What Should Be Next for Nikki Blonsky?? — Page 3

I think Nikki could have a nice film career if she doesn't get delusional. She has a height issue, not just a weight issue (by "issue," I mean in Hollywood's eyes).

As long as she keeps her head on her shoulders, and doesn't try to be the leading lady, I'm sure she'll get work. She's a natural in front of the camera and a winning screen personality.

But I would look to her predecessors Rikki Lake and Marissa to see what kind of path she'll be on.

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I do agree that the young lady might want to consider diet and excercise. She's a great talent and she should have a long career ahead of her.

I'm all for being body-positive and whatnot, but I think it's foolish to act like being heavier does not pose a risk to one's health.

And generally doctors say not to be concerned with BMI if you have a lot of muscle mass. Blonsky does not.

Again, I have no issues with people being content at the size they are, but there does seem to be a sort of backlash about weight issues because of the impossibly thin standards set by Hollywood and the media. I think that's as dangerous as starving oneself.

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Yep, and it will continue spinning after heart disease, high blood pressue, diabetes, etc get the best of those who put their heads in the sand.

Again, I think a healthy attitude about one's body is wonderful. It just doesn't negate the fact that the attitude may be the only thing that's healthy.

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Kringas~ there is a difference between being heavy and being obese. Yes I am sure it is smart to be healthy but one does not have to be waif like to be accepted. You are blowing it WAY out of proportion (get it? Proportion?)

Anyway~ I think maybe Ricki Lake and Nikki Blonsky should do a tv show about a mother and a daughter who are normal, regular people... not the stick figures we call beautiful.

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well I am not picking on you personally.. I just get frustrated when people talk about being a certain weight or healthy. I am sure that 99% of all people know that being healthy is the way to be... but saying it and doing it are two different things.

But I think that we place way too much on tv and movies. I don't think that Hairspray was saying that it was "fabulous" being fat, I think that it was an extreme to state that it is okay whatever you size you are. Loving yourself is ALL that matters.

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"I do agree that the young lady might want to consider diet and excercise. She's a great talent and she should have a long career ahead of her."

Though I'm sure this was well intentioned, what makes you think she eats lots of junk food and doesn't exercise?

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How do you know Nikki doesn't have a lot of muscle mass?

Taking a look at this picture, you'd think this girl was just some girl, much fatter than Nikki, must be lazy to be so big, right?



Not Quite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCXxhOKFn94

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Cardio is probably more important for a person of size and it doesn't look like that girl in the video (the pic didn't come up) does much of that, what with that giant jiggling midsection.

And I'm sorry, but that blog you posted is extremely defensive and more than a little bit deluded.

At the end of the day, people make their own choices. For a while, I was fine with the extra weight until one day I went to the doctor and find out my blood pressure and cholesterol were high. I decided after that I probably needed to rethink my own choices. Per hysterical blog person, I'm a statistical anomaly, I guess.

And any food can be detrimental if eaten in large quantities. It wasn't eating five doughnuts for breakfast that made me overweight. It was second and third helpings of food at meals, even balanced ones.

At the end of the day, people can say what they want, but personally, a girl of Nikki's size doesn't look normal or average.

I tend to find that most people advocating weight loss under the guise of health really are more concerned about appearances.

Not in my case. As I said, I was fine with my extra weight. It was my body that wasn't fine with it.

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Updated On: 7/24/07 at 04:16 PM

okay i just read back on some of the things flaunt it wrote and he needs to get a life...or stop eating the rice crispies with pee in it....

Linda Eder is talented and she is never off key (That is my girl and if you diss her them fighting words)

and forgive me if I am wrong but other then Evita, Patti has done LES MISERABLES (funny that show is STILL PLAYING), OLIVER!, SUNSET BOULEVARD, Anything Goes!, Sold out concert tours, a slew of Ravina concerts and now Gypsy... so I don't know where your head is but....

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Good Job, Nikki! Good Luck on Your Golden Globe! :)

I think Nikki Blonsky is delightful and very talented and quite adorable but I have to agree that we're all deluding ourselves to think she's going to have any kind of lucrative career while being overweight unless Hollywood drastically changes their unrealistic ideas about women's bodies. She'll definitely work again, and I think she can carve out a nice little career, but she won't be able to achieve the fame of a thinner actress, not because she doesn't deserve it but because the world sucks. When you're fat, that's all the world sees and roles like Tracy Turnblad are few and far between.

Even if the lost 75 pounds, she's still be under five feet tall, so the BEST she could hope for is a career like Chenoweth's - if she went blonds and her boobs stayed big after the wight loss, AND she could sing in an operatic soprano.

More likely, she could have the career of Alice Playten - a funny little woman with a big belty voice who plays character roles.