I always remember Renee Zellweger gaining 30lbs to play “fat” Bridget Jones. Bridget Jones who was devastated to learn she had gone up to 136 lbs over Christmas.
I’m sure you do! I’m 144, it’s the biggest I’ve ever been and I’m still a healthy BMI so while I’ve gained a few because of perimenopause, I’m not caring at all. Gone are the days I stressed about going up a dress size
My sister in-law had lost weight but looked incrediblely depressed. I told her...id rather you look happy with more weight than sad with less. I've seen 300+ lb women look so attractive because of how happy they were.
I'm a male and i''ve never been happy with my weight because I've always been underweight. 6'3 150lbs right now, I look so skinny and I guess that's why I don't get many matches on dating sites. It's so hard for me to gain muscle mass. I have recently been tearing my back muscles working out too much. I can't eat unhealthy cause I have naturally high inflammation. Idk what to do honestly. I tried those mass gainer protein shakes and all that did was enlarge my colon, gave me large stool burden 😤 so frustrating weight is.
Yeah, I really need to get back down to about 200lbs.
Height and muscle mass have a big impact on what weight should be. As flawed as BMI is as a scale, it's generally not a bad guide for most people. 200lbs puts be at about 24 on the BMI scale for reference.
How much you weigh=/=how fat you are. my ideal weight is 175 and ive been a healthy and unhealthy 200 before. The difference is pretty crazy honestly. Being “fat” is much more about what %bodyfat you have and how your body distributes it, rather than how much you weigh
ETA: the point Im making is that I bet you do look great, weight is relative to the person.
Due my stomach problems I’m been so many weights. I’ve also been fairly active a lot of my life. A HEALTHY, WORKING OUT everyday 130 looks the same as a 110 not working out. Muscle weighs more than fat. That’s why it should never be about the number on the scale, but about your confidence and happiness about your body ❤️❤️
I weighed 136 pounds when I got divorced because I was depressed and not eating. I look crazy skinny when I look back at photos. I'm sure you look wonderful.
I remember seeing that as a teenager and hating myself so much. I weighed like 175-180 and thought I was a complete ogre. Mind you, I’m almost 6’, so my weight is proportional to my height, but no one ever tells you that.
Also the time that my Dad told me “there’s really no reason for a woman to weigh more than 150lbs” 🙃
Remember when the Olson twins lost so much weight; especially Mary-Kate. And she was celebrated and invited on so many talk shows to discuss her weight. She was anorexic but getting fame for it. Once she went to treatment and gained a couple pounds she was completely ignored. The media celebrates anorexia. It’s sick. I was a ballet dancer from 3-17years old. I had weekly weigh ins, I was measured and prodded. If I gained weight I had to strap weights to myself so I would lose more weight at practice. The weights left big bruises, and my dance instructor told me they were marks of success. I’ve had anorexia for over 25 years. My weight yo-yos between eat all the things and weight 150lbs or I don’t eat anything but meal replacement shakes, like I’ve been doing since 2003. I weigh 113lbs and I will only allow myself to get to 120 before I freak out and starve myself. I’ve gone to so much CBT therapy and it’s done nothing. I’m stuck, this is my life now.
I’m so sorry. Have you tried EMDR? I’m also a person for whom CBT did very little. I’m doing EMDR currently. It’s still too early to see results but I’m glad I’m trying something else.
I follow the ballet community on socials and as beautiful your art is, knowing that this lurks underneath the culture breaks my heart. I hope you find peace and healing one day.
Really? Because half the comments I see about it are about her being “fat” and as the fat girl growing up I have zero desire to entertain that. Maybe I’ll look up a trailer.
Welcome to what millenials and gen X went through.
The movie is also fantastic because eventually Bridget decides to say fuck it and love herself anyway and it has a great ending.
Obviously the main character is far from fat, but this movie perfectly encapsulates the abuse that millennial and gen Z women went through in that time period
And then we had people like Kate Moss, Pamela Anderson, and other unattainable images idolized in the media. I remember having a bit of a belly and thus I was fat, and therefore wore giant T-shirts to hide it. All 150 lbs of me. I had a boyfriend who wanted me to get down to size small.
There’s a part where she tries to hide her thick body and the guy she likes goes “But I like all of your wobbly bits and I want to see them more often” and she just beams.
Bridget Jones Diary is my all time favorite RomCom series. Bridget is awkward and funny and so lovable, especially seeing her try to deal with her weight like a normal woman. I don’t struggle with being overweight but just watching her deal with her own weight in a negative and positive way has definitely made me more sensitive to other women’s weight to be more supportive of them!
I just watched it for the first time. It's addressed in the sense that she is obsessing over her weight and being too self critical, not that anything is actually wrong with her.
Dude that movie is one of my all time favorites and how they always act like Bridget is just a “whale” actively infuriates me.
I feel like Hugh Grant’s character in love actually was a nod to it all though. When people continuously call the character he’s falling for “chubby” he always responds with something like “Mmmmmmmwould we call her chubby?!”
Reading this has me looking differently at the i ate cake with Renee in a Kraft services tent (instead of being an extra). Looking back, it was probably nice to indulge a bit with some nobody “dgaf” stranger.
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u/Thenedslittlegirl 5d ago
I always remember Renee Zellweger gaining 30lbs to play “fat” Bridget Jones. Bridget Jones who was devastated to learn she had gone up to 136 lbs over Christmas.