This Summer, 20 "real" women (I guess that settles the debate about what to call women over the size of 12) will have a chance to find their love stories on Fox's reality show More to Love. Based on the new promo, the female contestants feel that their size has kept them from finding true love and they're turning to reality TV to change that.
The dating show will feature "a single and eligible man with a big waist and an even bigger heart as he romances several confident and secure plus-size women." Confident and secure sounds great, but these clips of the women crying about ending up alone because of their size reveals that the show is ready to explore (and maybe exploit?) some of these women's insecurities, too. Would we expect anything different from reality TV?
I guess I'll hold out hope that the show will be tasteful, but I doubt it will be groundbreaking. If networks were really concerned about raising acceptance for all sizes, producers would simply include people of all sizes on regular dating shows!
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or as my husband calls it "I want to marry a chubby chaser"
I wont watch, half these women are already crying about being big and not finding love. Maybe if you didnt cry about it, men wouldnt run away. Accept your body, change it if you want to, but stop crying! Men dont like sniveling girls!
1It would be interesting to watch more non-skinny women on a dating show, but I don't want to watch them cry about "their issues" and that sort of stuff the whole time.
2They do THE SAME THING on shows with the "model" people!
I won't watch because it's insulting and the very premise is actually really, REALLY depressing if you think about it. I can't blame the women for having those "insecurities" - because they're REAL and people will let you know it ALL DAY LONG. But it's "reality TV" so I can't really expect much more. They wouldn't get ratings if there wasn't any crying, or anybody beating the living crap out of the other contestants.
Seems like a show that should have ended up on Lifetime or We or Oxygen or something...
3I don't watch tv, but if I did I'd be all over this show. The worse the reality show, the better!
4it bothers me that the man at the center of the show is also overweight. a 'regular' man can't love an overweight woman or vice versa? why more of the dating show segregation.
5I agree with jessie...why does the man have to be overweight as well. I am a plus sized woman who has an amazing hot and slender man in my life. He does not as a rule date heavy women, but he also does not date women based upon looks. As a result, while I don't match the size of the girls he has dated in the past, I have the brains and sincerity to spare. We are getting married in a few short weeks...despite my apparent "lack of hotness" as defined by American media.
6Even hearing about shows like this makes my brain dribble out of my ears.
7How degrading, even the first line to this story sounds a little off. What to call women over size 12? What do you call women under size 12, unreal?
8this is way awful. some of those women were really beautiful and what makes me mad is they (the producers) act like the only man they could find to date them is someone who's also overweight and not even that cute! if they (the women) did want to meet someone of similar size, at least hook them up with a handsome guy. then they show the women sniffling about being lonely and too 'real', and at the end all gather around him like flies on sh*t. finding them all dates instead of making a competition would be a much better show. oh well, they signed up for it.
9Hehehehe, I know one of the girls on the show. And I know that she doesn't just like normal showers with water....but special ones. I keep cracking up every time she appears.
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