There are a few lessons one can take
from last night’s season finale of The
Biggest Loser.1. It’s possible for a woman to win
this show, even though men are predisposed to quicker weight loss.
2. It’s possible for some people to
lose 50 pounds and still look basically the same.
3. Live TV – especially live TV
starring people who have no professional TV training – is awesome.
Ali, the former competitive swimmer
who’d let herself go, won the final weigh-in and, for this, a quarter of a
million dollars. She’d lost 112 pounds and looked as diesel as an angry Mac
truck. The other two finalists were Roger, a former football player from Alabama, and Kelly, a
shy working-class woman from Florida. I was
rooting for Kelly, because she’s older and divorced. She’s also had three
miscarriages and talked a lot about how she’d always been huge and asexual and
how now, at 38, she finally felt like a girl for the first time in her life.
It’s this kind of shit that gets me
sobbing like a mental patient...
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