Almost 10 years ago, I was caught in production of "Silence!", Academy Award Classic, "Silence of Lambs". I played Catherine Martin, the kidnapped daughter of the United States Senator, whom Ameeim "Buffalo Bill" was held in a hole and starving in the hope that rapid weight loss would loosen her skin enough to make a woman respond. Tire gloriously asks: "Are you in size 14?" While kidnapping her, the musical has a whole song in the style of Hudown with that question as a choir.

When I played the role, I was the same size as I am now, 26, almost twice the size of a woman's dress considered to be oily that her excess skin can be used as a fabric. In the tradition of the double -activated music theater, I also played the trunk of Fridrica Bimel, the woman who suffocates her pleasure with the Agent Claris Starling as "a great big fat".

I provide this anecdote because it is important to understand my perspective as a journalist who did not come to the new documentary "Fit for for TV: The reality of the biggest loser" as someone who is familiar with the Ghoulish reality show in the NBC, who sang dangerous, unacceptable, " perception. Internet trolls, strangers on the street, and even well -intentioned members of my family believed that they were ashamed of my body is some necessary heavy LOVEUBOOK to inspire me to be "healthier" (read: thinner), and that fatty bodies are problems that have to be repaired through pain and punishment.

"Fit for TV: The reality of the biggest loser" is a long -standing count of one of the worst real shows in television history. But for fatty people, there is no bombs revolution because relentless treatment and unethical methods are shown rooted in an anti -fat system that society continues to immortalize today.

For those who missed the "biggest loser" (and therefore they never lived in a home where the only sweet thing available was Sactwell), it was a real competition show that made their capital from the careless treatment of fatty people thrown to compete against each other in a battle with an extreme weight loss. Some competitors reportedly consumed only 800 calories a day and worked for 8+ hours to the point of vomiting, as coaches Bob Harper and Illilian Michaels (the last of whom did not participate in the documents) lied to "motivational phrases" like, "I don't care if people die.

As the producer D.D explained. Roth, the "biggest loser", did not look for competitors who were obese and satisfied with their lives and bodies, but people who were in desperation and saw the play as their last hope. Those who defend their work on the show sincerely believe that they "spared lives", although there were more hospitalizations of competitors, Reports of permanent damage to their metabolismZero Directions Once the Departure of the Show and, in the case of competitor in season 8, Tracy Fukic - who said she joined the show in the hope that weight loss could correct her marriage or Fix it - They almost die due to rhabdomyolysis.

What part of the people to click or build food structures using only their mouths to conquer the chance to call their loved ones at home, increase their lifespan? How does the treatment of fatty people as a side show attraction by squeezing them in discovering clothes for millions of people helping one's health outcomes? In which universe is the camera shakes as the fat face falls from the treadmill to imply that they "shook the room" improve one's cholesterol?

"This is what America thinks it is healthy and safe?" He questioned the contestant in the season 2 Susan Mendonka, who claims that he was reportedly asked to gain weight before the show began in the hope that her transformation would be more dramatic for TV. "Producers wanted it ***," said Bob Harper's coach. "They were like," We want to shoot! We want madness of all that! ""

Safe weight loss is something that needs to be done gradually over time, making us "good TV". Only that should have been a sign of the play never exist in the first place. "People want to have fun with obese people," said competition in season 7, Elleoel Guinn rightly. The "biggest loser" never referred to health or health; It was an empire of billions of dollars, built on the ritual of humiliation.

Savior appears in documents in the form of Airprey Gordon, author, co-host of the popular phase of maintaining podcasts and subject to The fantastic documentary "Your fat friend". She routinely called on the way the show not only harmed competitors, but also irreparably damaged society's relationship with fatty people. "Nothing you are doing in your whole life will be celebrated as slim as it is," she said in front of the camera, a fact that I can confirm as disturbing exactly as someone who had dramatic weight fluctuations And Survived the cancer of the pancreas. The "biggest loser" did not invent Fatphobia, but confirmed and reinforced the existing way of thinking in our society: that fatty people are a fair game for ridicule, and mistreatment is something we "deserve" because we are not thin. It is a practice that continues today, as is obvious from any part of comments on any video of a thick face - including clips of and trailer for this documentary.

Ironically, as much as the show and those who did it opposed the health outcomes, Bob Harper suffered a "widow" heart attack a year after the show's cancellation, testimony that there is Numerous Factors that determine the health of a person, not just weight. But it doesn't matter. The damage is done. It is not only that the "biggest loser" has taught fatty people to feel bad about themselves, to see the offensive treatment we receive by a fefobic society as a lipstick, to engage in disrupted eating or resorting to extreme methods if it means taking less space in the world. He also taught millions of viewers at home to degrade fatty people and enjoy our dehumanization. And most of the heart part of it is that millions of people, including those competing on the show or made a wealth of work, still do not recognize how much damage the show caused.

"Fit for TV: The reality of the biggest loser" is available to transfer to Netflix.