"You Think I'm Pretty Without Any Make-up On..."

[rainbowjehan]

Soooo at my one client's house the t.v. was on, and there was an ad going for some weight-loss programme. It started out fairly inoffensively: middle-aged, stocky woman going "yay now I am not quite as heavy I can do more!" which is a reasonable approach, really; and the fact that she wasn't skinny made it seem much more like a "I'm just wanting to

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[mhari]

Ffffffffffffffffffffffff

Also, "one last time"? Way to be ominous.

[rainbowjehan]

Seriously. Pretty before I PAINT MY BODY WITH THE BLOOD OF MY ENEMIES AND SEW THEIR HAIR INTO MY SCALP.

[shawk]

Weirdly, I believe that is Carrie Fisher, and I don't get the "one last time" at all. As if she has no more chances left? Er...

[rainbowjehan]

It is so stupid and does not make any sense. D:

[canadabear]

It is Carrie Fisher and I believe she's likely referring to the idea that if not for [product], she would never have done this. I also believe she's referring to the fact that she was a Sci-Fi pin-up 35 years ago and is still held to that image. Which really doesn't make things better, but context can help, occasionally.

[shawk]

I do find it extra-strange, though, since I'm pretty sure she has spoken about the pressures to be even thinner when she was in Star Wars and how insane that wa (especially for the metal bikini/Jabba the Hut scene), so she might have spoken more carefully. Then again, she doesn't seem to be one who is big on carefully screening her words.

[josiana]

Maybe she is a zombie. D:

But seriously that is so creepy and insidious and wtf.

[rainbowjehan]

>_> Then she can be pretty for-ever, she's undead, she isn't going to keel over and die to-morrow or something.

SO WRONG.

[custardpringle]

I saw that commercial about five times in three hours of TV-watching yesterday, and was also furious at the bit about "I can wear colors again! I don't have to wear black all the time!"

FAT PEOPLE CAN WEAR COLORS TOO, I PROMISE. THERE IS NOT A LAW.

[rainbowjehan]

SERIOUSLY. I was like, SO SORRY, T.V. PEOPLE, I am fat and I wear ALL THE PRETTY COLOURS I WANT. SO THERE. Arghhhh.

[custardpringle]

but don't you know fat people are supposed to make themselves as near to invisible as possible, UGH SOUJIN WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING

[rainbowjehan]

I AM NOT VERY GOOD AT BEING FAT, CLEARLY.

[eremon_lass]

The hell?

[rainbowjehan]

IDEK.