Topic: fat

Ways Your Fat Friends Are Conspiring To Make You Fat, Too

Ways Your Fat Friends Are Conspiring To Make You Fat, Too
By being happy
They bake you delicious food
They have happy relationships
You notice people still seem to find them attractive
Seriously. This doesn't seem to be ruining their lives.

The Telegraph wants to remind you, once again, that your fat friends are making you fat. They report:

In 2007, a study of more than 12,000 people by the Harvard Medical School and the University of California found those with obese friends or siblings were at a greater risk of becoming overweight.

It reported that an obese person’s friends were 57 per cent more likely to put on weight alongside them than those surrounded by slimmer people.

The takeaway from these studies always seems to be “ditch your fat friends, shun them, surround yourself only with models? Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE CONSPIRING TO MAKE YOU FAT. I’ve thought about a few ways they might be doing this: More »

Karl Lagerfeld Apologizes To Adele For Calling Her Fat By Sending Her Chanel Bags

Karl Lagerfeld Apologizes To Adele For Calling Her Fat By Sending Her Chanel Bags

After receiving blowback from everyone from fashion bloggers to Madonna for calling Adele “a little too fat,” Karl Lagerfeld did something he does not normally do: he apologized. It was sort of a lame non-apology that blamed the writer for taking his words “out of context,” but whatever. Now, to drive the point home that he’s sorry, he has sent the English singer a nice assortment of Chanel handbags. Which begs the question: what does he want from her? More »

Actresses Who Have Worn Fat Suits (Other Than January Jones)

Actresses Who Have Worn Fat Suits (Other Than January Jones)
Courtney Cox on Friends
What Courtney Cox actually looked like
Goldie Hawn in Death Becomes Her
What Goldie Hawn actually looked like
Gwyneth Paltrow in Shallow Hal

Look, it’s not just Betty Draper (although seeing January Jones in a fat suit was a bizarre reminder that there will be no end to the indignities her character will suffer on Mad Men). There are plenty of actresses who have worn fat suits at one point for… reasons. Largely that reason is “being in terrible comedies” rather than critically acclaimed AMC shows, but it has been done. See which ones strike you as remotely realistic. More »

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