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So, you came out of the weight-loss surgery closet. Good for you. Do you feel relieved? Do you feel like a psychic weight has been lifted off of your shoulders? Awesome. Now I have one question for you. What the fuck took you so long? Seriously, Star Jones (sorry for the odd formality, but for some reason I can't call you "Star" because in my head, your name is simply "Starjones"), what was the purpose for waiting so blessedly long? I mean, you're like the David Hyde Pierce of weight-loss surgery. By making this a big deal, this did she or didn't she? thing, you're giving the prospect of weight-loss surgery so much more power than it needs to have. Here's the thing: I can get behind your feelings on this. The truth of the matter is that it is no one's business how big your ass is or how you lost it, but the unfortunate fact is that the second you started sharing your life with the world on The View, you became part of the public media circus, a fact you used to your advantage when you pimped out your wedding like it was the Super Bowl of Product Placement. I'm not going to debate that you owed anyone an answer to the source of your mysterious shrinking ass, but the fact of the matter is that when you refused to respond to direct questions regarding your possible weight loss, you acted in a manner that seems to point to specifically trying to hide the truth of your actions. You claim that you were fine as you were, and yet, here you were, not fine with the way you were. Some people might have a problem with your choice to have weight-loss surgery. I'm not one of them. Let's face it, the statistics on permanent weight loss through dieting are stacked against us, and if you decided that the only way you'd keep the weight off was to go the surgical route, that's cool. I think you have a right to chose your path in life and if that path leads to weight loss surgery, so be it, and if it leads to a life spent accepting yourself at size 22w, then that's cool too. However I do have a problem with the way you chose to act after your surgery. Let's be frank, Star Jones, you were trying to pass. You tried to pass as a skinny person, as someone who had earned the right to be self-righteous and smug about having lost 160 pounds through hard work and deprivation. You were ashamed about your true heritage, the fat person who needed medical intervention to get down to a size 4. And you acted as though weight loss surgery was something for which you were ashamed. And that, Star Jones, is disgraceful. Up until that moment, while I didn't necessarily agree with your choice of men, wigs or shoes, I never would have thought that you would have been less than proud of who you are. Maybe you were hoping that by pretending if you had exorcised the former fat girl inside of you, some of that self-hatred would no longer exist as well. What a rough discovery when you realized that wasn't the case, huh? But whatever the reason behind your ruse, the old Star Jones never would have played half truths and lies by omissions. The old Star Jones would have trusted the world with the truth. You were a proud fat girl, and for that, I applaud you. It's sad that the second you went under the knife, you seem to have lost that pride along with your appetite. Sincerely, Weetabix 11 CommentsLeave a comment |
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Hear freaking hear!!!
Thank you, I couldn't have put it so perfectly!
I can't refer to her as "Star" without the "Jones" either. (Not that she comes up much in my conversations).
I agree, she should have just come clean in the first place.
The older I get the less I give a crap what any of these celebrities do with their bodies. That people continue to see them as "role models" is a source of constant amazement to me.
Amen to all that.
PERFECTLY said and thank you so much for saying it!
I still don't think that it's anyone's business how she lost the weight if she didn't want to share it. I am not a big fan of Ms. Jones-Reynolds' egotism, but I think that she made a wise decision when she wouldn't spill details of her weight loss. I personally know only two people who've had gastric bypass. I know that there are hundreds who've had success with the operation, and I know of a friend of my husband's (who I don't know personally) who loves the results. The two lovely people I know? One had a stroke during the operation, and needs help to eat, go the bathroom and wash herself. The other- a family member- suffered a nicked intestine at some point during the surgery, the error wasn't caught and she died one week after the operation.
If I knew about these risks and was willing to take them to save my life, that is my decision. If I were a celebrity who felt that the influence of my successful surgery may lead people to have the operation without properly weighing the risks - I may want to keep it to myself.
She said that she had a medical intervention and that people should discuss with their doctors what steps they may want to take to begin their own weight loss. I agree.
Thank you so much for saying exactly what I've been thinking!
Yes - exactly!
AmyP--
Really sorry to hear about both your friend with the stroke and the family member who died. Condolences on both these tragedies. I wish your friend with the stroke the best of luck in recovering, and so sorry for your loss.
Perfectly put. Brilliant.
I have so many feelings on Ms. Jones (I just can't call her Star, with or without the Jones - what parent does that to a kid?) and her choices. As a WLS patient myself, I hate seeing others who have made the same choice as I did deny it for whatever their reasons.
But then again, there were people to whom I played the exact same "medical intervention" party line. Specifically, my family. My line was that I was working with a team of doctors and experts to change my diet and behavior. I just negated to mention that one of those doctors cut out most of my stomach and rerouted my intestines.
Why to my family? Because I knew they wouldn't be supportive before or after my surgery. And I was right - 3 years after coming out of the WLS closet to my mother, she still gets mad about it and doesn't like me telling people.
I also did this with some peripheral people in my life for a different reason. Yes, my weight loss was dramatic and a focus in my life. But sometimes the attention was hard to take because it changed me in their eyes from Marybeth (or Neighbor or Coworker or whatever my moniker) to TheChickWhoLostWeightAndHowDidSheDoIt. And funnily enough, there is a disdain for those who say they had surgical intervention. I've experimented. I've said I went on the carrot-stick-treadmill-and-novena diet and get lauded and applauded for my strength and willpower. I've said I used medication like Meridia and been semi-lauded. I've said WLS and get this knowing look that basically says, "Ahhh, figures you didn't do it on your own".
And that's hurtful.
I think the real reason Ms. Jones didn't fess up sooner was because she was afraid she'd fail and get the hell kicked out of her in the press, personally.