Just saw my first commercial of Queen Latifah on Jenny Craig. I am so for her for doing this, even though I don't know much about Jenny Craig, I applaud her for jumping on the wagon

Jenny Craig need to spend some time on getting those celebs to maintain. Whatever happened to Kirstie Alley ? Oh yeah right, she regained the entire lot back! in fact she never even really got to her goal anyway!

I'm almost disappointed... Queen Latifah, who also had/has a contract with one of the big make up companies - was sort of the poster child for women of size could be beautiful as well -that beauty didn't have to be a size 0... She was a plus size woman from da 'hood (jersey girl she is) who, though she had breast reduction surgery a few years back, she made absolutely no apologies for not being twig thin and managed to star in some pretty big movies...

Guess Jenny Craig pays well for being a spokesperson for eating their over processed foods...

I am disappointed as well. She seems to be pretty active from what I can determine and her size is just her size. She is a 'big' girl. It was nice that she expressed comfort about it. I guess times change. I wish her well.

I also liked Queen Lah's image as a woman who was big and beautiful, but who never came across as lazy or unhealthy as the media often tries to portray overweight women. I think the JC diet sounds absolutely nasty and overprocessed, but I never tried it so who knows..

Jenny Craig need to spend some time on getting those celebs to maintain. Whatever happened to Kirstie Alley ? Oh yeah right, she regained the entire lot back! in fact she never even really got to her goal anyway!

Are you serious!?!? She gained it all back? wow, I didn't know that.

Yea, I guess I'm sitting on the fence, so to speak about QL. I mean, sure she's the postergirl for big women, but at the same time, she has to live her own life. She can't just keep being overweight just b/c it makes everyone else feel good.

The Valery Bertanaly (I know I totaly misspelled that) Photo shoot really upsets me. There are soo many obvious (to a photographer anyways) tricks they do to make her look like she's lost so much. For example. Her before picture she has her sleeves turned up to make her waist look bigger, AND she has her shirt buttoned way up. However, in her after pics, her sleeves are not turned up AND her shirt is very low cut. Photography tricks=fake results.

Jenny Craig need to spend some time on getting those celebs to maintain. Whatever happened to Kirstie Alley ? Oh yeah right, she regained the entire lot back! in fact she never even really got to her goal anyway!

I didn't realize that. No wonder they are using the solo Valerie commercials now.

I think the JC diet sounds absolutely nasty and overprocessed, but I never tried it so who knows..

If it is anything like Nutrisystem :puke:
My first husband was on Nutrisystem and it smelled like dog food. Why would anyone injest that?

I dont think QL has to stay big for us to be happy, but I liked the fact that she kept weight a "non-issue" and now its becoming a focus. It was nice to just have someone to like for who she is, regardless of her size, which was almost not noticeable except in that it made her come across even stronger of a woman and person.

perhaps thats half the problem with society. its not acceptable to be overweight.

Having kids who watch disney, i love how they dont overstress on the extra skinny actors, its fantastic to have great role models. But i seriously pity the black actors who are often overweight. Why is it ok for white or other ethnicitys to look normal and the black people have to be overweight?

I don't know, I don't think there are more overweight black actors then there are white ones. Who are you thinking of?

I never really noticed that about black actors either. However, I've noticed the black culture is often more forgiving about different shapes and sizes.

I was thinking more along the lines of Disney stuff.
They have 'Rayvn' from several programs ('Thats so Ravyn' and 'Cheetah Girls'), also Cory from 'Cory in the house') come to mind mostly

perhaps thats half the problem with society. its not acceptable to be overweight.

Having kids who watch disney, i love how they dont overstress on the extra skinny actors, its fantastic to have great role models. But i seriously pity the black actors who are often overweight. Why is it ok for white or other ethnicitys to look normal and the black people have to be overweight?

65% of America says normal is overweight.

yeah, you're probably right.
What i dont get is that girl Rayvn who does tons of dancing and singing and jumping about, that has to be hard when overweight, not to mention staying overweight when you're doing all that.

I just saw a recent episode and it looks like she's lost alot of weight!??

Now I'm trying to find pics online of Kristie but most sites I find say she has not gained it all back its just rumors and that she gained some back but is still lost around 75lbs so I'm confuzzled.. But anyway QL was quite the rolemodel but maybe she doesn't want to be that rolemodel anymore - maybe there is a health issue that's urging her to lose weight who knows?

In all fairness to her the campaign clearly states that she will have a "very different campaign, focused on a healthier lifestyle, not on getting onto a specific dress size; which I think is great because there is no harm on being healthy.

Queen Latifah wants to lose about 5 to 10% of her weight and she officially started her diet. Queen’s diet of choice? Jenny Craig. If fact, On Jan. 10 she confirmed that she is a new Jenny Craig spokeswoman.

Her weight-loss goal might seem modest, but Latifah says, “If you lose 5 to 7 percent of your weight, you cut the chances of diabetes in half.”

Her grandmother died of diabetes by the way. In a recent interview, Queen answered some questions about her new diet gig.

:waving:Love, love, love Queen Lah at any size! Ditto Raven Simone, she is so funny and I think a great role model for my own daughters! Wish there were more generously sized gals on tv instead of stick-thin, scantily-clad types!

JM2C
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I just saw a recent episode and it looks like she's lost alot of weight!??

Oh? they do repeat them a lot so i can never tell which is new and which is old (and to be honest, i wouldnt watch it enough)

I've found a lot of times on kids Nickelodian (sp?) and Disney shows, there's always the tolken fat kid who is the comic relief. They don't have much of a character, just say and do funny things. Then there's the one heart-felt episode every once in a while where they mention how much it's hard to be the fat kid, not quite fitting in and no one taking you seriously. For someone who was the fat kid in school, I always felt if I had the loud, funny personality of those people on TV, people would like to be around me cause at least they'd get a laugh out of it. But unfortunately I'm more the quiet, observing type, so I couldn't even fit into that niche set out for us by TV.

That's one of my beefs with TV (mostly female roles, not quite so much with male roles); You're either super skinny, or FAT, and the fact that you are FAT is part of your character. There's rarely a "normal" healthy person, cause they wouldn't fit into any niche. What ever happened to "healthy"? I saw a Queen Latifa Jenny Craig add, and that's one thing I really liked about what she said, that it was to get healthy and live a healthier lifestyle. No mention about pounds, dress sizes, bikinis. Just feeling better, being healthier. I think that's a really good message.

Yeah, its like Drake and Josh, josh was always the awkward obese one. He's lost a lot of weight now, and all of a sudden hes very popular with girls in the show and stuff. I kind of miss thr chubby josh, but good for him.

I was VERY disappointed when I saw the commercial with Queen Latifah for the first time. I for one have always looked up to her as a big, beautiful star that was always supporting herself, and always making bigger people feel better about themselves.
It did say it was just to be healthier, but whether thats actually true, whos to say?

I think that show Drake and Josh is wrong because it pictures the thin child as the superhip one and the fat kid is sort of the loser. As a childminder I can see that Josh is a very positive character, but mind you the kids (8 and 6 and half years old) do not see it and they comment a lot on how Josh is sooooo fat and stuff like that.

It is one of my pet peeves the whole big person only plays storylines in which being big is the argument and gay person can only play the part where being gay is the argument. I would love to see a normal love story with a bigger person, or homosexual people, without it all being about them being different, because honestly being a size 14 (UK) is the norm!
I did not know Queen Latifah was trying to lose weight, but if she wants to get healthy, good for her!
Camy

I do believe that she wants to get healthier, and that will involve losing some weight. I also love her as she plays normal, sexy roles and her weight isn't the main focus all the time (anyone remember when she played a guest role on Fresh Prince?). I'm concerned of the backlash she'll get from people thinking she's buying into the ideal that you have to be skinny, blah blah blah. The fact of the matter is, weight and health do have a relationship. I don't know anything about her blood pressure and cholesterol and all those lovely things, but at her size she is in a high risk group, especially high risk for developing diabetes with her being black. She will lose some weight while getting healthier. The unfortunate thing is that that's what people fill focus on, her getting slimmer. Too bad it's not as main-stream to post cholesterol levels and VO2 to show that you are getting healthier, not just numbers on the scale and inches on the tape. Either way, she's not going to be able to make everyone happy. Some will love it and some will hate it.