S07.E16 Lashanta's Story

[Concerned]

14 minutes ago, parrotfeathers said:

In some areas of the south, it is considered a wonderful accomplishment to have as many children on the ground as possible, sometimes from many different women. 

And for women to have children from many different men so the children have lots of daddies, grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins and siblings.

[SunnyBeBe]

I didn't watch every minute of this episode, but, didn't the pizza delivery guy just walk into the bedroom, deliver pizza, then leave?  WTH?   You know, after she told her daughter that she was saladed out and needed some grease.....lol. 

[ams1001]

2 minutes ago, SunnyBeBe said:

I didn't watch every minute of this episode, but, didn't the pizza delivery guy just walk into the bedroom, deliver pizza, then leave?  WTH?   You know, after she told her daughter that she was saladed out and needed some grease.....lol. 

That was her youngest son, who was trying to talk her out of getting pizza. I think he answered the door and brought her the pizza.

[ProTourist]

15 hours ago, newyawk said:

I LOL'ed when she proclaimed how she was "so proud" about showing her friend how she was"being out and active" by riding through a fast food drive thru.

[. . .]

I beg to differ with the poster above..I found it EXTREMELY easy to dislike Lashanta.

There was no reason for this person to have gotten on air. This was a pointless episode. 

About her being proud, well, it's all relative. After being in bed for 2.5 years, leaving the house at all is a big achievement.

I agree with the rest -- I tended to dislike LaShanta, and found the episode uninteresting and pointless. But I do hope she will build on the bit of progress she made at the end, for her own sake and for her family's.

[xwordfanatik]

I just watched.  Is it just me, or did that woman take one hell of a piss in that Tupperware container?  Her bladder must be supersized, as well.

What dentist chair could accommodate her size, in order to get those gold teeth installed?

I've been underwhelmed this season.  I wonder if it might be time to stick a fork in this series. 

[the-grey-lady]

Well, Pounders, the day I have long dreaded is at hand. I always suspected this show would be the death of me.

After somehow keepin' on after enduring James K's laygs, Schenee's ice cream sex favors, Penny's bedside wontons, Steven Assanti's "dancing," Nicole's hosedown, and myriad other eye-popping horrors, I knew it was only a matter of time before one last jawdropper did me in.

Tonight I watched LaShanta hide fried chicken in her bed.

RIP, Grey Lady.

[ProTourist]

8 hours ago, calpurnia99 said:

Sadly it was a review of some of our society's biggest problems: teen pregnancy, high school drop outs, obesity, co dependency, black men in jail, multiple babies with different fathers, single parenthood, squishing etc.

You know, I wonder how LaShanta was able to drop out of school at age 14. In every state the upper mandatory school age is at least 16; in Louisiana it's 18. Source: NCSL. I've searched online for exceptions due to pregnancy but have found none. Hmmm.

[Azubah]

3 minutes ago, ProTourist said:

I wonder how LaShanta was able to drop out of school at age 14.

Some locations have lots of money for truant officers, intervention programs, etc. Some don't. Maybe Kenner, LA puts its limited resources into more pressing problems, like drug trafficking (we certainly know that was going on).

[Sparger Springs]

My favorite part of the entire episode was when LaShanta said Dr Now called and she missed his call somehow. Somebody tell me how she managed to miss a call. She can't move.

[babyhouseman]

8 hours ago, DC Gal in VA said:

 The comments are always hysterical and totally on point.

I loved "Watch out, Dr. Now. Lashanta meets her men while on stretchers." "She wears gloves so Dr. Now can't have the pizza box dusted for prints."

She reminded me some of Martin Lawrence's Big Momma character in her looks. The whole therapy session may not have been shown, but from what was shown, Lola was useless. Maybe if by some miracle, Lashanta loses weight, Lola can take her wig shopping. Lola didn't do the send a letter to a parent thing cause Mama don't want a letter from a fat-assed daughter. 

[Friday]

47 minutes ago, Sparger Springs said:

My favorite part of the entire episode was when LaShanta said Dr Now called and she missed his call somehow. Somebody tell me how she managed to miss a call. She can't move.

That was a real head scratcher for me too.  Maybe it got lodged underneath her body and she couldn't retrieve it in time to answer???

[Tabbygirl521]

What the FUCK is wrong with these men who want an immobile termite queen of a woman? A human mattress. What the hell kind of issues does a guy like this have with women?? I seriously would like to know. 

I would also like to know if Lashanta knew that’s why Prince Charming was with her. If not, it must have been a horrible realization when he left. I can’t even imagine. He only loves her if she can’t move. Jesus. 

[ams1001]

8 minutes ago, Tabbygirl521 said:

What the FUCK is wrong with these men who want an immobile termite queen of a woman? A human mattress. What the hell kind of issues does a guy like this have with women?? I seriously would like to know. 

I would also like to know if Lashanta knew that’s why Prince Charming was with her. If not, it must have been a horrible realization when he left. I can’t even imagine. He only loves her if she can’t move. Jesus. 

Yeah, it's one thing to be attracted to bigger women. I get that, at least on an intellectual level (I am a straight female, so..). But wanting her to be so fat she literally can't do anything for herself (except maybe pick up the phone to order food)? What is the appeal?

[CatherineM]

There’s a cadre of women who have “relationships” with men on death row. One reason they give us that they know where their man is, he can’t disappear on her. They also often say it is because they know he can’t play around on her. Actually, I once saw a fight in a B&B outside a large penitentiary when two women showed up on the same weekend to visit the same inmate. 

Maybe that’s why he wanted her immobile. She’s all his. 

[ProTourist]

1 hour ago, Sparger Springs said:

My favorite part of the entire episode was when LaShanta said Dr Now called and she missed his call somehow. Somebody tell me how she managed to miss a call. She can't move.

She was sleeping and didn't hear the phone ring?

The battery was dead?

She was on another call at the time, and did not check who was the incoming caller?

She had the phone turned off, or on do-not-disturb?

[CringeWatcher]

Rewatching, because who can keep up with the show itself while so much is happening in live chat? Anyway, the “sexy” pics during the backstory segment are unintentionally freakin’ hysterical. 

[Trees]

Dr Now's strong accent and soft voice.

Lashanta's incorrect grammar, accent and unnatural voice.

I honestly wondered how they understood each other.

[Trees]

1 hour ago, Tabbygirl521 said:

What the FUCK is wrong with these men who want an immobile termite queen of a woman? A human mattress. What the hell kind of issues does a guy like this have with women?? I seriously would like to know. 

I would also like to know if Lashanta knew that’s why Prince Charming was with her. If not, it must have been a horrible realization when he left. I can’t even imagine. He only loves her if she can’t move. Jesus. 

I assume those loser men who move in with these blobs are felons with sick fetishes that no other woman wants.  Live rent-free in exchange for running when the blob screams, "Come on! I gotta pee!" and get an occasional hand job.

[Kenzie]

When bad-ass Dr. Now pushed open and came striding through the double hospital bay doors to meet LaShanta's truck I half expected to hear that haunting Western tune from the movie The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Edited April 19, 2019 by Kenzie

[parrotfeathers]

I hate to admit I sort of like LaShanta.     I'll have to tune in to a future update.  

Loved that Dr. Now wasn't going to take her BS.  

I do think she carried a lot of guilt about her son being in prison.  

I hope she succeeds in spite of herself.

Edited April 19, 2019 by parrotfeathers

[CringeWatcher]

More comedy. WTH is she doing on this phone call with Dr. Now? “I must confess I cheated.” Bizarre facial expression. “Oh Dr. Now gimme a second chance,” she wails. Hair flip, hair flip.  I think she thinks this is her big (hehe) acting debut. I really do. She thinks she’s going to be a star.

Edited April 19, 2019 by CringeWatcher

[CringeWatcher]

In the moving to Houston scene, the mom is channeling her inner Jimi Hendrix 🤣

[CrazyInAlabama]

Lashanta doesn't strike me as a success story long term.    I think she lost weight for one month, will maybe lose enough to get surgery, and then be one who starts high calorie liquids, then keeps gaining.        

I bet you anything that the boyfriend was into feeder porn, and he thought the goldmine was going to end, so he took off.    And maybe there was a reason he couldn't go to Houston anyway long term. 

I liked the mother (Barbara?), and think she's done with Lashanta's life time of bad choices.       

Edited April 19, 2019 by CrazyInAlabama

[crazycatlady58]

22 minutes ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

Lashanta doesn't strike me as a success story long term.    I think she lost weight for one month, will maybe lose enough to get surgery, and then be one who starts high calorie liquids, then keeps gaining.        

I bet you anything that the boyfriend was into feeder porn, and he thought the goldmine was going to end, so he took off.    And maybe there was a reason he couldn't go to Houston anyway long term. 

I liked the mother (Barbara?), and think she's done with Lashanta's life time of bad choices.       

The thing that bothered me with the mother was the statement". No one wants a fat ass daughter." Yes it was funny I guess but to me it said  she did not want a daughter unless she looked nice. I know I tend to be a little sensitive but while I understand she was concerned about her weight that statement made it about looks not health.

[Scarlett45]

11 hours ago, Trees said:

This person has never been anything but a complete drain on society.  First baby at age 14 and he's now in jail?  4 babies by 4 absent men?  Drug-dealing to support the family?  Proud of herself for never having prostituted herself (so she says?). Leaves kids alone to raise themselves just as her mom did to her?  Shame on that nasty mom, too! "Don't nobody want a fat-assed daughter."

This fact pattern so early in life tells me this girl was a victim. Likely the father of her first child wasn’t another young teen but a grown ass man, preying on a young girl (she SAID he was 16, ummmhmmm). Growing up in an environment where women had to prostitute themselves to survive or are forced into it by abusive family members. Sad. 

That doesn’t excuse her choices NOW but I can have sympathy for any child growing up in that environment. And yeah at 14 she was a child. 

 

18 minutes ago, crazycatlady58 said:

The thing that bothered me with the mother was the statement". No one wants a fat ass daughter." Yes it was funny I guess but to me it said  she did not want a daughter unless she looked nice. I know I tend to be a little sensitive but while I understand she was concerned about her weight that statement made it about looks not health.

Yes. Something tells me her mother wasn’t exactly “present” in the way she should’ve been. ( not excusing the dad for walking out) She may rightly be sick of her daughters BS but here was she when she was growing up, and a new mom at 14. The woman can be right about her daughter being lazy and still have been neglectful towards her. 

[kicotan]

3 hours ago, Tabbygirl521 said:

What the FUCK is wrong with these men who want an immobile termite queen of a woman? A human mattress. What the hell kind of issues does a guy like this have with women?? I seriously would like to know. 

When I met Mr. kicotan I asked him basically the same thing because he knew some reeeeeaaaaalllly weird folks.  Into stuff I couldn’t even imagine if I was doing LSD with a side of mushrooms and ayahuasca for dessert.

His response? “Men are slime”.

Made sense to me.

[Mswldflwr]

I like a train wreck as much as anybody.  But good God, the amount of train wrecks this season is just pissing me off.   The show should be required to tell us before we invest two freaking hours that the show you are about to see is a complete waste of time in this particular fatty.  I can't get these two hours back -- or should I say about 12 hours of wasted space this season.

[nokat]

8 minutes ago, Mswldflwr said:

I like a train wreck as much as anybody.  But good God, the amount of train wrecks this season is just pissing me off.   The show should be required to tell us before we invest two freaking hours that the show you are about to see is a complete waste of time in this particular fatty.  I can't get these two hours back -- or should I say about 12 hours of wasted space this season.

I never feel like the time is wasted, because the snark in Live Chat is everything.
 

[Globegrl]

I was finally able to make out the tattoos on each of her arms.  The right arm reads "Lil Smokey", the left arm reads "Big Brat".  Well, they are meaty looking arms...

[pippity j]

What really irks me are all the enablers that come back with the line "If I don't do it she gets mad at me."So????Let them get mad.You have two legs and a butt use them.Leave.What will she do get up and chase you down?If you are willing to run for food for them chances are you care enough to make or buy them a healthy meal instead.They will learn that is all they can get from you and either accept that or go food bother someone else.I know this is over simplifying the issue but I hate seeing people give others the power to control and manipulate them.Been there.Got the t-shirt.

Where it gets hard is when it is the children that are being controlled like this.We are taught to obey and respect our parents.It is hard to look a parent in the eyes and say no.A wish I have for this show is that therapy is offered to the children. They are the ones that need it the most.

[WonTon]

14 hours ago, babyhouseman said:

I  "She wears gloves so Dr. Now can't have the pizza box dusted for prints."

OMG! I laughed so hard at this!!! 😂😂😂

[Hannah94]

She sees her old buddy at the drive through window of a fast food joint and says something like "she must be proud to see me out and active like this"....while this lard ass whale lays in the back of a van devouring fried chicken and pissing in buckets. Does this dumb annoying bitch even know what the word "active" means? Schenee just met her match. 

[nokat]

1 hour ago, chunky junky said:

"If I don't do it she gets mad at me."So????Let them get mad.You have two legs and a butt use them.Leave.What will she do get up and chase you down?

I'd leave 1200 calories of food and get the hell out. Especially if I heard "food is the only thing I love" in front of a child.

Giggling over the chasing you down. Probably the most exercise they would have in years.
 

[Tosia]

On 4/18/2019 at 7:42 AM, DC Gal in VA said:

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes to all of this KateHearts! That's a trend for this series, especially this season. And yet we will most certainly be treated to a WATN on her; just wait and see. The only reason I watch each entire episode is to share the misery, and sometimes cheer on a successful poundticipant, during the Live Chat. The comments are always hysterical and totally on point.

It's the Twitney Thore Effect.

NOT showing an obese person taking responsibility and trying to eat/move healthfully, but focusing on their pathologies and pointless, FAKE FAKE FAKE drama,  making a stupid story out of a minor, made-up incident taken all out of proportion. ...much like Twitney herself.  

She's disgusting.  "Dances " ...but doesn't move her feet more than a few inches.

Because she can't.  

[Mothra]

19 hours ago, Stiggs said:

For some reason, the moment I saw her wig at the beginning, I knew this wouldn't go well. I have no idea why the wig was my big tip-off, but I just couldn't see success in that wig. 

I wonder if she usually wears a wig when she's alone.  I suspect that at least some of the dolling up LaShanta did was for the benefit of the cameras.  It's kind of funny to think of someone who weighs what she does and is reduced to the kind of life she is reduced to as being vain, but I guess we all do what we can.  I feel the same way about the tattoos the obesees all seem to sport--I guess they see the tattoos as decoration or as beautifying, but I see them as calling attention to the masses of flesh they're inked on.  And you have to wonder what the tattoos will look like if the obesee manages to lose weight.  Kind of like a Mad Magazine Fold-In, I'm thinking.

[Guest]

15 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Yeah, it's one thing to be attracted to bigger women. I get that, at least on an intellectual level (I am a straight female, so..). But wanting her to be so fat she literally can't do anything for herself (except maybe pick up the phone to order food)? What is the appeal?

It's just about control. They get off on their partner needing them for every single aspect of daily life, even bathing and peeing, because it makes them feel in charge and important. They're so threatened by the prospect of weight loss because these women having any independence diminishes their ego and makes them feel inferior.

[FormeryHeavyJ]

12 hours ago, nokat said:

I never feel like the time is wasted, because the snark in Live Chat is everything.
 

Amen to that!!!  I look forward to Wed nights JUST for the live chat.  Just wish I could stay up for the entire show but I go to bed early to get up and hit the gym.  Sometimes I have a very tough time not laughing too loud in my office as I read the comments.

My favorite snark line from that show was something to the effect that the thin boyfriend was not seen anymore because he fell into a fold and disappeared.

[Mswldflwr]

27 minutes ago, SnarkEnthusiast said:

It's just about control. They get off on their partner needing them for every single aspect of daily life, even bathing and peeing, because it makes them feel in charge and important. They're so threatened by the prospect of weight loss because these women having any independence diminishes their ego and makes them feel inferior.

I don't really believe that's the reason he left.  She proved from day one that her losing weight was not exactly a real threat to their relationship.  And I suspect that most of these boyfriends are there for the caregiver money.  That way they get paid for not doing an actual job -- at least not 40 hours.

[nokat]

5 minutes ago, FormeryHeavyJ said:

My favorite snark line from that show was something to the effect that the thin boyfriend was not seen anymore because he fell into a fold and disappeared.

That was good.
 

[DC Gal in VA]

17 minutes ago, FormeryHeavyJ said:

Amen to that!!!  I look forward to Wed nights JUST for the live chat.  Just wish I could stay up for the entire show but I go to bed early to get up and hit the gym.  Sometimes I have a very tough time not laughing too loud in my office as I read the comments.

My favorite snark line from that show was something to the effect that the thin boyfriend was not seen anymore because he fell into a fold and disappeared.

ITA FormerHeavyJ when it comes to the Live Chats. Frankly, if it wasn't for those I would barely be paying attention or maybe just yelling at the tv all by myself!😁

Sorry that I have been remiss in assigning your often well earned gasoline soaked drawers during the Live Chats 'cause you repeatedly pull no punches when it comes to the real train wrecks we've seen this season.

[DC Gal in VA]

18 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Yeah, it's one thing to be attracted to bigger women. I get that, at least on an intellectual level (I am a straight female, so..). But wanting her to be so fat she literally can't do anything for herself (except maybe pick up the phone to order food)? What is the appeal?

Well, since you asked ams1001.............

In addition to control issues and perhaps financial benefits, some men just like a whole lotta woman sexually. Think about it. When it comes to gettin' down to bid-ness in bed the guy doesn't have to worry about finding his way to her "secret garden." Anywhere he plants it amongst all those rolls and folds is gonna be wet, warm and satisfying. He really can't lose in that respect!😆

*****Accepting no responsibility for anyone spewing coffee, soda or any other liquids onto their computer screens or general nausea after reading this.*****

Already seeing myself out...........

Edited April 19, 2019 by DC Gal in VA
Additional comments.

[CatherineM]

I need bleach for my eyes and brain after reading that. 

[ams1001]

7 minutes ago, DC Gal in VA said:

Well, since you asked ams1001.............

In addition to control issues and perhaps financial benefits, some men just like a whole lotta woman sexually. Think about it. When it comes to gettin' down to bid-ness in bed the guy doesn't have to worry about finding his way to her "secret garden." Anywhere he plants it amongst all those rolls and folds is gonna be wet, warm and satisfying. He really can't lose in that respect!😆

*****Accepting no responsibility for anyone spewing coffee, soda or any other liquids onto their computer screens after reading this.*****

Already seeing myself out...........

We do not have an option to express my full reaction to that so I'm going with laughter.

[AZChristian]

17 hours ago, ProTourist said:

She was sleeping and didn't hear the phone ring?

The battery was dead?

She was on another call at the time, and did not check who was the incoming caller?

She had the phone turned off, or on do-not-disturb?

She had it on vibrate, and it was deep in the folds on her leg and she didn't feel it????

[Mothra]

17 hours ago, Trees said:

I assume those loser men who move in with these blobs are felons with sick fetishes that no other woman wants.  Live rent-free in exchange for running when the blob screams, "Come on! I gotta pee!" and get an occasional hand job.

I am ashamed to confess that one of the things that crossed my mind while I was looking at Lashanta's fully-exposed crotch on her bed was that at least her boyfriend could fuck her.  I don't know exactly how or in what kind of position he'd have to get, but her parts are wide open--not even lymphedemas blocking the Golden Archway.

It's hard to imagine most of the obesees having vaginal sex because it would be so hard to find their vaginas, but as long as Lashanta was sitting erect in her bed, it was all available.  I guess he could lie on his side across her legs ...

[DC Gal in VA]

19 minutes ago, Mothra said:

I am ashamed to confess that one of the things that crossed my mind while I was looking at Lashanta's fully-exposed crotch on her bed was that at least her boyfriend could fuck her.  I don't know exactly how or in what kind of position he'd have to get, but her parts are wide open--not even lymphedemas blocking the Golden Archway.

It's hard to imagine most of the obesees having vaginal sex because it would be so hard to find their vaginas, but as long as Lashanta was sitting erect in her bed, it was all available.  I guess he could lie on his side across her legs ...

Hee Mothra please reference my recent post regarding that very subject on this page!😁

[Tabbygirl521]

5 hours ago, Globegrl said:

I was finally able to make out the tattoos on each of her arms.  The right arm reads "Lil Smokey", the left arm reads "Big Brat".  Well, they are meaty looking arms...

OMG!!! This is absolutely hilarious! The poor clueless thing. 

[gigiann]

On 4/18/2019 at 7:11 AM, iwasish said:

She lost weight finally because her boyfriend left her and she probably couldn’t get as much food supplied to her by her sons.

The boyfriend wanted her fat, probably even fatter, her sons wanted her to lose weight. 

For Dr Now to smell her from outside that ambulance, she must have really stunk. With the boyfriend gone,  I doubt her boys were wiping her ass.  God only knows what was hiding in the folds on her body. 

She had MAYBE lost 5 lbs at the most (if any) at the time the boyfriend took off because she had lost too much weight????

I don't get it!

[Lunula]

What the bloody freaking hell?!? You get a boyfriend at 13 and have a baby at 14. Then literally every guy you meet after that, you have a kid with and every one of them turns out to be abusive and leaves. You don't have a high school diploma and work in fast food and keep having babies. This just kills me. 

I don't like seeing any human being suffer - whether by choice or circumstance. I pull for every person on this show to regain control and break free from their demons. I pulled for Lashanta also, but I have to take a break and take it off my DVR because it is only showing me how god-awful sad it is when people who should not have children have them anyway. I'm always saddened by how trivially people treat the decision to create other human beings. Yes, it is your right and no one should be able to mandate for or against it, but I feel physically ill at how flippant people are. Lashanta sucked. Her mother sucked. All those absent fathers sucked. This whole episode sucked. 

Edited April 19, 2019 by Lunula

[Stiggs]

 

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, Mothra said:

I wonder if she usually wears a wig when she's alone.  I suspect that at least some of the dolling up LaShanta did was for the benefit of the cameras.  It's kind of funny to think of someone who weighs what she does and is reduced to the kind of life she is reduced to as being vain, but I guess we all do what we can.  I feel the same way about the tattoos the obesees all seem to sport--I guess they see the tattoos as decoration or as beautifying, but I see them as calling attention to the masses of flesh they're inked on.  And you have to wonder what the tattoos will look like if the obesee manages to lose weight.  Kind of like a Mad Magazine Fold-In, I'm thinking.

I'm somewhat obsessed with this and wonder if there are artists out there that specialize in transforming the "mad magazine" tattoos. 

At one point while watching this, I did have to laugh at myself, because I, too, travel with my makeup in a freezer bag. Nothing but class, lol.