Bravo Victoria Wood!
I've just finished watching Part 2 and it was a truely brilliant well balanced programme, no freak show in sight!
Did anybody else watch it? what did you think?

I thought it was really good i.e I agreed with a lot of it I loved the overweight girl in the USA whose Mother told her the ultra skinny celebs were the odd ones out not her.

I thought is was down to earth and much more realistic than celebrity fit club and all the other hype being shown on tv at the moment. I too loved the mother saying the celebs are the freaks

Wasn't the exercise guy scarey - like Lionel Blair! However congrats to him to getting a class together for larger people so they don't feel the "odd one out". Two of my friends (who are only a bit overweight) go to Lotte Berk's classes and most of the women there are obvious anorexics, so it must be hard turning up in a large size leotard with all those skinnies!

Did anyone else see that documentary about being big in Texas (which appears to be the norm) with all those all you can eat places. The food all seemed like complete rubbish though so I would probably starve!

Going back to Victoria Wood - what did you think about the large ladies club? Wheere they can dance the night away without being laughed at. A good idea but weren't the men creepy! Or is a case of not wanting to belong to a club that would actually let me in (who said that ? Groucho Marx or Oscar Wild??). Nothing wrong with men liking larger women but some of them seem like fetishists, you know what I mean?

There is a club in london for "BBW" I can't for the life of me remember what it's called though!
Aye, I think I might go if it was women only, the men wold freak me out a bit I think!!
Although, in an ideal world it would be nice just to go to a club and be accepted for who you are and not how big you are, I have heard of women being turned away from niteclubs because their "face didn't fit" (read "dress").

Lol, Peacock, America is busting with all you can eat restaurants And you are right, it's all rubbish!

I'm really curious about this Victoria Wood.

She is a comedian. She did a few things with Julie Walters (you must have heard of her? She was in Billy Elliot and has been in a number of films - trying to think what she would have been in the Americans would know).

Anyway, Victoria Wood is a favourite UK funny lady but she was pretty serious in this documentary. Well thought out I believe.