Anti-Obesity Group Wants You To Feel Bad Naked
Carson Kressley, formerly of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, has a new TV series, How to Look Good Naked. His mission: to help overweight women stop hating themselves and feel beautiful in their own skin.
And that has ticked off the folks members of the National Action Against Obesity who feel that the show’s message is really that “obesity is beautiful”.
It’s no more logical to compliment the aesthetics of obesity than the beauty of cigarette-stained teeth or track marks on a junkie’s arm,” said NAAO President MeMe Roth. “A dangerous characteristic of obesity is denial.”
In other words, ladies and gentlemen, NAAO says that if you’re fat you’ve got no business wearing clothes that make you feel pretty, nor in looking for anything to actually like about yourself. In their view, you’re a self-abusing addict who should hate everything about yourself, including every inch of your body and everything you see in the mirror.
As far as they’re concerned, whether you’re 20 pounds overweight or the size of one of those Branson hotels, you don’t deserve to feel good at all about your body until the scale says you’re thin.
I guess it’s never dawned on NAAO that feeling crappy about one’s self is the leading cause of overeating in the first place.
aOh that’s horrible! I watched that show last week and I loved it!
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Comment by Jennifer on January 10, 2008 at 10:08 amI don’t need any help feeling bad naked. geez…
I’m on my way to becoming a total social pariah - I’m fat, I drink, I smoke, and I own a gun. At least I’m not a junkie.
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Comment by Donna B. on January 10, 2008 at 12:50 pmDitto.
I say we just wait until all the skinny people get tired of trying to subsist on water and carrot sticks and turn on each other. Then we can rule the world.
Comment by Chubby Mommy on January 10, 2008 at 1:08 pmI’m gonna have to check out this show, I keep hearing about it all over the WL blogosphere.
As for the NAAO, they can go &@#% themselves. No matter our size, we should feel good about ourselves and our bodies. Sure it is not exactly healthy to be obese but people should mind their own business and stop being a part of the problem.
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Comment by Trish on January 10, 2008 at 2:16 pmIt’s healthier to be overweight and slightly obese than it is to be too thin. And there’s science to back that up!
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Comment by Donna B. on January 10, 2008 at 5:25 pmHey, I saw them advertising that this morning. Anyone know where we can watch it? I need to see what the buzz is about before I weigh in … LOL!
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Comment by GG on January 10, 2008 at 11:16 pmCheck your local cable listing for Lifetime TV.
Comment by Chubby Mommy on January 10, 2008 at 11:44 pmGood grief. Wanting to feel good about yourself no matter what size you are doesn’t mean you stop wanting to be smaller. It’s just a lot easier to lose weight when you don’t hate your body.
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Comment by sarahk on January 12, 2008 at 12:46 pmAbsolutely!
Comment by Chubby Mommy on January 12, 2008 at 1:42 pm…I say we just wait until all the skinny people get tired of trying to subsist on water and carrot sticks and turn on each other. Then we can rule the world….
Sorry, but not all of us skinny people like water or carrots! LOL I prefer coffee and nicotine myself 
As for the show, it looked pretty stupid to me, and my two chubby girls didn’t seem all that impressed either. But, I wouldn’t go as far as that NAOO group.
What I really want to know is why America has this strange fascination with allowing some gay man to tell women how to dress, act, or look at themselves. THAT is the strange part of this show!
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Comment by Franklin on January 12, 2008 at 9:35 pm
not everyone wants to participate in Carson’s revolution. The National Action Against Obesity chose to keep all of us less- than-perfect women in our perceived place with a press release attacking “How to Look Good Naked” (Credit and thanks toChubby Mommy, where I first found this release discussed). The release included this comment: “When we observe obesity, we’re seeing the effects of self-abuse. To end self-loathing, one must stop self-induced abuse. It
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