TV Show Starved

The media department at ObesityHelp.com is interested in finding out what our members feelings are about the new FX tv show titled Starved, which airs Thursday nights at 10 p.m. Do you take offense to the dialogue about four friends dealing with their individual eating disorders or do you find it funny? Please respond to this post telling us what you think.

Ronda Einbinder
ObesityHelp
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Ronda, I think its pretty funny, actually. BUT...I'm 2 years post-op and had no trouble getting my ins. to pay for my WLS or plastics. I was VERY lucky. That said, my theory is that you learn to live with your flaws. When you're obese, you don't wake up every morning and think "Wow, I'm really fat!" If you did, you wouldn't be able to cope every day. You wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror. So you do things like focus on your best features, trying to detract from your waist size. As far as the dialogue on the show, thats pretty much how we talk here to each other When you're with people who are LIKE you, you feel free and able to discuss stuff you'd never DREAM of talking to with anyone else. My last thought is that fat people are the last group that its socially acceptable to make fun of. We don't have the ACLU or any group standing behind us letting others know that fat jokes are NOT ok, etc.

Well since Kathy has ESP right now im gona say everything she said i agree with.

Ronda I think that it's interesting! It makes me think that you never know what's going on in someone else's life. The most interesting character to me is the man that applied for approval for gastric bypass surgery three times and he's never gone through with it. It's funny and witty but it's also sad because it seems like they are trapped in this world of anorexia and bulimia.