Comments on: Good God, Carnie Wilson

By: Beige

Beige — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:58:16 +0000

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.

By: Isla Fischer: Pregnant women are ’subject to body fascism’ | Actress Actor Celebrity Blog

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:37:28 +0000

[...] Wilson has also gotten a lot of heat for her pregnancy weight gain. She was featured in OK! on October 28th as a weight loss success story. A little over a month [...]

By: Holly Won't

Holly Won't — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:00:47 +0000

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.

By: SK

SK — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:17:50 +0000

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.

By: Jrod

Jrod — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:16:54 +0000

I would not hit it.

By: witko

witko — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:25:45 +0000

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!

By: Peaches

Peaches — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:59:25 +0000

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 !

By: Chronic Malanga

Chronic Malanga — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:34:51 +0000

Awww, Pasta, the metal gods love Bruce!

By: pinandpuller

pinandpuller — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:13:28 +0000

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.

By: Pai-Jzu

Pai-Jzu — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:36:38 +0000

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.