Ketzel

In the most recent vibrator thread, a poster asked a carefully phrased, meant not to offend, question that basically wanted to know how Whitney can reach to use the device. Whitney responded that she had no problem using the device, and also added that she had no problem with her hygiene either. Not that I believe her, but it seems she's been checking out the threads here, again. :)

And then there was the one who posted "Go get bariatric surgery," to whom Whitney responded "Go suck my dick." Hey, she has a dick! That actually might explain a lot!

Jiya shades Whitney for the fake national folk dance festival performance: LINK Whitney takes Jiya's class, Jiya takes Whitney's: LINK Whitney wants a rematch after BGDC loses the dance battle to Trophy Wives: LINK Whitney wants to cancel dance battle rematch: LINK

Whitney is kind of the anti-fit role model. There's this inherent paradox in what she claims she wants to do/be. In my years as a competitive dancer, I worked with a lot of personal trainers. One thing they all had in common was that they put a lot of energy into their clients - demonstrating, doing exercises alongside them, spotting, setting up and breaking down exercise stations, cheering them on (including motivation of the "move yer ass, cookie" type). If you put out that kind of energy for multiple hours a day, then even if you started out as a fat and out of shape personal trainer, you are not going to remain a fat and out of shape trainer for long, unless you are going out of your way to stay that way. (Or you don't understand your job and think all you need to do is sit around mis-counting the number of reps your client has done, and munching on power bars.) I admit I am pissed at Will. He started out as the Voice of Truth and now he's just another enabler. :(

The Jiya story line began in Season 4, when Jiya, a plus size dancer, called into the MLR morning show to say she had a troupe of big girls (The Trophy Wives) and she was interested in getting together with Whitney to see if there might be some collaboration possible. It went on for several episodes, during which Whitney became increasingly defensive and whiny about Jiya's behavior and Jiya kept up a stream of snarky responses to Whitney's behavior.

2 hours ago, Baltimore Betty said: Has anyone ever really stood up to her? I mean really let loose on her? Taking my response to the 'Whitney, So She Thinks She Can Dance" thread.

Jiya did. There were a number of shining moments from her appearance on the show - when she threw shade at Whitney for the low-energy performance BGDC put on at the faked National Folk Festival appearance.When she refused to let Whitney avoid the harder parts of the class Whitney, Todd and Tal took at Jiya's studio. (I laughed out loud at when Whitney smugly refused to "drop it low" because she had "bad knees" and Jiya asked her for a doctor's note.) When Whitney, outraged that she hadn't won her dance battle with Jiya, demanded a do-over, Jiya called her out on using a professional choreographer and still losing. In the end, when Whitney (in a surprisingly meek tone of voice, wearing a pressure boot on one leg) tried to back out of the second battle on the grounds of being injured, Jiya pinned her down, asking again for proof of Whitney's injuries, asking why Whitney's class couldn't dance without her, telling her the do-over could happen after Whitney was better, and generally making it clear that Whitney was backing out only because she knew Jiya was too much for her.

I can't help but notice she says: "I spent 6 weeks in Paris. I did fall in love. I'm in a relationship and incredibly happy." Nothing here says she fell in love in Paris, or that the person she is "in a relationship with" is the actor formerly known as Le Blur. Her story could just as easily be: "I went to Paris on a PR junket with Athleta and had lunch with the French Man who turned out to be a fatphobic creep. So after the trip I went home to Greensboro and decided to date Lennie again, so that TLC wouldn't cancel MBFFL. So far, so good! Fingers crossed TLC will announce Season 10 any day now!!"

Whitney & Co. are sure working the cliffhangers to death. Let's see, first of course: "Will Whitney's flight make it safely to France? Will LeBlur make a surprise appearance to meet her at the airport? Or will he ghost her entirely? Will they ever actually meet face-to-face? How will they keep his appearance concealed, assuming he shows up and they walk around places? Will they fall in luurrve? Second cliffhanger: Will Heather be approved as a surrogate for Whitney? If she is, will the gang pull straws to decide which male will be the sperm donor? Tal? Todd? Buddy? Jacob the producer? Lennie? A member of Hunter's band? Avi, Chase or LeBlur? [let Whitney have her dreams] The Fitness Marshall? Will Powell? His talented son Isaac? Jessica's fiance? the guy who delivers her "salads" of macaroni, cheese, mayonnaise and crumbled bacon bits? Third cliffhanger: Will Buddy pop the question to Courtney? Will he wait until Whitney returns to ring shop with him? Or will he decided to ring shop with Courtney, rather than surprise her with a ring tainted by Whitney's sweaty hands? Will Courtney ask him about the open wound on his forehead and will he tell her the truth? Fourth cliffhanger: Knowing how happy Whitney really is for Sara, Chase and Aurora, will they invite her to the wedding? Fifth cliffhanger: Do we ever find out whether Whitney absconded with Bab's kitchen decor, after Whitney decided the stuffed vegetables are really dog toys and Babs doesn't need them because she doesn't have a dog? Sixth cliffhanger: Will Rebecca sign up with Will Powell and become Whitney's first real personal training client? Or will Will hold firm that Whitney is not going to be employed by him unless she actually passes the certification test? Any chance that the scene in the gym was actually an audition for Rebecca replacing Whitney on the show? [Let me have my dream. :)]

No no. Given Buddy's absence, there is no likely barnacle bedfellow Whitney would deign to accept. But even if she did decide to share a room with Heather, say, and LeBlur did magically appear at the door, Whitney would bounce Heather out of there so fast, Heather would out-blur LeBlur. No one is going to get between Whitney and her own true faceless lover. Interesting to me is that LeBlur seemed to have not planned to leap into Whitney's bed on arrival -- during one of the "I tried so hard to get to Maine" phone calls, he said something like "I even booked a hotel!" So unless he was planning to hoist Whitney in his arms and carry her off* to his suite at The Claremont, past her stunned family and friends, Whitney's sexy time fantasies do not seem to have been shared by LeBlur. *(I can just see him struggling, knees buckling, to get her off the ground. At which point Whitney utters a variation of one of her most famous lines - "there is only one weightlifter in this relationship, and it's me"-then lifts LeBlur up by his armpits and drags him into her room.

Oh, let's not be too hasty. If you went with her to Target, she'd drive AND she'd lift all the bags AND she'd organize them in the car, AND she'd teach you that the correct French pronunciation of Target is "Tar-zhay." :)

I was too mesmerized by her bobble-head doll imitations - and that loud coughing seal sound she made after screaming "in your f'ing face" at Hunter.

Yep. That's why Whitney told Glenn that where LeBlur sleeps is none of his business. Remember, as she gleefully told Tal and Heather, he's coming to have S_E_X with her! Stand back, everybody!

We certainly HAVE heard Whitney speak French! She said "croissant!" Oh wait, maybe that was at the bakery in Greensboro; nothing to do with her French suitor/tutor. Nevermind.

In I Do It With The Lights On Whitney says Hunter is four years older than she is.

She said the "logistics" were too difficult when both people are very fat.

Whitney's mentioned her therapist before. She provides body positivity therapy, and she thinks Whitney is a wonderful example and a real warrior. Cough. I agree that this episode seemed to display a new level of Whitney dysfunction. If she seriously believes she is in a relationship with LeBlur, substantial enough to be planning marriage and IVF with him, even though she's never even been in the same room with him, there is something seriously wrong with her judgment.

It's not hard. All you have to do is think of absolutely the most self-centered and immature thing a person could do under the circumstances, then double it. :)

This question gave me a headache. I cannot think of a single thing a man could do that would repel Whitney. For a minute I thought, "Maybe if he hated her cats?" but then I immediately had the image of Whitney unloading Henchi & Co. on Babs and Glenn while explaining how Her Man has very bad allergies and Babs has always wanted Whitney's cats, anyway.

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Anyone who wants a major dose of Whitney cackle, check out her instagram story before it expires. She and Todd are dressing up that sad poodle in a wide range of Halloween costumes and Whitney finds each one HYSTERICAL!! Also, the sad poodle seems to have acquired another name or two. I'm Team Cat, but I still find myself pitying that poodle.

It does! :)

Or maybe sumo wrestling? Suitable for her build and her self-image as a feminist!

I guess I always thought of "An American Family" as a documentary. I think of Real World as a reality show because it hand-selected a cast of unrelated people of about the same age, shoved them into a group living situation and turned on the cameras. But I agree you could certainly make the case that the Louds were the source of "reality" television. But did any of them publicly complained about the editing, though? :) Whitney, on the other hand, has raised defensive whining to a high art. I especially like how she starts most of those posts with some disclaimer about not dignifying critics with an answer-- except THIS time she HAS to reply because the critics are no-nothing haterz who are doing ACTUAL harm to her, and/or her friends and/or her parents. She's done it at least half a dozen times and it makes me laugh every time. (I think the last time before this post was the one where she was criticized for being so nasty to Buddy at the lake house for daring to be inconveniently depressed. (?)) The only one she is ever defending is herself.

Editing? EDITING? WWT and Ashley are blaming the editing for making them look bad? Oh please, ladies. 1992 * just called. It wants its excuse back. *US premiere of "The Real World," generally credited as the origin of the reality show genre.