Celebrity Fit Club:
Fame has its weight
Thesis:
Celebrities, even ones past their prime, do not have fame without having a certain weight limit. Teens see this saying without the perfect body they are not going to be able to make it in whatever they choose to go into. This show tells them that even celebrities need to conform to the "perfect body image."
Celebrity Fit Club
It comes as no surprise that more and more teens are trying to become “supermodel” thin. Or the girls want to look just like the celebrities on television and in their favorite movies. Nevertheless, it is truly sickening when girls watch weight loss shows, such as Celebrity Fit Club, that depict celebrities past their prime and “overweight”, and still think they need to lose weight like them. This show portrays the idea that if a person wants to be famous the body they have now is not good enough and they need to lose weight. Thus, without a perfect body, a person is not famous. Now these celebrities are a wide range of old and new. On this show, actors and actresses society grew up with are now overweight and have not starred in any thing since that famous show. Yet, others on the show are ones that have recently appeared on other shows and are considered “heavy.” Thus, our society is being convinced that thin is the only way to be famous or get work.
With the show getting ready for its sixth season, Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp, many seasoned veterans that we as viewers have come to love and hate are back at it. Toccara Jones, most known for competing in the third season of America’s Next Top Model and co-hosting for BET’s Take the Cake, is back for a second season. Toccara has made a life out of her “plus-size” curves. She has signed with a modeling agency as a plus-size model, been in numerous runway shows, and modeled for many different stores and companies. Yet, Toccara still seeks to achieve a smaller body weight. The world is mean, and even though she actually represents many women in society, people still believe she needs to lose weight. The first season she was on the show, she lost a total of 32 pounds. Nevertheless, she is back for a second time.
Also back for a second time is the infamous Dustin Diamond. Many people know him as Screech from Saved by the Bell. Yet, last season he knocked down every stereotype people had of him when he constant blew up at the trainer and his teammates. He has become a fit club legend because of them. He ended last season with a lost of 30 pounds. Yet, Diamond returns weighing 217 pounds, the amount he started with on the previous season, for the second time around. It is obvious that even celebrities have problems keeping their weight off.