this post isn’t really about the Oscars per say since my blog is mostly about my journey of weight loss and such.Now i want to make this clear, I AM NOT BASHING Gabourey Sidibe, I find her amazing in her talent and amazed in her confidence in her body. HOWEVER….seeing her in that dress last night in the oscars really actually made me worry about her. Not only is she morbidly obese (bordering on super obese probably) but being that big is NOT healthy, even if you are comfortable in your size. I should know. I was the morbid obese until I took action and had the surgery I so desperately needed.
My BMI was over 50, I am now at 34. Still considered obese but I am losing more and more each week. I’m not saying I want to be the thinnest or even supermodel like. That would be nice, but I like to eat still.
Still, no matter how comfortable Gabourey is, this size at such a young age is only cutting her age expectancy shorter and giving her a higher risk of health diseases. Not to mention IF she would have won the Oscar, I bet she would not have had another acting job because Hollywood and society are obsessed with the physical. She may get the Type casting job “big black woman to act like Madea”. I hope it doesn’t come to that, because she is a talent. A natural Talent that deserves many acting opportunities. She seems like a beautiful person but she needs to get to a healthy weight for her own health and for any possibility of working in Hollywood.
I saw this preview on ABC during the Oscars, the Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver is doing a show called Food Revolution and it is about him coming to America to basically show us how horrible we eat and how unhealthy it is because apparently this generation of kids will be the first generation that has a shorter life expectancy because of America’s weight crisis. Many of the kids didn’t even know what a potato was/is. Here is the link to the show which will premier March 26 @ 9pm est.
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Tags: Food, Gabourey Sidibe, healthy living, weight loss
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