Does anyone else think Oprah is a hyprocrite?
Does anyone else have a problem with Oprah giving advise to over weight children about how to lose weight when she has proven to be unsuccessful? I mean seriously how can she tell someone how to lose weight if she will not follow through on her own advise. She claims to know how to lose weight so one of two things she is not following her own advise or she is ignoring her own advise in either case should she be the one to give advise?
Do not get me wrong I think she is a great roll model but just not in the weight loss area.
Thats like a fat person calling another fat person fat? Why would they do that? I am just trying to figure out why she would do that.
Do not get me wrong I think she is a great roll model but just not in the weight loss area.
Thats like a fat person calling another fat person fat? Why would they do that? I am just trying to figure out why she would do that.
I was an overrweight/obese RN for 10 years, doing cardiac teaching for cardiac patients. I felt horribly hypocritical. I would almost at once tell my patients, "Obviously, this is a hard life-style change and I am not a good example..." I think they understood. Is it worse to be tiny and work with obese patients? I don't have an answer. I guess Oprah thinks it's her job to educate the public.
I don't particularly like Oprah (IMHO I think she is very self-righteous and often full of herself).
Cynical as it sounds, it's probably good for ratings.
I don't particularly like Oprah (IMHO I think she is very self-righteous and often full of herself).
Cynical as it sounds, it's probably good for ratings.
k9ophile
on 1/28/09 3:08 am
on 1/28/09 3:08 am
Or her next diet book... I lost respect for her when she pitched a hissy about being too late to shop at Hermes. She said it was the most humiliating thing in her life. Hello? Wasn't she a victim of sexual abuse? And being kept out of some hoity-toity store was worse than that? I've read a lot of the books from her book club and she has been very generous with her money, but she is way too full of herself. She needs to stick to entertaining, not trying to tell others how to live.
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LindaFromKY
on 1/28/09 3:34 am - KY
on 1/28/09 3:34 am - KY
I sooooo toally agree with you. I have said the same thing. She is very generous with her money but she is so full of herself...........But the public has helped her along with that ya know. If she didn't have so much money nobody would care about her opinions or her investiments or who she supports. She is put so high up on a pedistal, and she knows it. And when she asks her audiences "Don't you think so audience"? and they just swoon and cheer ............OMG I want to slap them! Can't people think for themselves anymore? Aren't you gald you asked? LOL :)
Linda
Linda
Its crazy how they were talking about her being in the Illinois state senate...what on earth has this world come to. We preach college education and we are willing to put people in our government just because they are cute or popular. Crap I may run for city counsel and my platform will be "hey look at me" LOL
Its a wonder we are not worse off than what we are.
I had to pull my retirement from my 401K I lost almost 5 grand in 3 months and they want Oprah in the Senate? Good Grief Lord Help us all.
Its a wonder we are not worse off than what we are.
I had to pull my retirement from my 401K I lost almost 5 grand in 3 months and they want Oprah in the Senate? Good Grief Lord Help us all.
I don't think she's necessarily hypocritical. She does have like a live-in chef who makes her really good, healthy food and a personal trainer and I think she really takes advantage of all that.
Unfortunately, for some people, that just doesn't work. I think she's just in denial or too stubborn to accept evidence, if it's contrary to her own attitude. Sometimes that happens with people who are famous - they get to think that their opinion has merit, even if they don't REALLY know beans about the subject. They just get so used to people "Yessing" them all day every day they just think they just happen to always be right.
I haven't been able to stand to watch Oprah since her 50th birthday bash. She just left all humanity behind at that point. She used to walk in the audience and I remember one woman who maybe was talking about her weight struggle, and Oprah put her hand on her back in a really human act of solidarity. Now she air-kisses top level stars. Also, she seems to have started her own religion and she has the same attitude of being the only one right about spiritual things, too. No thanks!
Dennie
Unfortunately, for some people, that just doesn't work. I think she's just in denial or too stubborn to accept evidence, if it's contrary to her own attitude. Sometimes that happens with people who are famous - they get to think that their opinion has merit, even if they don't REALLY know beans about the subject. They just get so used to people "Yessing" them all day every day they just think they just happen to always be right.
I haven't been able to stand to watch Oprah since her 50th birthday bash. She just left all humanity behind at that point. She used to walk in the audience and I remember one woman who maybe was talking about her weight struggle, and Oprah put her hand on her back in a really human act of solidarity. Now she air-kisses top level stars. Also, she seems to have started her own religion and she has the same attitude of being the only one right about spiritual things, too. No thanks!
Dennie
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