ding ding ding! Totally petty snark in this article. I read the profile in the NY Times magazine and it was totally a trifle, so it was bizarre to come here and read this bit as if she had kicked Doug Barry's puppy.

Diet programs don't keep making money if they work in the long term.

This probably is speaking more towards like.. chemical depression, right? Chronic, biological sciencey depression. And not "my life fucking sucks because everyone is mean and I'm a fatty boombalatty and everything in life is harder because of it." Because they are, it is, and that'll make ya depressed in a…

So, pardon my ignorance here but can someone help me out? Courtney met this guy Doug online? Has she ever "acted" in anything? What career is her mom "managing" exactly? This whole thing is sketch as hell. She was just a normal high schooler or whatever and fell in love online with a guy that just happens to be an…

I think the whole point now is to appeal to that 13 year old girl who dreams of being a "classy" "beautiful" model whom all the guys want, because then they'll beg their moms for bright pink sweatpants.

If she's in the South she can try Belk's, they tend to have a decent amount of plus size stuff, carry some higher brands, and cater to an "older" crowd.

Oh my god, I know he totally calculated this whole thing.. but.. but I can't help it! Uuuugh puppy and guitar, too cute I can't help but give myself over to it.

Lucky just started a line of plus size jeans, fiiiinally. At my highest I was a size 26-28 and I'm 5'9", so I was pretty much relegated to All Things Lane Bryant, and stuff from the men's section of the Gap. That was pretty much my decision, at my largest, to just dress like a boy because it was the only way to buy…

It's so paps get more pictures that can be sold- more outfits = more pictures = more money. There's only so many pictures they can get out of one, y'know? Mama needs a new pair of ugly ass boots.

Fat cream is probably greasy from all that snake oil.

I think Donna on Parks and Rec is the farthest a heavy lady has come on network tv as far as her weight not defining her. She does not lack for self esteem. She has a Benz! She treats herself! And c'mon, Ginuwine is her cousin, how cool is that?

I just turned 33. I was obese from the time I was 7 or 8, and it wasn't until the last couple of years that I started running into health issues. I developed insulin resistance and that made it nearly impossible to lose weight, it was really a bad place to be. I had massively high blood pressure and was careening…

This was my fear, this sadness or the glimmer of dashed hopes. I lost 120 in the last year and that was one thing holding me back. Fortunately a mix of luck, youth, and a heap o' lot of weight training has kept me in tact so far with a minimum of loose skin. Of course, i wasn't "ashamed" to be naked when I was topping…

I know! Tadashi Shoji's fall collection was amazing and goes up to a 24, there are seriously options out there besides the same-old-black-sack thing.

I want Lily Rabe's dress, any idea who it's by? I love the shape, even if I would need to do a billion push-ups to rock it with confidence.

The amount of chemicals this family ingests on the daily must be astronomical. So nasty, those poor kids are gonna have some serious health problems.

I go back and forth on who I find more terrifyingly evil- the people who believe the kind of nonsense Bachmann spouts, or the people who act like they do in order to get money/power/fame from the morons who actually do.

I read this in the Sunday Times and could not put a finger on what to call the pile of bile rising in my throat, so thank you for helping me pin it down a bit. It's that same feeling I get when Tyra Banks would walk down the street in a fat suit and then weep, proclaiming to now understand the peoples of the world.

I hate being so cynical that my first reaction when hearing about this petition was "Will never happen." But it wouldn't, if they actually did have a completely unaltered photospread in every issue it would put into relief just how altered everything is and the entire house of cards would tumble down. These magazines…