I don't watch Tyra Banks on any show, much less her talk show. I don't even really watch VH1 or I haven't since they quit actually playing music, or really, any music I like much. This is a matter of preference not snottiness. I roll in the gutter plenty so I don't cast aspersion (much).
However, I happened to catch a show on VH1 about the Tyra Banks show. She was featuring a topic called My Big Fat Ass.
I'm not sure whether to love it or hate it, but I was definitely horrified/fascinated when she opened her show by walking past four women prominently sticking out their allegedly junk-filled trunks...slapping each rear end as she went by, and squeezing the last one.
She asked Carnie Wilson on as a guest---you know, the self-described lead spokeswoman/advocate for Healthy Body Image for Plus Size. She used to sing? Her dad was a Beach Boy? Right-o.
So Carnie is on and she's talking about her life challenges or something and the conversation went roughly like this:
Carnie:...and so I've been sober for [insert right number] of years...
Tyra: (with sympathy) That's when you gave up food...
Carnie: Uh no Tyra, I'm talking about drugs and alcohol
Here the VH1 featured comedian/host broke in with this comment:
I am so demented I laughed until tears streamed from my eyes. Honestly, I did.
Maybe I should be outraged or analyze this to death or find some nugget of wisdom but I didn't. I just found myself laughing my ass off at Tyra's expense. God love her, truly.
There she is, trying so hard to promote healthy body image and esteem---even if somehow? the way she does it? sends chills up my neck and makes me think that the path to hell very well might be paved with good intentions---and probably just misspoke or something (I hope) but managed to totally miss the mark.
I suppose that gaffe might have been forgotten when she and Carnie ended the segment by re-enacting their favorite rap video.
But it wasn't.
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However, I happened to catch a show on VH1 about the Tyra Banks show. She was featuring a topic called My Big Fat Ass.
I'm not sure whether to love it or hate it, but I was definitely horrified/fascinated when she opened her show by walking past four women prominently sticking out their allegedly junk-filled trunks...slapping each rear end as she went by, and squeezing the last one.
She asked Carnie Wilson on as a guest---you know, the self-described lead spokeswoman/advocate for Healthy Body Image for Plus Size. She used to sing? Her dad was a Beach Boy? Right-o.
So Carnie is on and she's talking about her life challenges or something and the conversation went roughly like this:
Carnie:...and so I've been sober for [insert right number] of years...
Tyra: (with sympathy) That's when you gave up food...
Carnie: Uh no Tyra, I'm talking about drugs and alcohol
Here the VH1 featured comedian/host broke in with this comment:
Tyra, Tyra, Tyra, I know you're from the fashion industry and all but in the real world we don't call giving up food getting sober...we call it ANOREXIA.
I am so demented I laughed until tears streamed from my eyes. Honestly, I did.
Maybe I should be outraged or analyze this to death or find some nugget of wisdom but I didn't. I just found myself laughing my ass off at Tyra's expense. God love her, truly.
There she is, trying so hard to promote healthy body image and esteem---even if somehow? the way she does it? sends chills up my neck and makes me think that the path to hell very well might be paved with good intentions---and probably just misspoke or something (I hope) but managed to totally miss the mark.
I suppose that gaffe might have been forgotten when she and Carnie ended the segment by re-enacting their favorite rap video.
But it wasn't.
Copyright 2008 Julie Pippert
Also blogging at:
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Julie Pippert RECOMMENDS: A real opinion about HELPFUL and TIME-SAVING products
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Comments
I would have laughed my ass off too, but how SAD is that!
Tyra, i gather, is not the sharpest knife in the drawer?
thanks for the laugh/sigh/laugh.
Maybe it was very un-PC, but it was funny as hell.
~EdT.
But Amanda and Chani are right too.
Bon, Tyra can be sharp, I mean, she's very successful, so sharp in some way right? But err as far as you know belonging to the Intelligentsia Club...probably not.
P.S. I can't believe the lot of you let me get away with saying "aversion" instead of "aspersion." I plead lack of sleep due to 3 yo and also mindlessness due to having lost mind due to 3 y.o.
I'm thinking of taking up watching Tyra just for the humor.
Somehow this post reminds me of the time I offered to take a friend out for her 21st birthday since she had taken me out for a lunch on mine, and her response was "Oh, I don't drink anymore." to which I said, "I didn't say anything about going drinking." She never really spoke to me much after that.
Anyway, good laughs, good times.
If you have to refer to YOURSELF as fierce......doesn't that kind of negate the point?!
Heidi
Since I might be the only one here who DIDN'T watch The Soup, thanks for sharing that. :)
I think I need to find a meeting.