First Lady drags daughters into obesity campaign
Hey, whatever happened to leaving the Obama girls alone?
Charm City Moms: A blog for Maryland parents by The Baltimore Sun’s Kate Shatzkin
The Obama children and child obesity
President Barack Obama is in Baltimore today, but it’s his wife’s last pronouncement on her campaign against childhood obesity that’s caught my attention. As the president did several months ago in an education speech, First Lady Michelle Obama has taken a personal tack — divulging some private information about her children — to drive home her point about early intervention in kids’ health.
In remarks at a YMCA in Virginia, Obama said her daughters’ pediatrician warned her — some time ago, apparently — that the girls were getting “off track” in terms of body-mass index…
…The personal aspect brings the story home and helps us remember how important the message is.
On the other hand, I do wonder about the kids’ privacy factor here, and how disclosures like these could open the door to unwanted scrutiny for the first daughters…
Hasn’t stopped POTUS and FLOTUS before.
Flashback: Leave Obama’s kids alone…except when POTUS & FLOTUS need them for Obamacare
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Wait a minute! I thought they all eating those healthy garden vegetables that they grew?
Good point, FLOTUS should be more careful about making an issue of her children. It is about being consistent. When she opens the door, or leaves it slightly ajar, the press and others will walk in.
Sounds like a job for Oprah. She’s written dozens of books about how she keeps her weight down.
Stop feeding them ice cream. NTTIAWWT IYKWIMAITYD
1. Publicizing personal physical information about your kids is in really bad taste.
2. Publicizing personal physical information about your kids causes you’re kids huge embarrassment.
3. We don’t want to know this.
What ever works … Character, something you will never associate with the Obama’s.
That’s the problem. And that 4-cheese sauce. M-m-m-m-m-m. Cheese sauce.
Hey, I’m all for encouraging the kiddies to eat healthy and moderately and exercise. Now is the time to develop good habits, not to mention the fact that we DO have a major issue with kids w/regard to obesity and the accompanying health problems.
And any cruel put-downs should, of course, be avoided. These are pre-teen/teenage girls we’re talking about.
However, if it were me, I would not be voluntarily sharing ANYTHING about my kids’ medical history. She can use them as a positive example now without mentioning that.
“Ain’t gonna bump no more with no big fat woman.”
Is FLOTUS the Latin word for “gigantic butt?” Just curious.
Really…this is the largest rear end on a president’s wife since Lincoln.
But let’s talk about her arms some more.
But, are the daughters available?
For all those Spinal Tap fans —
“Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about mud flaps, my girl’s got ‘em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?”
Oh wow. How awful it must be for a t’ween girl to have a mother who stands up and tells the whole world that your doctor said you were getting fat.
“Amplus Puga pyga” sort of a translation to latin.
Chinese translation:
大後方
Und now kinder, vee vill all eat from the prescribed menu of our glorious Dear Leader.
Und if you do not, No healthcare for you.
If I were one of the daughters, I would be really pi$$ed at Mommie Dearest!! That is just not right. By the way, my daughter just got a new job in a non-profit agency, working in a program for school kids and their health. It is a great program and incorporates healthy eating, outdoor activities, after school programs, etc. She is really excited about it and it really sounds like a great program. I guess her job is pretty safe, huh? Michelle O. is behind this, so the funding should continue at least for the next 3 years. I have nothing against a program of this type, as long as it isn’t MANDATED! Just keep it voluntary, folks! This daughter is not a radical right-wing extremist like I am, but she does lean to the right!
Which evolves years later into that question no man dares answer, “Honey, do I look fat in this dress.”
“Honey, does this obesity campaign make me look fat?”
On February 1st, 2010 at 1:57 pm, backwoods conservative said:
“Honey, does
this obesity campaignmy 大後方 make me look fat?”Just playing with variations.
Hope this announcement of Queen M. the FLOTUS does not increase anorexia or bulimia in either her girls or others.
One thing I’m concerned of is supposed the “first girls” are promoting a PC “eat healthy” campaign involving taking meat out of school cafeterias for soy-burgers/milk/etc? (an idea Bloomberg and NYC council have buzzing). I think, at least in school cafeterias, kids should have a choice — including real meat. We’re carnivores, not rabbits.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
That’s OK. I have a variety of ways of maintaining my well-rounded figure.
Actually, there’s a real word, steatopygia, that describes FLOTUS’ backside. But close…stillontheroad.
While there are places on the Web that celebrate her kind of “look,” it’s not exactly the body that I would cast in an anti-obesity commercial.
But let’s talk about those lovely arms some more.
Don’t let anyone tell you that you are not in shape.
Round is a shape.
Hey mom and dad, quit feeding your girls BULL!
Oh this great. Imagine being a teenage girl in the public spotlight. Your every action, or in-action, being subject to the whims of those reporting your life.
Now, imagine your own mother outing you for weight issues.
Do you think these young ladies will be more comfortable in public knowing the press will be constantly attempting to get pictures of their behinds.
I am sure one of them will enlighten us as to their feelings in about 10 years when they write their famous tell all book.
Hopefully, they can get this all ‘behind’ them
Bad idea to expose personal medical information about the daughters at their age. Peer pressure and personal appearance are priorities to them. It has to be the ultimate embarrassment.
Good incentive to keep a svelte tush.
*I’m guessing when the girls draw their parents for a school project, P-BO is a stick figure, but Michelle, not so much!
*In all seriousness, please allow the girls as normal an upbringing as possible; It’s the right thing to do.
Why is Fat Bottomed Girl by Queen running through my mind right now?
President Jack Sprat and his lovely wife…. if those poor girls take after their mother, which they likely will, they will always be in danger of getting off tack with their “body mass index”.
the First Klingon always looks like she’s one meal away from exploding into your standard 300# Walmart mom.
tre said:
Same reason Big Bottom is running through mine. Spinal Tap – because the moon is full 24/7
This was exactly my first thought, too, Lindsay.
I have no opinion and don’t care about their children at all.
But Michelle Obama? She has a VERY, VERY large butt.
Almost gigantic, I think.
Michelle isn’t the brightest crayon in the box.
I was recently amused by watching her youngest child interact with her. Being a daughter myself, I can spot defiance when I see it. Let’s just say, that younger daughter appears to have issues with Mommy Dearest…
The girls have my sympathy with the ditz doing this like this, it’ll be a wonder if her girls respect or like her at all.
And a big belly, too. Loves those wide belts, high above the belly in front and then drooping in back sitting on the big fanny. Those wide belts just accent her ass-ets.
Next she’ll be going on Oprah and getting tips on how to keep her daughters slim. Disgraceful!
Are they saying that the Obama daughters were getting fat and that their pediatrician warned them to fix it?
Claiming that they were getting off track doesn’t mean much. They should be more clear about this.
Mrs. Obama comes off as a rather large women who would carry more body mass, whereas Mr. Obama appears to be a skinny, 98 pound weakling. She may well push him around in that relationship. If they had a knock down, drag out fight Mrs. Obama would likely mop the floor of with Mr. Obama, he is so skinny and weak looking.
Nevertheless, it is understood from Obama’s habits and his past, that Mr. Obama smokes cigarettes, which does help people carry less body mass, and less weight.
Here is a simple solution for Mr. and Mrs. Obama in dealing with their children. If they truly worry that their daughters are at risk of being overweight they can always just give them a few packs of cigarettes per day to help keep the weight off.
It appears to work for their daddy.
Please, don’t insult the Klingons. Lursa and B’etor were HAWT!
I suppose with a enough cheese, even broccoli can taste good (shudder), or so I’ve been told.
Drained Brain,
That is funny!
Visiting Oprah Winfrey for advice and guidance on keeping weight, or rather, keeping body mass of your body is like going to a Hippopotamus and asking the Hippo, “How do you stay so thin?”
Has she no shame? Oh wait..
Our pediatrician told us to not focus on the BMI unless it got over the top, as young girls pick up on parental tension and internalize it.
FLOTUS needs a 2nd opinion.
Misscheryle,
That is an interesting observation.
I have wondered what is in the water, or the food supply, in other words, I’ve been wondering what people are eating, drinking, or breathing these days that they have been claiming that Mr. Obama and Mrs. Obama are Brilliant, glamorous, wonderful, and all that.
My wife often makes similar comments.
When she sees Mrs. Obama she orally expresses, “She doesn’t dress very well. She looks awful,” and similar comments related to the weird look on Mrs. Obama’s face, her body shape, and her style of apparel.
Our children see Mrs. Obama fairly often in photographs and on television and spontaneously comment “Oh, that lady looks really weird. She looks scary.”
I fail to see Brilliance in either Mrs. Obama or Mr. Obama. I see ignorance in those who praise them, claiming that they are Brilliant, that they are so nice, and that they have such great style.
I have been wondering if Mr. and Mrs. Obama’s education was mainly enabled by affirmative action, with special favors granted them because they were “connected” to radicals who had pull with the University system.
In other words, Mr. Obama does not strike me as Brilliant, or very bright, or very well educated, nor does Mrs. Obama.
There are Bright, well educated persons with whom one can make a contrast with the Obamas.
Here is a short list:
Marylyn vos Savant: World record holder with the highest IQ on the Stanford-Binet system of 228 (100 is “normal).
Thomas Sowell: PhD, Economist, Author
Walter Williams: PhD, Economist, Chair of the Economics Department, George Mason University.
That is a very short list for now which lists some brilliant, bright, well educated people in contrast to Mr. and Mrs. Obama.
Regarding the Obama daughters, they appear to be cute, nice children. I wish them well.
William, I believe them to be highly educated individuals, but not very wise or emotionally mature.
“Standard 300# Walmart mom”? Guess you don’t go to Walmart very often.
Appalling.
I suppose the Obamas didn’t learn the lesson after President Obama made that comment about his daughter’s science test grade.
My father is a pastor, and he’d get permission from his children to share a story about us to illustrate a sermon point. There were times I told him no, and that was to avoid embarrassment in front of an audience of one or two hundred.
BTW, Tea Party Republican candidate Marco Rubio is now crushing RNC Republican candidate Charlie Crist by 11%!
How long before the RNC cleans house? Clueless Michael Steele is brushing off questions about whether he plans to run for Prez in 2012!
Shh! Don’t tell Thomas, he’ll have a sea kitten!
yeah, what’s the deal, I thought the White House was vegan now. that does it, need to get rid of the cows, their flatulence is contributing to climate change(or what ever their calling it today) not to mention making Barry’s girls fatso’s…this cannot continue.
/sar
I can see it now… the 2 girls hit their rebellious teenager phase in a couple of years and show it by hanging a copy of the US Constitution on their bedroom wall, next to a “Teen Beat” poster featuring Ronald Reagan.
Less Wagyu Beef and more arrugula, girls.
I cannot fault the FLOTUS on her figure due to my own grievous faults.
I have the body of a GOD!
(Buddha)
Those girls will forever have an issue with their shapes since they are their mothers’ daughters.
If you know what I mean.
That was funny, good on ya.
O/T, Obama has now bowed to the Mayor of Tampa, FL. Maybe he just bows to people with more executive experience than he has.
Next thing you know, Michelle is going to be touting them as reason to combat anorexia in America.
Those poor girls…
I wonder what Missus Obama’s body fat index (or whatever the hell it’s called) is. Would SHE like to submit to an examination and a public anal search with regard to HER idyllic body standards?
No, of course not, just like Barack won’t stand for any scrutiny with regard to his proof of his birthplace, his college records, his health records, etc, etc, etc…
I don’t think kids should be targets, regardless of how their parents use them. If they start making political speechs, that is a different story. But we should leave them alone, they had little choice in their parents actions. Of course the liberals will not respect privacy rights of a conservative’s children but they are A-holes anyway. No need to emulate.
10 years from now, Sasha and Malia will be on “20/20,” tearfully recounting their battles with bulimia and anorexia because of the pressure to be thin-thin-thin in order to promote FLOTUS’s anti-obesity witch hunt.
These girls are not the grotesquely overweight kids you see paraded on “Dr. Phil.” They’re fine. Mom needs to can it and worry about her own behind before wrecking her daughters’ lives. Mine too, for that matter.
How about Condi Rice? I would love to see Obama debate Condi. It would be brutal and I expect very enlightening for those who still think him brilliant. She could whip him while simultaneously doing the Sunday crossword puzzle, writing her memiors and balancing her checkbook.
Oy, Ophrah and The Queen of Crass!
Ophrah has been battling hypothyroidism for years. Being HT myself, I have actually tried what I researched to see how it worked.
I sometimes need to eat RED MEAT. Tofu (and all things SOY) are a big fat no-no for HT people. There is a chemical that binds on the thyroid hormone receptors and causes big problems for some thyroid patients.
Oh, and there is an estimate that many, many women who are diagnosed as perimenopausal are reallt HT. I know I fought stupid healthcare professionals for 3 YEARS getting correctly diagnosed, in spite of a family history of hypothyroidism!
Yeah, I can hardly wait for Queen Michelle to be overseeing ObamaCare for the masses.
I think I’m going to throw-up a lot. (And it’s not bulemia.)
I got a letter in the mail a couple of days ago asking if my daughter could participate in an obesity study for adolescents. It was from some official US government agency. My question is how they hell did they get my name and know that I have an adolescent daughter?
I certainly don’t remember releasing medical information about my daughter to the feds! I thought HIPAA was supposed to protect medical records?
I am going to be calling our pediatrician and asking how the hell private information was released without my knowledge or consent. I am very interested in their answer.
WOT but must read. Washington Post article about how conservatives are getting it done. Includes a very good description of the GOP’s obtuseness. Also gives a decent overview of how the “vast right-wing conspiracy” works and where this site (us) fits in.
If anyone really believes that the Tea Party movement is dead, you won’t after you read this article. You will understand why only about 20% of voters identify with the GOP and why that number is shrinking even as the Democrats are suffering declines of their own.
Nah, he’s just exercising to keep his waist trim. Now if he’s only trim his his other waste.
The body-mass index is a faulty measure of health and should not be taken seriously.
Can’t wait for the daily weigh-ins at the Oval Office.
Sorry, Phil, but somebody said the TEA Party movement was dead so you MUST be WRONG!
It is the brilliant actions of the GOP “Leadership” that gave us a Republican victory in NY-23, NJ, Virginia and now Massachusetts. Aren’t you reading those emails from Mr. Steele…
englishqueen,
According to the new BMI, when I was 17 years old, and 6 feet tallk and weighed 175 pounds with six-pack abs I was on just barely below the “overweight” threshold. That now gets me a BMI of 23.8 and 25 is considered “overweight” on the current scale! That is NUTS!
Nobody should pay attention to this stupid scale…
I won’t knock Michell’s figure (she makes the most of what she has).
Maybe Michelle could move the spotlight off the girls by encouraging an effort to make PE (physical education) mandatory in public schools again. And encourage private schools to do the same.
He doesn’t call, he doesn’t write, I don’t know what to think anymore. Where’s the love?
When I was in high school my evil grandmother constantly compared me to my anorexic aunt. Surprise surprise-I ended up with a full-blown case of exercise bulimia-which I still to some degree have.
FLOTUS needs to shut the ^&*( up!
PP, you forgot to put in the ‘canned laughter’ that statement…
Ya know, this James O’Keefe arrest is beginning to turn on the Justice Dept. Here’s a link (it’s on Buzzworthy above) to a Andrew Breitbart video interview on FoxNews where he is pretty much accusing personal involvement by Eric Holder of framing O’Keefe. As they say, stay tuned.
FLOTUS won’t. She’s a liberal meddler…got to be in EVERYONE’S business.
There is actually a real problem with childhood (and adult) obesity. The elephant in the room is that it happened when moms entered the work force en masse.
This was one thing the Clintons got right – keep the kids away from the cameras.
TV and videogames don’t help, either.
If she’s so worried about obesity, she should get her wide arse on a treadmill and deal with her own.
She has her share of junk in the trunk.
MO, herself, is a COW! LOL!