Fat People Should Not Be Allowed To Be News Anchors
THE DIRTY ARMY: Nik, this is Jennifer Livingston and she is a morning anchor on channel 8 here in Wisconsin. Some guy wrote her a letter about being a fat girl and being obese and how she should not be on TV because she is setting a bad example for the young girls in the community by giving them the notion its ok to be fat and obese. Personally, I totally agree with the guy, she needs to lose the weight and fat people should not be TV. It truly is saying that its ok to not care about your body and health and everything will be ok. What do you think?
Maybe she has a thyroid issue… weather and weight are two different animals.- nik
Everyone in Wisconsin is fat bitch.
keep in mind she has had 3 babies….
It can make putting fitness be easy to put on the back burner. However I know many mothers who don’t use excuses! They are in great shape because they made health a priority during before and after their pregnancy.
Thats no excuse!!!!
The letter written to her was right on spot. Nothing bully, no name calling about it. Maybe if she took an honest look at hersels she would admit how fat and disgusting she is instead of whining she was “bullied”. Lose the weight fatty!
Wow that’s messed up man. HULK
I can assure you that the poster of this article gets paid by the hour.
If you’re so unfortunately stupid to be that easily impressionable by a person’s appearance on TV, well, you probably shouldn’t expect to live very long anyways.
shes beautiful all you jealous hating losers need a life, being thin and anorexic isnt attractive either. Shes happy with who she is why cant you all accept the fact?
He was simply saying have a healthy lifestyle and yes to skinny is not good either but some people on this site shouldn’t be calling other’s names.
so being thin automatically makes me anorexic and unnattractive? im sooo jelly because im not diabetic, obese, suffer sleep apena, high blood pressure, gallstones and stroke. im happy being thin why cant you accept that fact?
I feel like what was the point of that man writing that other than to make himself feel better? Like I seriously doubt girls are watching it thinking, ooh I want to be overweight one day, the message of not letting others bring you down is much more valuable to children, especially girls growing up. What does Nik Richie think of bullying and how this can shape a girl in those most precious years? You have to hope that none of them would look at this website…. I hope his daughter doesn’t grow up in that sort of environment where a flaw/difference is pointed out and criticized……self esteem is half the battle
It’s called a subliminal message. With privilege comes responsibility. When you get to be on tv, you should meet the standard. Fatness is not a disability, you don’t get a sympathetic free ride. You are to measure up against your peers.
Isnt she the “bully” using 4 minutes of her news show to address a person that sent her a private message??? Being a person in the public eye, she should have been able to handle this better!!!
I am an advocate against bullying but that letter wasn’t bullying. It was a person informing her that people use her as an example. Bullying is making fun of a person.
Maybe he was truly concerned. Obesity is a serious issue. She admitted that she was obese. You know how many health issues come from obesity?! That wasn’t bullying. He was stating facts that she confirmed.
wow finally nik richie makes a comment that is not stupid and uncaring. people need to realize that everyones bodies are made different. some people do have health issues that cause them to gain weight or make it hard to lose it. not everyone is fat because they eat too much. my aunt is fat and she is a vegetarian and only eats healthy food. but she is still big because she suffers from thyroid disease.
your aunt is fat because she doesnt EXERCISE.
Your aunt is fat because she consumes more calories than she expends. This is the ONLY reason people are fat. In rare instances, (like 1 in 3 million – I’ve never seen it in 12 years of practice ), there are endocrine disorders like Cushing’s which cause a major shift in metabolism, making things more difficult. Thyroid disease is extremely easy to treat, and although I check it to rule it out as a factor in obese patients, it is rarely the cause of obesity. Metabolism is math and physics, which cannot be wished away, or emotioned away. Stop watching Oprah.
I agree with Doc. I have thyroid disease and I recently lost 30lbs.
Who gives a flying f***!!!!!!! You people waste too much of your damn time!
Why is it that when we see a skinny girl, we are supposed to tell her to “eat a sandwich” but when a fat girl eats all the skinny girl’s sandwiches we can’t call her fat because she is “embracing her curves” or the other one liner “my boyfriend loves my curves”….?? Double (chin) standard much?
another favourite is “only real women have curves.” guess im an imposter because i don’t have rolls.
another thing: fat isnt curvy. I have friends who are curvy and it pisses them off when shapeless blobs claim to be curvy. curvy is a shape. not lack of.
Totally agree with the double standard thing. For example, it’s okay for people to openly tell a girl she’s too skinny, but it’s not okay to openly tell a girl she’s too fat. And just because a girl is skinny doesn’t automatically mean she’s anorexic or unhealthy.
She is a typical fat Wisconsin cheese eatting woman…..and her Husband is a chubby chaser……it is Wisconsin, so fat pig women at are normal
I love how she is dumb enough to contradict herself… She says “we need to lead by example” “if ur kids hear you call the news lady fat they’ll think it’s okay to call someone fat”. HELLO… you are on tv and because of this you are viewable to thousands of kids…. So if it’s so critical to lead by example… Lose the weight or else kids will feel it’s acceptable to be immensely obese!!! More people die of obesity caused illnesses than bullying! Try and fit that in your mouth!
She escalated this issue to an unnecessary level.
While I do agree with the notion that being fat is repulsive, you must understand that being fat does not always equate to being unhealthy. There are a lot of different factors that come into play when speaking about health. Weight isn’t the best indicator of an individual’s health. I’m not saying it’s okay for people to be morbidly obese, or even 50 pounds overweight, I’m just saying that it is not a good measure of health.
So people can be fat for reasons that they can’t control, but they are still “repulsive”? How about just be nice to everyone? Just because you don’t find someone who is overweight as sexually attractive doesn’t mean they are a repulsive person. No one else even said the word repulsive.
i like the way she handled it honestly. just because she’s over weight doesn’t mean she’s not a good reporter. it’s not like she’s preaching mcdonalds and video games, children aren’t gonna look at her appearance and say “i wanna look like her one day!” they’re probably not even gonna be listening..what child listens to the news? she’s defending her weight and giving other people who might be over weight some hope and to not listen to bullies. i think she handled it awesomely, good job girl!
ew. i dont watch the news to be scolded, i watch it for news. shut up and do your job.
the guy who wrote her the letter and wrote this post thats just sad that your outlook on life is that girls should be skinny, but to be skinny and acceptable means to starve yourself to the point of death? know this the media does enough to influence girls outlook on life, the media teaches us that if you are over 120 pounds your not good enough, well i for one am sick of how men like you portray your opinion our girls should learn to be healthy not skinny and you know that reporter is not as fat as some people i have seen i think that if you weigh more then 300 pounds then that’s when you can say obese, its not about looks its about personality. keep this in mind, a bigger women can give you more love then a skinny girl who only cares about themselves that’s why a lot of you men fail in relationships you focus on the outside rather then the inside.
Her job is a NEWS ANCHOR! If she were a trainer, doctor, dietician or somehow made her living on health issues or fitness then the comment may have been appropriate. This is not the case, and the guy who wrote her was just being an ass. I would just LOVE to see pix of all the gorgeous people on here that make rude comments about “fat, ugly, hairy, old” etc. people. I’m sure you’re nothing to see.
i know its from elementary school, but isn’t the old expression “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” so true? I mean why does anybody feel its their duty to tell somebody else that they should change themselves, in any way? It’s just as much someone’s right to be a complete fkn asshole to innocent stranger for no good reason other than you have nothing better to do with your useless life as it is to be fat.. I think people like him are much more cancerous to a community/society than this poor woman that is clearly SO much more than a number or a scale.
Who cares. I guarantee she agrees that she is over weight. She has a job though and most likely is doing an ok job at it if she is holding it. Who in the media is a good role model these days? It’s not like she has a fan base of young girls and telling them to eat fast food all the time. She’s not pushing her life style on anyone else, she is a reporter and that is what she is paid for. Take someone like Rhianna. She has a young fan base, openly does drugs, post nude photos, and recently publicly bangs the guy that beat the sh*t out of her. We all have our issues but we also have to make it in this world. There are plenty of over weight and insecure people that have very good careers and do not let their personal issues keep them from succeeding in this world and make an honest living.
Um.. Having a kids is not an excuse to gain weight then never try to lose it. I was 270 fat pounds after I had my son. I hated what I saw in the mirror so I did something about it.. 4 years later I was at my goal weight but not enough.. I have lost 135+ pounds. (I am 5’9″) If you care about your body and health enough.. You’ll do something about it instead of taking a email that someone sent you and do a news cast on it for 5 mintues. I feel sorry for her kids because she wont live much longer if she keeps putting that strain on her heart and joints. .. poor over weight .. news.. person.
Naomi, she didn’t say she was overweight due to having children, she said she knows she is overweight and has a thyroid condition…which is not an excuse since if you know anything thyroid conditions come in two forms hyperthyroidism which can cause unintentional weight loss and hypothyroidism which can cause unintentional weight gain. if you think im full of crap check this out http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001393/
If you actually had seen the video of what she said you would not be so ignorant…and just so you are also clear being overweight doesn’t mean you will drop dead tomorrow I have know many people who would be considered overweight or obese and have lived long lives
THis is great publicity. Over on Opie and Anthony (FB) they have 500+ comments on this thing and it’s being talked about on the Dirty. This is her way of trying to get out of Wisconsin.
Is the door big enough for her to leave Wisconsin?
So what she is overweight. She may have a medical issue that even if she does eat healthy and exercises she may not be able to lose weight as easily as others. She may be a bad role model for young people watching but I also feel the woman who are completely and utterly underweight are an awful role model for the youth as well. A 90 pound news anchor who may be battling anorexia or bulimia is not someone I would want my daughter to look to as a role model either. You should be the role model for your child. If a news anchor or weather woman is the role model for your child’s appearance and weight then there is a bigger issue that you need to look into with your parenting.
you guys are all idiots!!!
Seriously? This lady reports the weather….in Wisconsin. Who gives a crap. She has a real job and probably looks better than half the women that live there.
At least she’s workin and pullin a paycheck. She ain’t bothering nobody. She’s workin. Not @ the bar actin the fool. It’s not a half naked, tattooed up bathroom pic. Don’t kno her, never seen her before. This post just doesn’t fit the m.o. Of the other skankletts lookin for attention. Let this one go….
they orchestrated this as a means to get the anti-bullying message across.
I don’t understand how that letter was bullying. I’m sure she gets plenty of ones with name calling which are more offensive. How is saying that you have a responsiblity as a public figure to put yourself in check and help others who may be in the same position. The letter had nothing about bullying it was more about addressing the issue of obesity. Race and sexual orientation are not choices one makes, not being healthy and overweight is a choice. By the way the percentage of overweight (incl.obese) adults in Wisonsin is at 62 %. That should be the issue.
Only a “fly-over state” would have a chik like this in TV!
(BTW–you KNOW her co-newscaster-husband is secretly HOPING she gets the message and gets skinny. Who’d want to hit that? Seriously.)
A recent study said that by 2030 over 50% of the population in America will be obese! not just fat but obese! It will also cost us something like 90 billion dollars in health care costs for these people. I am sick of taking care of lazy people who don’t want to work or workout and expect everyone else to pay for it. Get off your ass, put down the snickers and get your ass on a treadmill.
Wtf does her weight have to do with reporting the news????? Nothing!
Who cares if she is fat or not. I bet this was posted by the old weatherman that lost his job. Why is this a bad example? Be a parent and stop letting TV set the example. I see the example of her being put down because of here weight and she still achieved a masters degree and worked hard to make money despite her size.
People are so rude, the lady does have a thyroid problem and what the hell does her being fluffy have to do with the damn weather? Good lord people, get a damn life.
The OP is 100% correct. Ever since we started this BS plus size and fat is ok campaign the number of obese pigs has sky rocketed. You pigs are delusional. There is a huge difference between being obese and having a thicker body type. A few extra pounds is one thing. What is going on in this country is entirely different. It has nothing to do with what’s available, it has EVERYTHING to do with people’s mentality. People have no discipline. Fat ass women eat because they enjoy it, they endulge in it not wanting to face the consequences. “I had children”. BULLSHIT. “I have a thyroid problem”. BULLSHIT. “It runs in my family”. BULLSHIT
NEWSFLASH fat asses. You can’t eat whatever you want, whenever you want. I’ve done an informal study taking the time to watch fat asses eat at restaurants over the past 3 years or so. It’s not genetic. You hogs gorge and stuff your faces. It’s so unbelievable disgusting listening to you huff and puff as you devour your plate. The more the media puts fat asses like this lady out there and says it’s ok the more people will plump up.
Keep believing your false reality you fat bastards. I’ve suffered for years pushing away food I love. I don’t even look at the desert menu. I regulate myself so I don’t turn into a pig. I don’t want to overburden the healthcare system with my self-induced problems because I’m too damn selfish to put down the porkchops and mashed potatoes.
she rules! You are tools!
The only reason she probably got the job is because her brother Ron Livingston was on sex and city. She’s fat and I agree with the sender of the letter it wasn’t even bullying!!!!!!! She’s too emotionally damaged to take a lil critism !? I am from Wisconsin, moved away, but yea not everyone Is fat there. She just wants her fifteen minutes living in her shadow of famous brother. Fix yourself woman!
People are very IGNORANT and PATHETIC. First of all, why does it matter if someone is overweight? You dont know what somebody elses issues are. And yes you can have an illness or something that causes weight gain. And I would like to challenge any men that had something stupid to say to this and have a baby. Just one. BEAT IT. I dont know why society is so pathetic nowadays. No respect. No morals. Just ignorant. White, purple, black, skinny, fat, blonde, bruntte, who gives a f*uck? People need to start worrying about themselves and hoping that they are not the one who becomes fat, ill or in a car accident that ruins your face. Disgusts me.
Pig
Denying fat people to be on air is like denying the problem.