The Biggest Loser reboot isn't about wellness; it's about the spectacle of fat people's pain and tears
is insistent that it has fixed its failures and now it’s actually about wellness and “making a lifestyle change.” They’vecritics that they are now dedicated to “aftercare” and helping contestants after they leave the show. And yet it’s still a reality TV show competition where people are rewarded for simply shedding pounds the fastest.
Phi spoke about her father’s murder when she was a child and how she felt guilty and began eating to cope with her feelings; Micah explained that his mother had a drug problem that left him feeling insecure and unimportant. Katarina started crying while introducing herself as “the fat nurse” on the cardiac floor where she works, assuming that her body undermines her authority with patients. The show is still a parade of fat people’s tears.
“I want to change the way people think of others who struggle with their weight,” Lugo said. “Lazy, fat, gross—I know those words were thought about me at one point. These people are none of those words.” But the notion of fatness as repulsive is very much the bones of this show. It’s called THE BIGGEST LOSER.
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