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Kelly Ripa |
| Message Name: |
Ideal weights are relative... |
| Date Posted: |
05/27/2005 |
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It doesn't mean they have an eating disorder. I'm rooting for you, too, morningsrgr8, and for all women who struggle with this. But I happen to see Kelly fairly often, and I've been at the same restaurant when she's been there with her family, and I've seen her eat. Now, I didn't follow her into the bathroom or anything, but she has a healthy appetite. She works out with a trainer constantly, has three jobs, about two-dozen active kids (kidding) and a busy life. That's why she's skinny. That, and genetics. I think she's beautiful, but I also like some women like Eva Mendez with a lot of meat on their bones. It's not just about being skinny. We urge heavy women to be content with their bodies, but make naturally skinny women feel like they're freaks. |
| Message: |
All this talk of "natural fitness" reminds me of the middle-aged man on the PBS reality series, Frontier House, who was so convinced that he was sick and had to leave the show because he had lost so much weight and was, he thought, alarmingly thin. The producers took him seriously, of course, and brought in a doctor to thoroughly examine him. In the end, the determination was that this was, in fact, what people's bodies were like when we worked outside all day tending livestock, building, farming, and living on the frontier. The concept of carrying around a "healthy" 10-15 pounds extra is a modern-day norm brought about by First World luxury.
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