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In an interview she said she was fatshamed in The Office

posted 3 years ago by Towelie_Towel (1773)
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I read an interview where she said she felt super bad and humiliated because a co-star in The Office suggested that a joke would be made saying Kelly got fatter.

Now, I'm not saying she doesn't have the right to feel like that
But how do these things work?

I mean, she started the series as the hot skinny girl in The Office, and then clearly became chubbier.

Additionally, they made fun of Phillys for being fat. They called Darryl fat many times, and even had a storyline where he was going to the gym.
Kevin and Stanley were also called fat many times, and Pam also when pregnant.

And wasn't Mindy writing the show? So she was part of the people that decided to write comedy bits about other people's fatness.

Why was Phyllis and Darryl ok to comment on their fatness, but for Kelly it was crossing the line?

[–] DoctorThirteen (13920) 3 years ago

I never saw her in The Office, but it's certainly off if she was happy writing or signing-off on jokes aimed at other peoples fatness. Not saying those jokes shouldn't have been written, but she can't really complain if someone then decides to do the same thing about her.

[–] Kowalski (75520) 3 years ago

FAIR ASSSESSMENT...EXCEPT MINDY DIDN'T START AS THE HOT SKINNY ONE...SEASON ONE SHE IS FULL ON RESERVED INDIAN WOMAN...SEASONS 2 AND 3 SAW HER BLOOM INTO THE FASHION OBSESSED,MILE A MINUTE KELLY WE ALL KNOW AND LOVE...SHE WAS THICK FROM DAY ONE THOUGH.

[–] RogueDemonHunter (2684) 3 years ago

I don't think she was ever the "hot, skinny girl".

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8707) 3 years ago

My thoughts exactly. There wasn't a lot of hotness on the show, period. Only Pam was pretty attractive.

[–] DMT (4369) 2 years ago

Jan was hot too in a crazy bitch kinda way

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8707) 2 years ago

Not bad as an older, cougar type.

[–] agentalbert (3080) 3 years ago

She most certainly did not start the series as the "hot skinny girl". In fact, in the first season, they had her looking very frumpy. Maybe you didn't start til a few seasons in, but her character changed very much from where it started. And I don't think any of that had to do with weight gain.

I found Mindy hot once they started glamming her up and making her fun, but I don't think the show ever presented her as "the hot girl" - the type every guy wanted.

But she is being hypocritical and too precious if she's bitching about "fat shaming" now.

[–] RogueDemonHunter (2684) 3 years ago

Perhaps she just wants some attention.

[–] agentalbert (3080) 3 years ago

That's what I think it is. Victimhood is a virtue now, so people love to tell stories of how they were so oppressed/wronged.

[–] nufsaid16 (685) 2 years ago

People--particularly women and people of color---telling stories of how they were wronged, discriminated or hurt dosen't have s*** to do with any type of "victimhood". Especially when some of these people kept those stories to themselves for as long as 20-some years because they thought no one would believe or listen to them anyway. Nobody "loves" to tell stories or when they got sexually harassed at work or sexually assaulted or discriminated against, and they had to put up with it or lose a job, or various other reasons. So get off that "victimhood" bull****. White men usually are the ones crying "victim" simply because some of them can no longer get away with being sexist, racist, or discriminatory or say or do the same sexist/racist s*** they're always gotten away with doing.

[–] agentalbert (3080) 2 years ago

Awwww, did you need a trigger warning on my year old post?

[–] SolarisPatchwork (280) 2 years ago

She wrote numerous jokes about Phyllis being an old ugly woman. Numerous jokes about multiple characters being fat. Made Kevin a literal drooling retard that no woman wants to sleep with. But to an egotist like Mindy Kaling (who named her show "The Mindy Project"), it's crossing the line to note that Kelly got fat.

[–] BOandBarbecue (2264) 2 years ago

nothing wrong with fat shame

woman born with disabilities or uglies have no choice. this not nice. but you have choice not to be thanksgiving turkey. get to gym.

[–] Gd5150 (11747) 2 years ago

She was never hot. Or skinny.

[–] Towelie_Towel (1773) 2 years ago

That's almost irrelevant to the overall point being made.

[–] Gd5150 (11747) 2 years ago

Your post literally said she started as the hot skinny girl. That would make it perfectly relevant.

If people don’t wanna be fat shamed, they shouldn’t be fat. Get healthy the answers are out there.

[–] Towelie_Towel (1773) 2 years ago

That was a small part of the post.
Whether she was skinny, medium, chubby or straight up fat, she wrote a bunch of jokes for Phyllis, Kevin, but then when she got even fatter (or less skinny, or chubbier, or obese, whatever term you prefer) - only then, when it was about her, she thought it was crossing the line. That was the point.

[–] agentalbert (3080) 2 years ago

This is accurate. And I liked the way she looked on The Office (and on The Mindy Project) very much. She had a snarky mean-girls type sense of humor, nothing wrong with that. But it's pretty hypocritical for her to try and play the victim over this after the fact.

[–] nufsaid16 (685) 2 years ago

It's like this----why the hell do you or anyone care whether anyone else is fat or not? How the hell is that harming you? Whether anyone is fat or not, that's their damn problem, not yours. It ain't got s** to do with you or whatever the hell you think about them. Society is always pressuring the hell out of women to be a skinny size two all the damn time is what has led to eating disorders in women----even men are starting to get eating disorders over being pressured to be the "big strong dude" all the time. Everybody can't be always be the this "perfect size" society is always pressuring them to be. Especially when the definition of attractiveness by society's standards changes every couple of years---it's never always a fixed thing.

Fat-shaming is stupid because it's not gonna make anybody lose weight any damn quicker, and it dosen't even address the real underlying issues of how someone gets fat in the first place---which are usually also the result of emotional issues---not just sitting around and stuffing one's face all the time. Plus everyone can't afford a gym membership, or even lives near a gym. Looking down on someone because they're fat is just another fckg excuse to look down on someone, that's all. So get off that "fat-shaming" bull****. Fat people already know they're fat---they don't need idiots like you to hassle them about it all the damn time.

[–] nufsaid16 (685) 2 years ago

Being skinny does not automatically make one "hot". There is a such thing as being too skinny, as well as being way too fat.