Maria Kang has been surfing the web quite a bit in the wake of her “What’s your excuse?” scandal. She got into a huge fight by picking on Curvy Girl lingerie, which was minding its own business and posting photos of women with various body types in lingerie. Maria then went on CNN to talk about how she can tell “fat people are unhealthy“ while ignoring the reality of how many skinny people are unhealthy too. Then she emailed us to say, “Poor judgment is being casted on me.” I think we were all supposed to feel bad for her. The discussion didn’t quite work out in her favor.
Now Maria has spoken with the Daily Mail about how she used to be SO fat too, so it’s totally okay for her to pick on fat people now. Because Maria got off her ass, y’all, and she’s here to inspire you to do the same. The Mail has a photo of Maria looking 20 or 30 pounds heavier than her current weight, which she say is 125 pounds. She’s a size 2 of course, and she wants everyone else to follow her lead:
She knows what it’s like to struggle, y’all “I was always heavier … I was chunky.”
Her eating disorder past [or present]: “I used disordered eating to fill an empty void. It was worse when I was feeling anxious. People often call bulimia the ‘good girl drug’ because we don’t do drugs or drink alcohol we just abuse food. It was a horrible habit. I felt like I had no control over my mind and I had such self-defeating thoughts. I felt a variety of emotions, sadness, guilt, emptiness.”
Pregnancy changed her “I had to let go of being perfect, When I became pregnant with my first child I was like ‘Wow this is what my body is really made for?’ Be fit before you get pregnant.”
Not just a pretty body? “I think fitness always makes me happier it makes you feel like you can control so many things in your life. It’s the ability to be set a goal, take action, remain consistent and create a result. that process takes a lot of discipline.”
She’s not perfect: “I don’t have long legs. I never wear skinny jeans.”
The “What’s your excuse?” photo was merely “playful”: “If I can make health a priority as a working mom of three kids who has struggled with bulimia and weight issues, then you can too!’
Put down the McDonalds: “There are healthier fast food options that are affordable. for example, I like the $1.50 grilled chicken wraps from Taco Bell.”
She’s here to help you: “I think that we’re obviously struggling as a nation with our weight. I work to be a role model. It’s important to love yourself and remember to strive to be better physically, professionally and personally.”
[From Daily Mail]
No one is disagreeing with Maria Kang about the value of fitness and how certain foods and habits are healthier than others. No one is arguing that morbid obesity does cause health issues. No one is saying it’s better to be fat than skinny.
No one is arguing with her about that stuff, but Maria seems to think we don’t get it. We just don’t accept “the facts,” so she has to keep talking about fat people in the smuggest manner possible. She’s using her (dayglo) website to repeat fitness mantras that we’ve heard so many times before. She keeps rambling about how so many people are overweight, and Maria thinks she’s the only one who could possibly deliver the news to these unfortunate souls. Here’s the thing: When I was overweight, I didn’t need a damn person to tell me about it. I knew already. And Maria Kang and her insults would have done nothing for me.
Photos courtesy of MariaKang.com
Ha ha ha ha ha.. Seriously, what is this chick’s credentials?
Another Kang post? Why do we keep giving this woman a forum for idiotic rants?
Can’t we just ignore her and maybe she’ll go away?
^^^^
This exactly!
She keeps saying stupid crap to keep herself in the news. Ignore her.
Thank you! Are we going to have posts about every no-name internet celebrity now? ? Because I can think of a few who are more interesting than “Fit Mom.”
Yeah, health is not her priority, fame-whoring is.
Yes!
+1
I bet Tan Mom could kick her ass.
Extensions Mom would upstage the whole show
It hasn’t worked for the Kartrashians…
I’m sure if we stopped commenting on idiotic posts about Kang, then they will stop being posted. And there will be more room for posts about the Kardashians!
That doesn’t seem to work for the kartrashians.
Yes. Please.
this x 1000000
Why do you people at Celebitchy keep showing us posts of this nobody woman who is dang 12 minutes into her 15 minutes??? Stop, please.
Can we like, stop reporting on her so that she’ll realize no one actually cares about her misguided, misinformed and insulting “advice”? Eventually, she’ll slink off into oblivion, right?
Yes, please!!! We do not need to give this woman anymore attention!!
That’s the thing. If your overweight, it’s not like you don’t know it. When I was overweight I can promise you I was harder on myself then anyone else. To be harassed and feel like you’re less than is crap.
^^This!!! I don’t need Maria to tell me I’m overweight. I have a mirror. I know what size jeans I buy. I’m reasonably intelligent and can understand the differences between my body and the ones posted on fitness magazines, in fashion magazines, and the “average” body portrayed by Hollywood. I really don’t need anyone to point out that I don’t quite fit the mold. It’s a constant battle to love the body I have, to try to feed it good foods to make it healthy and strong, and to remember that I can run 5K without stopping (not quickly, but without stopping), that I seldom have colds/flu, and that I am strong. And beautiful.
THIS.
Bravo, Anners. Thank you.
Been here, done this!
Been here, done this!
THANK YOU Aims! When you are overweight, you KNOW it. Overweight people already feel enough shame, believe me. They don’t need people shaming them more!
I saw her so called fat pic. Some men would call that curvy, not fat. Biatch please.
yeah, she wasn’t fat, she just wasn’t TONED. soft, curvy…but not fat.
I like the way she looks now, but she’s got to do something about that personality…
I can agree with some of her points, but how she goes about making them is very ineffective. Hopefully she’s on minute 14 of her 15 minutes of fame.
Hopefully one day she’ll come up with a second facial expression.
First of all, this b**ch was not chunky, I think Jez had pics yesterday. Second, if she really was “heavy” she would know how hurtful it is when weight is criticized. I can’t even believe I’m wasting keystrokes on this B she seriously just needs to go the eff away!
I’ve been wanting to rant about the role model phenomenon, or in some cases, delusion for a while but since I don’t blog and rarely comment on sites online (except for this one of course), I haven’t had the chance and place to vent properly. I don’t know when it happened but everyone in the Internet jumped into fitness and healthy living as business or a personal interest. A friend of mine who is a Social Media expert thinks it has to do with sites like Pinterest where healthy food options became easily accessible and soon affordable. You add that to the options of marketing freely on Facebook or Twitter and many trainers and other professionals become more visible.
However, I always found most of them to be quite snug and judgemental about someone’s physique under the pretense of being role models for girls and women. Some cannot decide if they want to be a bitchy-look-at-me-my-body-is-better-than-yours person or a girl’s-girl who would rather encourage a woman no matter what; therefore they do a little bit of both. A little humble-bragging here, a little sisterhood-girl-power there. I know this model slash fitness trainer who always says she wants to be a role model for women yet never forgets to remind them how amazing she is and how some of them (her fans and followers) don’t look good without makeup on or worse don’t look as good as SHE DOES without makeup on.
Here’s a message to all: Women are allowed to choose what’s right for their bodies and how they want their fitness regimen to be. Some want to lose 10 pounds, others will rather gain 20, some watch what they eat and exercise to maintain their bodies a certain way, others are happy with a little extra weight on, some can eat a horse and not gain a pound, others don’t care at all. As long as a woman is happy and not bowing down to the pressure of anyone to be anything other than what and who she is and/or wants to be.
P.S. We choose who we want to be our role models too. But in Kang’s case, I’m saying a thanks but no thanks.
*Claps*
Hey-yo! We got a winner here!
*said in carnival barker’s voice*
(please comment more often)
Great comment @Melissa!
You’ve captured the annoyingly smug subtext of the self-appointed ‘Fitter and Prettier than Thou’ brigade. What these girls fail to recognize is that we not only don’t look up to them, but we find them insufferable to boot!
I like her body with the extra 20-30 pounds. She looks so girly in that photo.
She looks sassier and happier too! Maria Kang’s wide smile looks strained now.
I don’t need many words. This woman is a douchebag.
Signed,
a fitness lover who is not a douchebag about it.
PS: this will be my last comment on the woman, she wants this attention and she does not deserve it.
Thank you! My mom lost a ton of weight and NOT ONCE did she belittle others that didn’t reach their health goals. She encouraged them and helped them, not criticized them.
Thank you! Co-sign everything you said. I would just add: “Please shut up, Maria Kang. The more you talk the worse you get.”
I’ve always said what the world needs is a vacant looking gym-girl with one facial expression and access to photoshop.
Thank you Maria, you’ve finally saved us all from things we already fully understood.
Idiot.
Exactly. A dimwit with an extremely tenuous grasp of the English language and a firm grasp of the obvious. Now we can all sleep more peacefully. Thank you, Maria.
Idiot.
Ha! *I bow to Queen Facetious GirlyGirl, may she reign now and forever!*
She’s doing everything she can to keep her name in the press. Ugh…I shouldn’t even be leaving a comment – I’m just giving her exactly what she wants when all I want is for her to GO AWAY.
The other day I saw a photo of a little boy with prosthetic legs running and the caption was “What’s your excuse?” Does anyone think this differs from what she did? No one hates on this kid and yet he is saying the exact same thing in the exact same context.
Hmm…I don’t think it’s the same thing at all. First of all, we are talking about a kid. Not just a kid, but a kid with a disability (though he’s doing a fine job of living with it). He’s not out there proclaiming that everyone should look at him as a role model, and pointing out others shortcomings.
Who, if they possess a heart, is going to hate on a boy like that? This is a smug, narcissistic grown woman who chose her forum, put herself out there and is deliberately provoking people in order to drive traffic to her website. There is no similarity here at all, except they both run, and someone out there in internet-land found that boy inspiring enough to use his image.
Apples and oranges.
Okay, so he’s a little boy? Did he really post a picture of himself with that caption or did his parents/whoever post it for him. So we should all hate on some little disabled boy because someone took his picture and put it online? No, that’s silly. Is he trolling Facebook looking for overweight women to criticize? No? Okay, well then not really the same context at all is it?
Actually – not exactly but I still don’t like the “what’s your excuse” tag line.
What’s my excuse for what, exactly. What’s my excuse for not running a marathon? Not being a size 2? Not having kids? Not doing an Ironman after battling cancer? I mean, I don’t get the tag line at all. I am obviously not living up to some standard that the picture is implying…because if I am not like the picture, I am obviously making some lame excuse for not doing what it takes to…do what exactly? I am not sure…
The difference between the child with a disability and the FitMom stuff is that FitMom is marketing something to women. Her marketing is a complete flop. Just like her message. She really is trying to sell the size 2 image…she really is saying that you are fat if you are asize 8. Look at her before picture!!!! WTF is wrong with that body? If you are sick and unhealthy at a size 8, then I can understand. Let me tell you – I am a size 8 and I am deadlifting 185lbs, back squating lbs and bench pressing 80lbs. When I was a size 2 I was NOT doing that!!!!!! Not even close. My goals are no longer about being a skinnier me. They are about being a STRONGER me!! And that means MEAT on my bones. And a size 8 ass.
Stronger and more capable is what the fitness community should be selling us – be it a size 2, an 8 or a 16. If you are building your performance and eating well, your body will metabolize food better and store less fat. You don’t have to aim for a size 2…you have to aim for a healthy metabolism
No Maria, I don’t think it’s the same thing.
I don’t believe for one minute it’s about “health”. It’s about her figure and showing it off.
I agree with you it is all about her and making money even if she has to be a playground bully to do it.
‘Today I cried.
I cried because I missed my husband. I missed the young couple we once were. I missed the moment we first met, I missed the long drives we once took, I missed sharing a bed with him – just he and I – without a child in-between.’
Found this on her blog. Sounds like her husband doesn’t spend much time with her. Gee, I wonder why that is?
Interesting. Her interview comment about control goes along with my theory her life isn’t nearly as perfect as she thinks her body is.
That comment actually made me get her a bit more. As someone with control issues, I know that weight and food are the easiest things to control in my life when I feel like I can’t control anything. There’s also a quick pay off. She’s certainly not making herself look good, but now at least I can get the mentality that she’s coming from.
This blog entry makes me sad. Maybe she’s trying really hard to get the love she needs from her inattentive, withholding husband. That would explain a lot.
I hope she was just having an off day. I’d almost rather see Maria hectoring from a false sense of superiority than from insecurity and loneliness.
and there it is: explains it all: she’s got some deep seated fears: it’s sad really-this is a cry for help. What makes me think that her husband’s coldness/distance contributes to this excercise and body image obsession.
This woman needs to shut up, but I know that she won’t. I am a fitness buff & I also did some personal training to put myself through school. I got certified with people like her and I worked with people like her. Most of them are overly comfortable with their bodies, but never addressed the things that pushed them to this point. Worse, they have no problem passive/aggressively body shaming everyone who isn’t on the fitness bandwagon. “I CAN DO IT SO WHY CAN’T YOU” —It’s not that easy.
She’s driven and that’s fine, but her she’s not getting that her approach and personality is a turn off to those people she’s trying to reach. Also getting into fitness is a frightening thing for a lot of people and she’s not making them any more comfortable.
In short she’s a bit of a “BITCH”
Saw that article on DM and did not even read it! She constantly blows her own horn! I am not bitter and envious of her(I workout too) but just because she did it, it doesn’t mean that she should start telling other women to do the same. Don’t preach it to people who did not ask to hear it. And since I’m sure that she subscribes to google alerts then Maria stop photoshopping those stretch marks!
Dear Maria,
It’s not the product (being fit and eating healthy) we don’t “get”, it’s your presentation (being smug and condescending) that is turning people off. Try being encouraging and inspiring, for a change.
If I can keep my mouth closed then you can too.
For starters…those pics and a few others Ive seen of her are heavily photo-shopped so lets stop pretending she looks just like those pics. she doesnt and neither do many other “fitness” models.
This chick and many others like her are the reasons I never worked out in a gym or even went to some of their “trainers” to shadow when I was earning my Personal Training Cert, ( I actually have one of those from a nationally accredited org. even tho I am no longer working in the field) Ive been into fitness for over 25 yrs now and have pretty much seen and heard it all. Theres more bad advice than good from people like her who think its all about posing in that bikini and for every good trainer there are 20+ bad ones.
Its their attitude and like her and some others, they make the whole training and fitness experience about them and what they’ve accomplished instead of making it about the client and their goals. sorry but not everyone actually want to look like that, some just want to get into better shape and make exercise a part of their life. No decent trainer would ever compare themselves to anyone else and should NEVER say “well if I did than you have no excuse not to”. Its not as simple as that. Every body’s body is different as well as their life’s challenges, whether they be mental, physical or whatever. Ever single one of us is different and has different goals and no one routine or regime will work for everyone. Focusing on the clients needs and challenges is what it should be about, NOT losing weight so you can flaunt pics of yourself on facebook. I absolutely can not stand fitness freaks with this attitude, it turns me off fitness more than anything.
Ive always tried to make fitness something fun that you can do in your own home without a bunch of equipment but more importantly than that, I make it all about the client and helping them over come whatever obstacles that are keeping them from being more healthy and active. I’ve always followed Denise Austin’s teaching and philosophies on fitness,she actually has a college degree and in fitness and all that other good stuff but the main thing I love about her is her attitude. She very positive and realistic, I highly recommend her to anyone trying to bring fitness into their life. she’s very motivating. People like this chick and many others Ive seen on FB or youtube do nothing but turn ppl off by making them feel inferior to them just b/c they may have a “6 pack” or whatever. I wish I wasnt at work b/c I could go on but gotta actually work today.
OK Maria – think on this: a very close friend of mine recently had a series of strokes, rendering him incapable of speech, blind in one eye and severely impacting his cognitive skills. I go to the hospital every day and watch him wither away, drugged up, depressed and incapable of expressing himself.
He is tall, slender, worked out, took vitamins, and ate a healthy diet. Nobody saw this coming, he was doing all the right things. So take your sanctimonious one-size-fits-all chastising of people you consider unhealthy because they’re not slender and toned and shove it in your pie-hole.
Jaded, you know you’re a great friend, right? I’m sorry you and he are going through your turn on life’s wheel. Infirmity and death are never fair and happen to all of us. You’ve figured out the lesson that we get by with a little help from our friends.
Why is this vapid woman a ‘thing’ now? She has absolutely nothing to offer.
And Taco Bell has ‘healthy’ options? Seriously? Antibiotic-loaded battery chicken, pesticides and preservatives wrapped up in a GMO bready-thing for the busy mom on the go. Blech.
lol! But its grilled chicken….
You said what I was thinking!
Her patter is pulled straight from the 1990s. If she were truly making ‘health’ a priority instead of just looking hot in hot pants, she would be adding more to the conversation than ‘thin is good!’. Advocating the toxic crap available at Taco Bell (and other fast food joints) is just ignorant. Autoimmune diseases are quadrupling in the industrialized world and poisoned/manipulated food is thought by many to be the reason why. I think that concept might be a little above Maria, however.
Mich: O/T…….Have been looking out for your posts. Really want to have a nutter about Mandela and more. private email if i ask CB to send you my details?
Absolutely!!! Although I need to figure out how to change the email address I use for here (I only use it for signing on to forums and can’t remember the password to save my life).
I haven’t been on CB as much as usual. I’m thanking our manipulated food for the lovely autoimmune disease I am battling. Never been sicker or more frustrated but I’m not overweight so, by Kang’s logic, I must be healthy and in complete control 🙂
Why are you still covering this woman? She is a nonentity….
I think we should stop referring to her as Fit Mom & start calling her Fat Mom…just so we can watch her explode. Mind you, I’m literally twice her size (and change), but could you just *IMAGINE* the LeAnn Rimes level of crazy we’d see out of this chick if her notifications started pulling up her name with “Fat Mom”? MUAHAHAHAHA…..
On the last post about fitmom, Emily C left a comment on my post that got me thinking. I have a guttural, knee jerk reaction to this woman and I really didn’t know why. I thought it was because she was a snug douchette, one of the WHOO girls from night clubs but it was much larger than that. I did both myself and this idiot a disservice by not thinking larger and longer about my dislike for her.
Emily C. says:
December 9, 2013 at 11:07 am
I understand her message. It’s the same message peddlers of ignorance and hate have always had.
Emily was right.This is the same old sh-t. Kang just makes it easy for snark, because LOW HANGING FRUIT! So a special thanks to Emily for helping me put this in perspective. Celebitchy does have the best comment section.
The reality is that this is the same old shit. The real agenda, the real message is that women have no rights to their own bodies, that we are only the sum of our body parts and nothing else matters. This is why we buy products from companies that use women’s bodies, or body parts to sell us crap we don’t need and can rarely afford. This is why the more attractive you are, the more money you make. If you are not the physical ideal you are considered and treated as less than. As long as there is only one ideal, it is easier to sell crap, to make women feel that if they are not the perfect ideal that they have nothing to contribute.
When this moron says that overweight women are not ‘ real’ she is only saying out loud what every douchebag in marketing and advertising already know.Women who are not the ideal are easily dismissed as miserable, fat, lazy, and not worth screwing. She took in every lesson that she was sold. She can treat women who are not like her as less than. Less worthy of respect, less worthy of empathy and simply as less because they are not like her. It’s the same lesson that makes Katy Perry and Taylor Swift proclaim they are not feminists. You can’t be a feminist or fat or smart and have boys like you.
I have been both thin and fat. I have been ignored and treated as less that at my heaviest and treated better than I sometimes deserved at my thinnest. At my heaviest I agonized over what people thought of me. If a guy flirted with me I would wonder if he was doing it as a joke or a dare. At my thinnest if a man flirted with me I wondered if he only thought of getting me into bed or worst. After seeking out help and learning some new ways to think about myself and the world I can say my weight no longer impacts how I interact with the world. Sadly, it does impact how the world interacts with me.
This will be my last post on this douchebag. So I have one parting shot.
F– her and the bullsh-t she is selling. This idiot and all the a-holes like her do not get to define what is a real woman.I wish I could have more empathy for her, but f— all, she loves the box she has been forced into and she isn’t smart enough to see anything else. If there is one take away from this for me it is that we need to educate out daughters. We need to send them to college to learn how to think outside of their own little worlds.They need to learn to never stop learning about themselves and other people.They need to learn, again and again that we are not just warm flesh. We need to teach them that our bodies should not be our definitions of ourselves but the simply the vessel we use to carry around all of the wonderful things that we are.
My God, I just want to hug you right now…. This is the comment of the day for me. 🙂
Thanks! And thank you for your post as well. Absolutely spot-on.
A little nudge sometimes helps people think clearly. Thanks for the nudge!
I said it below but preach! You nailed it!!!!
This is the poetry version of my rant by a young woman named Lily Myers. And she knocks it right out of the park.
http://bit.ly/1gw7GEe
Thanks for your link, Abbicci. It’s extremely powerful and performance artesque in it’s epicness!
“She took in every lesson that she was sold.” Abbicci, thank you for giving this story some thought, and thank you for pointing out the truth of this story.
Besides being an example of the patently obvious, (patriarchy), Maria Kang’s the epitome of living in a gilded cage and believing it freedom.
She’s going through her life asleep. Maria could choose to wake up tomorrow and simply open the cage door and walk out, but this way she knows what to expect. Everything’s controlled and predictable in her self-confinement; outside is not as safe and full of surprises. Unaware of what lies beyond the strangely unsatisfying superficial dream of happiness through conformity, Maria’s made her choice. She’s willingly become a tool of her own oppression, and now she’s turning her efforts toward ushering errant women everywhere to get back into their place.
We each must choose where we will spend our life – comfortable in the confines of the cage, or free to choose, free to fail, and free to become more than the world tells us we can be. Apathy remains in the cage, courage is living your life wide awake open to all the possibilities.
You’re awesome.
I wasn’t going to comment because I decided not to feed the Maria troll, but yes to everything. Those were exactly my concerns but you found a way to verbalize it and I could not.
A woman that suffered from an eating disorder should be more considerate about attacking the weight of other women. Get in therapy and stay there, honey.
Hey Maria, are you reading this? Eat sh-t.
It’s clear that fitness is her primary priority. It’s also clear that education is not on that list at all.
She’s a woman who lost weight. That’s it. She’s not a nutritionist, or a physical therapist, or even a real trainer. She’s the Susan Powter of our generation, only she uses the internet to be loud, rude, and obnoxious.
(i cant hold it in any longer…… my sis told me Kang comes from a family of pageant girls, or something to that effect) (to me that alone speaks VOLUMES) (Kang’s ONLY message is “Look at Me” “Look at ME” )
It’s better to be fat than to be skinny.
Anorexia is the deadliest mental illness by far. Being just a little bit underweight is as unhealthy as being extremely severely obese. The worst possible thing you can do regarding food (outside of individual allergies) is to not get enough of it.
Would you please stop giving this seriously disturbed woman a platform? Thank you.
“I think fitness always makes me happier it makes you feel like you can control so many things in your life. ”
Uhm, that’s what people with eating disorders say. I am a recovered anorexic and bulimic myself, and I always thought that if I could control my food intake and my fitness, nothing could ever go wrong in my life..
Ugh, we get it! You hate looking at fat people and you hate that there are fat people in the world who aren’t disgusted with themselves! Please, quit being faux concerned. This woman should be ashamed but in the society we live in her voice gets heard over people who are happy with themselves and just fine letting other people be. Don’t like fat people? Mind ya business it really is that simple. Oh, and I don’t mind dying maybe ten years early and I make the choice on if it is good and comfortable for me to carry extra weight no one else, So, tired of it. It’s maddening. We know we are fat, we know other people hate it. You’re not saying anything new!
Fatty out!
Since she’s so dedicated to self-improvement she should really work on her grammar. If I can make grammar a priority as a non-native speaker who didn’t know a word of English until 5th grade, then you can too!
I’m voting for Kodos.
YOUR NAME AND YOUR COMMENT. Tentacle clap.
Would she have landed that cover without her self-made controversy/publicity? Me thinks not. At least anyone doubting her motives now have clarity.
When I was overweight, I didn’t need a damn person to tell me about it. I knew already. And Maria Kang and her insults would have done nothing for me.’
Totally agree. someone wagging their finger in my face criticizing me will not motivate me to work out, it’ll only make me hate myself more and when i hate myself i lay around and overeat.
Come on guys…..it’s so obvious that she has some serious insecurities and perhaps a badly wired personality to boot. There are ways to be encouraging and to relay information in ways that are helpful, then there are ways to just be a total judgmental and pompous b***iotch. She has mastered the latter skill.
“I like the $1.50 grilled chicken wraps from Taco Bell.”
…keep the lettuce, hold the chicken and the wrap 😉
But seriously, this woman is setting her children up for BDD and/or a serious eating disorder. My father is a vain, narcissistic a-hole who spent my entire life food policing me while he ate whatever he wanted developed diabetes and suffered a heart attack. Although he’s never been diagnosed, I suspect he has bulimia. I also think he’s the principle reason I developed orthorexia and exercise anorexia in my teens. As soon as I hit puberty I was warned to watch what I was putting in my mouth, never mind that the weight was all in my boobs! Also, whenever my 5 year old son visits him, he comes home talking about calories and how we can’t eat things with too many carbs. Even though he doesn’t know what those things mean, he still asks me if its ok to eat something with that many carbs (he says as he points to the package).
This woman’s behavior is abhorrent and harmful and if she isn’t going to censor herself for “the unfit,” she should do it for her kids!
Did she get paid by Taco bell to say that?! because ya, if you want to eat healthy, just go to taco bell instead of Mcdonalds…said no one ever. except of course, fit mom.
Yes, lol. The exact price is a give-away.
Her concern trolling annoys me. Begone Ms. Kang.
She could have posted that same photo of herself with her three kids with the caption “IF I CAN DO IT, SO CAN YOU,” and she could be seen as inspirational and encouraging. But with “WHAT’S YOUR EXCUSE” she is judgmental, smug, and condescending. And then she confirmed and compounded it by continuing to spout off more and more garbage making people feel even worse about themselves.
Maria – you have a great body but your heart is three sizes too small. Please take your six pack and shut up.
You’re so right, Size Does Matter. She could have chosen the captions like “Rise to Your Challenges” or “Overcoming Obstacles” or “Life Throws Curveballs We Can Catch Them”.
Maria could use a good retreat to reflect on being a force for inclusiveness and resiliency. She could come back, humbly admit the error of her ways, and have a great comeback story arc.
If Fit Mom got her heart right, if she brushed up her credentials, and if she truly adjusted her message, then she could be a force for good.
I think her tagline would have been fine if she hadn’t followed it up by attacking other women as being ‘less than’ her and then doubled down on the fact that she is an ignorant bigot.
“If I can make health a priority as a working mom of three kids”
from what I gather, being fit is her job so yeah, she can make that a priority pretty damn easily, can’t she
Exactly. Her so-called job is about fitness. It’s not like she’s working at a desk 40 hours a week with a family and trying to squeeze in a workout. She is clueless in many ways.
This exactly. When I was laid off from my desk job, I got a hospital job. I lost 30 lbs in 6 months just from all the extra standing, lifting and pulling. I’m still not a size 2, though, and never will be because that’s just my genetics. Today most well-paying jobs for women are office jobs. When being active is literally a job, you can’t compare yourself to a person who has to sit at a desk 40+ hours a week. Not that we need to be comparing each other, anyway.
Side note – even at my heaviest, my fasting glucose was always normal, BP was always borderline low, and total cholesterol under 100. But she would have judged my size 10 ass. It’s not about health for her, it is about bullying.
(I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again) What’s her MOM’s excuse? *laughs*
Like PETA, she has a good cause, but goes about it in such a negative, belittling, and fame whoring way way that it turns people off.
The only way to put this woman in her place is to either have a REAL fitness model make fun of her and to call her a fat ass…which is sad to say, but she actually doesn’t even compare.
The woman is in better shape than I am, obviously. She is probably in better shape than the majority of women in this country. She will likely be the fittest woman at her 20 year GED reunion. She is not even close to elite fitness model shape, though. She is not the body that would normally be on fitness and muscle mags. She is not the fitness expert the industry would turn to for representation. Her only “hook” was to be, and to continue to be a pretentious, smug bitch.
OR–she can be ignored.
Either would be devastating to her, but the first option is just mean. So, I’ll go with the second option and hope that everyone else does, too.
LOL @ GED reunion. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but in this context, it’s hilarious.
Why is her mouth open in all the photos?
Her mouth is getting a big workout lately. Shouldn’t she give it some rest to repair?
It seems to me she is looking for validation from the outside and that she has very limited interests. That doesn’t make her a bad person.
I cannot even explain how much I dislike this women and everything that comes out of her mouth.