This is one amazing woman!
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pegxlegxamanda — 17 years ago(July 30, 2008 06:00 PM)
This woman is not a hero.
She's the size of a whale, and she's still alive.
So what?
Maybe she's just lucky.
Not a hero.
Maybe if she LOST 500 pounds, well then she'd be a hero.
I don't understand the point of this topic.
People in this day and age are completely ridiculous
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syphus — 21 years ago(March 21, 2005 09:53 AM)
She lives her life under extraordinary circumstances cause she has no other choice. It's not like the weight is going to drop off at any given moment. It's like people saying cancer survivors are brave, beep that. I'm a cancer survivor myself so I can say it I'm not brave I had no choice. Not having a choice and having to face something doesn't make you brave it makes you a victim of circumstance.
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marienke — 21 years ago(April 10, 2005 05:36 AM)
I know that's what he/she says, I can read. And still I don't agree. I use my own thoughts and experiences and not theory's from magazines, how reliable those magazines might be.
I think that scientist aren't exactly clear about this particulair subject because I've read articles and spoken to professionals who suggested to me that obesity isn't always your own fault. -
Ps1ch — 21 years ago(February 18, 2005 07:30 PM)
Why is she a hero? She hasn't done anything special besides being extremelly overweight? Is that your inspiration? To be fat and not care? Anybody can be a hero if she or he puts on 300 lbs by the way you think. So please don't use the word "hero" meaninglessly:)
Ps1ch
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kiff1235 — 21 years ago(March 09, 2005 05:24 PM)
I never called her a hero. I said that she was a great person for appearing in this movie because she looks the way that she does. She had to have realized that many people (jerks) would laugh at her when they saw her. I wish I didn't care about what other people thought about my appearance.
beep it Dude, let's go bowling."
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marienke — 21 years ago(March 26, 2005 04:46 AM)
But morbid obesity is a desease. I think people need to realize that eating can be an addiction, just like alcohol and drugs. Being this obese is a symptone of some bigger thing that is wrong with her mentally.
Nobody wants to be like she is. Just imagine yourself in her situation. The easiest thing to do would be to hide for the rest of the world but instead she shows herself. That is a brave thing to do and must have been really hard for her. Way to go!
By the way, she just had to be in What's Eating Gilbert Grape! Her ex-husband wrote the book and probably based that character on her. -
marienke — 21 years ago(March 31, 2005 01:36 PM)
No I don't think she's a hero. Personally I think Gandhi and Mandela are heroes because they did extraordinary things. That's my opinion. Everybody has other people they think are heroes. That's not the point I want to make.
Imagine yourself being different then other people. It doesn't matter in what way. Maybe your extremely thin or you have blue skin or 3 legs or whatever. You feel different and that makes you insecure. Then it takes more energy and guts to do things than more 'normal' looking people. Being this big is an extreme case so it needs extreme willpower to do the things she does. I think it's awesome that she's in a movie. That must not have been easy for her.
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alamay — 21 years ago(April 03, 2005 01:40 AM)
Good Lord.
We don't even know how to DEFINE heroes in America anymore. There are a lot of "sports heroes" out there right now testifying under oath that they ever took steroids.so let's all give it a rest until we can define "hero."
Until then, for all the know-it-alls out there, have any of you heard of Prader-Willi syndrome? Shut up, take the time to look it up, then get down off your pedastals while you can still wear a thong to the beach, cuz someday, my dear friends, you'll discover there isn't enough fabric in the world to cover even YOUR skinny a**es!!!!
And by the way, mental illness IS a condition, not a character flaw. When all you blow-hards can show me proof that overcoming mental illness can be accomplished by sheer will alone, I'll alert the media on your behalf.