I admit that there may be a bit of a generation gap here, because I don’t know anything about Carnie Wilson except for her weight issues. Evidently she’s a musician and “television personality,” but so is Heidi Montag and that doesn’t seem to mean much.
In any event, in March she came out swinging over a National Enquirer exposé that she’d regained a ton of weight after having a gastic bypass done in 1999, back when she weighed 300 pounds.
After the surgery, she dropped to around 150 pounds, but the National Enquirer reported she’d fattened back up. She was insulted.
“If I’m 205 today, that means I am up 70 pounds,” she revealed in a candid interview about her weight battle on Good Morning America. 79 pounds, she said, “is an outright lie.
“It is very hard being in the public eye, being scrutinized for every pound,” she added.
Around the same time she said she weighed 208, so my math says they were off by 6 pounds. Splitting hairs, if not pants. But I digress.
What’s odd is that a mere two months later, she’s writing a tell-all book about her dieting struggles. It seems that as a weight-loss advocate, such a move will open her up to scrutiny of every pound, no?
Some people just want the flattering press and can’t accept the bad.
It is one thing for you to scrutinize your every pound, but for the National Enquirer to do so? No, thanks.
I don’t think that her discussing her weight struggles and the National Enquirer calling her fat are the same.
I see the point being made here. While it’s tacky for the tabloids to discuss a person’s weight, when you open yourself up to it, there’s really not much you can complain about. Of course, it might not help the sales of her book if everyone else is scrutinizing her struggle, so that might be where the real issue lies.
I bet it’ll be a whale of a book.
A hefty tome indeed.
And how much struggle can it be when one cheats and opts for the gastric bypass surgery?
I remember this story. Carnie, I think, was the one who had the bypass and had it televised or put on the internet or something, so I’m guessing that’s why the Enquirer reported on it because she made it a story when she originally did the surgery.
Of course, having the surgery and then putting on weight to reach a little over 200 from 150 points out that the surgery, much like with penile enlargements, isn’t the cure.
Is she going to use fellow gastic-bypasser Star Jones as her litigation attorney?
I don’t know if I would say that writing about the struggle of weight-loss and tabloid nit-picking about weight are of the same nature, exactly. Oh, and Carnie Wilson is 1/3 of Wilson-Phillips, a group successful in the ’90s. I’m only 20, so I’m not sure if it’s a generation gap thing.
Meh.
I think Carnie Wilson means well, and advocates high self esteem and motivation for overweight people, and that’s fine.
However, on the other hand, I wouldn’t be willing to take advice from someone who has had surgery done, and this being not the first time she gained some weight back. I think Carnie Wilson’s a person who loves food WAY too much, wants to be thin, and it just keeps on not working out…
1/3 of Wilson-Phillips? I’d say she’s more than that.
I don’t think Carnie Wilson is a deceiver. Obviously you don’t know what it is to struggle with your weight. Science is finding more and more that people’s weight or propensity to be overweight or obese is controlled by our genetic makeup. And I don’t think choosing to lose weight through gastric bypass surgery is the easy way out. There are very serious risks involved with the surgery, especially at the time that Carnie Wilson had her surgery. I can’t imagine how heartbreaking it must be to go through the surgery and everything you have to go through after the surgery, only to gain a lot of the weight back.
Pastafarian…such rich and insightful commentary…every time.
Agreed — If we ever get around to printing up Deceiver.com T-shirts, Pastafarian gets one “on the house.”
Right on. Free is good. But I think she’s being sarcastic.
Well Pasta, I half come here to read what Deceiver has to say, and half to see what your witty retort is (and I mean that with no sarcasm dripping from the statement, promise)
Hey whale, stop eating!