity makes people sick, in many different ways. Medical insurance is more expensive (or at least it was — the new laws might have improved the situation a bit). Traveling costs more if you have to buy two plane seats.
Those are the major things. There are also the minor things. Clothes cost more because they use more fabric. Clothes also wear out faster if your thighs constantly rub together.
Statistics show that people who are overweight or obese are less likely to get raises or promotions than their fit counterparts because of an underlying cultural prejudice, so being overweight actually makes it harder to earn money.
Of course, our culture tends to glorify instant gratification. We’re bombarded by ads promoting instant gratification constantly, to the point that it’s dangerously close to brainwashing. Bad food costs less in the short term and people don’t realize about how much it might cost them in the long term. And the fast food industry profits from that ignorance, even encourages it, by putting soda machines in elementary schools and McDonald’s franchises in hospital lobbies.
Actually, being overweight is cheaper than being healthy. Fresh and organic fruits/vegetables, fish, and other healthy items and preparing them at home is more expensive than buying fast food. Watch Food Inc. It’s a good film.
I disagree with these statements. I come from a working class family, and we have always found it cheaper to buy meat, cheese, and vegetables and prepare them at home, rather than get McDonald’s every night. And no, we don’t buy “organic” food, just cheap shit from the grocery store a few blocks away. There are very few places I’ve heard of in the US that do not have some type of alternative to fast food joints (granted, I’m from Chicago and know they can be sparse on the south side).
I know how difficult it is to move between social classes, and understand that one must have time to prepare this aforementioned food. But even throwing a hamburger together at home (say, 2 slices of bread, meat, and cheese) can save you a considerable amount of cash compared to a $3.30 meal.
BTW, depending on how low your income is or how large your family is, I don’t think you should be eating a package of fatty pork chops whole.
You are SO right! When I was younger, my mom and I were very poor. We lived off of things like Campbell’s soup…soup…and soup. We also had some canned tuna in there and sandwiches from peanut butter and jelly. Canned fruit. Big jars of applesauce. None of it was gourmet, but it wasn’t McDonald’s. She worked two jobs and so there wasn’t time to cook–but it takes 2 minutes to microwave soup with low sodium and low fat content.
As far as this girl, I LOVE the second quote about the spirit. But the top part is stupid. I’m now a poor student and I keep in shape by running around the block and watching what I eat. She’s a bit delusional.
Sonya, you’re example that education as well as income has a big impact on what you eat. It is definitely cheaper to buy food from the supermarket than it is to buy fast food. As a student I ate tuna, jacket potatoes, baked beans, pasta and rice; all cheap and quick to prepare. It wasn’t organic but i’d like to point out that organic, no matter what Gordon Ramsey says, does not make a food product healthier. In fact organic farming is more to do with ethics than health. Fresh is always better than frozen and tinned but the latter are not bad for you, you just need to check salt and sugar contents of tinned foods to make sure they are okay.
What we need to realise is that the knowledge we have on food that we take for granted is not something that everyone has. Healthy eating is marketed as being expensive and fast food as being cheap. People that never learnt how to cook (and there are plenty of those) will not have the opportunity and do not bother to discover cheap ways of eating quick healthy meals.
but you can still buy a lot of beans and lentels (super cheap, at least in sweden), frozen vegetables are cheap too, always buy meat that’s on sale etc. im a student and me and my boyfriend (and all of the other students in sweden) have the lowest income, it’s actually below the minimum the poorest swede gets in social welfare,
“The minimum subsistence is known in Sweden for the amount of money that a person must have that income in a month to achieve a reasonable standard of living. The amount depends on the context in which it is updated”
and i must say, we live really healthy! we eat a lot of salads, feta cheese, canned tuna, eggs, buy bulks of chicken, meat etc.
if you have knowledge about food and nutrition you can live healthy and cheap:)
sweden is kind of anti-fatness so a meal at burger king costs around.. 72 svenska kronor, like 9 USD.
mcdonalds have closed down around 20 restaurants in sweden the last few years because of non profit.
the swedish equivalent MAX has lower prices and nutritious fast food with hamburgers with youghurt dressing, wholegrain bread and as a side dish a bean salad, for example
candy are forbidden at schools, everybody eats wholegrain bread or rye bread, nobody eats sugary cereals, the soda industry has ditched the sugar and focuses now on mineral water (totally unnecessary since our tap water is delicious). etc etc!
conclusion, we’re a pretty healthy country!
i hope america soon starts to take their obesity epidimic seriously or else.. you’re kind of fudged
I was 23 before I ever ate lentils, Americans don’t learn about less expensive/non-meat forms of protein and iron. And when we do it’s usually stigmatized as gross or “foreign” that’s doubles the price and makes it “rich people food.” Meanwhile, anyone can walk into McDonald’s have a burger, fries and soda for under $3.
Sweden does sound like a very healthy country, you’re lucky! Unfortuantely, knowledge about health isn’t passed around here, and it’s only recently been a gov’t recognized issue. We have pizza, fries, snickers ice cream bars and fried chicken in schools for lunches, french toast sticks were practically health food. I didn’t like school lunch so instead I got ice cream or cookies and soda, but don’t worry soda wasn’t available in school until after the last bell rang. of course you could bring it, you just couldn’t buy the school supplied soda.
thats so sad
im studying to be a teacher so every semester i have internships at a school for 2-3 weeks. this may i was at a junior high, and held 10 nutrition classes in gym, the kids knows ALOT! we talked about antioxidants, fibre, protein, that they should avoid processed foods, energy drinks, sodas, white pasta and bread, and that they should eat healthy fats like omega 3, olive oil, sunflower oil etc. in sweden we try to learn the kids from an early age to prevent childhood obesity, its in the teens when the volume of fat cells in the body are deciced, so if your fat when you hit that age, it’s so much harder to lose weight in your adult life. the government want to take precautions. i think it’s a very smart idea! i hope the us takes after!
Lovisa, you are right. There are some cheap and healthy items one could purchase and make a good meal out of. But unfortunatly, at least here, people who are of low income often have to work very difficult and tiring jobs, or even two jobs, just to pay rent. So it’s not just that they don’t have the money, they also don’t have the time.
At one point, my dad was working two jobs, and if it weren’t for my mom being home, I don’t think we ever would have eaten home-made food simply because I was a kid and couldn’t cook, and my dad was always working.
I also think it’s kind of what you’re used to. For example, I never really ate much green salads growing up, but recently I wanted to be healthier and did. I think a lot of people here in America are not used to eating rice and lentils. It’s white processed flour, white bread, processed sugar, oil, beef and pork…etc.
Oh and what Chrissy said. If you try to spread info about a healthy source of nutrition, it immedietly becomes super expensive. Olive oil for example is 3 times as expensive as vegetable oil (and not even extra virgin). Whole wheat bread is double the price of white bread.
that’s insane! how can it be that expensive?! rapeseed oil is a swedish “speciality”, costs as much as regular oil but is filled with omega 3 and polyunsaturated fat
i get sad to hear all this stuff about the us
here in sweden it’s more common to eat knäckebröd than french toast, knäckebröd = crisp bread, and in finland the only bread they use to serve in jail is ruisleipää (dryed rye bread) which i LOVE! so yummy 
here rye bread was seen as something only poor people ate, in finland they even have rye bread on the mcdonald’s hamburgers.
Well, from my own personal experience being healthy IS more expensive… seriously, so many vegies and fruit cost a lot more when compared to instant noodles and eggs (which was my staple diet in college). The latter is not too unhealthy but way too much starch, cholesterol etc.
You can shop in discount stores and market stalls for cheaper, healthy food. =D
theres a difference between unhealthy and overweight- eating that amount is going cost more full stop, whatever you are shovelling down. I know people who are skinny and survive on junk- they just don’t eat alot. a so called healthy sandwich from boots often has more calories than a hamburger and fries from maccyd’s.
Absolutely! When we consider that four out of five leading causes of death in the US are lifestyle related, it is VERY costly.
True she’s obese. And you are also right in saying that most european countries are probably slimmer than the USA.
But here’s the thing – I lived in the USA for 2 months recently and it’s so much harder to stay slim there.
Even the apples looked overprocessed and there is so much more sugar in everything. Oh and never mind the amount of processed additives in most foods.
It was truly a task to keep fit. Plus you can’t really walk anywhere – no sidewalks, at least where I went.
Please correct me if I got a wrong impression.
that’s so sad
my friend was an au-pair in the us for a year, she gained 25 kg, 55 pounds!!!! she said it was impossible to get that daily 10 000 steps, everything was processed, her “family” was really fat etc etc. so i believe you
Some places in the US are really bad. There are places where the only playground within driving distance is the McDonald’s “playplace.”
It’s not all bad though. Location definitely plays a factor. I live in a big city where I do lots of walking, and that city is in a state with lots of farming. It’s easy to get food that’s been grown within 100, or even within 50 miles of my city, which just isn’t true in other parts of the US.
My parents live in a town where you have to drive to get anywhere. My dad is really self motivated, so he’ll get up at the crack of dawn and run six miles, but most people don’t have that kind of self-motivation. When I visit and we drive around town, it seems like *everybody* you see is overweight. We watched this group of teenagers cross the street as we were driving to a restaurant, and 5 out of 6 of them were overweight.
Well, thanks for clearing that up Erica, that’s reasuring to hear ! Proves that one can’t get to know a country in a few months
we have sidewalks in the cities. city people walk MUCH more. ioour food is shipped from one end of the country to the other, it’s a HUGE country. everythign is processed, or has additives and preservatives. the “organic” foods are about twice as expensive, and also are usually shipped preetty far. Many places dont’ even have farmland nearby anymore.
Your impression is correct.
How much of an effect do these preservatives have on one’s health? Like, would it be the equivalent of breathing car exhaust or injecting heroin into your eyeballs?
Undetermined really. I mean stuff like MSG can mess with your stomach a little if you’re sensitive. I know for me, aspartame caused a lot of infammation in my stomach. I would say it’s more like breathing exhaust fumes…it can be bad for you if you’re sensitive.
But the problem with processed foods is not so much the preservatives, but that it typically has high salt and high fat content, and very little nutritional value (no vitamins or minerals). Empty calories is a good term for it.
Yeah, the preservatives definitely aren’t good for you. Some are relatively benign, like soy lecithin, but others like hydrogenated oils are really bad (trans fats are actually a byproduct of the hydrogenation process). The MSG produced in labs is chemically identical to the (trace amounts) of MSG found in nature, so it’s not inherently bad, but sometimes the MSG is stored in vats that grow mold, and then the mold gets in your food. Also, MSG only exists in nature in very trace amounts, so eating a whole lot of it can cause problems.
The problem isn’t just the additives. It’s also what the food *doesn’t* have. No fiber. No antioxidants. No vitamins or minerals. No probiotics. None of the many things found in natural foods that promote health.
Sorry, I didn’t realize there were so many typos in that post.
It’s more that it makes the foods harder to process and the nutrients are usually reduced in the food. So you have to eat a lot more to feel “good,” since your body is craving vitamins and minerals, you eat more.
For instance, and this is totally an odd example and I understand that. I dated a diabetic, he could more easily process a banana with natural sugars, not get as sick AND it technically had more sugar than a soda/candy bar, because the sugars are natural, his body knew how to break down that type of sugar and get what it needed out of it. He wouldn’t need to add as much insulin for the banana and his energy would last much longer.
I live in LA, we have sidewalks everywhere, but no one walks. I like walking and like to do it daily, but I always have to find someone to walk with, because it’s kind of scary to walk.
Since not many people walk (barely anyone), you walk alone. And it’s kind of scary especially if you’re a woman because you always hear stories about people being mugged or raped walking on the street.
I totally understand. i am currently a student in the states and am from Singapore, a small city where you walked everywhere took the bus and train conveniently, there was an abundance of quick cheap food but all the food is freshly cooked because there’s such a competition to be the best in order to get sales, here they up their competition by making their burgers smaller and put minimal ingredients and then sell them hamburgers for a buck. its terrible. Everyone at home was normal sized meaning like a size 4 to 6 US and we never felt pressured to weigh ourselves or feel conscious.but here in america its so hard to stay healthy, we drive everywhere because everythings so far away from each other since majority buildings are 1 level. its hard to get any exercise in. I do feel there’s lack of knowledge about food in america.most of my college friends think its a waste of time to cook. but we timed once, they took a drive out to in n out to grab burgers while i stayed at home and stir fryed some vegs and meat and rice. we both took 40 min. becos half of their time was driving and waiting in the drive in. plus mine comes up cheaper. i buy groceries everyweek at an asian market for approx $30. and i eat happily.im worried that my peers will not learn to feed themselves and carry on their bad eating habits to their own children.
I’m from Singapore too and I totally agree about the walking around part and the cheap good food (esp economical rice!). Plus our city is so safe that we can walk almost anywhere alone. And everything is so close by that we don’t even have to waste fuel to drive out to the closest mall.
Haha, very well said! It really gets on my nerves when people go on about really skinny being unhealthy – sure, but being overweight is equally bad for you, if not more.
While this comment may have been constructed for her and as a defense for her (admittedly unhealthy weight) what she says actually holds water.
I wear a size 6. At this weight, I am healthy. I eat somewhere between 1200 and 1700 calories a day (except on rare special occasions) and work out 1-2 hours a day. It takes that much work and diet restriction to be even this “average” size. I’m short (5’2″) so an ideal size for me would be a 2. Maybe a 4.
I try extremely hard to lose weight and I can barely maintain it. Of course, with a special diet consultant and a personal trainer, it would be much easier for me to attain my goal.
So, no matter how the comment was meant or taken, I do believe it to be true.
I don’t have the money for catered meals.
It’s called self control. Stop eating when you’re full.
Exactly.
I agree with her on the spirit part. Looks DO fade and ultimately we will mostly be remembered for the person we are. Geraldine Chaplin is a good example. She’s almost 70 and I think she’s gorgeous!
However, I don’t agree on the catering part. Getting some steamed vegetables delivered to your door step five times a day won’t keep you from eating your secret chocolate stash. You have to want it after all!
Wow…She looks so unhealthy…I would love to see more people with a size 6/8. I’m a size 6, and here in Holland I’m considered slim..especially since I’m a mother.
What country’s size 6/8 do you mean?
Sorry, 6-8 us (eur 36-38)
Okay, thanks.
if you are eur size 36/38 you are slim not only in Holland, but also in Slovakia
and I am sure that also everywhere around the normal world – that means everywhere, exept for hollywood 
and congrats on keeping such a nice figure after having kids
As a fellow dutchy , let me remind you that we happen to be quite tall in comparison with women in other countries. Therefor someone with a size 2/4 could have the same build as you if she was only 160 cm ( 5″3) . It’s also the reason why models with a size 0 look awefully skinny since they are 5″8 and above.
I’m sorry why is it always size 2 as the end all of be all, they always attack size 2 like these people are somehow less. You know you can be a 10 and be healthy. Having a personal trainer doesn’t mean anything you still have to put the effort in you still have to do the work and be dedicated. Not having a personal trainer and a personal chef are not reasons people are obese
It’s almost like she is trying to find excuses not to lose weight, i.e. ‘I will neve be a size 2 so why bother trying’. No-one is saying she needs to be a size 2, she could be a size 12 and it would be much better than this.
If she wants to ‘grow older’ she needs to make some major lifestyle changes and sooner rather than later.
I AGREE. I don’t think it would take an enormous amount of effort to maintain even a size 10/12. I’m a 4/6, and if I were to let myself become a size 10/12, I’d have to eat A LOT everyday to maintain that size.
Actually, for YOU it may not take “enormous effort to maintain a size 10/12″ but for me it does. I exercise minimum 2 hours daily except on Sundays (I run and do other cardio plus I do some light weight lifting). I eat healthy and vegetarian with normal portions. Yet doing all this, the least I could be is size 12. Not everyone is like you and not everyone has the same build, genes, and luck.
I’m a size 0-2. I have never had a personal trainer or chef. I run my a*s off, cook well balanced meals in the kitchen and enjoy occassional treats. It’s not rocket science.
kudos.
true.
Me too. I’m a 0-2 and while to a degree it does come naturally because I’m small, I don’t sit around eating twinkies expecting to be this size – I have to work at it.
Same here. I have a bicycle at home and some weights so I can work out when I come from work. I eat healthy, yes, but I indulge too. I like chocolate, ice cream, pizza… Nobody eats a kilo of brocoli, so don´t eat a kilo of ice cream. Balance is the key.
I am size 0-2 too,and i have never had a personal trainer and i have never looked what i eat i dont even know how much calories i took a day…I just eat healthy food and run 3-4 times a week.Yes,my metabolism is really fast and i love that but i dont think everything is about how much you weight and what size are you,i have so much friends that are size 6 and doesnt look fatter than me…The way you look It ups to your figure and porportiones not to your size.
Not everyone can do that, though. It depends on body type and bone structure. I have a larger bone structure, so natural size for me (with a low calorie diet and moderate excercise 7 days a week) is a size six. I can’t imagine myself ever been a size 0-2 and I haven’t been since I was a freshman in high school.
It’s very discouraging when you can’t reach what you would like to without becoming unhealthy, especially when others are doing it with much ease.
She just looks unhealthy. I’ve always wondered how much food people like her i.e. obsese people eat. I mean there’s pictures of Christina Hendricks some people call her FAT, then what is this? No people, this is fat and gross. Not going to sugar coat it.
Christina is the real definition of curvy!
Yep…agree with all the previous posts that personal trainers and chefs aren’t necessary to maintain a healthy weight. Plus, I would imagine that she herself has money to hire a personal trainer and get a meal service so she’s just making excuses.
I hate to here it when people say that regular people don’t have the means to look like celebrities. You do. I’m a size 2. A year ago, I was a size 10-12. I exercised and ate normal (fruits, vegetables, water, whole grains, etc.) and I lost 45 pounds in less than a year…counting pregnancy weight…75. I’m working my size 24 and 25 jeans.
wow, that’s awesome! congrats on the baby and your health!
good for you!
Congradulations. Im impressed. I wish I had the persistance to do that but have a severe case of O.C.D which runs in my family and food has become one of my obsessions. It’s not exactly like an ED because im really into eating healthy and in the past have eaten even when full cause I have though omg I need to eat more calcium, protein, carb, fat, fruit or veg ect to get my daily intake perfect even though it’s proabably way out due to the fact that im not even sure whats healthy anymore. eg I used to drink skim milk but my grandmother told my mum that its got nothing good in it (less vit A or something) so we drink full cream milk and cheese ect at my house. It’s very difficult to explain but it’s a struggle. Im 169cm (5’61/2) and am currently 150 pounds. I would like to get to back to 127 (bmi 20) but whenever I think about loosing weight I get really obsessed with food and over the past year have started binge eating due to my highly stressful life. Im very ashamed of my figure as I carry a lot of weight in my stomach and face and feel self conscious. I rarely leave the house due to my O.C.D and im 20yrs old. I used to like going for a walk outside on the occasion but I feel ashamed of my body so I don’t do that no more.
Rose, I am trying to say this not as a way to attack you but out of concern.
Are you sure you don’t have an eating disorder? Have you talked with a professional? I am saying this because a lot of what you said sounds very characteristic of bulimia…and OCD. And the interesting thing is you can have both at the same time. In fact, having both of those disorders at the same time is not uncommon, and one could be causing the other, or at least, worsening the symptoms of the other.
Please,if you have the opportunity at least speak with a psychologist about this kind of stuff. Maybe they can help you in some way, even if you don’t have bulimia. No one should feel too ashamed of their body to leave the house.
Yeah I have. It’s O.C.D. And I don’t really leave the house due to my O.C.D. I don’t go mad when I leave the house I just get stressed in busy places and such. I mean I do go out occasionally but not for recreation but for necessities eg to the bank or food shopping although my mum does most of that.I live at home with my younger brother and my single mum so it’s not like im cooped up in a dingy apartment by myself living off catfood. I have a beautiful home and such. And I can see how you think I might have an ED and I have to admit that at one stage a long time ago when I was obsessed with my weight I probably did even though I was never under weight (120 pounds) I think I gave up cause I try 150% with everything in my life and I get exausted and give up. I have been professionally diagnosed with severe O.C.D. and so has my brother and other family memebers so it’s genetic and very severe cases. Also my eating is not really a concern as im relaxed with food now but that doesn’t mean I fine with my body. Ever since I gained weight due to my disorder I have been unhappy with it but haven’t really done much to fix it as it gets stressful and im stressed enough but when I hit 150 I though I need to address this before I become overweight. Any tips are welcome both dietary and exercise.
Yeah, I totally agree that regular people can look like celebrities.
But you should exercise like everyday and sometimes prevent yourself from eating, when you know that you had enough already
I live in the apartment with my friend, who is about 190 pounds and before I didn’t live with her I thought that maybe she has slow metabolism…
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But after watching her meals for 3 months… Oh, my gosh, everybody would be fat in this ‘diet’
And she used to tell me that she is envious of my figure, but c’mon, I just eat french fries and sweets only sometimes, not every single day, and I’m counting calories (in the normal day I eat 2000 kcal) and I exercise everyday (mostly legs and booty, since I’m something between pear and hourglass, but unfortunatelly I’m closer to the pear
She is so cute
She does have the right to be fat without being disrespected, as I have the right to be a size 0 without being teased for it.
It’s sad that women hate each other based on their sizes.
Thanks for having this comment
I found her smile freakin magnetic
me too. Lovely smile.
Straight up Priscila!
Yeah, and causing increase of the health insurance….; )
I don’t think she has the right to that.
Just like people who smoke or abuse alcohol.
God, she’s so deluded.
And the message of her new show seems terrible. Yes, everyone should be able to like themselves and accept themselves, but being obese isn’t something to like or accept. Not everyone can, would want to be or should be skinny, but everyone should work to be a healthy person. Obesity is not something to just accept.
Thank you!!! There’s been this giant wave of people saying we should accept “real” women, and that the average woman is size 14 (which is a size 18 UK) or something.. just because it’s common doesn’t mean it’s something we should just accept. People are just too lazy to get healthy IMO.
IMO the term plus-size is used a little loose. I don’t wanna sound harsh, but she is not plus size she is fat and that’s not healthy at all. It doesn’t matter if you can afford a personal trainer or a cook, as long as you don’t have any illness you can move and you don’t have to hurt your body by either beeing over weight or skinny. Both ends of the scale are mostly unhealthy.
Anyone who wears a size 16+ is plus size. No one’s trying to say she’s a model, or gorgeous (even though I think she is), or healthy. It’s just a size thing, the stores have them, it’s called a plus size section, not a fat section. It doesn’t matter what kind of bigger size you are if you wear larger than the normal size, then you are plus sized, it means nothing else. Seeing that she probably wears one of those mentioned bigger sizes she is plus sized AND fat, it’s possible and very likely for a person to be both.
She doesn’t look very healthy IMO…
Shes really ugly as wel….sorry I don’t mean to be rude,her face is totally off balance and her features look like their being eating by her fat.I just don’t like her attitude,firstly it’s slightly hippocrticial (LOL) she isn’t a poor person..shes an actress an earns money…so by her standards shouldn’t she be slim?
(I’m aware you can exercise when your poor though!)
I do agree however with what people have been saying about obesity affecting the poor more.I like in the UK we have shops like Iceland,that sell 99% frozen food which is just all crap,but if your poor what can you do?
I am not well off at all,Im a student starting to build up debt and working hand to mouth.However i do try,I try and cook meals myself instead of processed ones,when I do eat ready made I make sure its ingredients etc are good.I have a constant struggle with balancing out health with the money I have.
It would be much easier if money wasn’t a problem for me…it would also buy my a gym and spa membership
ok…rant over
is she basically saying that those models are skinnny because they got trainers and chefs? HA! You can run outside and buying fruit and vegetables won’t cost so much that you can’t afford it. Maybe you don’t have a home-gym and someone by your side to guide you through things or a delicious pro cooked meal but bitch please, you can be as perfect as a model without help of any of those things. Also, some people HAVE all those privileges (i’m guessing she could afford it too) but they still don’t lose the weight. The only thing you need to lose weight is determination and a bit of will power, that’s all.
As for her, it’s one thing to defend ‘curvy’ women, it’s a whole other thing if you look literally like a round bowling ball and make bitter comments to women with self control. She should lose some weight, not because of the ‘media’ or ‘society’ but if she wants to live to see 50.
Well, I am a size 0-2, I dont have trainers or chefs…and she probably have a sh*Tload of money more than I to have more privileges hehehe
People can run or jog and that costs zero dollars. Take the stairs instead of elevator, zero dollars. Do jumpingjacks in the morning, pushups, situps—zero dollars. Get the cheap salad instead of the Big Mac. It’s not rocket science!!!!!! Health has nothing to do with money.
omg.. i think it’s a hard way to be fat like this:|
i guess she exercise everyday with some pizzas, burgers and french fries:-s…
i can’t understand fat ppl…
do you relly like being fat?
i’m not one of that super skinny girls, i’m slim, i exercise, i try to eat healty… but what the hell in the world is this girl doing?
i mean.. she’s 21… she can eat a burger/week.. but not everyday… think girl!
I don’t believe she is attacking sizes 2′s, she is just saying a size 2 isn’t realistic for everyone and this is true even if you have a low bmi some people can’t be that small. Earlier in this discussion board there was someone saying that they could afford healthy food because they came from a middle class family, for low class family’s its often hard to buy vegetables because they go bad and that’s a waste of money that most of them don’t have. Fatty food is often a lot cheaper than healthy food plus it doesn’t usually go bad as fast. For those people saying its harder to be obese than skinny thats not always the truth, everyone has there own strugles with there body and there image. I am a size 3-5 it all depends on what I am buying where I am shopping etc. Just because I am smaller than a lot of people That doesn’t mean I don’t struggle with body image, doesn’t mean I don’t feel fat, and a lot of my friends that are size 10′s have way more confidence than I do. Everyone is always blaming Hollywood on body issues that’s not the truth, its normal people and there criticism against me telling me I am to fat to, to ugly, to this to that, that’s always got me. I agree with her every issue skinny people go through, plus size people go through too we all have insecurity, we all are criticized by others, were all judged. Just because someone is big does not mean there unhealthy and just because someones skinny doesn’t mean they don’t have high cloistral, high blood pressure, etc.
But she’s a celebrity…can’t she afford a personal trainer and healthy meals??
She totally can, but she’s using the excuse that it’s not “practical” to have those things as reason to be overweight. It’s so irritating.
If she spends some money on trainer, she won’t have enough for all the burgers and sweets
I cannot imagine how much money she spends on food daily
Gross
How tall is Nikki Blonsky? She is definitely obese. I have two children, ages 7 and 5. I wear a size 6 or 7 US. Yeah, I had to work out after I had my kids. I am also very careful what I feed them: no soda, chips, snacks like crackers or cookies. I don’t bake desserts. I won’t buy any of those things when we go shopping. I cook all our meals and the bulk of what I buy is 1) fresh fruits 2) fresh or frozen veggies 3) lean meats like turkey or chicken 4) whole grain bread and pastas. They are not allowed fruit juice either. Instead of “going out to dinner” as a family, we go to the local recreation center where they swim with their Dad while I run on the treadmill or the elliptical machine. I’m not saying I am perfect, but just trying to instill good behavior for my kids so that they don’t have a problem with their weight later on in life. No, I can’t afford a personal trainer or a professional chef to cook for me. I just do the best I can with what I’ve got.
I’m a size 5 and I eat all of those things you don’t allow your kids to eat. I don’t think banning foods is the right way to go about it. It’s likely that they’ll grow up and get access to those foods and go NUTS. The freshmen 15 for kids like this could easily turn into the freshmen 50. It’s best to teach children that all food is okay in moderation.
as long as she’s not being obsessive with food, I think she can help them by gently guiding them on what or what not to eat, or what food to make available at home, and it’ll be their choice when they grow up to go nuts with unhealthy foods, but at least she’ll know she did what she could.
They can’t have crackers? You can bake healthier desserts. Sorry, this just seems a bit over the top and controlling to me. Teaching kids balance is important.
From a size 2 mom of 1 who runs like she stole something and bakes homemade chocolate cookies
Whoa that’s a bit severe. Who doesn’t let their kids drink juice or takes them out for dinner? If I were to guess I bet your kids will grow up to become either obese after discovering these foods, or anorexic from your obsessive behaviour. Lighten up a bit.
Completely agree.
Kids naturally crave sweet things because usually sweet = full of good things and bitter = potentially poisonous (sorry for the lousy analogy, I didn’t pay much attention during Child Psych lectures). Instead of restricting them so much you could grant them some healthy and sweet desserts in small portions, such as mashed frozen bananas drizzled with maple syrup and chopped nuts and frozen berries. Or sweet potato baked in their skins and eaten with a little honey. Or baked apple filled with chopped walnuts and raisins (brain food and fiber). Let them know the difference in taste between good, natural sweets and unnatural, refined sugar treats like store-bought processed candy.
I’m sure she isn’t just restricting them of sweets and not telling them why. Her kids will thank her later for teaching them how to be healthy at a young age. I wish I would’ve had a mother like that. Sure, they’ll discover junk food and unhealthy foods once they’re on their own, but it sounds like their mom would’ve taught them well enough for them to know that it’s just junk and they can have healthier treats. They’re lucky kids.
maybe the way you worded your comment came across as too strict or severe, but i understand where you’re coming from, and as long as the kids don’t see an obsessive relationship with food, they’ll be glad you did this for them when they grow up. I also keep healthy foods in the house, only whole grains, no processed sweet or salty snacks, and i don’t feel i’m too severe, i just don’t want my kids to grow up around so much junk food at home, when they already have the chance to eat some junk at friend’s houses, outings, gatherings that we have at least twice a week. I can see it’s paying of with my 3 yr old. Many times when it comes to dessert at a family gathering or other, i ask him if he wants a cookie or cake and i hold him up to see what he wants, and he chooses grapes or oranges, i just can’t tell you how proud of him that makes me feel!!, for us at home, grapes are dessert, and i’m glad that he considers it one, i just hope he’ll be wise with food choices throughout his life.
Well, when I was little, I had as many sweets as I wanted and I ended up not eating sweets at all.
I mean, right now I hate sweets, I prefer an apple or sandwich.
I don’t suppose that giving your child a lot of sweets is a good idea, but when you forbid sweets to them, it can be just like with telling your child that it can’t go to some place. It usually brings the opposite effect…
I had a friend who wasn’t the overall healthiest eater, but her mom had a no-snack policy at their house. When she came to my house, she was the one who cleaned out the candy cupboard! lol. She used to be rail thin, but started gaining weight a few years ago because she was a sugar addict. I ate really unhealthily until I was 16 or so. I think back to how I used to eat and cringe.
I don’t believe in the whole idea that if you deprive your kids of sugar they will go sugar-crazy later. There’s no evidence of that happening. One or two case studies doesn’t count. So that’s not the problem.
The problem with Momto2Girls is that, that kind of unnecessary deprivation is just straight up sad. It’s an example of where parents take “eating healthy” to an extreme and impose their obesessions on their children. The truth is, most people can get away with eating a cookie and drinking a glass of juice a day. Kids especially, as they have a lot of energy. Usually I find kids who are deprived like that are very quiet and sit still…not cause they’re good little kids but because they lack adaquete glucose.
I do think we should set good examples for our children. Teach them the difference between cooked food and processed food. TALK to them. EXPLAIN to them. Tell them why eating an apple is better than a Twinkie. But for God’s sake, give the kid a piece of cake once in a while too. It’s a kid after all, and they don’t need to be bothered with obsessive dieting and weight control so early in their life. A cookie and a glass of juice, and a soda once a week will NOT give your kid diabetes or obesity.
the only thing you need to get a “hollywood body” is willingness
her 1st comment looks more like an excuse for a non celebrity person who is too lazy to lose weight or just envious but she’s a hollywood actress that can afford trainer and stuff so the comment just doesn’t make sense…she could’ve just said that she’s comfortable with herself and doesn’t feel like losing weight…
Exactly! She can afford the help to get healthy.
Excuses, excuses….unbelievable!!
Personal trainers and chefs!?!? What about jogging or biking or — hey — WALKING? I believe those are free. It’s called *motivation*….
And what about simple portion control and reading food labels? Does one need the American Express Black? Or a degree in thermodynamics?
I’m all for ‘self-confidence’ but this girl looks terribly unhealthy — and sounds extremely deluded. Barely 20 years old — can she even climb a set of stairs?
You don’t have to be rich to respect your body. You simply need common sense. America is the richest country in the world — and also the fattest … hence, this girl’s ‘logic’ is as empty as she is.
First thought: she could be very pretty if she get rid of that overweight.
If you are that fat it’s not so difficult to lose some weight.
You just have to reduce the unhealthy food at least a bit and pounds will go and go.
My mother had to change her nutrition because of a bit to high cholesterine (she is not fat only a bit more than average) and she just changed to low cholesterine food and still is eating one candy a day etc and she losing weight very fast. Although that wasn’t her intention.
To get very slim and trained its a hard way but to become a healthy size that’s a way nearly everybody could go!
I think she’s pretty now.
her weight is too much! I don’t think people need personal trainers and meal services to be healthy. I agree with Lovisa all you need is some nutritional information.
Nobody really looks like that unless they have a personal trainer and a meal service? What kind of BS is that?
I live near a park. Every time I go in I see at least five people on the running paths who are in incredible shape. I also see people pounding pavement on sidewalks all around the city. And they’re *alone.* They don’t have trainers. They don’t even have gym memberships.
I eat healthy, no meal service necessary. I see healthy baristas, healthy movie ticket cashiers, healthy mall employees, healthy grocery store employees, healthy hotel maids, and healthy college students all the time. All of these people are earning next to minimum wage.
Honestly, I understand it can be really f***ing hard to lose weight. I lost thirty pounds and it took me *three years* to lose it in a healthy way. But there’s a big difference between hard and impossible.
When you say “healthy” do you mean not fat?
I’m not saying this is what your trying to say,but all these people could be unhealthy to!?I know plently of skinny and inbetween people who eat terribly!!but….look in good shape!
I wish our society would stop judging on the outside!Maybe then everyone would aim for good health and a strong body…and not just skin and bone.Maybe if this happens there would also be more diverse bodys hapes on the catwalk.
a lot of people who work at places that sell fast food would never eat there! A few of my friends are health nuts, but when they worked at McD’s or Burger King, they never touched a thing. My friend worked at the theaters and couldn’t even stand the smell of popcorn after awhile.
I admire her confidence, sadly they’re always gonna cast her for chubby characters in movies. But hey, at least she’s working!
Alright first of all its good to be confident with your body and its great that she doesnt have problems with the way she looks, confidence is one of the most important things today . But still we try to support healthy looking women, dont we ?
Healthy people who eat healthy food, that is good for their bodies,(no i dont mean starving!) and work out, but not too much. Because thats the way it is supposed to be ! Thats what our body needs to be healthy, im not even talking about looking good right now, thats a matter of taste, but thats whats good for us !
Nobody can tell me that she does those things, because shes clearly overweight ! And obesity is just as much a problem in our society as anorexia or bulimia ! So why the hell are ppl still supporting overweight celebrities just to proove that we dont like skinny models anymore ? Thats not necessary
Is it awful of me to believe that her comment is absolutely ridiculous? I dont dislike overweight people, I simply dislike overweight people who think that its ok and healthy. Does she not realize that by saying that shes telling people that its totally fine to be completely unhealthy? If she was a size 12, or even a bigger size but still healthy (because as awful as it may sound, she does not look very healthy) People need to stop trying to make obesity okay by saying that we should all accept ourselves, because although we should all be happy with our bodies, being healthy and happy is what we should really be aiming for.
BTW- i’m not some skinny fat hater, i’m a size 6-8 haha
Exactly! I hate that people are trying to pass off being overweight as being curvy, accepting who they really are, or trying to change Hollywood/society’s expectations of what beauty looks like. As harsh as it may sound, fat is fat, and unless the person is suffering from an eating disorder or has some health issue, there’s no excuse for it. People need to stop making excuses for being overweight and deal with it.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. Kudos.
I think she already knows she is overweight. She wants to lose it but for whatever reasons, has not. I believe she does feel insecure sometimes because everyone in this forum and Hollywood knows this size is not healthy. So don’t need to assault her with insults because she pointed out size two.
well if anything, “plus-sized” people, meaning obese, are way more unhealthy than someone who is underweight so they should get more heat. its extremely unhealthy to carry all that weight for your heart especially and for your entire body really. so i wouldnt say that the prejudices against them stem solely from appearance.. and skinny people definitely face prejudices as well. just because most people aren’t on their end i think the majority of the comments here are aimed against them, but it is a fact that they receive it as well. Nobody should defend an unhealthy lifestyle, whether it is being over or underweight, everyone should ideally work towards being healthy for themselves, the key word being IDEAL. these back and forth issues will always exist! so whats the point anymore?
Actually, both underweight and overweight have varying degrees of unhealthiness. And each can, in different cases, be more healthy or less healthy than the other. I know a lot of overweight people, by weight/height standards, who are even overfat by body fat percentage who can run a 1.5 mi. in 13 minutes and people who are underweight who can’t do nearly the same thing. All people are different and no one size issue is a finite “healthier” or “worse” than another.
And before I get the “it’s a special case” thing, it has to do with a lot of people across varying areas of physical activity like swimming/running/weightlifting and even triathlon events.
I probably don’t have anythig new to add… Someone said something about not needing to be a size 2 to be skinny, i agree, it seems like all they talk these days are size 0-2, when i know lots of women who’d have to be severely anorexic to be that size. You can look skinny at sizes from 4 to at least 8 too, obv depending of the body type but not only if you’re tall (not that i think anyone needs to look skinny). Being fat, honestly fat and not just bigger than your average celeb, i feel not loosing weight comes down to excuses and lack of effort in most cases, but other than that i agree with Nikky about the “we’re all human beings” and what not, in that i don’t think we should be judged if we’re overweight, it’s a problem amongst other, but not what defines a person.
im so glad you said that. because I see way too many women on this board saying stuff like, ‘i’m not that small, im a size 6 – 8′, when in reality, that is not big at all! skinny does not have to mean a size 2 or below. But, we live in a society where weight has become a black and white issue…Just look at Jessica Simpson and how many people have called her fat…now how can you put someone the size of Jessica in the same category as someone the size of Nikki?? that’s completely ridiculous.
I think the point is, that if you care about your health, eat healthy and exercise…if you don’t care about your health, that’s fine too, that is a personal choice…just like not everyone cares about their education, or about dressing nice or about saving money, etc etc…these are part of the perks of living in a democracy.
Dear Nikky,
I don’t have a trainer or a meal service. I have self-control. You don’t have to rely on anyone else to be a size 2 but yourself.
well i do agree with nikky saying we’re all human beings but to say women stay slim because of trainers and personal chefs is stupid because i’ve seen women from all body types staying in shape by motivation and self control of what they eat. that is a lot cheaper than some trainer. and i hate how they always single out size 2 women because they will never look like them. no, they don’t need to be super skinny to be beautiful but at least be healthy because being obesity is healthy but for others in hollywood, they see it as a way of saying, screw skinny women, and that’s a problem too. but what do you expect from hollywood? and i agree with casey, no one will have sympathy for women who are thin because we have the media praising thin women and not enough women of different body types. but does it give the right to put down thin women altogether? no because a lot of thin women are not in hollywood or in magazines, who live in the real world doing something in their lives. honestly i don’t think people understand what skinny women go through or what comments we get because people will rather feel sorry for plus size than a thin person. i don’t know what women who are bigger than me go through but being skinny isn’t all perfect as people may think it to be. i’ve had comments made about my body as a young girl and i had boobs and a butt. but even with that, some accused me of not eating a lot or being too thin. for years i thought having a voluptuous body is the ideal and if i looked like the women who had that body i would feel good about myself and some man will love me. but now since i’m older i realize that i will never look like jennifer lopez, beyonce, and other curvy women. yeah they’re beautiful but not all women look like that as much as people think. they look like that because they work hard for it. and if some man can’t love me for who i am because people say “men like curves, like women who have meat on their bones” then obviously that’s their problem. i will always be thin and learn to accept that. i wish i could gain more weight in certain but would that make me happy on the inside? no it wouldn’t. and i hate how people blame society for beauty standards when we are the ones who took it too far. the media will always have their opinions of who is beautiful but it’s their opinions!! they are not facts. instead of blaming the media we need to blame ourselves for letting this go too far.
i agree that looks can be transient but being obese is very unhealthy and dangerous. being that size is shortening her life and will negatively affect the quality of her life. plus being that unhealthy is not just affecting her, but it affects tax payers too. tax payers spend a lot of money each year caring for people with weight related health issues.
Love the outfit in the third picture.
I liked her style in these pics though…
personally, i don’t really like fat people.
it might be because in my family everyone is overweight or obese and of course, it is because the media influenced me through my entire life and it made me feel this way.
But I’m not sorry for feeling that i don’t really wanna see fat people on tv or turned as models. I am not naturally thin and I have a genetic condition, but god knows, i work my ass off to stay fit. i look healthy and i show it because i earned it.
i know..i know.. beauty comes from inside but let’s be honests: people are mean and judgemental (and they made me this way2) so nobody should just eat a lot and be a couch potatoe saying ,,ow, this is just how I am, I cannot control myself, i need to eat.. bla blah” and expect to be understood. gimme a break, u don’t need a lotta money or a lotta time to make an effort. you see you’re putting weight, start jogging or smth ..
and parents.. please stop being stupid and let kids eat whatever they want and stop looking surprised if they get to 160 pounds at age 11 and at 16 they feel like their life is over
Hi I’m from Romania and I lived almost 1 year in USA and all I say is that people are fat over there because they eat a huge amount of junk food , that’s the only reason. In my country the majority of people looks normal and we do not have personal trainers or a meal service.
i am sorry but what this girl said, it’s just ridiculous!
it does actually cost you LESS if you only eat HALF of your typical meal and save the other half for tomorrow. and eating HALF does not require much education about food, either. all it takes is some discipline and motivation.
it is as simple as it sounds: if you always have a pizza for lunch, go for it – but have just half (either share with a friend or save for tomorrrow the other half). the trick is to always remember to only have 1/2 of every single dish that end up in your mouth – i guess this simple math is understandable to everyone regardless their social background.
again, i am not saying that half a pizza is healthier than two halves. sure eathing less doesn’t automatically make you toned, fit and beautifully defined. but again, it’s cheap, and affordable, and doesn’t require much time/food knowledge, and you don’t even need to change your ways – whatever you fancy, have it – but have only 1/2
I love me some Nikki! She is hot and dresses great! All this fat and skinny issues don’t matter if you FEEL great about the way you look!
I think she’s really pretty and cute!!
However, there is no denying she is very overweight. I think she looks bigger than she did in Hairspray aswell
she probably has one of the worst bodies i’ve ever seen – and a personality to compliment it.
In her case, it’s not about personal trainers and a meal service, she clearly needs to address an eating disorder.
I understand she’s obese, but even if she were to eat healthy and exercise I doubt that she could lose more than 50 pounds. I do believe that some people are just naturally big even to the point of being 250 pounds. We’re only judging her by the way she looks. We don’t know what she eats or if she exercises.
I mean look at the last Rihanna post where some people were calling her huge and I think she’s probably a size 6 or 8. So it’s about the way someone looks not their health. People lose weight everyday to look skinny not to be healthy. I always wanted to lose weight and look skinny, but accepted the fact that I can’t really get anywhere past a size 12-14, even with a 1500 calorie a day diet and exercising 3-4 days a week. I could be a size 8 but it would be difficult and such a force on my body.
So let’s not kid ourselves and say this is about health it’s not. Not a lot of people lose weight or start eating better for health unless they’ve had a heart attack or something. It’s always been about looking skinny.
I think that everyone agrees it shouldn’t be about being skinny and conforming to Hollywood’s standards. It should be about being HEALTHY…and Nikki Blonsky is not healthy. Obesity has just as many health issues as being emaciated and skinny.
It is kinda annoying how people like her who are dangerously obese go on, and on, and on, about how they are proud of themselves for showing girls how to accept their bodies for what they are…but obesity (esp childhood obesity) is a growing epidemic (esp in the US) that needs to be addressed ASAP.
Bottom line…Yes, body confidence is important but at some point people need to realize your overall health(not being overly skinny or overly obese) should be the main focus. Otherwise all this ‘pride’ you have for your body will be very short lived if your lifestyle ends up causing fatal health problems!
Ugh. It REALLY annoys me when fat people (like her) use the term ‘plus-size’ or ‘curvy’.
This is plus-size: http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/Plus_size_runway.jpg
And Kelly Brook comes to mind with the word ‘curvy’.
Stop trying to make it sounds better than it is.
She just sounds like she’s making excuses – and pretty poor ones at that.
Discipline, motivation and encouragement, IMO, are what you need to lose weight/keep fit.
I do NOT agree with this at all:
“Nobody really looks like that, unless you have the means. Most of America doesn’t have the money to have a trainer 24/7 and a meal service to bring you meals, because if they did, we’d all be a size 2. And that would just be too perfect.”
Um, no…people’s body sizes and shapes aren’t purely based on factors that can be controlled by eating a special diet or working with a personal trainer. There are some people who, no matter what, will never, ever, ever fit into a certain clothing size because of their frame size, which cannot be changed.
I’m sorry but she is NOT plus size, she is obese. Not trying to bash her, but there is a difference between “plus size” and obese. And she is obese, not doubt about it.
While it’s never okay to be cruel or make fun of someone because of their weight, why are people in the public eye trying to make obesity okay? A little bit of softness is nice, chubbiness can be cute and feminine, but actual clinically recognized obesity? It should NOT be glorified. By telling people it’s okay to be obese, it’s telling people that you have a health problem and you shouldn’t take care of it. It would be like me shouting “yeah, cancer is cool. Don’t do chemo.” It’s a genuine health problem and should be treated. Everyone argues genetics, but genetics is only half the issue. Human genetics (as per a study by geneticists) haven’t evolved much, though the American population is showing much more incidences of obesity. Why is it that 50 years ago, the same genes were around but obesity was much less an issue? Society ate healthier, people moved around more and were more active. The ones who were chubby would always be chubby but it was very very rare to see someone who was morbidly obese. I feel like walking around town, I see at least 1-2 obese to morbidly obese people an hour.
This girl is ridiculous. It is sooo NOT about having the means for a personal trainer or meal service. I work for minimum wage and go to school, yet am a size 2. You don’t even need a gym to be fit. Go outside and walk or jog….take the stairs instead of the elevator. Frozen fruits and veggies are just as good as fresh, and cheaper!!! Point is….there’s no excuse!!!!!
Why do we focus so much on diet,size, curvy, skinny, blah, blah, blah…why can’t health be the main focus. Isn’t that all that matters, as long as you’re taking care of yourself, eating right, and happy?
she is very pretty facewise… if she loses weight, she will be beautiful
Hmm, I think she is being a little naive to think that you have to have money to be thin. I’m sure a lot of people know some very skinny poor people and very fat rich people. I think it has more to do with genes and the motivation to work on your body. I’m by no means rich but I’m willing to spend money on a gym membership and eat healthily.
I think she’s not making an excuse to herself, but just saying that everyone can’t be slim : It cost money to eat healthy, but it cost EDUCATION and TIME… And often (not always!) lack of education goes with poverty and obesity.
To all of you who says “I just run one hour 3 times a week, and cook healthy…”
- you have the TIME to run 3h per week. And not everybody can find it
- you have the time to cook healthy and you KNOW how to cook and eat healthy. Not everyone does. You are LUCKY
then, I’m absolutly not promoting obesity or sickness.
BUT WTF about we SHOULD be healthy?? NO! there is no obligation to be healthy
maybe I’m stupid, but I think that it’s more important to be HAPPY than to be healthy.
(However, I think it’s quite difficult to be happy when you are obese, or just sick, wathever desease it is.)
It’s very funny to see how mean people are with really big people, and yet say “oohhh being skinny is as awfull than being obese, we all receive insults…”, when you are saying that everyody SHOULD.
It’s as if obese people were criminals, as if they didn’t respect the “heathy law” : No, they are HUMAN like everybody and FREE
(apologize for my bad english, it’s really hard to speak my mind)
I’m sorry actually I didn’t want to leave a reply to you in particular!
ugh thats just a stupid comment everyone should be able to find 3hr in a week to do some sort of exercise quit watching TV or something.
And obesity costs governments billions. sorry but I don’t want my taxes to go towards a fatso.
I don’t know where you live, but I know women who can’t find 3 hours in the week to run because they have 2 jobs (day AND night) to rise 5 children… so yes, staying in shape is not the main thing to do to her.
I don’t think making obese people feel guilty will help them to loose weight…
and I don’t understand your last sentence, i’m sorry I don’t speak english very well (go towards a fasto??)
Well she should certainly feel guilty about promoting obesity, don’t you think?
The woman has the priviledge to be on a weight loss program, and she’s here saying things like “I love my Body”
She should feel guilty. When she looses around 250-300 pounds then she should say she loves her body and thank people for PAYING to watch her lose weight.
She looks like a hippo.
what weight loss program is she on exactly? And if she lost that much weight, she wouldn’t exist. She’s really short, so she probably weighs only a little over 200, if that. I look about the same size as her, but I’m much taller and I don’t even weigh 250.
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um… there’s nothing wrong with curvy women. I mean, as long as you’re not morbidly obese or morbidly skinny.. I never understood why models were so damn skinny, I mean, lets face it, the clothes they wear aren’t gonna be bought by skinny people alone right? If I hear that bullshit about its what’s inside that counts, i’m gonna slap someone, no one cares what’s inside anymore! If they did, weight wouldn’t be an issue!
I think part of the problem is that larger people don’t necessarily feel threatened by thin people, but feel judged and therefore get defensive. I fall into the “fat American” category, and recently went on a trip to Belgium, France and Germany. I was so uncomfortable most of the time (except in Germany) because everybody was so stick thin. I felt like a zoo animal on display. I heard comments, and based on my appearance, nearly everybody automatically assumed I was American before even opening my mouth.
I firmly believe it is all about balance. You can eat what you want, it just needs to be in moderation; paired with healthier things. I work out/ run a little but nothing regular, and I LOVE to eat and I’m DEFINITELY no supermodel, I am comfortably curvy with some “padding” on the edges. I am 16 and I know for a fact weight loss and body image are difficult to face: it can be done but it has to be about YOU. Teenage girls: lose weight for YOU not because you think some boy wants you to be skinnier
You’re beautiful. 