Winner of "The Biggest Loser" gains 20 lbs.

Someone is 5 pounds underweight and people say she looks disgusting.

Someone is 50 pounds overweight and people praise them for being so beautiful and brave.

The double standard is infuriating.

Just so we're clear the only people praising people 50 pounds overweight are also overweight. It's a bit of a false equivalency really, as if the groups who say those things must be the same people or reflect upon each other when really they aren't.

It's insane that people would use this woman as some kind of 'Skinny Chick Discrimination' rallying cry when A. She isn't an example of a healthy looking underweight woman and B. She's admitted she did it to win and never had any intention of staying at that weight. She's a game player, not a figurehead for a cause.

She is not the bandwagon you're looking for.

It doesn't matter whether she looks healthy or not. She lost weight in the first place because she felt terrible about herself. How would you feel if you worked so hard to lose all that weight only to have the entire country say you look horrible?

We all acknowledge that she lost a dramatic amount or weight because she wanted to win a boat load of money. Can you honestly say you wouldn't have done the same?

Do not imagine that the money wasn't always first and foremost in her mind and that it was all about 'I'm fat and fell bad' for this woman. She was all about the competition from day one. And there's nothing wrong with that (Like I sad, she's a game player. Ain't nothing wrong with playing the game, I'm the first person to admit I'd drop all kinda of stupid weight for a quarter of a million dollars.)

Nothing I said implies otherwise. I'm saying don't make the situation something that it's not: It's not about Skinny girl body shaming and it's not about Rachel feeling 'bad' because people were saying she didn't look good; she doesn't gaf. She knew it was extreme, she knew it wasn't her ideal weight, and she did it to play the game not to look good (I don't imagine she thought she looked good). That's why she put on 20 pounds and calls that her 'Perfect/Ideal' weight. She always intended to be in this spot, she just took a pit stop on the side to pick up a check.

It doesn't matter whether she looks healthy or not. She lost weight in the first place because she felt terrible about herself. How would you feel if you worked so hard to lose all that weight only to have the entire country say you look horrible?

We all acknowledge that she lost a dramatic amount or weight because she wanted to win a boat load of money. Can you honestly say you wouldn't have done the same?

SMH.

If she was doing it to win a bunch of money, I seriously doubt she gives a crap about people saying she looked horrible. And clearly she was not happy or able to sustain that weight since she gained 20 pounds. So why is this a freaking discussion?

Someone is 5 pounds underweight and people say she looks disgusting.

Someone is 50 pounds overweight and people praise them for being so beautiful and brave.

The double standard is infuriating.

Just so we're clear the only people praising people 50 pounds overweight are also overweight. It's a bit of a false equivalency really, as if the groups who say those things must be the same people or reflect upon each other when really they aren't.

It's insane that people would use this woman as some kind of 'Skinny Chick Discrimination' rallying cry when A. She isn't an example of a healthy looking underweight woman and B. She's admitted she did it to win and never had any intention of staying at that weight. She's a game player, not a figurehead for a cause.

She is not the bandwagon you're looking for.

It doesn't matter whether she looks healthy or not. She lost weight in the first place because she felt terrible about yourself. How would you feel if you worked so hard to lose all that weight only to have the entire country say you look horrible?

We all acknowledge that she lost a dramatic amount or weight because she wanted to win a boat load of money. Can you honestly say you wouldn't have done the same?

I'd cry myself to sleep on my piles and piles of money.

She looks fine. Not that you can tell how healthy a person is by a picture on a website, but...from what she has said, she won a contest, took her money, then got back to a weight that wasn't as extreme for her body type. Seems ok to me, but then again, it also seems clear to me that the show is a steaming pile of obesity porn and not a paragon of inspiration.

Damn right. It's an awful show that promotes awful habits and gives people really skewed expectations of weight loss (Why can't I lose 12 pounds a week/I only lost 2 pounds what am I doing wrong!) It has very little redeeming value (Except I guess it got Ruben Studdard some PR this year.)

And that's all a whatever. She played a game, she won the game, she's done playing and is now in a spot where she's happier. Let's not pretend there is any more to this situation than that. She's counting her cash, enjoying some cookies, and working on her acting career. (I'm sure the PR will help. I'm not at her for that either. Play the game girl, get money.)

Stop looking for other people to be a scapegoat for your problems.

She did it to win, she's healthier now. End of story.

Is she healthier now? I doubt it.

The extreme weight loss was not just fat..it was a large amount of muscle too...

Chances are the weight she gained was fat tho...again how is that heathier.

she's healthier because now she can afford to pay her health insurance premiums

Stop looking for other people to be a scapegoat for your problems.

She did it to win, she's healthier now. End of story.

Is she healthier now? I doubt it.

The extreme weight loss was not just fat..it was a large amount of muscle too...

Chances are the weight she gained was fat tho...again how is that heathier.

she's healthier because now she can afford to pay her health insurance premiums

HAHA! for realz. Plus I am sure she is still in a healthy fat% range even if her weight gain is all fat. Give me a break. We don't have her numbers to really know and can only see her results. Without data what can we really know.....

for a quarter of a million dollars i'll diet down to an unhealthy weight too and not give a damn what other people think of how i look. LIES. i don't a bunch of cash to stop giving a damn what other people think. i do that now for free.

This. In a heartbeat.

She was just in a cutting phase. Now she's in a bulk phase. someone post that.

Stop looking for other people to be a scapegoat for your problems.

She did it to win, she's healthier now. End of story.

Is she healthier now? I doubt it.

The extreme weight loss was not just fat..it was a large amount of muscle too...

Chances are the weight she gained was fat tho...again how is that heathier.

Because a normal person weighing 140 lbs (which given her height is probably around what she weighs, maybe even more) carrying a very low 10% bodyfat would carry 14 lbs of body fat.

As has been mentioned in many of the previous posts which you clearly did not read, she had likely also sweated a lot of water out of her system, since the show is all about making weight, not being healthy. It's likely she gained back 5 lbs of water weight in the 24 hours after the show. In the final weigh in she was far to skinny and likely knew it. That's why she had no problems getting back to a more normal weight.

Stop looking for other people to be a scapegoat for your problems.

She did it to win, she's healthier now. End of story.

Is she healthier now? I doubt it.

The extreme weight loss was not just fat..it was a large amount of muscle too...

Chances are the weight she gained was fat tho...again how is that heathier.

She didn't look all that different than some fitness competitors I've seen. She was probably sitting at around 15-16% body fat and now she's probably around 20-22%. I don't think she has anything to worry about.

Someone is 5 pounds underweight and people say she looks disgusting.

Someone is 50 pounds overweight and people praise them for being so beautiful and brave.

The double standard is infuriating.

Just so we're clear the only people praising people 50 pounds overweight are also overweight. It's a bit of a false equivalency really, as if the groups who say those things must be the same people or reflect upon each other when really they aren't.

It's insane that people would use this woman as some kind of 'Skinny Chick Discrimination' rallying cry when A. She isn't an example of a healthy looking underweight woman and B. She's admitted she did it to win and never had any intention of staying at that weight. She's a game player, not a figurehead for a cause.

She is not the bandwagon you're looking for.

VERY WELL SAID!!!