Did anyone see Vanessa Minnillo on Entertainment Tonight last

week and last night?? *Warning, this is a long post so get ready...She decked herself out in a "fat suit" to experience and play the part of a 350 lbs morbidly obese female in downtown New York. Did you actually see how people stared at her? How the whispered about her behind her back? How they were so rude-she tried to exit a subway train, and was literally pushed back by other passengers like she didn't even exist? Their gawking at her when she ordered a hot dog with all the *fixins* and a bagel with a LOT of cream cheese? All of this made me VERY ANGRY at how society treats the obese...let alone the morbidly obese!! She actually felt what we go through...the humiliation, the shame, the low self esteem. There are a lot of other people I wish that could have observed this. It should have been something that ALL of America should have tuned in to. Some of their family members could be in this very same condition. I wonder how they would feel if their family member was treated like that!! She went into several stores to do shopping for clothes, and NO ONE offered to assist or help her or even asked if she was "finding everything ok", They just looked her up and down, whispered and laughed...How insensitive and rude some people can be. I can remember though, before my weight got out of control, and I thought I was "Mrs. It, I used to do the very same thing, laugh, and talk about how nasty and sloppy fat people looked. I USED to think that all of the obese were lazy. Little did I realize further down the road, my day was coming. Well now, I, for one, can say, I experienced the very same things several years ago. No one even thought to ask me out to lunch...I wasn't in the *clique". Everyone assumed I was the happy-go-lucky, fat, jovial, preacher lady that always had a smile on her face and everything was hunky-dorrey in her life. Little did they know that despite the fact that I loved the Lord, and had my spiritual awakening and relationship with God, I was STILL hurting inside.. How rude society can be...no mater what their ethnicity or religious beliefs might be!!! What are your thoughts?? I'm interested, because it seems like I'm blowing up again. Thanks in advance for resonding!!:) Proximal LAP RNY 9/3/02 5'2" 265/176/126-115 I'm on my way back!! Hadiyah McCutcheon, a.k.a.~~

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