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Recently, Gillette Venus shared a photo of plus-size model Anna O’Brien, trying to celebrate diversity. However, their attempt has its share of critics who claim that the company is normalizing an unhealthy life. Similar to what other companies with super skinny models are doing, just on the other end of the spectrum.
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Image credits: gillettevenus
Anna has an online blog, called Glitter + Lazers. “I run my online personality with heart, which means my opinions cannot be bought,” she writes on her website. “If I review something positively- it’s because I actually like it. I might be provided goods or in some case ever paid to try out and experiment with a product, but every collaboration comes with the caveat- I will write what I believe. I blame this on the bad case of ethics and morals I was born with.”
Image credits: GlitterAndLazers
She has over 318k Instagram followers and nearly 100k YouTube subscribers but that’s not it. “I’m also an accomplished global speaker- having presented in over 10 countries,” she says. “I’ve graced the stage at events such as SXSW, Adweek, Social Media Week, emetrics, M2C and more. I’m known for creating a candid and captivating presentation style and my ability to transform difficult concepts into executable steps.”
Image credits: GlitterAndLazers
Gillette Venus claims it features models with no retouching and no restrictions. “No one way to have beautiful skin or to show it off,” they write. “Venus stands with all women who right the rules.”
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Some people think this ad isn’t a good idea
This marketing move by Gillette reignited a heated discussion about body size and eating disorders. According to the National Eating Disorder Association, 20 million women and 10 million men will suffer from an eating disorder at some point in their lives in the United States. “Eating disorders are serious, life-threatening illnesses that affect all kinds of people, regardless of gender, ethnicity, size, age, or background. In fact, eating disorders have the second highest mortality rate of all mental health disorders, surpassed only by opioid addiction.”
If people are consuming fewer calories than they need, their bodies break down their own tissue to use for fuel. “Muscles are some of the first organs broken down, and the most important muscle in the body is the heart. Pulse and blood pressure begin to drop as the heart has less fuel to pump blood and fewer cells to pump with. The risk for heart failure rises as the heart rate and blood pressure levels sink lower and lower.”
On the other hand, obesity because, as well as causing obvious physical changes, leads to a number of serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, too. These include type 2 diabetes, coronary heart diseas, various types of cancer (such as breast cancer and bowel cancer), and stroke. It can also greatly affect ones quality of like and lead to psychological problems, for example, depression and low self esteem.
While others love it
Twitter user Internet Historian has even created a poll, asking people whether or not it was a good idea
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What do you think ?
diane a 5 years ago
This is NOT a healthy body. A young person might just about manage to function at this weight for a time, but it will soon catch up with them. Why do you think you never see a morbidly obese person of either sex who is over 60? Or one over 50 and independantly mobile with no serious health issues.
Effseven Six 5 years ago
Sorry, but my 135 lbs body isnt a healthy body either. Yeah, I "look" like a healthy body, but looks dont define what a healthy body is. I used to work with a guy , damn near my hight, 5 foot 6, and obese for his body type. But damn, he could hike hills and out do me constantly in any outdoor activities we'd do. My mother is my size has high cholesterol and hypertension. Her sister, who's definitely obese has none of those issues. There are other reasons why someone might be over weight, and it doesnt always have to do with stuffing their faces with food.
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Chrissa Paradis 5 years ago
I dont care who they hire in ads for razors but they need to stop showing women shaving already shaved legs....
Toni Tangents 5 years ago
Apparently, any body hair belonging to a woman, (unless it is the head hair, eye brows or eye lashes) is extremely extremely offensive, so they can't show that, or teenagers the world over will have nightmares and the razor company will have to pay a massive fine, large enough to bankrupt them. It is a similar situation with the blue liquid used in sanitary product ads.
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Panda Baller 5 years ago
I really hate these types of marketing. I am the worst when it comes to hearing peoples excuses for being unhealthy. You have someone on one end of the spectrum suffering from anorexia but then you have someone that is going to die from obesity because they are not eating well. Its like people get triggered when someone says they cant workout because of a health condition or a injury from the past. I agree that we shouldn't normalize it but that's what its looking like. This whole love your body movement is so critical of anything. Way to extreme. Its the most annoying thing when you hear in the news a clothing company is being bashed because they don't make clothes size XXXL Neanderthals would never have gotten that big! They would have died or eaten by something cause they wouldn't have been able to run away! I feel terrible saying it but I came from a family of Diabetes and my mom and dad a few brothers are struggling with weight. They are making the choice the eat poorly and not be
Emmaleigh Brooks 5 years ago
Yes but making the choice not to eat healthy doesn't mean you don't deserve to feel happy and beautiful if you so wish.
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Stille20 5 years ago
Just from a marketing stand point this doesn't make me want to buy the razor. I'm a bit chunky but I aspire to be in better shape. I also aspire to smooth legs, but this ad doesn't make me think "smooth legs".
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
I guarantee you’ll buy that razor if you buy this kind of razor. Because nobody in their right mind buys a razor based on ads. They just pick it at the store, based on what looks like it will do what they want. At some point you try them all until you realize shick intuition razors or electrolysis are the only reasonable options.
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Tyler Duffy 5 years ago
Just gross. Seriously gross. Ive been buying from Dollar Shave Club after the stupid "Toxic Masculinity" b******t. I'm happy I made that change after seeing that......I'll be pouring bleach in my eyeballs shortly.
Stephanie Bladyak 5 years ago
If you find it gross that's your prerogative but what is it you gain from calling someone gross other than hurting the feelings of someone you don't know.
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Arietis 5 years ago
There's an important difference between this ad and the fashion industry using underweight models. People like to point out that both are unhealthy and therefore you shouldn't "promote" being obese by using overweight models in ads like these. But it's not the same. It's true that both are unhealthy, but the fashion industry promotes being underweight by making this body type a prerequisite for entering that field of work. Their models need to be extremely thin to get work, therefore they encourage them to diet and starve themselves. This ad shows an obese woman – but you don't have to be obsese to get the job. It's about allowing different body types and creating awareness. If simply showing someone who leads an unhealthy lifestyle is promoting unhealthy behaviour, we should ban people who smoke from appearing in the media, people who do sport on a professional level because they damage their body over time, people who aren't toned because not enough exercise is unhealthy.
Julie Peterson 5 years ago
Yeah, for all those saying "people with fat bodies are all unhealthy and will die soon"--people with skinny bodies can be extremely unhealthy also. Size alone is not an indicator of health. I have relatives from Europe who would be considered fat here but they climb mountains and hike and could outrun any thin person I know. Assuming someone is healthy merely because they're thin is ridiculous. And I saw plenty of fat people in my mom's retirement home so an early death for all overweight people is not a guarantee. No overweight person who takes a picture of themselves is "promoting" anything. They're merely existing, but I guess some people just enjoy being judgmental of anyone they perceive as inferior to themselves in some way. We're lucky that we don't have cameras that can take photos of our personalities, so we can all point out the ways that we suck to each other.
DC 5 years ago
Oh my... If I say she's fat ... I'm a real real bad person, right? The disguise of "body positivity" is just a lame excuse in the majority of cases. Being fat is neither nice nor healthy, it's a severely life threatening condition! No better than the anorexic Victoria's secret girls, just the other way. While the wight of someone is one of the rare things where being normal isn't just another word fpr being stupid and ignorant, it's the only thing where normality never takes place in any ads - either it's unhealthy fat, or unhealthy thin. Whoever understands what is positive about this... Also - any skinny model is blamed for giving a bad example or driving girls to an unhealthy lifestyle - it's just the same with fat people. "You're beautiful, eat another horse and die with 30, but complain whenever someone worries about you!" ... seriously? Nothing's positive here!
DC 5 years ago
Can't answer to Suzi directly... I don't have a weight issue, at least not a serious one. This is NOT about hiding or something, it's about the entire attempt here - it's based on the idea that people in ads usually are role-models (unless it's an ad against something, usually these use anti-role-models) AND that so called body positivity is totally f****d up. Stating that "everyone is beautiful" is not true and not even questioning the massively oversized relevance people in general see in being beautiful to whatever standards. First, for some things being beautiful may be important, but wouldn't mean anything if anyone was. The only thing ALL humans REALLY have in common is being humans... Second, atating that massive overweight wouldn't affect a visual concept of beautifullity (... yeah, that...) is just a lie - it becomes gross at some point, and sometimes it even IS right to be seen as gross by the one him/herself, when it's a seriously threatening condition. Like it is here.
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Christina Sersif 5 years ago
I'm overweight and I can admit that out loud, even obese to the doctor. I'm thankfully no ways as big as this woman, but I am big enough to consciously know I'm unhealthy and know I should work to change that. I rarely take pictures of myself right now. I don't want to have this confident "look at me" attitude because the way I look right now is not healthy and is not a body someone should attempt to model after. The fact this woman is so overweight and thinks it's okay is equally as damaging as a super skinny model who promotes eating disorders. I understand what Gillette was trying to do here, but there are plenty of "normal bodied women" or plus sized models they could have chosen that don't look like they could have a heart attack any minute now.
Laura Zaini 5 years ago
same for me, I am obese but surely not proud of it. It's a problem, it's an addiction for me I cannot overcome and I just feel bad and ashamed
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Kathleen 5 years ago
I'm not sure why marketers cant just focus on having healthy people as representatives. Healthy can be different for different body frames, and doesnt need to necessarily only be about what's considered model perfect. Everyone has an ideal weight for their body, what they feel good at, even if it doesnt fall into specific sizes. Either end of the extreme, too thin or too obese, is bad for you. In the US at least there is a huge problem with eating disorders and unhealthy body image. Some of it comes from the marketing girls see when they are young.
Kim Zaczynski 5 years ago
Why should they? It’s about the razor, not the person.
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Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago
When you want to be so PC that you're promoting an unhealthy lifestyle. I think this is just as exploiting women as their old ads were. Advertising is starting to touch frontiers where noone should ever go.
Paul Mitchell 5 years ago
Yup, even discussing it here is giving the company the oxygen of publicity
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Bored Moogle 5 years ago
Diabetes cases are rising in this country because people are trying to normalize obesity. This is just as unhealthy as encouraging anti-vaxxers.
Minnie-me 5 years ago
I'm so divided about this. I'm a 6'0" woman weighing at 180 pounds and I wear a size 12-14. I can't stand seeing super thin models, these plastic surgery hourglass figures (Kardashians), and obese people being celebrated. Embrace your natural body but don't overdo it because you want to make a statement. Why can't we celebrate the natural healthy people with realistic body types?
Patrick Millet 5 years ago
Obesity is a real, scientifically measurable public health issue, but overweight people shouldn't have to wait until they are thinner to see themselves represented and catered to. On top of that, there are reasons other than a bad diet or lack of exercise that might cause people to be overweight, so for some people this is just their body type. And the difference between this ad and the fashion ads with super skinny models is that our society has long idealized thinness, so these ads just reinforce the societal pressures. Let's be real, no amount of Gilette ads will cause society to idolize fatness.
Davorka Banović 5 years ago
I think t was a good idea and that she deserves to be represented for who she is, if that's the weight she is that's it if she realizes or has any health scares it's still her decision if she'll take care of herself in that regard. you're not seeing people asking Bob Marley be banned because he declined modern medicine and that really isn't a good role model. I personally would ban all adds except maybe simple text because they're manipulative and damaging to the psyche. The fact everyone is taking for granted commercials tell you what to be like and not seeing how sick that is in itself is crazy. leave this woman alone and realize how twisted and unemphatic you've become.
Davorka Banović 5 years ago (edited)
oh and p.s. as a commercial for a razor - the more curvaceous and complicated anatomy of a big human attests for a better product in itself.
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Toni Tangents 5 years ago (edited)
And just to educate some of the readers here, there are medications that will make you double in size or more. you can forget diet or exercise, on the meds I'm talking about, it's futile. And you might be on those tablets for a few years or your whole life. (Your life or sanity depends on them.) Hopefully, people in this position will eventually find a way of reducing their weight. But in the mean time, These people should abso- friggin-lutely be happy and love their body. If you think, that hating your fat self, is a good and healthy motivator for losing weight, you are very wrong.
Emmaleigh Brooks 5 years ago
Exactly! I was a STICK before I started on anti-depressants! After I started taking them I gained 80lbs! Which was in fact almost double my weight at the time! Yes, due to depression I wasn't eating the best, but my one day of eating chocolate instead of broccoli would not have caused such a gain if it weren't for the meds
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Catlady6000 5 years ago
I would dearly love to see a truly normal, healthy weight promoted. Not 85lb anorexic nor 250lb obese. How about someone who just simply healthy? Are they really so rare that the industry can't find them? All seem to see is extremes
SirPatTheCat 5 years ago
Personally, I think a lot of people are at fault here. While I agree that being overweight or obese is not something to promote, most of the comments stating that insulted her in some way. People were saying things like she was going to die soon anyways, and the “size of Venus”, which is NOT ok. If you have to bring someone down whilst stating an opinion, you might want to rethink some things. That said, I also don’t agree that so many people should be saying she’s normal and fine, because, and I do not mean this in a mean or nasty way at all, she’s not. Just as we don’t want the next generation thinking that being sickly skinny is good, we don’t want them to be overweight either. Because let’s face it, those two extremes are equally unhealthy. Support and love overweight people, but please, for the sakes of the children and young people of this world, do. Not. Normalize. It.
Mortimer Snerd 5 years ago
Telling a morbidly obese woman she is healthy and beautiful and not to worry... is logically the exact same thing as telling an alcoholic to keep drinking because they are charming and funny when they do so. Statistics don't lie - overall, it's extremely unhealthy. (Please don't point out your "exceptions" - overall, for most people, it is not safe or healthy.)
Lorelei Geyer Lamb 5 years ago
I’m all for body positivity (for all genders), but ‘super healthy obese people’ is an oxymoron. Some people can be fat and work out and be fit (which is healthier than being thin and unfit), but generally overweight=unhealthy. Underweight also is unhealthy. The problem with the body positivity movement is fat praising. Yes, you can be fat and still beautiful, but unhealthily overweight people should always be encouraged to lose weight (note encouraged not shamed). But all the ‘I’m fat because of my genetics’ is b******t.
Ani-87 5 years ago (edited)
Why is there no ”medium size” people in ads? I’m really fed up for plus size models that are not plus size. It’s always either sticks or this. That what is wrong with the World. To one extreme to another. It’s like too little too late if you get what I mean... Her size is not the issue, that is her own thing. It’s the advertising industry.
THEPS 5 years ago
No no no no no . This woman is going to get diabetes if she doesn't already have it. No. I don't even want to think about the strain this woman is putting her heart under. This is promoting an unhealthy lifestyle. Its saying its okay to be unhealthy. Its like promoting cigarettes when we all know how harmful those are. No. Show someone at their ideal weight. Show a healthy person. Not an anorexic model and not a morbidly obese model either.
Bluebell Rizzi 5 years ago
I'm sorry, but no. That's too far. Why does everything have to be black or white!? Surely there's a grey area here somewhere!
Yana Makarevitch 5 years ago
I'm all for models who don't look like they are starving. But calling this lady "overweight" is an understatement of the century. She is not just "overweight", she is morbidly obese, and it's not okay by any stretch of the imagination.
Donna Faye 5 years ago
I don't find anything wrong with the idea. It's a razor ad commercial. I couldn't care less what the person looks like. Way better things to be concerned with.
Mary Haynes 5 years ago
Good for Gillette, and good for her. She may or may not be healthy....BUT she looks HAPPY.
Felicia Dale 5 years ago
Healthy or not, "right" size or not, I'm thrilled a woman is having a good time on a beach.
Alia G. 5 years ago
Nothing much to say. Obese is unhealthy, malnourished is unhealthy. When models are promoting unhealthy lifestyles, we can say something. If we see someone in day to day life living an unhealthy lifestyle, it's invasive and inappropriate to say something. That's all that has to be said.
Nadine 5 years ago
People don't usually judge if a woman decides to end an unwanted pregnancy. Her body, her choice. So why isn't this the same? Her body, her choice what her weight will be. Be real, you don't really care about her health. That's just an excuse for you to judge her. Fat women need to shave to. Concentrate on your own body. I am sure it's perfect.
Mathias 5 years ago
Well, maybe because it is known that advertisements influence people. How do we know that so well? Because when women started to work in add agencies they started using male models and from that point on men developed complexes about their body not being as good looking as the shown models too. Adds influence people, hell that's what they are supposed to do, so it's required to have a bit of responsibility. Now the problem is not that they show an obese women, the problem is that they say it's ok and beautiful to be that way. But it is not, it's neither ok nor beautiful, not for the body, not for the mind. And this is a medical, biological and psychological proven fact. People who are obese get sick, die earlier. Obesity often is caused by depression, and then the depression stays because of the obesity. Don't put yourself down, accept and love yourself but try to change and if you feel you can't, seek help. That is what a responsible add should promote.
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Alusair Alustriel 5 years ago
God, not that topic again... STOP PRAISING OBESITY. It's not healthy! And sorry, but this is way past beyond plus-size.
miten sasmita 5 years ago
As an overweight person myself I strongly disagree with this ad. Stop promoting morbid obesity as beautiful! You wouldn't hire anorexic model, so why the hipocrisy, they're both dangerous. A lil bit chubby and curvy is fine, but this lady surely has BMI over 40 which will give her a dozen of diseases by the age of 50.
Courtney Christoff-Tzazaroff 5 years ago
This is not okay, this is just as dangerous, if not more than embarrassing anorexia.
Broken Bay 5 years ago
It's not like the super skinny models though, because so far nobody has looked at an obese model and developed reverse anorexia.
SirWriteALot 5 years ago
Doing the opposite of a bad thing does not mean it's a good thing. Don't want to show skinny models? Hey, let's use a hippo. Sorry, there still is a thing called Gauss' Normal Distribution and most of us fall somewhere in the "normal" range where we can be skinny or chunky. Skelettons as well as whales are outside of that range. So yes, Gilette, ya done f****d up.
Indigo Blue 5 years ago
It's hilarious how they're trying to market on "ordinary people". I have never seen such an obese person in real life. I've also never seen model-looking person just casually walking down the street. If they want to market on ordinary people, show ordinary bodies.
KT Trondsen 5 years ago
I'm a little shocked tbh as the model is very huge. I can't imagine the strain on her lower back and knees, it must be terrible. I don't think it was a wise move to celebrate a body at such an unhealthy weight.
Chris Sprucefield 5 years ago
Keep working on it Gillette! You are doing very well working on your new image, and soon, you won't have to worry about anything, when you are out of business....
Maggie 5 years ago
Why can't these companies uses the women who actually live healthy lifestyle and have a body with a healthy BMI index ?
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Because the main people buying their products are f*****g huge. Because most of you are f*****g huge.
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Ain Holder 5 years ago
She looks so happy, has a great smile and is a successful blogger. Way to go Gillette, thanks for show casing successful ppl of all sizes.
Panda Bae 5 years ago
So she may not fit society's standards of what a woman should look like. Well, f*** society's standards. She may look like that because of a health condition, not because she was overweight from food. As I learned at a very young age, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.' Leave her alone, this is how she is.
Megan Flanagan 5 years ago
If promoting being skinny and fat shaming really worked, America wouldn't have an obesity problem. Clearly that isn't the case
Chamel 5 years ago
I think that it is a bad thing to show super unrealistic unhealthy body types in adverts, and that includes BOTH the super skinny-almost anorexic models with fake boobs and plastic surgery AND the morbidly and unhealthily overweight bodies. What needs to be shown are the women and men with a little chub on their bodies, or the people who are petite, or people who are super tall and lanky-- basically, the AVERAGE, HEALTHY, NORMAL person. This ad does NOT do this and it's really unfortunate because body positivity does not mean the promotion of unhealthy body types.
OnlyMyOpinion 5 years ago
She has an addiction that is ruining her health. What next? Heroin addicts with needles hanging out of their arms 'celebrating' their collapsed veins?!
A Dog Person 5 years ago
Obesity is not beautiful as it is not healthy either. A beautiful body is a body that is healthy. And even if an obese person is healthy for now, the risk of various diseases always increases when one has obesity.
Mark Kelly 5 years ago
Sorry but that is not healthy.I don't care if she seems fine now she'll pay for it when older.
Hugo Raible 5 years ago
Gillette must be really desparate these days. First the infamous excruciating "The Best Men Can Be" video and now jumping on the diversity bandwagon.
Tiffany Marie 5 years ago
All I know is when I was heavy, I felt like it was harder to shave, more to shave, sucked to shave. Being healthy & thinner feels better... Plus way More Easy to move around. Think people should strive to better themselves inside & out.
Gillian Copsey 5 years ago
I am wondering if Gillette also use confident yet seriously obese male models too on their shaving ads for men?
Just saying 5 years ago (edited)
How does a lady this size manage to find, let alone shave, her bikini line? I have worked as a care assistant and have encountered the problems larger people experience in later life - sores, cracking and ulcers under the bust, around the legs, in all the folds because it is hard to wash and then, crucially, dry those areas and so bacteria thrive and grow there, inability to walk due to the many years of overloading on the joints, having to use mechanical hoists to get larger patients up in the morning, to the loo, to the bath, and that before you factor in the diabetes, cancer, heart, stroke problems.
Louise Burkholder 5 years ago
omg why don't everyone worry about their own effing health risks and leave her da f**k alone??? people of all sizes get frickin heart attacks. GET OVER IT.
Toni Tangents 5 years ago (edited)
The world is awash with images of skinny/bullemic ppl, without much back lash. I think this is mostly just fattism going on here. Even if they have a point about how it might be more beneficial to promote a healthier body, they've missed the point of the add. Some of these posters can't handle looking at a big , confident happy woman I'll bet!! Gillette's goal was to celebrate diversity, and make women feel good about themselves at the same time. I'd say they were succesful. So the people who think we should never show images of women her size, want those women to remain invisible, perhaps they think they should be depressed and hiding. Occasionally showing an image of a confident, happy large woman isn't the same as saying 'being overweight is good for you. You should aim to look like her.' Don't you think large women know full well all negative aspects? Big women deserve more media representation! It's not relevant that their weight is unhealthy, this is about empowering people, not saying that we should All be obese. After all, a morbidly obese women who feels great, will find it much easier to lose weight than someone who's depressed. If she doesn't want to lose weight, that's her business. Soon as Vogue is filled with women this size, that's when the argument will actually be valid!
Rachael Marrast 5 years ago
I guess I am not like most people. I know things that I need and I go get them. I dont see the people in the ads. I think, hey I need some cologne...I go smell different ones and buy what I like. No commercial in the world can sell me anything that I dont need or want. Good for this women to be confident. I cant say if shes unhealthy or not just by looking at her, and neither can you. She may not be able to run a marathon but her lungs might be better than mine, her heart might be better than mine. I say its a beautiful thing that no matter the controversy she faces everyday from a**hats she still has confidence to go out and be her and wear whatever she wants and do whatever she wants. Thats real living. Be you and F*** whoever doesnt like it.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Yeah same. Does the razor cut off hairs, or not? Nobody even looks at the weirdos on the packaging.
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The Girl on Fire 5 years ago
You would have thought Gilette learned their lesson about controversial ads by now. Maybe the internet controversy and discourse is what they're going for, but still.
gloria Summerlin 2 years ago
Every day of my life I wake up and feel completely blessed that I am not as bitter as all these people hating on someones body simply because they look different than you think they should. People who hate themselves so much they have to try to bring other people down. I guess they're right misery (miserable people) loves company. When you're leaving hateful comments about someone on the internet please keep in mind your joyless, hostile, negative, acidic attitude will kill you just as quick as obesity. But at least shes out there living her best life, happily. Not being an abhorrent net troll. 😘😘
Totally legit 2 years ago
People's reactions are also interesting considering that not all ways people have a unhealthy lifestyle can be seen by outsiders. Are we supposed to shame people on suspicion that they might be bingedrinkers, smokers, consuming to much sugar etc?
Totally legit 2 years ago
So people her size are not allowed to shave, they should lose weight first? 🤔
Donna Faye 5 years ago
I couldn't care less about the look of the spokesperson. If the razor works, who gives a s**t.
Frozengeckolover 5 years ago
You guys realize this is why the rest of the world thinks all Americans are fat, disgusting slobs, right?
Harish Bhardwaj 5 years ago
If positive body image was a norm, why would a few stubs of hair bother anybody? #JustThinking
Paula Cristofoli 5 years ago
Any doctor will tell you it is totally unhealthy to be that morbidly obese.as far as Gillette goes I think they swung the pendulum too far the other way.
Ashley Graham 5 years ago
I like how people insult her and other heavy people while pretending they do it because the care. "Oh no that disgusting, fat cows gonna die early. I only say that because obesity is unhealthy and she should care more about her health." Please do the entire world a favor and WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN SELF.
Susanna Vesna 5 years ago
Gillette's marketing team has been on a roll this past few months! Well done for making everyone talk about u and NOT for good reasons. This woman is NOT a "normal" human- she is obese, with health issues, just like the skinny models. Why do we have to shuffle from one extreme to another?!
Lachelle Burns 5 years ago
I'm 55 full and fit no health issues. Ppl die no matter the size. ENJOY LIFE WHATEVER THE SIZE!!!
Yael 5 years ago
"There are super healthy obese people" ... Err, no there are not. Visceral fat, which is stored deep within your abdomen and surround vital organs like your liver, pancreases and intestines can (and are) deadly. The science is in, and excess fat, like on the woman in the advertisement, significantly increase risks of heart disease, cholesterol levels and type II diabetes.
Me 5 years ago
There's a lot of double standards behind this ad. You can be beautiful and overweight (agreed) BUT don't dare have armpit hair or leg hair... As for her body, it's not my body so it doesn't effect me outside of the taxes that go towards other people like her's lifestyle choices. I too am fat, and it's because I've chosen to be lazy and not exercise. I'm working to fix that by deciding to get off my fat a*s and focus on my health rather than my ego. But on the same token, be proud of who you are. I don't know if she's actively trying to lose weight, but in between gym visits we shouldn't be shamed. There's only so much work you can do on any day to lose weight and it's all about time. Granted, we shouldn't have allowed our health to get that bad in the first place, but if we're actively working to get healthier, we shouldn't be shamed for it. But I don't think celebrating obesity is the greatest of ideas ever in a marketing campaign.
Krzysiek K 5 years ago
Hahaha. So you should accept your body as it is and be confident about it, but you should also shave your body? Lmao. If anyone trying to lose weight and get healthy changes their plans after this 'campaign' and dies by the age of 40 it's all on Gillette's hands. Obviously all a company cares about is money, so I wonder how they calculated it. Bigger bodies = more shaving area = more razors sold?
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
I'd be happier if they stopped charging more for 'female' razors when same thing. It's a razor, shaves hair, one job, male or female, and in this case, size really does not matter .
ThatRandomMofo 5 years ago
*Insert c***s who will go on a rant about how people don't choose to be obese* The world will not change for you. Life's harsh. GET USED TO IT.
Twenty øne doggos 5 years ago
alright, I'm really sorry, but what was that bread thing that she was eating in that one pic? I've never seen anything like that and it looks AMAZING.
Barbara Baldwin 5 years ago
Now... If catalogs would just use that model when selling plus+ sizes in clothing ads..
Stephanie Bladyak 5 years ago
I don't think this ad is celebrating obesity as some have said. It's an ad for a tax not a diet. I think the point of the ad is no matter what you look like it what problems you may have you are still a valued member of society and hence important enough to be represented as a part of demographic in marketing...so what's wrong with that. The ad isn't saying you should gain weight or be unhealthy, of course you should strive to be healthy but not everyone is there yet.
Jim Gould 5 years ago
I don't understand the opinions either way because it isn't always a choice for people to be big or small. I am 5 foot six and weigh 220 lbs and I eat the diabetic diet and still am big for my size. My family was always large in size, not by choice but genetics. So I wish people would not judge unless you know the person and know that they live an unheathly life stye.
Martin Roy 5 years ago
In Brazil, any woman of any age and any size can and does wear a bikini at the beach. It is not for me to condemn, critique, or complain. It is not my body, or my business. Is she my taste? No. That doesn't mean she needs to care either. She presents herself to the world, not for your approval, but for your consideration of her thoughts. If you can't think, that is more your shame than hers.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 5 years ago
Recommended reading - The F*ck It Diet by Caroline Dooner. I am sick and tired of people deciding they know what is best for me. I don't give a s**t what is best for them. The least they could do is return the complement and shut the f*ck up.
Niles 5 years ago
your attitude is nasty hun. regardless of whether you agree or disagree with this ad, attacking people based on their physical characteristics is rude. did no one teach you that?
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Leslie Cully 5 years ago
I like the ad. "Get out there and slay the day!" YES! Don't hide mournfully in your house because you're overweight, get the hell out of the house and have fun! Laugh! Dance! Go to the beach! I believe many people think fat people should hide in shame. Sorry -- they exist. I'd much rather see a laughing fat person on the beach having fun than a serious thin person. Life is short -- go live it!
Emmaleigh Brooks 5 years ago
It's ridiculous that people are saying they're "promoting" obesity. First of all, food is often an addiction, and since it can't be eliminated entirely it can be very hard to deal with. Secondly, it's not encouraging obesity! The point, at least how I see it, is that no matter your size (or your state of health for that matter) you deserve to feel happy and beautiful. Y'all need to stop tearing people down and start lifting people up! Yes, that is clearly not a healthy weight! But do you know her? Do you know how much is genetic and how much is choice? Do you know if she's suffered depression or other struggles that caused her to depend on food? Do you know how she got there? If not, shut your face. We all know that that isn't healthy. So you can stop shaming a happy and beautiful woman for wanting to do just that, feel beautiful.
Mad Mar 5 years ago
And all the people stating that her body is unhealthy I'm sure there is something also wrong with yours too. Maybe your nose is crooked. Or your toes are twisted. Or your back has pimples. At least she is showing people she has the thick skin to be in a two piece. If her eating choices bother you or your offended by her size just bite your tongue. Say nothing if you can't say something nice or someone will say something discouraging about you. Like you are an angry troll.
Melissa D 5 years ago
Good on the company. Yeah she is obese and I know it isn't a good thing on her body but she still is beautiful. There are many reasons why people get to that size. Not just being lazy and eating too much. She could be eating healthy and active but due to a syndrome or whatever causes her to gain weight no matter what. It happens. You can't say she is disgusting because of it. You don't know her whole story. Same with those girls that extremely thin or Victoria secret models. To me they aren't that healthy looking, but that is the modelling industry's ideal that girls have to be too skinny and big breasted. I rather see a girl who is between 140-210 pounds shown as a model for kids etc.
Dawn White Schneider 5 years ago
This might not be a healthy body but this is the American reality. There are more overweight people in this country than there are thin or fit people. The average clothing size is a 14 or above, that is considered a plus size. I should know, I am one of them. This ad to me is really showing the WHY we are a country of morbidly obese people. Please let's not celebrate how to destroy our bodies by the encouragement of being "comfortable" in our own skin. It's SO unhealthy and to be honest, I'm 55 years old and have been struggling to lose the weight that has found itself on me. I do not wish to "celebrate" my body in this condition; I want to be healthy and fit, and for me that might mean a size 14; who knows. It's unfortunate that we have our ideals mixed up. BTW, why do people have to be so rude and hurtful in their comments? God forbid you find yourself as the recipient of the mean and hurtful comments one day.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Yeah but don’t you shave your legs? All fat people know they are unhealthy. Even if they don’t admit it out loud. Hiding fat people won’t make them realize they need to lose weight. Do fat people buy razors, yes or no? Now apply some common sense to what a Ra Zor Comp An Y would do to sell their product. HMMMMM.
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Vilkas 5 years ago (edited)
People saying they are against this because they're afraid for her health LOL. Yeah, sure. You just don't like to look at that. No one wants to see that, not even other fat people. "I eat 10k calories a day and never exercise...basically just don't care. NOW F*****G LOVE ME FOR WHO I AM!" Yeeeeeeah..no.
C 5 years ago
"People saying they are against this because they're afraid for her health LOL. Yeah, sure. You just don't like to look at that." There I totally agree. But "now f*****g love me for who I am" - why not? Why not love people for who they are? So loving people is all about looks? I would love my husband even if he was a 3 metres big porcupine.
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Jennylou Hughes 5 years ago
I agree with the comments that positive self love is fantastic, but you can't shame woman that are too skinny yet praise those that are unhealthy and overweight. It's such a double standard. We need to promote healthy living not a super heavy or super thin person. Both are unrealistic.
John Carr 5 years ago
What about Gillette for men? All their ads are highly toned professional sportsmen. No sign of a beer belly or scars there. Yet we are supposed to buy their products to look like them. Mind you, if they used me as a model, they'd be bankrupt in a year. BTW - Anna is beautiful and extremely hot!
Shonni Kapono 5 years ago
Here is my opinion.. This is an ad about a razor. She uses razors so it is appropriate for her to be in this ad. We tell our kids not to judge, make fun of or bully people of size, race, gender or mental compacity. We try to tell our kids everyone should be treated equally. We tell are kids to be kind. Maybe we need to remind people we are an example to children. We don't know her story or if she has illnesses or if this is what makes her happy. Beauty is in the inside. Some say it's not a healthy body... hmmm if your unhealthy are you not allowed to use a razor? I may weigh half her weight or even less but I bet she is healthier than me. Kindness is what is lacking in this world.
Gerry Higgins 5 years ago (edited)
I'm sure she's a nice person, but trying to normalize bad health is a bad idea. Call it beautiful all you want. Fat kills you just like a cigarette does.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Cigarette smokers are put in ads though. Not while they are smoking, but nothing bars a smoker from being in a commercial. I was a smoker for 10 years and it never affected me professionally. That fat woman is terrible looking, but let’s not pretend we give a s**t about her health. Nobody gives a health exam before hiring a promotional model.
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Cheryl Wilcox 5 years ago
I've been slim my entire life, without really trying - it's just my body. I eat junk food, candy, I don't exercise as much as I should - and yet no one would say these things about my body, just because my weight is fairly low. I've been reading recently about this topic, and I'd recommend these two pieces, because they give a really good perspective: https://medium.com/60-months-to-ironman/i-am-one-fat-and-angry-woman-952996ac9740 and https://medium.com/s/for-the-record/i-do-not-know-how-to-trust-thin-people-fbe78e633a50
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Makes sense to me. Fat women gotta shave too and Gillette is trying to sell razors. You’re an idiot if you think they shouldn’t pander to their consumer, and judging by how big the majority of people are, Gillette is targeting the right group. Also this would be WORSE if they showed a cute chubby woman instead of a stereotypically ugly morbidly obese woman. It’s more realistic. Fat women are not just big in the breasts and booty like the other plus-sized campaigns suggest. No. Most fat women have huge bellies and unsmooth lumps like this girl. At least Gillette isn’t faking and photoshopping. You don’t like how she looks? Then don’t be part of the statistics that reveal how fat we are as a society, and move on.
Lizard Queen 5 years ago
The ad isn't about health issues. It's about selling a product to an under served market. It's promoting confidence, not health. So much hatred here on BP., so much judgement from flawed folks.
DC 5 years ago
+ ... real positivity will NEVER focus on weight anyway, or colour of any part of anyone's body and all that stuff - it's not about the obvious things if you like or respect a person - or not. Doesn't affect that, that's superficial. But, tbh, it makes me a bit sick that every time you mention that, you have to excuse in advance, just because you know that being fat is something that can make you seriously ill, or even kill you. Like, "I'm sorry I worry about your life for an obvious reason, I'm sorry you have been taught to be hurt by a comment about that but nonethelesse expose yourself to", all this pointless stuff ... to avoid being seen as a monster. This isn't about pointing a finger, it's about the f'ed up concept of so called positivity. It's pointless. The entire positivity thing, instead of pointing out that beauty isn't defined by weight, screams into anyones ears "EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL, ACCEPT IT, A*****E!!!!" - no. I won't. Superficiality is negative, in any way!
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Personally..I applaud this model for having the courage to ignore all the body shaming and sport that bikini. She may be morbidly obese...so am I. And we don't need people to pity us, be concerned for us, to constantly be bringing up how unhealthy our weight is (we are fully aware of it thanks to our doctors.) We need people to stop staring, stop trying to educate us, and to mind their own damn business. We aren't unhappy and we don't need to be fixed. So stop worrying about us and worry about yourself. What I do with my body and my life has nothing to do with you. Just like I'm not going to assume some extremely underweight girl needs to be pinned down and force fed a cheeseburger. I have no idea why she is that way and, frankly, it's none of my business.
DC 5 years ago
Wait... SHE is bringing this up. The concept of so-called body positivity is bringing it up. I'm sorry not everyone just applauds how brave it is to ignore this being a problem. You're right about educating people - strangers shouldn't do. But ... it now is like the ones that love you are not allowed to be worried. Would this apply if you were anorexic? Or an alcoholic? Not everything that isn't applause is meant to hurt anyone. It's just irrational to state that being fat is making you beautiful and seeing honestly worried people - not strangers - as "body shaming" when they state that a weight that could kill you just might do so. Body positivity is an attempt to receive massive backfire from reality, not comments! Someone honestly and reasonably fearing to lose you due to overweight isn't fat shaming, it's the fear of losing you! Promoting that being fat is beautiful, nothing is to change is like ads for smoking, just more manipulating by worry-shaming.
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elfin 5 years ago
I think that very few of the complainants live a perfectly healthy life themselves (since practically no one does). How many smoke? Drink too much? Eat too many things that are bad for them and not enough that are good? Drive while on the phone? Being overweight is certainly one health problem, but fat shaming just makes things worse. Being attacked seldom persuades people into better behavior.
Reilly Beryll 5 years ago
I’m 250 pounds, more square than round, but still far heavier than what I’m supposed to be in accordance to my age and height. And it’s not a healthy weight. Being super overweight is worse, and so are tactics used to become incredibly skinny. One can argue they’re promoting a lifestyle, which they’re not. They’re not saying “become very heavy” or “become super light”. They’re selling razors. It’s representation to appeal to those with more weight so that more can be sold. There’s a lot factoring in. I’m glad and hopeful that deep down, this woman is confident and not depressed. She can do whatever she wants. People can do whatever they want. They can often (not always the case) change their weight. All in all: let this woman live her life, as she will be affected in her own way, just as thin people are. And remember that this is not promoting anything, but simply appealing to a portion of people. A movie containing a cat is not promoting cats, but does appeal to cat lovers.
Richard Murray 5 years ago
Good luck to Gillette, I am sure they will need it. As someone fat, who is working to lose the weight because health problems have begun, I think this is a damned stupid campaign. Yes, criticize underweight models, but don't then turn around and say that this fat woman is healthy. It isn't. Best way to show them this is to stop buying their razors.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago (edited)
Where did they say she was healthy? You’re fat and complaining about having to see a fat person lol Only a man would be that dumb.
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Steve Mcnally 5 years ago
Doesn’t matter what they do someone will be offended, often not for themselves but on behalf of others who haven’t even complained. Some people just live for being offended! The joy of t’interweb!
Mad Mar 5 years ago
It's a great idea add for some people of larger sizes to not feel bad about their bodies. The trolls that say they will die before 50 or are morbidly obese are not knowing that persons medical history. It could be genetic. Or due to medications. No person is perfect. And to look down on someone for trying to be a role model is a complete act of bullying. I'm not skinny. On average I'm what most women are size wise. But I'd look large in an advertisement because people are used to seeing models that are skin draped skeletons.
Hannah Bond 5 years ago
Its a ad for razors, notmatter what your size you can be unhealthy, you could smoke or drink or do drugs. Its so horrible to fat shame people for work jobs like everyone else. What gives you the right to judge so rude and harsh. Health is not a luxury only the skinny are rewarded with. My great grandma was big all her life very obese and she passed away at 96 years old. Appreciate the beauty of someone who is embracing themselves and trying to make the world a better place plus size people, weight can is caused by all kinds of different struggles and its not an easy fix. Love yourself and be kind to people, its NOT healthy to be a mean judgemental fat shaming troll
Nadine 5 years ago
I have a gorgeous, young, thin niece, who has severe heart disease. According to most of you, she wouldn't be a candidate for this ad because she's not healthy. You all also have the option to buy or not buy their products. I will be buying.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
You’re like the only other person I’ve seen here with the logic to grasp that simple concept. I’m a healthy weight and I exercise all the time but I have an ovarian disease that’s incurable. According to these people I might as well never show my face in public again lol.
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Ed Souza 5 years ago
Of course, flip the tables and put an overweight guy about the same size as this landwhale and "body positivity" suddenly does not apply to these hypocrites.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Nobody, including you, would even notice a fat man, that’s how much it doesn’t offend you when this makes you hyperventilate.
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Malakai 5 years ago
Every person who comments how she is unhealthy is missing the entire point of posts like these. It's not about health. It's not about fat over skinny. It's not endorsing a lifestyle. It's about how you've only got one life, one body, and you deserve to be represented and feel like you can love your body in all its shapes, sizes, and appearances. Some people like myself struggle to lose weight, we hate purselves and how we look, and that self-loathing makes it so, so, SO much harder to lose weight. Having positive images of overweight people who are HAPPY with who they are is a godsend to us, because they help us to learn to appreciate our bodies in every form. For a lot of people, like me, that can make or break the journey to taking better care of ourselves. A lot of people are trying, but none of them should feel like they have to hate themselves for being ANY weight or size--if you can't love your body now, it will be very difficult to learn to love it later.
kat lia 5 years ago
I think the message that they are trying to convey is not to let your flaws hinder what do you want to do. Like going to the beach having fun, wearing your favorite swim suit confidently. I am overweight and i have folds of fats in my tummy and these are the reason why i cannot wear my favorite bathing suit. So thank you for making this. Again, It is NOT that they are encouraging everyone to be obese. Do not let your size stop you from doing the things you wants.
Mike Cascio 5 years ago
Obesity leads to Low self esteem and depression eh? Lol go take a gander of London Andrews who's 315LBS and 6ft tall then get back to me.
Mike Cascio 5 years ago
Lol. Being obese leads to low self-esteem and depression eh? Take a gander at London Andrews who's 315LBS and 6ft tall then get back to me......
Lora Holt 5 years ago
Love how everybody plays the "health" card when the truth is they're repulsed by what they see. Rather than own it for what it is - they bought into the notion that "thin is in" and are either too stupid to know that their opinion of what is beautiful was shaped by companies trying to sell a product, or too cowardly to challenge it - they pretend they're concerned about the health of someone other than themselves. What a monumental pile of bull$hit. "Sizeism" is not about health at all. I'd have much more respect for someone who walked up to me and said "you're fat and I think that's ugly" than one who says "but I'm worried about your health". You know nothing about my health because my overall health is about much more than my BMI.
Kim Zaczynski 5 years ago
Good for her and good for Gillette! It’s a razor commercial, not about obesity!
Tessa Miller 5 years ago
THIS MAY NOT BE A HEALTHY BODY, BUT SHE IS A PERSON. LOOK AT HER. She is living the happiest and healthiest life and this is the first time that someone with her body type can even DREAM of being a model for a national f*****g ad campaign. And why are we talking so much about her body when it literally states the awards she's won and the fact that she is both helping others achieve their dreams and making her own come true. F**k y'all she's great.
Lisa Mooskin-Bergman 5 years ago
We have become so used to TV commercials and magazines that only show the perfect or close to it that we are upset when commercials actually reflect real life. There are large people everywhere. Its about normalizing what our Society actually is. Think of the chubby/fat teens who only see the thin gorgeous models on TV and develop eating disorders. These kids are often unhappy w/ themselves as they see themselves as NOT normal and never good enough. I applaud Gillette for showing reality and trying to change the perceptions in our very ignorant Country!!!
Bobby's Girl 5 years ago
Gillette should stick to making overpriced "women's" razors and stay out of social engineering. This ad does not make we want to buy their razor: the photos are pure shock value, the sales pitch is patronizing BS, and I can think of far better venues for consciousness raising. So, that's a no from me.
Gabriel Sbárbaro 5 years ago
As an obese person, this is wrong... very wrong... people with morbid obesity shouldn't be "bullied" but by no means they should be celebrated nor taken as "normal"... that's NOT normal and is NOT healthy. Stop normalizing unhealthy life styles...
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Another whale of a man crying because he saw a fat woman.
Load More Replies... Alex McGrath 5 years ago
Gillette has chosen to go extreme. Well their products suck anyway, they must be desperate
Kenny Kulbiski 5 years ago
Diversity, fat, skinny, toxic masculinity, yada, yada. What does any of that have to do with shaving? Maybe it's just to divert our attention from their rip off prices. I'll save my deep philosophical discussions for a bar, not a razor blade company.
W. 5 5 years ago
I think nobody should be shamed ever. I guess the problem with very underweight models is not "being a natural skinny person is bad" but promoting being skinny to young girls/boys who might develop eating disorders while nobody would think to want to become overweight/obese because of a obese model? I am really a bit out of my comfort zone because I don't think it is my business what soze someone is...and I think it's a good thing to show various people without "promoting" anything. (What was my point again?🙈)
Kerolos Saleib 5 years ago
People are stupid... This is powerful and love every bit of it. As women you should know some other women can't lose the weight and this is just the way it is. Confidence is sexy. You're trolling comments make. You look petty. Bored panda can we end this with the empowering message not the trauma...ply a role in maing the world a better place not à click bait with a disappointing angry ending. What's your solution other than reposting this and making trolls famous?!?
Russian Otaku 5 years ago
This is f*****g disgusting and abhorrent and sexist as f**k. Always insecure fat bitches wanting people to think they are pretty instead of eating even remotely healthy or moving. Yet the same ugly balloons don't appreciate obese men unless they are millionaires. Post might as well br promoting smoking or drinking or even certain drug use since it is for fact more healthy then tossing away your humanity to become a blob monster wasting Healthcare resources that could go to people extremely more deserving then them
Patrick Ashton 5 years ago
Why do I get the feeling that many of those supporting this woman for being proud of her body are the same ones who trash anorexic looking models? After all -- both these types have medical issues including eating disorders. It is as wrong to trash a woman who is proud of her skin and bones body as it is to trash a woman for being morbidly obese. But I'm willing to bet some who think it is fine to slowly kill yourself by overeating and failing to exercise are the same people who deplore women who think it is fine to practically starve themselves to be proud of a thin body.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Thinking that it’s okay to let ugly or fat people promote products doesn’t mean you think it’s okay to overeat. That’s non sequitur. Most people are fat and ugly. You look terrible yourself and you’re old as dust. But you don’t cry when ugly old people are in ads. I’m 135 pounds and I see nothing wrong with that fat ugly woman being in the ad. She represents the majority of you.
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Live Era Nemow 5 years ago
Lol. Scaring the fat people away? Oh poor little snowflakes. Maybe if they don't want to be judged, they could probably try do something about it. Maybe they could try losing weight?
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Jost Munika 5 years ago
You'd think that someone with an IQ as high as yours would have at least 1 upvote. (Sarcasm, in case you couldn't tell)
Load More Replies... diane a 5 years ago
This is NOT a healthy body. A young person might just about manage to function at this weight for a time, but it will soon catch up with them. Why do you think you never see a morbidly obese person of either sex who is over 60? Or one over 50 and independantly mobile with no serious health issues.
Effseven Six 5 years ago
Sorry, but my 135 lbs body isnt a healthy body either. Yeah, I "look" like a healthy body, but looks dont define what a healthy body is. I used to work with a guy , damn near my hight, 5 foot 6, and obese for his body type. But damn, he could hike hills and out do me constantly in any outdoor activities we'd do. My mother is my size has high cholesterol and hypertension. Her sister, who's definitely obese has none of those issues. There are other reasons why someone might be over weight, and it doesnt always have to do with stuffing their faces with food.
Load More Replies... Chrissa Paradis 5 years ago
I dont care who they hire in ads for razors but they need to stop showing women shaving already shaved legs....
Toni Tangents 5 years ago
Apparently, any body hair belonging to a woman, (unless it is the head hair, eye brows or eye lashes) is extremely extremely offensive, so they can't show that, or teenagers the world over will have nightmares and the razor company will have to pay a massive fine, large enough to bankrupt them. It is a similar situation with the blue liquid used in sanitary product ads.
Load More Replies... Panda Baller 5 years ago
I really hate these types of marketing. I am the worst when it comes to hearing peoples excuses for being unhealthy. You have someone on one end of the spectrum suffering from anorexia but then you have someone that is going to die from obesity because they are not eating well. Its like people get triggered when someone says they cant workout because of a health condition or a injury from the past. I agree that we shouldn't normalize it but that's what its looking like. This whole love your body movement is so critical of anything. Way to extreme. Its the most annoying thing when you hear in the news a clothing company is being bashed because they don't make clothes size XXXL Neanderthals would never have gotten that big! They would have died or eaten by something cause they wouldn't have been able to run away! I feel terrible saying it but I came from a family of Diabetes and my mom and dad a few brothers are struggling with weight. They are making the choice the eat poorly and not be
Emmaleigh Brooks 5 years ago
Yes but making the choice not to eat healthy doesn't mean you don't deserve to feel happy and beautiful if you so wish.
Load More Replies... Stille20 5 years ago
Just from a marketing stand point this doesn't make me want to buy the razor. I'm a bit chunky but I aspire to be in better shape. I also aspire to smooth legs, but this ad doesn't make me think "smooth legs".
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
I guarantee you’ll buy that razor if you buy this kind of razor. Because nobody in their right mind buys a razor based on ads. They just pick it at the store, based on what looks like it will do what they want. At some point you try them all until you realize shick intuition razors or electrolysis are the only reasonable options.
Load More Replies... Tyler Duffy 5 years ago
Just gross. Seriously gross. Ive been buying from Dollar Shave Club after the stupid "Toxic Masculinity" b******t. I'm happy I made that change after seeing that......I'll be pouring bleach in my eyeballs shortly.
Stephanie Bladyak 5 years ago
If you find it gross that's your prerogative but what is it you gain from calling someone gross other than hurting the feelings of someone you don't know.
Load More Replies... Arietis 5 years ago
There's an important difference between this ad and the fashion industry using underweight models. People like to point out that both are unhealthy and therefore you shouldn't "promote" being obese by using overweight models in ads like these. But it's not the same. It's true that both are unhealthy, but the fashion industry promotes being underweight by making this body type a prerequisite for entering that field of work. Their models need to be extremely thin to get work, therefore they encourage them to diet and starve themselves. This ad shows an obese woman – but you don't have to be obsese to get the job. It's about allowing different body types and creating awareness. If simply showing someone who leads an unhealthy lifestyle is promoting unhealthy behaviour, we should ban people who smoke from appearing in the media, people who do sport on a professional level because they damage their body over time, people who aren't toned because not enough exercise is unhealthy.
Julie Peterson 5 years ago
Yeah, for all those saying "people with fat bodies are all unhealthy and will die soon"--people with skinny bodies can be extremely unhealthy also. Size alone is not an indicator of health. I have relatives from Europe who would be considered fat here but they climb mountains and hike and could outrun any thin person I know. Assuming someone is healthy merely because they're thin is ridiculous. And I saw plenty of fat people in my mom's retirement home so an early death for all overweight people is not a guarantee. No overweight person who takes a picture of themselves is "promoting" anything. They're merely existing, but I guess some people just enjoy being judgmental of anyone they perceive as inferior to themselves in some way. We're lucky that we don't have cameras that can take photos of our personalities, so we can all point out the ways that we suck to each other.
DC 5 years ago
Oh my... If I say she's fat ... I'm a real real bad person, right? The disguise of "body positivity" is just a lame excuse in the majority of cases. Being fat is neither nice nor healthy, it's a severely life threatening condition! No better than the anorexic Victoria's secret girls, just the other way. While the wight of someone is one of the rare things where being normal isn't just another word fpr being stupid and ignorant, it's the only thing where normality never takes place in any ads - either it's unhealthy fat, or unhealthy thin. Whoever understands what is positive about this... Also - any skinny model is blamed for giving a bad example or driving girls to an unhealthy lifestyle - it's just the same with fat people. "You're beautiful, eat another horse and die with 30, but complain whenever someone worries about you!" ... seriously? Nothing's positive here!
DC 5 years ago
Can't answer to Suzi directly... I don't have a weight issue, at least not a serious one. This is NOT about hiding or something, it's about the entire attempt here - it's based on the idea that people in ads usually are role-models (unless it's an ad against something, usually these use anti-role-models) AND that so called body positivity is totally f****d up. Stating that "everyone is beautiful" is not true and not even questioning the massively oversized relevance people in general see in being beautiful to whatever standards. First, for some things being beautiful may be important, but wouldn't mean anything if anyone was. The only thing ALL humans REALLY have in common is being humans... Second, atating that massive overweight wouldn't affect a visual concept of beautifullity (... yeah, that...) is just a lie - it becomes gross at some point, and sometimes it even IS right to be seen as gross by the one him/herself, when it's a seriously threatening condition. Like it is here.
Load More Replies... Christina Sersif 5 years ago
I'm overweight and I can admit that out loud, even obese to the doctor. I'm thankfully no ways as big as this woman, but I am big enough to consciously know I'm unhealthy and know I should work to change that. I rarely take pictures of myself right now. I don't want to have this confident "look at me" attitude because the way I look right now is not healthy and is not a body someone should attempt to model after. The fact this woman is so overweight and thinks it's okay is equally as damaging as a super skinny model who promotes eating disorders. I understand what Gillette was trying to do here, but there are plenty of "normal bodied women" or plus sized models they could have chosen that don't look like they could have a heart attack any minute now.
Laura Zaini 5 years ago
same for me, I am obese but surely not proud of it. It's a problem, it's an addiction for me I cannot overcome and I just feel bad and ashamed
Load More Replies... Kathleen 5 years ago
I'm not sure why marketers cant just focus on having healthy people as representatives. Healthy can be different for different body frames, and doesnt need to necessarily only be about what's considered model perfect. Everyone has an ideal weight for their body, what they feel good at, even if it doesnt fall into specific sizes. Either end of the extreme, too thin or too obese, is bad for you. In the US at least there is a huge problem with eating disorders and unhealthy body image. Some of it comes from the marketing girls see when they are young.
Kim Zaczynski 5 years ago
Why should they? It’s about the razor, not the person.
Load More Replies... Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago
When you want to be so PC that you're promoting an unhealthy lifestyle. I think this is just as exploiting women as their old ads were. Advertising is starting to touch frontiers where noone should ever go.
Paul Mitchell 5 years ago
Yup, even discussing it here is giving the company the oxygen of publicity
Load More Replies... Bored Moogle 5 years ago
Diabetes cases are rising in this country because people are trying to normalize obesity. This is just as unhealthy as encouraging anti-vaxxers.
Minnie-me 5 years ago
I'm so divided about this. I'm a 6'0" woman weighing at 180 pounds and I wear a size 12-14. I can't stand seeing super thin models, these plastic surgery hourglass figures (Kardashians), and obese people being celebrated. Embrace your natural body but don't overdo it because you want to make a statement. Why can't we celebrate the natural healthy people with realistic body types?
Patrick Millet 5 years ago
Obesity is a real, scientifically measurable public health issue, but overweight people shouldn't have to wait until they are thinner to see themselves represented and catered to. On top of that, there are reasons other than a bad diet or lack of exercise that might cause people to be overweight, so for some people this is just their body type. And the difference between this ad and the fashion ads with super skinny models is that our society has long idealized thinness, so these ads just reinforce the societal pressures. Let's be real, no amount of Gilette ads will cause society to idolize fatness.
Davorka Banović 5 years ago
I think t was a good idea and that she deserves to be represented for who she is, if that's the weight she is that's it if she realizes or has any health scares it's still her decision if she'll take care of herself in that regard. you're not seeing people asking Bob Marley be banned because he declined modern medicine and that really isn't a good role model. I personally would ban all adds except maybe simple text because they're manipulative and damaging to the psyche. The fact everyone is taking for granted commercials tell you what to be like and not seeing how sick that is in itself is crazy. leave this woman alone and realize how twisted and unemphatic you've become.
Davorka Banović 5 years ago (edited)
oh and p.s. as a commercial for a razor - the more curvaceous and complicated anatomy of a big human attests for a better product in itself.
Load More Replies... Toni Tangents 5 years ago (edited)
And just to educate some of the readers here, there are medications that will make you double in size or more. you can forget diet or exercise, on the meds I'm talking about, it's futile. And you might be on those tablets for a few years or your whole life. (Your life or sanity depends on them.) Hopefully, people in this position will eventually find a way of reducing their weight. But in the mean time, These people should abso- friggin-lutely be happy and love their body. If you think, that hating your fat self, is a good and healthy motivator for losing weight, you are very wrong.
Emmaleigh Brooks 5 years ago
Exactly! I was a STICK before I started on anti-depressants! After I started taking them I gained 80lbs! Which was in fact almost double my weight at the time! Yes, due to depression I wasn't eating the best, but my one day of eating chocolate instead of broccoli would not have caused such a gain if it weren't for the meds
Load More Replies... Catlady6000 5 years ago
I would dearly love to see a truly normal, healthy weight promoted. Not 85lb anorexic nor 250lb obese. How about someone who just simply healthy? Are they really so rare that the industry can't find them? All seem to see is extremes
SirPatTheCat 5 years ago
Personally, I think a lot of people are at fault here. While I agree that being overweight or obese is not something to promote, most of the comments stating that insulted her in some way. People were saying things like she was going to die soon anyways, and the “size of Venus”, which is NOT ok. If you have to bring someone down whilst stating an opinion, you might want to rethink some things. That said, I also don’t agree that so many people should be saying she’s normal and fine, because, and I do not mean this in a mean or nasty way at all, she’s not. Just as we don’t want the next generation thinking that being sickly skinny is good, we don’t want them to be overweight either. Because let’s face it, those two extremes are equally unhealthy. Support and love overweight people, but please, for the sakes of the children and young people of this world, do. Not. Normalize. It.
Mortimer Snerd 5 years ago
Telling a morbidly obese woman she is healthy and beautiful and not to worry... is logically the exact same thing as telling an alcoholic to keep drinking because they are charming and funny when they do so. Statistics don't lie - overall, it's extremely unhealthy. (Please don't point out your "exceptions" - overall, for most people, it is not safe or healthy.)
Lorelei Geyer Lamb 5 years ago
I’m all for body positivity (for all genders), but ‘super healthy obese people’ is an oxymoron. Some people can be fat and work out and be fit (which is healthier than being thin and unfit), but generally overweight=unhealthy. Underweight also is unhealthy. The problem with the body positivity movement is fat praising. Yes, you can be fat and still beautiful, but unhealthily overweight people should always be encouraged to lose weight (note encouraged not shamed). But all the ‘I’m fat because of my genetics’ is b******t.
Ani-87 5 years ago (edited)
Why is there no ”medium size” people in ads? I’m really fed up for plus size models that are not plus size. It’s always either sticks or this. That what is wrong with the World. To one extreme to another. It’s like too little too late if you get what I mean... Her size is not the issue, that is her own thing. It’s the advertising industry.
THEPS 5 years ago
No no no no no . This woman is going to get diabetes if she doesn't already have it. No. I don't even want to think about the strain this woman is putting her heart under. This is promoting an unhealthy lifestyle. Its saying its okay to be unhealthy. Its like promoting cigarettes when we all know how harmful those are. No. Show someone at their ideal weight. Show a healthy person. Not an anorexic model and not a morbidly obese model either.
Bluebell Rizzi 5 years ago
I'm sorry, but no. That's too far. Why does everything have to be black or white!? Surely there's a grey area here somewhere!
Yana Makarevitch 5 years ago
I'm all for models who don't look like they are starving. But calling this lady "overweight" is an understatement of the century. She is not just "overweight", she is morbidly obese, and it's not okay by any stretch of the imagination.
Donna Faye 5 years ago
I don't find anything wrong with the idea. It's a razor ad commercial. I couldn't care less what the person looks like. Way better things to be concerned with.
Mary Haynes 5 years ago
Good for Gillette, and good for her. She may or may not be healthy....BUT she looks HAPPY.
Felicia Dale 5 years ago
Healthy or not, "right" size or not, I'm thrilled a woman is having a good time on a beach.
Alia G. 5 years ago
Nothing much to say. Obese is unhealthy, malnourished is unhealthy. When models are promoting unhealthy lifestyles, we can say something. If we see someone in day to day life living an unhealthy lifestyle, it's invasive and inappropriate to say something. That's all that has to be said.
Nadine 5 years ago
People don't usually judge if a woman decides to end an unwanted pregnancy. Her body, her choice. So why isn't this the same? Her body, her choice what her weight will be. Be real, you don't really care about her health. That's just an excuse for you to judge her. Fat women need to shave to. Concentrate on your own body. I am sure it's perfect.
Mathias 5 years ago
Well, maybe because it is known that advertisements influence people. How do we know that so well? Because when women started to work in add agencies they started using male models and from that point on men developed complexes about their body not being as good looking as the shown models too. Adds influence people, hell that's what they are supposed to do, so it's required to have a bit of responsibility. Now the problem is not that they show an obese women, the problem is that they say it's ok and beautiful to be that way. But it is not, it's neither ok nor beautiful, not for the body, not for the mind. And this is a medical, biological and psychological proven fact. People who are obese get sick, die earlier. Obesity often is caused by depression, and then the depression stays because of the obesity. Don't put yourself down, accept and love yourself but try to change and if you feel you can't, seek help. That is what a responsible add should promote.
Load More Replies... Alusair Alustriel 5 years ago
God, not that topic again... STOP PRAISING OBESITY. It's not healthy! And sorry, but this is way past beyond plus-size.
miten sasmita 5 years ago
As an overweight person myself I strongly disagree with this ad. Stop promoting morbid obesity as beautiful! You wouldn't hire anorexic model, so why the hipocrisy, they're both dangerous. A lil bit chubby and curvy is fine, but this lady surely has BMI over 40 which will give her a dozen of diseases by the age of 50.
Courtney Christoff-Tzazaroff 5 years ago
This is not okay, this is just as dangerous, if not more than embarrassing anorexia.
Broken Bay 5 years ago
It's not like the super skinny models though, because so far nobody has looked at an obese model and developed reverse anorexia.
SirWriteALot 5 years ago
Doing the opposite of a bad thing does not mean it's a good thing. Don't want to show skinny models? Hey, let's use a hippo. Sorry, there still is a thing called Gauss' Normal Distribution and most of us fall somewhere in the "normal" range where we can be skinny or chunky. Skelettons as well as whales are outside of that range. So yes, Gilette, ya done f****d up.
Indigo Blue 5 years ago
It's hilarious how they're trying to market on "ordinary people". I have never seen such an obese person in real life. I've also never seen model-looking person just casually walking down the street. If they want to market on ordinary people, show ordinary bodies.
KT Trondsen 5 years ago
I'm a little shocked tbh as the model is very huge. I can't imagine the strain on her lower back and knees, it must be terrible. I don't think it was a wise move to celebrate a body at such an unhealthy weight.
Chris Sprucefield 5 years ago
Keep working on it Gillette! You are doing very well working on your new image, and soon, you won't have to worry about anything, when you are out of business....
Maggie 5 years ago
Why can't these companies uses the women who actually live healthy lifestyle and have a body with a healthy BMI index ?
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Because the main people buying their products are f*****g huge. Because most of you are f*****g huge.
Load More Replies... Ain Holder 5 years ago
She looks so happy, has a great smile and is a successful blogger. Way to go Gillette, thanks for show casing successful ppl of all sizes.
Panda Bae 5 years ago
So she may not fit society's standards of what a woman should look like. Well, f*** society's standards. She may look like that because of a health condition, not because she was overweight from food. As I learned at a very young age, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.' Leave her alone, this is how she is.
Megan Flanagan 5 years ago
If promoting being skinny and fat shaming really worked, America wouldn't have an obesity problem. Clearly that isn't the case
Chamel 5 years ago
I think that it is a bad thing to show super unrealistic unhealthy body types in adverts, and that includes BOTH the super skinny-almost anorexic models with fake boobs and plastic surgery AND the morbidly and unhealthily overweight bodies. What needs to be shown are the women and men with a little chub on their bodies, or the people who are petite, or people who are super tall and lanky-- basically, the AVERAGE, HEALTHY, NORMAL person. This ad does NOT do this and it's really unfortunate because body positivity does not mean the promotion of unhealthy body types.
OnlyMyOpinion 5 years ago
She has an addiction that is ruining her health. What next? Heroin addicts with needles hanging out of their arms 'celebrating' their collapsed veins?!
A Dog Person 5 years ago
Obesity is not beautiful as it is not healthy either. A beautiful body is a body that is healthy. And even if an obese person is healthy for now, the risk of various diseases always increases when one has obesity.
Mark Kelly 5 years ago
Sorry but that is not healthy.I don't care if she seems fine now she'll pay for it when older.
Hugo Raible 5 years ago
Gillette must be really desparate these days. First the infamous excruciating "The Best Men Can Be" video and now jumping on the diversity bandwagon.
Tiffany Marie 5 years ago
All I know is when I was heavy, I felt like it was harder to shave, more to shave, sucked to shave. Being healthy & thinner feels better... Plus way More Easy to move around. Think people should strive to better themselves inside & out.
Gillian Copsey 5 years ago
I am wondering if Gillette also use confident yet seriously obese male models too on their shaving ads for men?
Just saying 5 years ago (edited)
How does a lady this size manage to find, let alone shave, her bikini line? I have worked as a care assistant and have encountered the problems larger people experience in later life - sores, cracking and ulcers under the bust, around the legs, in all the folds because it is hard to wash and then, crucially, dry those areas and so bacteria thrive and grow there, inability to walk due to the many years of overloading on the joints, having to use mechanical hoists to get larger patients up in the morning, to the loo, to the bath, and that before you factor in the diabetes, cancer, heart, stroke problems.
Louise Burkholder 5 years ago
omg why don't everyone worry about their own effing health risks and leave her da f**k alone??? people of all sizes get frickin heart attacks. GET OVER IT.
Toni Tangents 5 years ago (edited)
The world is awash with images of skinny/bullemic ppl, without much back lash. I think this is mostly just fattism going on here. Even if they have a point about how it might be more beneficial to promote a healthier body, they've missed the point of the add. Some of these posters can't handle looking at a big , confident happy woman I'll bet!! Gillette's goal was to celebrate diversity, and make women feel good about themselves at the same time. I'd say they were succesful. So the people who think we should never show images of women her size, want those women to remain invisible, perhaps they think they should be depressed and hiding. Occasionally showing an image of a confident, happy large woman isn't the same as saying 'being overweight is good for you. You should aim to look like her.' Don't you think large women know full well all negative aspects? Big women deserve more media representation! It's not relevant that their weight is unhealthy, this is about empowering people, not saying that we should All be obese. After all, a morbidly obese women who feels great, will find it much easier to lose weight than someone who's depressed. If she doesn't want to lose weight, that's her business. Soon as Vogue is filled with women this size, that's when the argument will actually be valid!
Rachael Marrast 5 years ago
I guess I am not like most people. I know things that I need and I go get them. I dont see the people in the ads. I think, hey I need some cologne...I go smell different ones and buy what I like. No commercial in the world can sell me anything that I dont need or want. Good for this women to be confident. I cant say if shes unhealthy or not just by looking at her, and neither can you. She may not be able to run a marathon but her lungs might be better than mine, her heart might be better than mine. I say its a beautiful thing that no matter the controversy she faces everyday from a**hats she still has confidence to go out and be her and wear whatever she wants and do whatever she wants. Thats real living. Be you and F*** whoever doesnt like it.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Yeah same. Does the razor cut off hairs, or not? Nobody even looks at the weirdos on the packaging.
Load More Replies... The Girl on Fire 5 years ago
You would have thought Gilette learned their lesson about controversial ads by now. Maybe the internet controversy and discourse is what they're going for, but still.
gloria Summerlin 2 years ago
Every day of my life I wake up and feel completely blessed that I am not as bitter as all these people hating on someones body simply because they look different than you think they should. People who hate themselves so much they have to try to bring other people down. I guess they're right misery (miserable people) loves company. When you're leaving hateful comments about someone on the internet please keep in mind your joyless, hostile, negative, acidic attitude will kill you just as quick as obesity. But at least shes out there living her best life, happily. Not being an abhorrent net troll. 😘😘
Totally legit 2 years ago
People's reactions are also interesting considering that not all ways people have a unhealthy lifestyle can be seen by outsiders. Are we supposed to shame people on suspicion that they might be bingedrinkers, smokers, consuming to much sugar etc?
Totally legit 2 years ago
So people her size are not allowed to shave, they should lose weight first? 🤔
Donna Faye 5 years ago
I couldn't care less about the look of the spokesperson. If the razor works, who gives a s**t.
Frozengeckolover 5 years ago
You guys realize this is why the rest of the world thinks all Americans are fat, disgusting slobs, right?
Harish Bhardwaj 5 years ago
If positive body image was a norm, why would a few stubs of hair bother anybody? #JustThinking
Paula Cristofoli 5 years ago
Any doctor will tell you it is totally unhealthy to be that morbidly obese.as far as Gillette goes I think they swung the pendulum too far the other way.
Ashley Graham 5 years ago
I like how people insult her and other heavy people while pretending they do it because the care. "Oh no that disgusting, fat cows gonna die early. I only say that because obesity is unhealthy and she should care more about her health." Please do the entire world a favor and WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN SELF.
Susanna Vesna 5 years ago
Gillette's marketing team has been on a roll this past few months! Well done for making everyone talk about u and NOT for good reasons. This woman is NOT a "normal" human- she is obese, with health issues, just like the skinny models. Why do we have to shuffle from one extreme to another?!
Lachelle Burns 5 years ago
I'm 55 full and fit no health issues. Ppl die no matter the size. ENJOY LIFE WHATEVER THE SIZE!!!
Yael 5 years ago
"There are super healthy obese people" ... Err, no there are not. Visceral fat, which is stored deep within your abdomen and surround vital organs like your liver, pancreases and intestines can (and are) deadly. The science is in, and excess fat, like on the woman in the advertisement, significantly increase risks of heart disease, cholesterol levels and type II diabetes.
Me 5 years ago
There's a lot of double standards behind this ad. You can be beautiful and overweight (agreed) BUT don't dare have armpit hair or leg hair... As for her body, it's not my body so it doesn't effect me outside of the taxes that go towards other people like her's lifestyle choices. I too am fat, and it's because I've chosen to be lazy and not exercise. I'm working to fix that by deciding to get off my fat a*s and focus on my health rather than my ego. But on the same token, be proud of who you are. I don't know if she's actively trying to lose weight, but in between gym visits we shouldn't be shamed. There's only so much work you can do on any day to lose weight and it's all about time. Granted, we shouldn't have allowed our health to get that bad in the first place, but if we're actively working to get healthier, we shouldn't be shamed for it. But I don't think celebrating obesity is the greatest of ideas ever in a marketing campaign.
Krzysiek K 5 years ago
Hahaha. So you should accept your body as it is and be confident about it, but you should also shave your body? Lmao. If anyone trying to lose weight and get healthy changes their plans after this 'campaign' and dies by the age of 40 it's all on Gillette's hands. Obviously all a company cares about is money, so I wonder how they calculated it. Bigger bodies = more shaving area = more razors sold?
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
I'd be happier if they stopped charging more for 'female' razors when same thing. It's a razor, shaves hair, one job, male or female, and in this case, size really does not matter .
ThatRandomMofo 5 years ago
*Insert c***s who will go on a rant about how people don't choose to be obese* The world will not change for you. Life's harsh. GET USED TO IT.
Twenty øne doggos 5 years ago
alright, I'm really sorry, but what was that bread thing that she was eating in that one pic? I've never seen anything like that and it looks AMAZING.
Barbara Baldwin 5 years ago
Now... If catalogs would just use that model when selling plus+ sizes in clothing ads..
Stephanie Bladyak 5 years ago
I don't think this ad is celebrating obesity as some have said. It's an ad for a tax not a diet. I think the point of the ad is no matter what you look like it what problems you may have you are still a valued member of society and hence important enough to be represented as a part of demographic in marketing...so what's wrong with that. The ad isn't saying you should gain weight or be unhealthy, of course you should strive to be healthy but not everyone is there yet.
Jim Gould 5 years ago
I don't understand the opinions either way because it isn't always a choice for people to be big or small. I am 5 foot six and weigh 220 lbs and I eat the diabetic diet and still am big for my size. My family was always large in size, not by choice but genetics. So I wish people would not judge unless you know the person and know that they live an unheathly life stye.
Martin Roy 5 years ago
In Brazil, any woman of any age and any size can and does wear a bikini at the beach. It is not for me to condemn, critique, or complain. It is not my body, or my business. Is she my taste? No. That doesn't mean she needs to care either. She presents herself to the world, not for your approval, but for your consideration of her thoughts. If you can't think, that is more your shame than hers.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 5 years ago
Recommended reading - The F*ck It Diet by Caroline Dooner. I am sick and tired of people deciding they know what is best for me. I don't give a s**t what is best for them. The least they could do is return the complement and shut the f*ck up.
Niles 5 years ago
your attitude is nasty hun. regardless of whether you agree or disagree with this ad, attacking people based on their physical characteristics is rude. did no one teach you that?
Load More Replies... Leslie Cully 5 years ago
I like the ad. "Get out there and slay the day!" YES! Don't hide mournfully in your house because you're overweight, get the hell out of the house and have fun! Laugh! Dance! Go to the beach! I believe many people think fat people should hide in shame. Sorry -- they exist. I'd much rather see a laughing fat person on the beach having fun than a serious thin person. Life is short -- go live it!
Emmaleigh Brooks 5 years ago
It's ridiculous that people are saying they're "promoting" obesity. First of all, food is often an addiction, and since it can't be eliminated entirely it can be very hard to deal with. Secondly, it's not encouraging obesity! The point, at least how I see it, is that no matter your size (or your state of health for that matter) you deserve to feel happy and beautiful. Y'all need to stop tearing people down and start lifting people up! Yes, that is clearly not a healthy weight! But do you know her? Do you know how much is genetic and how much is choice? Do you know if she's suffered depression or other struggles that caused her to depend on food? Do you know how she got there? If not, shut your face. We all know that that isn't healthy. So you can stop shaming a happy and beautiful woman for wanting to do just that, feel beautiful.
Mad Mar 5 years ago
And all the people stating that her body is unhealthy I'm sure there is something also wrong with yours too. Maybe your nose is crooked. Or your toes are twisted. Or your back has pimples. At least she is showing people she has the thick skin to be in a two piece. If her eating choices bother you or your offended by her size just bite your tongue. Say nothing if you can't say something nice or someone will say something discouraging about you. Like you are an angry troll.
Melissa D 5 years ago
Good on the company. Yeah she is obese and I know it isn't a good thing on her body but she still is beautiful. There are many reasons why people get to that size. Not just being lazy and eating too much. She could be eating healthy and active but due to a syndrome or whatever causes her to gain weight no matter what. It happens. You can't say she is disgusting because of it. You don't know her whole story. Same with those girls that extremely thin or Victoria secret models. To me they aren't that healthy looking, but that is the modelling industry's ideal that girls have to be too skinny and big breasted. I rather see a girl who is between 140-210 pounds shown as a model for kids etc.
Dawn White Schneider 5 years ago
This might not be a healthy body but this is the American reality. There are more overweight people in this country than there are thin or fit people. The average clothing size is a 14 or above, that is considered a plus size. I should know, I am one of them. This ad to me is really showing the WHY we are a country of morbidly obese people. Please let's not celebrate how to destroy our bodies by the encouragement of being "comfortable" in our own skin. It's SO unhealthy and to be honest, I'm 55 years old and have been struggling to lose the weight that has found itself on me. I do not wish to "celebrate" my body in this condition; I want to be healthy and fit, and for me that might mean a size 14; who knows. It's unfortunate that we have our ideals mixed up. BTW, why do people have to be so rude and hurtful in their comments? God forbid you find yourself as the recipient of the mean and hurtful comments one day.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Yeah but don’t you shave your legs? All fat people know they are unhealthy. Even if they don’t admit it out loud. Hiding fat people won’t make them realize they need to lose weight. Do fat people buy razors, yes or no? Now apply some common sense to what a Ra Zor Comp An Y would do to sell their product. HMMMMM.
Load More Replies... Vilkas 5 years ago (edited)
People saying they are against this because they're afraid for her health LOL. Yeah, sure. You just don't like to look at that. No one wants to see that, not even other fat people. "I eat 10k calories a day and never exercise...basically just don't care. NOW F*****G LOVE ME FOR WHO I AM!" Yeeeeeeah..no.
C 5 years ago
"People saying they are against this because they're afraid for her health LOL. Yeah, sure. You just don't like to look at that." There I totally agree. But "now f*****g love me for who I am" - why not? Why not love people for who they are? So loving people is all about looks? I would love my husband even if he was a 3 metres big porcupine.
Load More Replies... Jennylou Hughes 5 years ago
I agree with the comments that positive self love is fantastic, but you can't shame woman that are too skinny yet praise those that are unhealthy and overweight. It's such a double standard. We need to promote healthy living not a super heavy or super thin person. Both are unrealistic.
John Carr 5 years ago
What about Gillette for men? All their ads are highly toned professional sportsmen. No sign of a beer belly or scars there. Yet we are supposed to buy their products to look like them. Mind you, if they used me as a model, they'd be bankrupt in a year. BTW - Anna is beautiful and extremely hot!
Shonni Kapono 5 years ago
Here is my opinion.. This is an ad about a razor. She uses razors so it is appropriate for her to be in this ad. We tell our kids not to judge, make fun of or bully people of size, race, gender or mental compacity. We try to tell our kids everyone should be treated equally. We tell are kids to be kind. Maybe we need to remind people we are an example to children. We don't know her story or if she has illnesses or if this is what makes her happy. Beauty is in the inside. Some say it's not a healthy body... hmmm if your unhealthy are you not allowed to use a razor? I may weigh half her weight or even less but I bet she is healthier than me. Kindness is what is lacking in this world.
Gerry Higgins 5 years ago (edited)
I'm sure she's a nice person, but trying to normalize bad health is a bad idea. Call it beautiful all you want. Fat kills you just like a cigarette does.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Cigarette smokers are put in ads though. Not while they are smoking, but nothing bars a smoker from being in a commercial. I was a smoker for 10 years and it never affected me professionally. That fat woman is terrible looking, but let’s not pretend we give a s**t about her health. Nobody gives a health exam before hiring a promotional model.
Load More Replies... Cheryl Wilcox 5 years ago
I've been slim my entire life, without really trying - it's just my body. I eat junk food, candy, I don't exercise as much as I should - and yet no one would say these things about my body, just because my weight is fairly low. I've been reading recently about this topic, and I'd recommend these two pieces, because they give a really good perspective: https://medium.com/60-months-to-ironman/i-am-one-fat-and-angry-woman-952996ac9740 and https://medium.com/s/for-the-record/i-do-not-know-how-to-trust-thin-people-fbe78e633a50
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Makes sense to me. Fat women gotta shave too and Gillette is trying to sell razors. You’re an idiot if you think they shouldn’t pander to their consumer, and judging by how big the majority of people are, Gillette is targeting the right group. Also this would be WORSE if they showed a cute chubby woman instead of a stereotypically ugly morbidly obese woman. It’s more realistic. Fat women are not just big in the breasts and booty like the other plus-sized campaigns suggest. No. Most fat women have huge bellies and unsmooth lumps like this girl. At least Gillette isn’t faking and photoshopping. You don’t like how she looks? Then don’t be part of the statistics that reveal how fat we are as a society, and move on.
Lizard Queen 5 years ago
The ad isn't about health issues. It's about selling a product to an under served market. It's promoting confidence, not health. So much hatred here on BP., so much judgement from flawed folks.
DC 5 years ago
+ ... real positivity will NEVER focus on weight anyway, or colour of any part of anyone's body and all that stuff - it's not about the obvious things if you like or respect a person - or not. Doesn't affect that, that's superficial. But, tbh, it makes me a bit sick that every time you mention that, you have to excuse in advance, just because you know that being fat is something that can make you seriously ill, or even kill you. Like, "I'm sorry I worry about your life for an obvious reason, I'm sorry you have been taught to be hurt by a comment about that but nonethelesse expose yourself to", all this pointless stuff ... to avoid being seen as a monster. This isn't about pointing a finger, it's about the f'ed up concept of so called positivity. It's pointless. The entire positivity thing, instead of pointing out that beauty isn't defined by weight, screams into anyones ears "EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL, ACCEPT IT, A*****E!!!!" - no. I won't. Superficiality is negative, in any way!
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Personally..I applaud this model for having the courage to ignore all the body shaming and sport that bikini. She may be morbidly obese...so am I. And we don't need people to pity us, be concerned for us, to constantly be bringing up how unhealthy our weight is (we are fully aware of it thanks to our doctors.) We need people to stop staring, stop trying to educate us, and to mind their own damn business. We aren't unhappy and we don't need to be fixed. So stop worrying about us and worry about yourself. What I do with my body and my life has nothing to do with you. Just like I'm not going to assume some extremely underweight girl needs to be pinned down and force fed a cheeseburger. I have no idea why she is that way and, frankly, it's none of my business.
DC 5 years ago
Wait... SHE is bringing this up. The concept of so-called body positivity is bringing it up. I'm sorry not everyone just applauds how brave it is to ignore this being a problem. You're right about educating people - strangers shouldn't do. But ... it now is like the ones that love you are not allowed to be worried. Would this apply if you were anorexic? Or an alcoholic? Not everything that isn't applause is meant to hurt anyone. It's just irrational to state that being fat is making you beautiful and seeing honestly worried people - not strangers - as "body shaming" when they state that a weight that could kill you just might do so. Body positivity is an attempt to receive massive backfire from reality, not comments! Someone honestly and reasonably fearing to lose you due to overweight isn't fat shaming, it's the fear of losing you! Promoting that being fat is beautiful, nothing is to change is like ads for smoking, just more manipulating by worry-shaming.
Load More Replies... elfin 5 years ago
I think that very few of the complainants live a perfectly healthy life themselves (since practically no one does). How many smoke? Drink too much? Eat too many things that are bad for them and not enough that are good? Drive while on the phone? Being overweight is certainly one health problem, but fat shaming just makes things worse. Being attacked seldom persuades people into better behavior.
Reilly Beryll 5 years ago
I’m 250 pounds, more square than round, but still far heavier than what I’m supposed to be in accordance to my age and height. And it’s not a healthy weight. Being super overweight is worse, and so are tactics used to become incredibly skinny. One can argue they’re promoting a lifestyle, which they’re not. They’re not saying “become very heavy” or “become super light”. They’re selling razors. It’s representation to appeal to those with more weight so that more can be sold. There’s a lot factoring in. I’m glad and hopeful that deep down, this woman is confident and not depressed. She can do whatever she wants. People can do whatever they want. They can often (not always the case) change their weight. All in all: let this woman live her life, as she will be affected in her own way, just as thin people are. And remember that this is not promoting anything, but simply appealing to a portion of people. A movie containing a cat is not promoting cats, but does appeal to cat lovers.
Richard Murray 5 years ago
Good luck to Gillette, I am sure they will need it. As someone fat, who is working to lose the weight because health problems have begun, I think this is a damned stupid campaign. Yes, criticize underweight models, but don't then turn around and say that this fat woman is healthy. It isn't. Best way to show them this is to stop buying their razors.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago (edited)
Where did they say she was healthy? You’re fat and complaining about having to see a fat person lol Only a man would be that dumb.
Load More Replies... Steve Mcnally 5 years ago
Doesn’t matter what they do someone will be offended, often not for themselves but on behalf of others who haven’t even complained. Some people just live for being offended! The joy of t’interweb!
Mad Mar 5 years ago
It's a great idea add for some people of larger sizes to not feel bad about their bodies. The trolls that say they will die before 50 or are morbidly obese are not knowing that persons medical history. It could be genetic. Or due to medications. No person is perfect. And to look down on someone for trying to be a role model is a complete act of bullying. I'm not skinny. On average I'm what most women are size wise. But I'd look large in an advertisement because people are used to seeing models that are skin draped skeletons.
Hannah Bond 5 years ago
Its a ad for razors, notmatter what your size you can be unhealthy, you could smoke or drink or do drugs. Its so horrible to fat shame people for work jobs like everyone else. What gives you the right to judge so rude and harsh. Health is not a luxury only the skinny are rewarded with. My great grandma was big all her life very obese and she passed away at 96 years old. Appreciate the beauty of someone who is embracing themselves and trying to make the world a better place plus size people, weight can is caused by all kinds of different struggles and its not an easy fix. Love yourself and be kind to people, its NOT healthy to be a mean judgemental fat shaming troll
Nadine 5 years ago
I have a gorgeous, young, thin niece, who has severe heart disease. According to most of you, she wouldn't be a candidate for this ad because she's not healthy. You all also have the option to buy or not buy their products. I will be buying.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
You’re like the only other person I’ve seen here with the logic to grasp that simple concept. I’m a healthy weight and I exercise all the time but I have an ovarian disease that’s incurable. According to these people I might as well never show my face in public again lol.
Load More Replies... Ed Souza 5 years ago
Of course, flip the tables and put an overweight guy about the same size as this landwhale and "body positivity" suddenly does not apply to these hypocrites.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Nobody, including you, would even notice a fat man, that’s how much it doesn’t offend you when this makes you hyperventilate.
Load More Replies... Malakai 5 years ago
Every person who comments how she is unhealthy is missing the entire point of posts like these. It's not about health. It's not about fat over skinny. It's not endorsing a lifestyle. It's about how you've only got one life, one body, and you deserve to be represented and feel like you can love your body in all its shapes, sizes, and appearances. Some people like myself struggle to lose weight, we hate purselves and how we look, and that self-loathing makes it so, so, SO much harder to lose weight. Having positive images of overweight people who are HAPPY with who they are is a godsend to us, because they help us to learn to appreciate our bodies in every form. For a lot of people, like me, that can make or break the journey to taking better care of ourselves. A lot of people are trying, but none of them should feel like they have to hate themselves for being ANY weight or size--if you can't love your body now, it will be very difficult to learn to love it later.
kat lia 5 years ago
I think the message that they are trying to convey is not to let your flaws hinder what do you want to do. Like going to the beach having fun, wearing your favorite swim suit confidently. I am overweight and i have folds of fats in my tummy and these are the reason why i cannot wear my favorite bathing suit. So thank you for making this. Again, It is NOT that they are encouraging everyone to be obese. Do not let your size stop you from doing the things you wants.
Mike Cascio 5 years ago
Obesity leads to Low self esteem and depression eh? Lol go take a gander of London Andrews who's 315LBS and 6ft tall then get back to me.
Mike Cascio 5 years ago
Lol. Being obese leads to low self-esteem and depression eh? Take a gander at London Andrews who's 315LBS and 6ft tall then get back to me......
Lora Holt 5 years ago
Love how everybody plays the "health" card when the truth is they're repulsed by what they see. Rather than own it for what it is - they bought into the notion that "thin is in" and are either too stupid to know that their opinion of what is beautiful was shaped by companies trying to sell a product, or too cowardly to challenge it - they pretend they're concerned about the health of someone other than themselves. What a monumental pile of bull$hit. "Sizeism" is not about health at all. I'd have much more respect for someone who walked up to me and said "you're fat and I think that's ugly" than one who says "but I'm worried about your health". You know nothing about my health because my overall health is about much more than my BMI.
Kim Zaczynski 5 years ago
Good for her and good for Gillette! It’s a razor commercial, not about obesity!
Tessa Miller 5 years ago
THIS MAY NOT BE A HEALTHY BODY, BUT SHE IS A PERSON. LOOK AT HER. She is living the happiest and healthiest life and this is the first time that someone with her body type can even DREAM of being a model for a national f*****g ad campaign. And why are we talking so much about her body when it literally states the awards she's won and the fact that she is both helping others achieve their dreams and making her own come true. F**k y'all she's great.
Lisa Mooskin-Bergman 5 years ago
We have become so used to TV commercials and magazines that only show the perfect or close to it that we are upset when commercials actually reflect real life. There are large people everywhere. Its about normalizing what our Society actually is. Think of the chubby/fat teens who only see the thin gorgeous models on TV and develop eating disorders. These kids are often unhappy w/ themselves as they see themselves as NOT normal and never good enough. I applaud Gillette for showing reality and trying to change the perceptions in our very ignorant Country!!!
Bobby's Girl 5 years ago
Gillette should stick to making overpriced "women's" razors and stay out of social engineering. This ad does not make we want to buy their razor: the photos are pure shock value, the sales pitch is patronizing BS, and I can think of far better venues for consciousness raising. So, that's a no from me.
Gabriel Sbárbaro 5 years ago
As an obese person, this is wrong... very wrong... people with morbid obesity shouldn't be "bullied" but by no means they should be celebrated nor taken as "normal"... that's NOT normal and is NOT healthy. Stop normalizing unhealthy life styles...
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Another whale of a man crying because he saw a fat woman.
Load More Replies... Alex McGrath 5 years ago
Gillette has chosen to go extreme. Well their products suck anyway, they must be desperate
Kenny Kulbiski 5 years ago
Diversity, fat, skinny, toxic masculinity, yada, yada. What does any of that have to do with shaving? Maybe it's just to divert our attention from their rip off prices. I'll save my deep philosophical discussions for a bar, not a razor blade company.
W. 5 5 years ago
I think nobody should be shamed ever. I guess the problem with very underweight models is not "being a natural skinny person is bad" but promoting being skinny to young girls/boys who might develop eating disorders while nobody would think to want to become overweight/obese because of a obese model? I am really a bit out of my comfort zone because I don't think it is my business what soze someone is...and I think it's a good thing to show various people without "promoting" anything. (What was my point again?🙈)
Kerolos Saleib 5 years ago
People are stupid... This is powerful and love every bit of it. As women you should know some other women can't lose the weight and this is just the way it is. Confidence is sexy. You're trolling comments make. You look petty. Bored panda can we end this with the empowering message not the trauma...ply a role in maing the world a better place not à click bait with a disappointing angry ending. What's your solution other than reposting this and making trolls famous?!?
Russian Otaku 5 years ago
This is f*****g disgusting and abhorrent and sexist as f**k. Always insecure fat bitches wanting people to think they are pretty instead of eating even remotely healthy or moving. Yet the same ugly balloons don't appreciate obese men unless they are millionaires. Post might as well br promoting smoking or drinking or even certain drug use since it is for fact more healthy then tossing away your humanity to become a blob monster wasting Healthcare resources that could go to people extremely more deserving then them
Patrick Ashton 5 years ago
Why do I get the feeling that many of those supporting this woman for being proud of her body are the same ones who trash anorexic looking models? After all -- both these types have medical issues including eating disorders. It is as wrong to trash a woman who is proud of her skin and bones body as it is to trash a woman for being morbidly obese. But I'm willing to bet some who think it is fine to slowly kill yourself by overeating and failing to exercise are the same people who deplore women who think it is fine to practically starve themselves to be proud of a thin body.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Thinking that it’s okay to let ugly or fat people promote products doesn’t mean you think it’s okay to overeat. That’s non sequitur. Most people are fat and ugly. You look terrible yourself and you’re old as dust. But you don’t cry when ugly old people are in ads. I’m 135 pounds and I see nothing wrong with that fat ugly woman being in the ad. She represents the majority of you.
Load More Replies... Live Era Nemow 5 years ago
Lol. Scaring the fat people away? Oh poor little snowflakes. Maybe if they don't want to be judged, they could probably try do something about it. Maybe they could try losing weight?
Load More Replies... Jost Munika 5 years ago
You'd think that someone with an IQ as high as yours would have at least 1 upvote. (Sarcasm, in case you couldn't tell)
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