This post is admittedly going to be a little mean. But I honestly want to know how the hell such a thing happened.
Carnie Wilson on October 28, from her eight-page spread in OK! that she got for being a weight-loss success story:
Carnie Wilson yesterday in a McDonald’s parking lot:
I know she’s pregnant and all, but these two photos were taken about a month apart. Carnie has written two self-help books about dieting — ironically named Gut Feelings and I’m Still Hungry — and has a third one coming out next year.
Did OK! retouch her photos to bits? (You can see the full gallery here.) Or is she maybe the last person who should be giving dieting advice? Like this from that same October interview:
I bake cheesecake for other people and taste it and spit it out.
That’s called bulimia, my dear.
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You don’t go from the top photo to the bottom one in a month. Or even two. Unless you’re pregnant with a hippopotamus. The top one was obviously faked.
I can hear the excuse…”But I am pregnanat I can eat a whole refridgerator and it is ok now…”
Carnie loves the photoshop work.
Might the OK! photos have been done several months ago and only published last month? Because if they weren’t faked and really only taken last month, she must’ve been eating pretty much non-stop since then. And you can’t blame it on pregnancy…many of us didn’t gain that much weight in the entire nine months, much less in the first trimester.
I don’t think it counts as bulimia if you don’t actually swallow the food. There are some people who will chew then spit just about everything out in order to lose weight. Pretty f-ed up but not bulimia.
The Photoshop Diet! Eat what you want and retouch yourself later. Wait, the motto might need some work.
Didn’t she have gastric bypass done?
Why would someone that refuses to diet be writing books about dieting?
Queen Bee: Check out the link…spitting out food is a one of the signs of bulimia. Very strange diet advice, but why would anyone take tips from someone who had a gastric bypass anyway?
Sweet Mother of God. How can she possibly write any of these books with a straight face? Should they be in the humor section of the book store?
I don’t care if Carnie is fat or skinny. I don’t care who is, honestly. It isn’t how I judge people. But when the only time you make it into a magazine is because you have gained or lost weight, it may be time to detract from it by actually doing something else.
Honestly, up until that last picture, she could have just been fitted with some intense foundation garments (girdle!), creative lighting and careful posing. The last one seems to be a little too good to be true, and maybe there’s some photoshopping (above and beyond the usual). The McDonalds picture is the opposite–poor lighting, clothing choice and pose. And it’s very possible she put on 5 or 10 pounds in the month or two since the last magazine one was taken.
It isn’t usually how I judge people either Chronic. I judge them by which Iron Maiden they like. The first one with Paul Di’Anno, or Mach II with Bruce Dickinson.
And I do feel bad sometimes making fun of her, because her dad is a genius but he’s deaf in one ear so I just say stuff on that side of his head.
She could be wearing six pairs of Spanx in the top photo and lit by God himself — there’s no way there is only a 5 to 10 pound differential between then and now. In my inexpert opinion, that’s a gain of at least 30 pounds, maybe 40.
Cheesecake!!!!! Isn’t that made with a whole package of cream cheese? And we all know the fat free stuff just isn’t the same. Carne (sorry, she will always be Carne to me) needs to stop making food, or even bringing into her home, such high in fat foods for godsake! Didn’t she get the memo, that fat caloric intake should never, EVER exceed more then half of the whole calorie amount.
Cheesecake con Carne , the title of her new book
perhaps the assumption that the photos were taken only 1 month apart is incorrect.
magazine layouts are often done months in advance of publication…
ShyAsrai, I had considered that but the photos couldn’t have been taken too much earlier than the end of October because this is what Carnie looked like in May (taken at a car wash in LA):
No mention of Iron Maiden mach III with Blaze Bayley or does that Maiden not exist?
Pasta, I’m a Dickinson girl, and my album of choice is “Piece of Mind”. Will ya be my friend?
Rocko, I pretend Blaze Bayley never happened myself.
WRONG ANSWERS!!!!!! They both wail ass. The metal gods are displeased with you all. And They don’t recognize the whole Blaze thing.
The above picture isn’t even flattering, in itself. The lipstick is waaaaaaaaay too much.
For what it’s worth, Ms. Wilson probably had a ghost writer do most of those books for her, so keeping a straight-face while penning them might not have been an issue at all…
The concept of gastric bypass scares me so much–I don’t know how someone could have it done and then even bear to eat ever again, let alone keep going up and down the way she does. But seriously, lady, find a healthier way to get into the news, please!
I actually know someone that died from complications after gastric bypass surgery. It’s not always safe.
Sounds like this week’s episode of “House”… maybe Carnie inspired it!
Well shoot Pasta, some of us never did the metal thing…
English Beat? Cure? Talking Heads?
Damn, no room for geeks, eh?
I noticed in the first picture it looks like she put one foot in front of the other rather than stand with her feet side by side. That would make anyone look thinner.
It’s like Jennifer Aniston – all that’s ever written about her concerns who she is or isn’t dating and if there’s any chance she might get married in the next month. I just want to say, make a decent film FFS! Then maybe people will not instantly think “sad cow who can’t keep a man” when they see her. Carnie Wilson’s the same thing – only known for the yo-yo dieting. One can only imagine what her self-esteem and self-image must be like.
I know its mean to say but I think that she ate her ghostwriter.
As to the second matter-I gotta go with Bruce Dickenson and Nico McBrain.
Awww, Pasta, the metal gods love Bruce!
She, more than any other fat/thin/fat/thin/fat…celeb, milks the spotlight to ad nauseam. Wasn’t she on Oprah crying about her weightloss? Oh wait, the View, Extra, Access Hollywood, ET, Maury and on and on….At this point who the he** cares about Carnie? It’s my fear that after this baby is delivered, she’ll start all over again on TV/print about how hard it is to lose weight…oh vey! Save us from this !
I saw an article a few months back about Carnie’s new diet and she stated that she wanted to get down to 150 pounds so that she could get pregnant safely. She talked about eating spaghetti squash instead of pasta and other substitutes. She also claimed to be working out with a personal trainer.
For the record, 5% of gastric bypass patients die from complications of the surgery, and a majority of them suffer either a hernia or end up losing their gall bladder, and some have both problems. Also, because the weight comes off so fast, the skin doesn’t have time to go back to size so one is left with a whole lot of loose, saggy skin. It can be removed by a plastic surgeon but nearly all insurance companies consider this to be elective or cosmetic surgery…meaning NOT COVERED. I know quite a few women that have had gastric bypass surgery, and only about half have managed to keep all the weight off. The other half have put weight back on in varying amounts, and at least 3 that I know personally have put it ALL back on, and even more besides.
There are safer surgeries available, even if they take a little longer. But one thing is and has always been true…the best way to lose weight and the only way that really works is diet and exercise. No magic pills, no electronic pulse belts, no silver suits, no special candy, no fad diets. Eat a balanced meal, burn more calories than you take in each day, and the weight will come off.
Strawberry Girl is right, by posing with one foot in front of the other, you can indeed make your shape look smaller by narrowing the hips. I think the photos are probably photoshopped too, at least a little, but magazine photos almost always are.
Holly Won’t, even five extra pounds can look huge on a person, so yeah, 15 pounds can drive a woman up several sizes. That’s the nasty truth about fat. Muscle is heavier than fat, so someone can gain weight and still look slimmer, but gaining fat is easier and doesn’t take as long.
And for the record, the Original Iron Maiden Rules!
I would not hit it.
My wife is pregnant. She had recently lost quite a bit of weight (Weight Watchers), but during pregnancy she is not allowed to be on any kind of calorie-restrictive diet. So two things are happening with her: She’s gaining weight because of the eating itself. But also, the pregnancy is pushing her body to regain all the lost weight, as some sort of survival-of-the-baby technique. She is gaining at a much faster rate than you normally would expect because of diet alone, and that is accounted for by all the crazy hormonal changes. I am told that breast feeding will burn off a lot of that weight, but that she’ll still have to work hard to lose the rest to get back to her goal weight.
I hope people can cut a pregnant woman a bit of slack about her appearance, because it is one of those times in her life when she doesn’t have the same amount of control over how she looks as normal. Weight loss is difficult enough to maintain when you’re not pregnant. And pregnancy– with the worries about the baby’s health, the cramping, the throwing up, the swollen and sore feet, the sciatic back pain, and on and on– is challenging enough without a bunch of never-been-pregnants sniping about her waistline.
I appreciate what your wife is going through, SK. But the difference is, has your wife written a couple of diet books? Or gone on a press tour after losing the weight she gained with her first child? I view Carnie Wilson’s pregnancy as incidental — she’s just clearly not someone who has a normal, healthy relationship with food, yet she pins her entire public image on her weight fluctuations.
Look, when your whole life can be summed up:
NOM NOM NOM
La la la laaaaaaaaa
NOM NOM NOM
No more NOM NOM NOM
(Except for still NOM NOM NOM’ing)
You can roll off the wagon, OR you can write books and pose trying to be all hot, but not both. I agree, the pregnancy is here an incidental thing.