Anna Nicole: Trendsetter or Bad Example???
 

I'd like to preface this by saying that I am a big woman. I could probably share clothes with Anna herself.

However.

I have been seeing a disturbing trend in the wardrobes of bigger women since Anna has been back in the news.

They're getting smaller.

Now, I don't deny anyone the right to dress the way they want to, but things are getting ridiculous. I walked into my Women's Studies class last week to an empty room. I showed up late to turn in a paper. Another girl walked in behind me. She had to be carrying at least three bills. She had the whole Anna Nicole look down. She had the bleached hair, the big sunglasses...but it was below the neck that it got bad. She was wearing a tube top that BARELY covered her breasts, and exposed her entire stomach. Her pants were lowriders, with a thong sticking out.

I was embarassed for her.

Then, on my way home from class, I saw a similar situation going on. Except this girl's tube top had a little more coverage, but she was wearing booty shorts.

Now, don't get me wrong, it's not like I go to class wearing a mu-mu. I'm almost always sporting some major cleavage, but I NEVER show my midriff, and the shortest pants I wear are capris.

So, I guess my question is...

Is Anna Nicole's brazen attitude liberating big women, or just causing more snickers behind their backs?

That woman is a bad example in every possible way.:rolleyes:

SHINE!!! I saw this show ONCE. She was in the pizza parlor with he son and a friend.

This show is so disgusting. She appears to be an ignorant, drugged up woman. I could care less abut her clothes, it's the whole package in the way she presents herself. Give me he Osbourns any day!

BTW- Liza Minneli is going to do a reality show too!:rolleyes:

Umm...who is Anna Nicole? Can someone give me some backgroud?

If women strive to be like her they will set themselves back 50 years maybe.

She is ditzy. That's for sure. I just guess I have never gotten women that don't dress to flatter them.

My motto is usually "Just because they make it in your size, doesn't mean you should wear it."

It goes for bone thin girls, too. I don't want to see them showing all their sallow skin either. People should dress to flatter their own particular body type.

And Dionysus...

Anna Nicole Smith is a white trash stripper who married a millionaire that croaked, posed in Playboy, then but on about 75lb and now has a reality show on the E! channel.

Very poor example
 

I'm a large woman myself, although nowhere near as large as A.N.S.

She is setting a poor example. There are plenty of tasteful large women out there -- see Camryn Manheim of "the Practice," Soror Star Jones of "The View," Lorraine Toussaint of the now-gone "Any Day Now," S. Epatha Merkerson and Dianne Wiest of "Law and Order" (they were featured in an InStyle spread) and Marjorie Gubelmann, an Upper East Side socialite who is roughly a size 16.

Remember -- just because they make it, doesn't mean you have to wear it. And as a sidebar, I am utterly disappointed in Lane Bryant this season. Too many peasant tops. :rolleyes:

For those that don't know.

Three bills = 300lb.

Re: Very poor example
 

Yes, Cammy Manneheim is a TOTALLY classy woman.

And yes, just because it is in your size doesn't mean you should wear it. I really want to start a magazine or something specializing in college aged/ twentysomething bigger women.

I agree with you on LB this season. I like a lot of the jeans they put out, with the stretchy boot cuts, but the shirts are ALL peasant. Give me some classy simple stuff from last season!

Steeltrap, trust me, there are too many peasant tops at every store these days!

No kidding. I'm not digging on that trend too much. I'm more of a jeans and a tank kinda girl. All this boho and flowy stuff is way too girlie for me. I have one peasant top, and one boho tank, but that is PLENTY for me.

AGREED!:)

I'd still bang her.

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i'm not sure if that would be the safest for your sexual health, OP. Plus she's so high all the time i'm not sure if she would notice anything.

The only thing good about the show is the music played on the closing credits- it's a Pittsburgh band called The Clarks. Nice to see them "making the big time" on anna nicole.

although i'm just a total fan of anything that has to do with Pittsburgh. Watching the Guardian last night i flipped out because it's set in pittsburgh (i've never watched it before) and he gave his address as being 980 Ellsworth Ave., which is the street a block down from me. Just kinda cool for me, the easily amused.

anyway, ANS is just a disgusting human being.

And I definately agree with whoever said just because they make clothing in your side doesn't mean you should wear it. I'm not nearly as skinny as i used to be, however i'm not "fat" by any means. But my tummy's not looking so good, so guess what. It doesn't hang out everywhere! I hate seeing someone with a roll or several sticking out over their pants, etc. Yuck!

Dude don't forget she used to have sex with her 90 something husband before he died. She admitted it. Thats just gross, she was probably trying to give him a heart attack.

Trust me she'd notice. Her son is my age. I'd be like, dude, your mom is awesome. Hope we didn't keep you up.

Anna Nicole is Anna Nicole Smith, the gold-digging piece of crap former playmate who ended up with her own "reality" television show . . .

Basically, the show (which requires special eyeglasses to catch the blood flowing from the eyeballs) entails watching a grossly-dressed overweight former nude model run around and show off her lack of intelligence. She pets the doggies and talks to the nice repairman and plays tennis and complains about being hot and shops for new clothes and drinks her bottled water and marries another decrepid millionaire for his money and runs her errands like a good little girl, all the while alternating between coked-out and just mentally retarded (she weards the Ozzy Osborne "Heroin For 25 Years" Face for approximately 60% of every show). She usually makes the walls look smart by comparison, all the while showing off more (disgusting) skin than Christina Aguilera at any function with a video camera.

It might be the only perfect 100 on the Unintentional Comedy Scale currently being shown on television (3rd Bill Simmons ref in this post - if you caught that and are female, we're getting married), however, every episode lowers your IQ by 40 points so it's a steep price to be paid.

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Eww, OP. You really would have sex with Anna Nicole? I thought you didn't like fat chicks...what gives?

As far as the show, it is morbidly entertaining, due to her total incoherence. I watched it maybe twice and it is like a car wreck...you know.

you know what's bad?? that i totally agree with you and i still have to watch it. damn.

ANS on Howard Stern
 

Now I'm neither a fan of Anna's or Howard's by any means. But I just happened to catch Howard Stern the other night whilst flipping through the channels late the other night. He pretty much dogs her out for everything she's not worth. She gets the "assistant" (Kim I think) to admit that she has a major crush on ANS and that her lawyer also is in love with her. Howard kept asking ANS if she was drunk or high during the whole show. They also tried to get her to weigh-in and see who was closest to her actual weight. She totally wigged out when he asked her to get on the scales. Some other cat then calls in and offers somewhere along the lines of $10,000.00 worth of diamond jewelry. She refused. Now I'm by no means a size 2 (put a one in front of that 2 and you'll get my size:) ) but I'd jump on the scales for diamonds! Check it out if it airs again, it's too funny.

Now how about a positive role model for a change? Jamie Lee Curtis. Did anyone see the layout she did for I think it was Jane magazine? Just her in her undies, no makeup, no designer clothes, no airbrushing, Just her being a woman. That pictorial and article made me prouder to be the size that I am. Check it out too!

Kisses,
SaraKT

PS The average size of a woman today is 12-14. We are the majority!

TTT/ANS launching clothing line
 

Now that ANS has lost 69 l-b-s, she wants to be a clothing designer. :rolleyes: She's teaming up w/Von Dutch to launch a line.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...a_nicole_smith

Anyone who wears Von Dutch should be shot.

That's all.

There's a plus sized clothing line called MXM and their spokes model is Mia Tyler. Liv Tyler's sister.
Now I think Mia is a beautiful woman, but MXM clothins line lookes like the kinds of clothes the prebubesent girls wear to be cool. It's not flattering at all.
The designers for this line should follow the rule that "just because it comes in your size doesn't mean you should wear it". They make their skirts too short. I mean I know you all don't want to see fat legs, and I certainly don't want to show mine off, so why are they making these skirts so freaking short?!

Is MXM available in the States?:confused: If I'm reading this right, it sounds like they are catering to the teen-20something crowd that wants to dress like their thinner friends, similar to places like Torrid and Career Image (a cheapie junior plus chain I've seen in San Diego).

I understand that sentiment, but I also agree with the principle that "just because it comes in your size doesn't mean you should wear it."

She's a skank and I have no respect for her. I'm always happy to see a realistically sized female (12 or up) in the media, but in this case I am making an exception. I'd despise her at any body size. She's a gold-digging white trash floozy and I wouldn't watch her show even if it were the only thing on TV. Those commercials for her weight loss thingy get on my nerves something fierce.

ANS secret surgery??
 

Does ANYONE really believe that she lost all that weight just by tossing down TrimSpa like M&Ms??

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: BS :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

No way in h#ll. She doesn't have the discipline. I think the TrimSpa claim was manufactured, just to cash in on the endorsement $$$$$. I contend that she secretly had gastric bypass surgery.

Re: ANS secret surgery??
 

I wouldn't put the gastric bypass by her. :p

Re: ANS secret surgery??
 

No way could she do it just with the pills. Those pills are most effective with a moderate diet and increased physical activity. I don't believe her lazy ass could have the discipline for either.

I vote that she had gastric bypass surgery as well as liposuction and a tummy tuck. More power to her though - she looks a whole lot better!!!

perhaps some illegal drugs aided in the weight loss as well? Not like she'd be concerned about damaging any brain cells or setting a good example for her son....

Does anyone know if she really lost the weight at all? I mean they show her on the commercials, but I haven't seen a single picture of her out in the public at her new weight what-so-ever. I think she's still fat and they digitized the commercial. I just think its so odd that entertainment tonight or inside edition or some crap show like that wouldn't be showing her at her new weight. It was sucha big deal for her to have gone big, I would think it would have been a relatively big deal if she lost all that weight.

Also; just a note, that even when ANS was at the height of her fame as a Guess model / Playboy playmate she was a 12-14. She's always been a big girl, but I guess she holds her weight well (until she got really big).

Well, she was on Larry last month (I think), and she didn't look all that bloated. She did look really, really high though.

I stumbled across an episode of The Anna Nicole show this past weekend and she was slim, so I think its the real deal.

She does act high all the time, though.

I've seen pictures of her at the new weight, although I can't find them now. And I think she's been on a couple different TV shows.

I don't know if they are available in the states, here's the website, it lists the stores where their line is available.

MXM

Yeah I agree, that's probably their target markets. And sure, I'd love to dress like my friends, but being a plus size woman, I can't always do that. Anyone with any sense would know that.
There are some beautiful plus sized woman out there that dress to flatter their figure. MXM does not do that.

ETA: MXM is only available in Canada.

no wonder I can't understand the words that coming out of her mouth ( in my Chris Tucker imitation voice). :p

i've seen episodes from both seasons, and she does look much better in her second season. she has slimmed down and isn't as drugged out as season one. she's seems more bubbly in season 2. the pics where she's in this bright pink dress (i think new trim spa ads) was from when she was in a fashion show for these two guys. i forget the name though. the fashion show was taped in season 2, but i haven't seen any recent pics.

If you go to www.gettyimages.com, go to "editorial" and then search for "Anna Nicole," you can see some recent pictures of her from Jay Leno.

It is insane how much weight she has lost and it's pretty obvious that TrimSpa is not the only thing going on -- I would be willing to bet some combination of lipo and cocaine is at play too.

That's all.