I hate the media and how they treat Morbidly Obese People!

[piercedqt78 658]

DANG! @piercedqt78 you mean all this cottage cheese skin won't turn into butterflies ???

I guess if you follow some magazines then yes, I guess it will.

[piercedqt78 658]

It would however be an excellent opportunity for them to follow a complete story. Like help her with plastics and show how healthy she is now. I am starting to get the saggy skin and I will keep it covered. But I would rather have saggy skin and a healthy body than what I had before.

I agree, but at the same time why isn't she beautiful the way she is? Not everyone wants or can afford plastics. I know if my insurance doesn't cover mine they won't be done, at least not for a LONG time. And until I started having health issues,(lower back pain, skin problems, and trouble with sitting on rolls of skin and causing pain and skin trauma) I never even considered plastics.

[☠carolinagirl☠ 18,721]

I think it should be made known that significant weight loss results in unattractive skin sometimes. It's real, not just all rainbows and butterflies.

i agree.....lose skin is a after effect of losing a lot of weight

i am dealing with that right now.....i think (myself) is my harshest critic

and the world itself is quick to jump on the (bandwagon) so to speak

i kudo the woman for showing herself to the masses....i dont think i could do that

however i blog about my journey and try to keep it as real as possible...and just

yesterday wrote a blog post about my saggy stomach and my hub sent this article

link to me and i found this post today so it must be a sign for me to read it...

some people think WLS is all butterflies and easy......then they find out its not....

[Susysleever 265]

Everthing being photoshopped, they could have 'fixed' it

[InfiniteButterfly 438]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliegerstein/shape-magazine-refused-to-let-this-woman-wear-a-bikini-on-it?bffbstyle

Shape Magazine didn't want to run pictures of a woman that had lost 170 pounds showing her excess skin. It's real, it's the truth, and it's not always pretty. If you make a drastic change, and drop that much weight you WILL have skin. It's sad that they claim it's policy to have everyone cover up for their before/after shots, but one look at their site, or the pages of their magazine prove otherwise. I guess they only want to showcase those that have toned and not had dramatic loss.

If you read the follow-up from Shape, it was actually the independently-contracted writer who stated the policy to her, not the magazine itself. The magazine apologized to the person in question (and no, I don't know if it was the result of the social media fall-out, but the author in question did admit to turning down the photo and not actually submitting it to the magazine)

[piercedqt78 658]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliegerstein/shape-magazine-refused-to-let-this-woman-wear-a-bikini-on-it?bffbstyle

Shape Magazine didn't want to run pictures of a woman that had lost 170 pounds showing her excess skin. It's real, it's the truth, and it's not always pretty. If you make a drastic change, and drop that much weight you WILL have skin. It's sad that they claim it's policy to have everyone cover up for their before/after shots, but one look at their site, or the pages of their magazine prove otherwise. I guess they only want to showcase those that have toned and not had dramatic loss.

If you read the follow-up from Shape, it was actually the independently-contracted writer who stated the policy to her, not the magazine itself. The magazine apologized to the person in question (and no, I don't know if it was the result of the social media fall-out, but the author in question did admit to turning down the photo and not actually submitting it to the magazine)

Sadly I don't trust what Shape magazine has to say. They also stated that only more modest photos were ever accepted. I have seen more "after" photos in bikinis then not, but they originally told her that a more modest photo would be ok, and "to their standards" but if you look at their archives there are more bikini pictures than anything. It's sad that a bikini on a thin person that more toned than lost is ok, but a bikini on a formerly MO person is not, due to some excess skin, which is a fact of live for most if not all bariatric patients.

[Writerjennifer 107]

People are going to complain no matter what you do. If the magazine published it, people would complain, because they didn't then people complain.

[kyrickchick64 468]

This is my first post, I just turned my paperwork in but I've been lurking for a week or so lol. I was reading this thread and I found this

http://imperfectlife.net/ilovemyuglybody/

She is going to be my inspiration.

[Ginger Snaps 1,323]

@kyrickchick64 LOVE IT!!! Thanks for posting that!

[kyrickchick64 468]

This woman is just amazing. I hope my attitude is as great as hers.

Edited July 15, 2014 by kyrickchick64