No...there have been other threads, and other conversations on this site where Kirstie Alley (and other celebs) have been bashed for being too heavy, too thin, or too whatever.

I think that we should be supportive of all women, even celebrities, who are having weight issues. JMHO...

Britney is sloppy, borderline talented and makes really poor choices - but she is not even close to fat. She has a very healthy build. If any of us were shoved under hundreds of bright lights and had hundreds of photagraphers who spent ALL their time waiting to catch us in some unflattering position - we'd like terrible too. I wish the media would find real jobs and people (including me from time to time) would stop buying the rags like People and worry about themselves.

As far as Kirstie goes - I do NOT think she has gotten her weight down to the Hollywood standard of slim- who cares ?? She took enough off to where she looks better and hopefully feels alot better and is healthy. Isn't that all any of us want ???

JMO

k8 - i didn't say you were calling kristy fat..i was just responding to everyone as a general. There have been multiple threads about kristies weight and now britney's wt. I was just defending those that might not be a size 0 actress and trying to remind people why we are here...for support and help. I was making a general statement not directed at anyone.

I'd be supportive of Kirstie & JC ending this farce of "how I'm keeping it off."

However I can't accept her stated (and well paid) position that she's solved her weight problem on JC. Have YOU called Jenny? Oh brother! I think what she's doing is downright fraudulent.

If she wants to be honest, I'd support her whether she wants to just be fat and ditch the "call Jenny" stuff or whether she wants to hop back on the diet wagon.

In general I don't support dishonesty -- too much Al-Anon as a kid I guess!

Ha ha, I agree! I thought this morning about how nice it would be if she said, "well, I guess my body needs to be fat right now. Sorry, Jenny!" At least that way, she wouldn't have the enormous pressure to lose weight for an all-eyes-on-her marketing campaign.

sorry i'm about a week late, but need to post MHO.


Britney is her own worst enemy....unfortunately, her previous hard work won't be remembered, but the bad press and pictures of her without underwear will follow her (and her kids) around a lot longer than a hit single. She's a spoiled child with no common sense masquarading as an adult and a parent. (At least K-fed keeps his pants on for the press).

the ONLY press she gets is negative....I recall reading about the OK interview and the fried chicken stained designer dress, the pooping puppy, (then the puppy's broken leg) asking an extra, the maid etc. to share her bed. If I had young kids, I would consider her right up there with Porn. off limits.

the average 10 year old displays more common sense than her. The only come-back she is making is being rude, slu**y and stupidly pathetic in her attempt at media attention.....(oh yeah I always go shopping in a 20" dress and no underwear---every afternoon at Nordstrom and have my topless pic. taken in a pool with people i just met).
I have no compassion for her, she needs to grow up. she's not a role model for anyone. A *regular* woman would have been reported to child services for that kind of behavior within yards of their kids.

but back to the topic, she's had 2 kids in 2 years and she consumes a lot of booze, parties hard....all things considered, she's NOT fat. If she wants to, I have no doubt she can make her body into a reasonable facsimile of what she used to be....Hollywood will forgive her...she can ride her name back and I hope her kids forgive her too if they every realize what she did to embarrass them.

Come on Kirstie, the truth will set you free!!

What I don't understand is, people go "but she lost 75 pounds!" How do you figure?? I know she says she lost 75 pounds -- but here in her "fat and happy" interview promoting Fat Actress, she says her top weight -- and she started JC right after this -- was 204.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in632721.shtml

So OK let's do the math -- she lost 75 lbs, she's "maintained that for over a year" and weighs 129 then RIGHT! YEAH, OK RIGHT.....SO DO I THEN, LOL!

I actually see her around every once in a while (my daughter goes to school in her Los Feliz neighborhood) and she seems quite pleasant and all but as of just a few weeks ago, like maybe 5 or six weeks ago, she's looking around 200 pounds AT LEAST!!

i understand what you are saying about kristie and lying..that's a different issue..however she did loose weight through JC. Maybe she's not doing so great at maintianing...but there was definately weight loss..and maybe she is unbelievably embarrassed at how big she really was. But on that note..the point i was actually trying to make as a generalization was...would you like anyone calling you fat...weather you were famous or not???? That really was what i was trying to get to in the previous posts. Yes i'm not going to deny that britney needs some major help psychologically and mentally and she is darn near close to loosing her kids. But what i'm trying to say is that this website was created many times for help and support. So say for instance some newbie comes on this site and sees you calling britney fat..and this newbie thinks that wow i wish i looked this good and hears you bashing britneys weight...that may make that person so not want to join our supportive group because she (or he) may think..wow if she thinks britney is fat...she must think i'm a house! That's really what i meant. I don't really understand why we feel the need to make jabs at celebrities and their weight (weather big or small). This is a weight loss forum..and MHO i feel that this sort of talk demises what this group is set out to do....support weight loss. I know personally i would kill to have the body britney had that night (maybe not the bad dancing and lip synching lol). Essentially what i've been trying to say (and obviously the point has been missed)...is that the trash talking about celebritie's weight can also be misinterpreted by those others on this board. People with low self esteem and weight issues may become self reserved and not what to speak out for fear of lack of support. I'm just saying...if she was average joe schmo and you saw her on the street...i would hope you wouldn't call her fat. I just wish we'd focus a little less on celebrities weights and focus on more positive ways to help and support our fellow 3fcer's in their efforts to reach (or maintain) their goal...and we wonder why girls have such poor body images.
I'm done with my soap box..and i feel i've beat a dead horse to death..sorry.

Well you know gatorgal you bring up an interesting point, and that is of course we are all sensitive to weight issues but here's the thing.....

I'm fat and so fat doesn't seem that bad of a word, just a descriptive. Are we catastrophizing "fat?"

I'd rather be called fat than a liar or a fraud (which is what I'm calling Kirstie.)

Here on this thread let's see, Britney's been called untalented, a bad mother, a train wreck of a human being, I mean truly awful things that nobody would like to be called. But God forbid you call her fat! As if it's the worst possible trait in the world, to be fat!

It's really no crime to be fat (good thing or I'd be serving a life sentence LOL!) And there's no shame in it....I'd rather be fat than any other word used to describe Britney on this page. She could be in killer shape by the end of the year if she put her mind to it, but she'll still be a homewrecker and a lousy singer!

Yikes...!!! Now it seems Brit is being busted for a hit & run incident in a parking lot right in my backyard (Studio City CA!)

What an idiot...would it have killed her to leave a note? Apparently she gets out of the car, looks at HER CAR ONLY, gets back in and drives off.

Did she not suspect that the whole thing would be documented by the paparazzi? DUH~!

What is funny is the lady whose car she hit, filed a police report about it, then sees the paparazzi footage on a gossip site and was like, OMG Britney Spears was who hit my car!

Poor Britney!
I've been soooo good in restraining myself from the Kirstie Alley thing, because that topic is a huge hot button for me!
FIRST of all, I am supportive of Kirstie regardless of her weight. I absolutely think she is fabulous at whatever weight she is at. I support her and her body type completely.
BUT, BUT, BUT -- where she crosses the line for he is claiming a certain amount of weight loss as a result of a commercial diet program, and makes these claims for money. The purpose of being a spokesperson is to sell a product. In this case, she is selling the JC product and is paid to advertise her weight loss as a result of use of this product. IF she claims she lost amount X, and in REALITY, lost amount Y, and amount Y is significantly less than amount X, THIS IS FALSE ADVERTISING!
That is my only issue with Kirstie Alley.
I don't believe that this is "celeb fat bashing". I DO think that truth in advertising and accountability for false advertising should be a standard that we hold in high regard. To me, her claims are NO DIFFERENT than those of *******' claims, which are quite harsly critiqued on the home page of this website.
In BOTH cases, undocumented tremendous amounts of weight have been claimed to be lost, the consumer is "lured" into a program based on the "success" of the product sold, and photographic evidence shows that the claims made are inaccurate!
There, now I feel better

Bashing??? She deserves it! I don't buy the premise that if you're a celeb you're fabulous no matter what? Uh-uh!!

Does anybody read the great blog, "Confessions Of A Fat Girl?" This is the
real deal on what it's like for a 28 y/o working woman to deal with the stresses of day to day life, including financial pressures, and the weight issue. So the protagonist of this blog goes on Jenny Craig which is a large expense for her, an excerpt:

"I find myself in a sticky situation.

My financial situation has become quite grim. I have to make some sacrifices. I think, unfortunately, one of those sacrifices is going to have to be my Jenny Craig food. Or at least far less of it. It's costing me about $75-$100 a week right now and that's not including the produce and dairy I have to buy in addition almost every week to fill in the spots that the Jenny food doesn't cover."

This is where Kirstie's JC money is coming from. How do they expect the working women to pay up the nose for this stuff when millionaires get the same thing for FREE....and lie about the end results?

I don't have any respect for Kirstie Alley at all. Not because she gained the weight back, I've done that a few times - but knowing how hard it is I would NEVER lie to other people with the same problem, just to make money!