Whitney Way Thore - Our Big Fat Fabulous Thread

[RI 360]

I keep on getting recommended clips and this one is great. She's fed up with her dancers for shit she herself cannot do

Interesting how justified she is in the no bullshit approach when she's doing it, but not her trainer who even maintained and even, calm tone with her.

 

[multiverse]

Her best friend is sobbing on the floor for multiple minutes before she notices - even has to up to volume of his cries to even get her to come over. Then, all she does is demand whether he can get up, or move - then just stares at him. Like, you are the teacher. You go get help now. She's so completely re.tarded.

 

[MW 002]

Interesting how justified she is in the no bullshit approach when she's doing it, but not her trainer who even maintained and even, calm tone with her.

It makes the video with Giya even funnier

 

[Lovertits]

I'v only watched a few episodes, but this girl is so pathetic. I dont think she knows its not right to have knee and back and leg problems when your 30. She's literally crushing her bones with all that flab.

 

[FatFuckingClown]

She's so fucking ridiculous. And that voice. That goddamn, grating voice.
There is no good this bitch can do in this lifetime so long as her mouth is open. (For inhaling food/exhaling that scratchy, fat-bitch, soccer mawm, "I want to speak with your manager" voice.)

 

[RI 360]

the autism.ink channel will allows us to screen episodes of Big Fat Fab Life and My 600lvs Life during the work week. I am thinking either Wednesdays or Thursdays, I'll keep you guys posted. Thanks @0xDEADBEEF !

 

[Dr.Research]

I guess her reasoning for being so fat is that she can move around. Woah! A fat person dancing! Woah!

I remember when I saw the commercial for the pregnancy arch and actually googled it. We all know it was a false positive (and from what people here say was totally contrived. So I guess they told her to fake pregnancy symptoms? Or it was just her period coming since the symptoms can overlap and her friend jumped the gun?) but she gave some interviews about it. One of them had a quote from her and a picture from when she was a teenager and looked of a healthy weight/a bit chubby and she said at that time she had an eating disorder and that she wasn't healthy, regardless of her appropriate size.

I can sympathize if that's true. If that's the case then she has no normal perception of health and weight so her being 500 pounds could easily be a hard line reaction. Similar to how some people can only think in black and white.

But there's no excuse for being a synthetic reality show "star" hawking shitty life advice and being a bad example. I don't believe in being a body Nazi where being a few pounds overweight is a capital offense, but there's no excuse for this- regardless of how much she dances and doesn't go into cardiac arrest.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

I guess her reasoning for being so fat is that she can move around. Woah! A fat person dancing! Woah!

I remember when I saw the commercial for the pregnancy arch and actually googled it. We all know it was a false positive (and from what people here say was totally contrived. So I guess they told her to fake pregnancy symptoms? Or it was just her period coming since the symptoms can overlap and her friend jumped the gun?) but she gave some interviews about it. .

Very early pregnancy symptoms are virtually identical to common PMS symptoms. Women are warned not to "symptom spot" with early pregnancy because it's no indicator. Not to mention women with PCOS have crazy fluxes in hormone levels (which are what causes all PMS/menstrual/pregnancy related symptoms) and usually don't have regular periods, so it's very difficult to even judge if/when their period could be late.

It was just purely invented story arc for a show desperate for ratings, I mean fuck they hired an actor to play her boyfriend. Bitch didn't have an immaculate conception. If it had been an legit pregnancy scare nothing would have been said until it was 100% confirmed, because whoo boy they can milk multiple seasons out of that shit and want the full production crew and everything in place to film the big scenes. No way they are going to spend a big chunk of a production budget on anything they aren't 100% sure about and is scripted/planned ahead of time.

(Powerlevel, friend that worked on two separate cable TV reality shows and nothing goes unplanned or unscripted. It might as well be a 1970's sitcom. They don't have the budgets to just follow dumbfucks around for weeks and hope something interesting happens. Time is money and they get the most out of every filming schedule by planning it to a T.)

 

[RI 360]

Hey guys, I think starting next week I will scavenge episodes of Whitney/600lbs to air on Wednesday nights starting at 6pm here: http://autism.ink/r/Drunk_Kiwis

 

[multiverse]

One of them had a quote from her and a picture from when she was a teenager and looked of a healthy weight/a bit chubby and she said at that time she had an eating disorder and that she wasn't healthy, regardless of her appropriate size.

This is something women in the fat acceptance community say all the time. It is almost never true in the sense you're thinking. They have an eating disorder: it's binge eating disorder (BED) and emotional eating. What they claim is that they were anorexic, and that when they were less fat it was due to anorexia (sometimes, bulimia), and that there's absolutely no way for them to become thin, because they were "anorexic" and "still fat" and insist it proves that some people are just fat even if they eat nothing, and you wouldn't ask them to be anorexic just to get down to obese, would you?

What happens is they feel bad about their weight, and eat less for a day or two, then binge again (a lot of them descend upon the MyProAna forums to talk about how ana they are, because they never could possibly have BED or emotional eating oh no, it's ana all the way.) Sometimes this is enough to halt their gain for a while, and it certainly isn't a healthy pattern, and very stressful, unsustainable behavior. They consider this to be either dieting or an eating disorder, depending on the day.

Then, when they decide to "recover" from this eating disorder, they dive right into a nonstop lifetime binge. And if you ever suggest portion control to them, you are triggering them back to their eating disorder.

It sucks for actual sufferers that these whales had to go and co-opt eating disorders and their attending issues: triggers, health at every size, intuitive eating, mindful eating, etc. They took every good tool from ED recovery and twisted each one into an excuse to binge, and to justify never being questioned about their weight, eating habits or nutrition, lest you "trigger their ED".

What I'm saying is: Whitney doesn't deserve your sympathy. Eating disorders suck, but they require an abundance of something Whitney has never possessed: control.

 

[gizmo]

This show is objectively not good television, but at the same time genius because it is advertised as like yes! Body positive! Beauty at every size! But ANYONE who watches the show gets the message "oh god, being that fat is awful and I never want to get near that point".

 

[multiverse]

But ANYONE who watches the show gets the message "oh god, being that fat is awful and I never want to get near that point".

Yeah, especially in the first couple seasons, the show seemed to be edited like a horror documentary, and it was like Whitney just wasn't caught on to the fact that she was at best a joke, and at worst a dire warning to America.

Hey guys, I think starting next week I will scavenge episodes of Whitney/600lbs to air on Wednesday nights starting at 6pm here: http://autism.ink/r/Drunk_Kiwis

Can't wait! 6 pm start time in which time zone?

 

[RI 360]

Yeah, especially in the first couple seasons, the show seemed to be edited like a horror documentary, and it was like Whitney just wasn't caught on to the fact that she was at best a joke, and at worst a dire warning to America.


Can't wait! 6 pm start time in which time zone?

Oh yeah, good question! I'm an ethnocentric ESTest. Lemme edit OP with this.

 

[FatFuckingClown]

Hey guys, I think starting next week I will scavenge episodes of Whitney/600lbs to air on Wednesday nights starting at 6pm here: http://autism.ink/r/Drunk_Kiwis

You're doing Godbear's work, dude.

 

[RI 360]

You're doing Godbear's work, dude.

Thanks, brother. I forgot to mention it starts 6pm EST, I've updated the OP to include it and a link to the channel. See you guys there!

 

[Dr.Research]

Powerlevel, friend that worked on two separate cable TV reality shows and nothing goes unplanned or unscripted. It might as well be a 1970's sitcom. They don't have the budgets to just follow dumbfucks around for weeks and hope something interesting happens. Time is money and they get the most out of every filming schedule by planning it to a T.

It's funny you mention that. I was actually thinking a few days ago "Gee, they must need to pad her life because most people aren't drama magnets and lead pretty regular lives of a work-home-occasionally hanging with friends/family-home-work cycle". I imagine that when you're that big and limited, you need someone faking situations. Especially if her dance classes are so under attended when not being filmed as people here have said.

Can't wait for the spin off where Whitney goes around the country trying to help failing dance teams a la Bar Rescue or Tabitha's Salon Takeover.

This is something women in the fat acceptance community say all the time.

I'm learning so much about this "community"

 

[Beef Thunderpants]

'Eating disorder' is such a bullshit catch-all term. Maybe bulimic, but I seriously doubt you could have anorexia nervosa and still be anywhere near overweight. You couldn't take in enough calories to maintain that size. Technically binge eating without purging is an eating disorder, so I guess in that regard she does have one.

(Powerlevel, friend that worked on two separate cable TV reality shows and nothing goes unplanned or unscripted. It might as well be a 1970's sitcom. They don't have the budgets to just follow dumbfucks around for weeks and hope something interesting happens. Time is money and they get the most out of every filming schedule by planning it to a T.)

My theory is that reality show producers are probably all failed TV writers who can't get a job on a scripted show. The only way to have creative input is to work for a reality show, and part of the business model is that they don't hire real writers at union wages, which is why their scripted stories are so bad.

 

[ADHD]

From what I recall, Whitney does have a history of bulimia, beginning either before or during high school. In her book she mentions purging after her prom dinner, and how the sister of one of her friends asked their mother why they bothered to buy Whitney dinner when they knew she was just going to go puke it up after eating it.

It's been about 6 months or so since I read it, I can skim it again this weekend to see if there's anything else worth mentioning.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

From what I recall, Whitney does have a history of bulimia, beginning either before or during high school. In her book she mentions purging after her prom dinner, and how the sister of one of her friends asked their mother why they bothered to buy Whitney dinner when they knew she was just going to go puke it up after eating it.

It's been about 6 months or so since I read it, I can skim it again this weekend to see if there's anything else worth mentioning.

Given her penchant for drama and exaggeration I take this claim with a grain of salt, particularly about her friend making that comment to her mom.

Her parents seem quite involved and competent and can't imagine they would take such a flippant remark about their daughters purging lightly - that's for bitter rich NYC socialite mothers to do, not kind hearted southern moms. I mean shit her mom comes over to shave her fat 30 year old daughter's legs. I don't believe she would turn a blind eye to her teenage daughter's eating disorder.

I've also noticed a lot of fat body positive types claim past anorexia/bulimia because then they can Reeeee if anyone says something about being fat because would you rather they die of anorexia?!?!!

 

[RI 360]

Given her penchant for drama and exaggeration I take this claim with a grain of salt, particularly about her friend making that comment to her mom.

Her parents seem quite involved and competent and can't imagine they would take such a flippant remark about their daughters purging lightly - that's for bitter rich NYC socialite mothers to do, not kind hearted southern moms. I mean shit her mom comes over to shave her fat 30 year old daughter's legs. I don't believe she would turn a blind eye to her teenage daughter's eating disorder.

I've also noticed a lot of fat body positive types claim past anorexia/bulimia because then they can Reeeee if anyone says something about being fat because would you rather they die of anorexia?!?!!

I read it as meaning the friend asked their own mother. But with the way the south, and moms in general work, no way that mom wouldn't have taken that information to Whitney's.