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Originally Posted by OtterXO
With all this talk about what Star said/didn't say I can't help but say that it seems to me that in the land of non-specifics the term "medical intervention" can be taken so many ways. Personally, the term "medical intervention" sounds to me like she was at the doctor for a checkup and the doctor said "Star, you're obese and you need to lose weight. Let's put you on an exercise and nutritional plan and I'll supervise you." However, she didn't say "medical intervention" and leave it at that for everyone to assume she had gastric bypass. She also said she was dieting and exercising which implies that she was on some sort of medical weight loss plan without surgery....and medical supervision is not uncommon for people trying to lose a large amount of weight without gastric bypass. I think that if she had said "surgical intervention" or something equally as specific that would probably have been a little more helpful and not caused all this hoopla.
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This assessment is correct. She did not say that she lost her weight by 'diet and exercise'. She has always said that it was a 'medical intervention', but that she didn't want to be the poster child for 1 particular method. In the past she has shared some parts of her weight loss, like saying that she relied on doctors, she was trying pilates, and she ate well. However, she has opted not to endorse one method over another. It isn't so much that she lied, but she just never spelled it out as gastric bypass, which is what people wanted to hear.