I love Niecy Nash and am a big fan of her on Clean House. She’s full of herself, but that’s part of her persona and it doesn’t cross into insufferable diva territory. She’s like your friendly neighborhood diva who gives you self esteem tips when you’re going through a rough time. (i.e. hoarding.) Neicy also had a great turn on Dancing with The Stars last season, and made it up until the eighth week to finish fourth. Her star is on the rise and she’s been giving interviews lately. In a new interview with OK Magazine, Neicy has some advice for grumpy thin girls. As much as I think Niecy is awesome I have to say I don’t agree with her on this:
The Clean House host, 40, doesn’t care to step on a scale because it doesn’t matter to her.
For the divorced-and-dating mom of three, knowing what she likes and what she doesn’t like in the food department is key.
“There are things that I avoid, but not because I want to deprive myself,” Niecy tells me during Flushing For a Cause event hosted by Clorox. “It’s because I don’t care for it. I don’t care for potato chips. I don’t have a big love for French fries. Some people love French fries – it’s coming on the side with the shrimp that I ordered, but even if it didn’t, it would’ve been fine with me. I’m not a big fan. Cottage cheese, not a big fan. Some things I’m like ‘mmm, I don’t eat it because I don’t like it.’ Because if I like it, I’m going to eat it.”
She continues, “That’s what’s wrong with a lot of people. A lot of people are miserable, a lot of people are so unhappy because they’re hungry. They need to eat a little more. All those thin girls walking around on Dancing With The Stars, they’re arguing with their partners – you would have a better life if you ate some food, honey.”
Would the reality star, whose beau is Jay Tucker, recommend dancing as a workout?
“If you like it, I would recommend anything you want to do as a workout. I didn’t weigh myself before Dancing With The Stars, I haven’t weighed myself since Dancing With The Stars. My Mr. Wonderful has weighed in and said ‘you lost weight.’ I don’t know if it’s true or not.”
Because she’s pressed for time, Niecy likes to incorporate her family into her workouts.
“Sometimes I do things that are unconventional like take my kids to the roller-skating rink or have all my kids come in the room, and we have a hula-hoop contest. It doesn’t always have to be in the gym for an hour-and-a half doing whatever that is.”
She continues, “I work a lot. I don’t have time to be at work all day, and get home and say ‘now I have to leave you again to go to the gym for a couple hours.’ I have to make it work as a family.”
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First of all I agree with her that it’s very hard to find time to go to the gym when you have a family and are working all day. A lot of people struggle with that and it also depends on how far away the gym is. So that’s good advice to do healthy activities around the house with your kids because you get to spend time with them too.
But I have to talk about Niecy saying skinny women are unhappy because they’re not eating. That’s like saying heavy people are unhappy because they eat too much. I know both can make me grumpy, as can bad drivers and a lack of coffee. It’s just too simplistic and isn’t that much different from telling a bigger person that they would be happy if they exercised and ate more salads. Are there people who aren’t happy because they’re hungry? Sure. Happiness and being able to get along with others do not come from food or weight, though, and you can get in trouble for thinking that all bad emotions can be addressed with food! I do like her attitude toward her weight and the fact that she isn’t striving to fit some ideal body type. Niecy is hot and she knows it. Now if only she would be a little more accepting of thin people. I’ve been on both sides and I really hate it when people try and convince me to eat after I politely decline, no matter the reason. (Try this cake/strange meat/new food being the one that bugs me the most.)
If you’d like to hear more from Niecy, Celebrity Baby Scoop has an interview with her in which she talks about the charities she’s involved in, her family, show and her relationship. She is divorced with three children from marriage, Dominic, 18, Donielle, 15, and Dia, 10. She said something similar to Celebrity Baby Scoop about women needing to chill out and eat. “I think a lot of the other people on the show were arguing with their partners….girl, because they were hungry! I said, ‘Y’all don’t eat enough around here for me!‘” Oh Niecy.
Yea no while eating is awesome and makes me happy, its not really the answer for happiness in anyone. Who knows what the key to happiness, however I know its not food. Or shopping.
isn’t this woman a comedian? maybe she was trying to be funny and this article makes it sound different
Kathy Griffin has been making the same statement for over a year.
That all skinny women are b*tchy cause they don’t eat. hahaha!
And she basis that on the fact she has starved herself to get down to where she is now and is hungry all the time.
I like most of what she had to say except for the comment that C/B already called her out on. No, not every skinny woman is cranky because she’s hungry. The thing I liked most about what she had to say was that she doesn’t eat food she’s not crazy about. In my office there’s always people ordering pizza, bringing in cookies etc and they act offended because I won’t eat it. I don’t like chocolate or pizza so much. Now if someone brings in Lindt’s white chocolate you best believe I’ll be partaking because that’s my steez 🙂 I think a lot of times people eat stuff just because it’s there instead of listening to their bodies or saving the calories for something they REALLY enjoy.
I became a Niecy fan when she was on DWTS (have to admit, didn’t know of her before that). I thought she was great on the show and she also took A LOT of flak from the other contestants and the judges about her weight. I thought she looked great, proportional and beautifully curvy.
Personally, I know I’m totally grumpy when I don’t eat enough so I get that idea. Kelly Osbourne said something about how her partner (Louis, the same guy who danced with Niecy) yelled at her for trying to lose tons of weight by not eating while dancing, and that all celeb contestants try to do that at first so maybe Niecy was making a point to that. And I agree with Me1st about her making a joke about it.
However, CB’s point “you can get in trouble for thinking that all bad emotions can be addressed with food!” is totally spot on.
I loved her on Reno 911.
And she’s not saying that all skinny woman are unhappy because they need to eat more. She saying that BITCHY skinny woman are unhappy because they need to eat more. 😛
I think it’s true. I’ve known my fair share of skinny, habitually bitchy women, and they’re always either watching carbs or cutting out sugar or are on a liquid cleanse diet or something stupid like that.
Miss Niecy is fabulous.
Didn’t we just have a similar discussion in a Jessica Biel post?
I’m tired of unsolicited weight/workout advice from unqualified people. As someone who would probably qualify as ‘skinny’ by her definition, I would like to tell her to keep it. I feel best when I am simply satiated. Lack of food doesn’t make me grumpy at all. It makes me hungry. I don’t like feeling full, it makes me lethargic, like I need a nap. Maybe the skinnies are grumpy for a good reason, rather than they aren’t eating enough. I work out regularly. Glad she’s happy with herself. leave the rest of us alone.
Go ahead and eat all ya want. Just keep it on the healthier side because when all that fried goodness and sugar catches up with you you’ll be a 40 something diabetic who just had a heart attack, just sayin.
You preach it girl, you preach it. Amen
So bitchy fat women are bitchy because they’re too fat? or too full? Or maybe they’re bitchy because their bodies are suffering from the strain from the extra weight. Please. We do a disservice to women by making everything (even their emotions) about weight. It’s like a guy saying “it must be that time of the month.” It’s really shallow, patronizing and ultimately a way of minimizing women. Many men also watch their weight and exercise but they are allowed to be moody without anyone accusing them of going through sugar-withdrawal.
I know she was just making a joke but please let’s not start with the “skinny women are bitchy because they’re hungry” garbage. And yes I am skinny and ATM VERY bitchy! I also just finished a very, VERY large breakfast 🙂
I love Ms. Neicy! She is fab.
I wish they had cast her as Lula in the Stephanie Plum movies coming up, instead of Sherri Shepard. I think she has the Lula attitude down!
I don’t deprive myself of any type of food, and I’m thin. I imagine if I were doing grueling dance routines for hours and hours I would be bitchy too, food or no food.
Oi: THANK YOU!
GatsbyGal, me too! She was great but it’s interesting that there really weren’t any standout actors on that show – every single cast member was incredible. Every character was my favorite at some point in each episode. I even liked the new characters they brought in. Great actors all around.
You got to take Niecy’s comment into perspective. She lives in LA, and if we’re being honest, a lot of women there DO starve themselves, or, at least, are on some pretty damn restrictive diets. So yeah, I’m sure she sees her fair share of thin women who are unhappy because they’re hungry and depriving themselves.
But she shouldn’t generalize any more than that. I know overweight women who are unhappy because they are hungry and starving on a diet.
I think she was just making a joke. I’m sure there is plenty of dieting going on on almost any holywood set. Chill. I don’t think she literally meant that all problems are solved by food (or a lack thereof) sounds like she’s confident the way she is, and I envy her for that!
I think it was a jokingly stated remark, but to make a point about not having to be super skinny to be happy. A lot of dimwitted sandwich needing women in LA think like Kate Moss: “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”- Horrid!
And I have to agree that there is some truth to her statement. I’m not skinny, but once I get hungry my mood shifts.
If we take Niecy’s statement from a purely physiological perspective, she very well could be right. People who don’t eat enough may suffer from low blood sugar, which can reek havoc on a person’s emotional state. I’m a naturally thin person and I know that when I forget to eat (I have general anxiety disorder so unfortunately my appetite is very low), I become rude, disoriented, confused, and just plain unpleasant to be around. However, I know that most thin people are like this, so I’m not trying to generalize.
ya gotta love that she’s the 1st chick that made a classic black girl name (niecy…which is short for denise) a household name.
mrs. jackson was the last to pull that off with ‘latoya’. lol.
p.s. – she looks like she could be vanessa del rio’s 3rd cousin.
don’t act like y’all wasn’t thinking it!
gorgeous t&a, AND those lips.
*in niecy’s voice*
“Mrnnn!” 🙂
I’m bitchy all the time, no matter what I weigh. Actually, I think I’m worse when I’m larger than my normal weight because then my jeans are tight.
i dont think she made that comment to every thin girl. i got the drift she was making that comment towards the hollywood type. how many times do we comment on some celebrity being too thin? i think eating disorders and hollywood probably go well together along with plastic surgery. im large and eating right and exercise does make me a happier person. reguardless of how i look exercise makes me feel awesome, so maybe she has a point. i know when i havent eaten and my sugar is down i become extremely pissy and the same could be said for most people i know.
@Kitten: Do we work in the same office? The people I work with are always bringing in cookies, cakes, candy which I dont want to “snack” on and I cant eat pizza. I always get the “Arent you hungry? or “Are you on a diet?” All the time! Now if someone makes banana bread or zuccini bread Im on it!
I have a few problems with what she said first off not every skinny woman is unhappy because of her weight ,and if they are going through food addiction issues making fun of them doesn’t help.
Secondly African Americans need to talk more about healthy eating our community has epidemic levels of diabetes, and heart disease curves are great but nutrition and health are more important.
I tend to be grumpier when I’m on the heavier side of my “set weight”. I feel bloated and grossy and my clothes don’t fit right. I try not to be neurotic about it, because I know after a few days I’ll be more comfortable. . . but I still get a little restrictive in my diet to combat the bloat. Which probably ends up making me feel grumpier.
Vicious cycle!
she’s awesome!
I think any person who is obsessed with their appearance ends up acting b!tchy, because they are extremely shallow. I’ve known skinny women who were that way, and chubby women who were that way. No matter what, if the main thing in your life is what food you are/are not eating, d@mn, is that boring for everyone else, and a crappy way to spend a large chunk of your life. I get it if you are dieting, but still, to be honest, nobody else wants to hear about it all the time. Meh, that rambled, but whatever. 🙂
I don’t know how anyone can live within that Hollywood station without frothing at the mouth about all of those boring little shallow obsessions. Even as a nobody, I have to shut my ears off to the conversations I hear about weight and romantic status. Blergh. Any time someone asks me about mine, I return by asking that person how much money she makes. Works 100 per cent of the time and is great at preventing any future ‘rolled eye in head syndrome’.
Try it ladies, you’ll be richer for it. ‘Why won’t someone else do something about the way I look?’
‘Why don’t other women accept my barbed remarks about their looks as the loving advice they’re *meant* to be?’ Confounded ideas like that don’t even have to enter into your daily conversations anymore. It’s great. And boyfriend status…geez. ‘I have to pretend to be committed to loving myself as I am, which I think centres around various hollow incantations involving the words ‘balance’ or ‘spiritual’ or ’empowered’ so that a guy will start loving me, even though that’s not why I’m doing it. And it’s totally great and awesome to be single (for you, and I totally don’t think you’re a spinster, you know that’s just you’re thing and it’s great, like being desirable is mine), but THANK GOD that I know how to get a guy for the present whilst I learn how to contort myself for the future perfect man who doesn’t exist’. That’s how you find peace and improve yourself–through outside validation! No wading through that anymore. You can do lots of great things with the spare time: wainscotting, perhaps.
Now, I can’t see her really saying that it goes more like Bitch, please eat a sammich
LOL I love Niecy.
What she said was in jest. If you saw her on DWTS, she was always cracking jokes about eating a hamburger before the show. The point she is trying to make is to not obsess about food or weight. To enjoy life – make it fun with exercise that you enjoy and to eat in moderation.
When I was a kid there was alot of pressure from my mother to stay skinny, and I hated myself if I had a few pounds too many.
That feeling is all gone now and I only feel sad that I let that pain exist in my childhood. It spoiled times when I should have been feeling happy, because instead I was stressed out and self-loathing.
So from the standpoint of being happier if you don’t obsess over your weight, I definitely agree.
i hate ignorant shit like that. ok, we get it. heavier chicks can look good too but is it really necessary to bash thinner women? i am thin and toned and i do eat. i eat very healthily thank you very much. i do not depend on food as a source of happiness or entertainment. i think heavier women are jealous when they try to put you down by saying stupid shit like,”eat a french fry, honey.” i don’t think super skinny chicks are hott, don’t think fat chicks are hott and think toned and petite girls with a nice ass and boobs are hott. sorry jealous nash.