Tyra Banks
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| Mon, 06-04-2007 - 7:10pm |
I am not a fan but I watch The Soup on the E! channel and saw a clip of her going bersurk over a picture, that I think US ran, of her in a bathing suit on the beach. Accompanying the picture was an article about her rapid weight gain since leaving Victoria's Secret. In the clip from her show that The Soup ran, she was going on and on about how she doesn't care about weight, she's healthy, something about young girls & body image.
So, today I was in the checkout lane at the grocery store and she's on the cover of some magazine, I forget which, People maybe. She's in a bathing suit and the article excerpt accompanying the picture said: "How I lost 30 lbs".
I don't care what she does but what message is this sending to all of those "healthy" fans who she spoke to on that particular episode of her show? Thoughts?

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My little sister wants to go on America's Next Top Model, which Tyra is the host of.
My sister has a flat tummy, too.
Hmmm I don't know what "clip" you saw on the Soup but in the People article in reference to the bathing suit image that was displayed about her that said she was "fat" in January she Well she herself was banned a lot from modeling in London when she first started out due to when her body started changing as a young girl because she was much curvier than the "ideal" in fact she said on call sheets it actually said "NOT TYRA BANKS" so thats when she came to the states and stopped modeling in London and started modeling for Victoria Secret and for Sports Illustrated.
She's always been "curvier" than the typical model she's never been super thin. She's always had a larger chest and curves. I don't necessarily feel bad for her since she puts herself in the limelight and she's a star so of course she's scrutinized more than the average person. She's definitely not FAT even in the unflattering pictures of her she doesn't appear FAT to me I wish to be that fat. Jeez. However in the People article in January she said that she has been eating a lot of unhealthier food and knew that she should be eating better.
So while this newer article might have said she's lost weight all that tells me is maybe she's started eating healthier and I don't know that it's really sending any mixed messages in my opinion. She was okay with herself heavier but agreed that she wasn't eating healthy foods. Now I just assume she's eating healthier and she's lost weight because of it. But I admit I haven't read this particular People magazine. Or maybe she's been asked to model for someone and needed to get back into model shape, who knows, but that's part of the modeling business that she also alluded to in her first People article in january that while modeling there was a certain diet she followed, low carb higher protein and when not modeling she tend to be less strict.
I think she told those people that they were beautiful no matter what size they were and to embrace it. Whether she lost weight now is really irrelavant I think to that message. Do you have to stay the same size forever to embrace the message that people are beautiful no matter what size they are?
Smile,
Deirdre
"Do you have to stay the same size forever to embrace the message that people are beautiful no matter what size they are?" -- No, of course not. Personally, my weight has fluctuated my entire life.
Losing weight is fine but after standing up on a soap box for a significant amount of air time and then posing for an article like that, I don't know . . . seems like she's waffling to me.
Besides, the whole reason the clip was on The Soup was because she was claiming that the weight gain didn't bother her yet, she went on and on about for what seemed to be an eternity. That's why they aired it, it was kind of comical.
Pick a stance, you know? If you care, then admit or just stay mum about it. If you don't care, why bother?
But her stance was about the media. It was about how the media jumps all over people about their weight and put unflattering pictures of people and write stuff about them and that it's what causes people to have bulumia and anorexia and she clearly stated in her People magazine article in January that her mother instilled in her a healthy self esteem so she lets things like that roll off her back and that she wasn't modeling at that time so she is heavier and she is heavier because she's not eating healthy and that she could be eating healthier. The article in January in People talked about that. In Life and Style which featured her on the cover in a green bikini in May that said she lost 30 lbs says she didn't diet, just that she started eating healthier and she dropped the weight. So again, I don't think it's really that big of a deal nor in contradiction to the article in January in People due to the article in People saying she was eating bad foods and that's why she was heavier.
I think if you are going to make the assumption she lost the weight due to the media than you would take that stance but I don't assume that, I read the article in People in January so I just assume she started eating healthier and lost the weight. Just like most people when they eat bad foods they bloat and balloon just like she stated in the article.
Smile,
Deirdre
>>but that's better than my flat butt! <<
I have a flat butt, too. I'd kill for a curvy butt. :)
AJ, enjoying life with C.
It's because that was a bad picture. Some pictures can make you look fatter, uglier, paler, whatever, than you really are. The uglier side of smoke and mirrors I guess. But you know how paparazzi are. They don't want to tell good stories. They want to get celebrities in a bad light. That's why she was enraged--well, from what I heard.
Anyways, I can't understand why people call her fat. She's pretty close to average, and in fact has better boobs than average, nicer butt than average. I think it's dumb when average people criticise her for imperfections. Somewhere in that person's subconscious is the nagging little voice that lets the person know that average life is not as "pretty" as celebrity life. I'm not trying to speak up in Tyra's defense. Just trying to uncover peoples' self-destructive nature.
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