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Reality TV Contestant Says: I Chose To Be Fat

Juanita La Gordita

Posted by Gina C. on October 2nd, 2008

I forgot that Desperate Housewives premiered on Sunday. I can’t believe it slipped my mind seeing as how I’ve been counting down since last seasons finale.

Anyway, one of the characters, Gabrielle, played by Eva Longoria Parker, has a daughter named Juanita. The girl is supposed to be four, but she isn’t the size of most four year old’s. The main story line around this character was her weight.

My question is about the actual little girl whose real name is Madison Delagarza. How is this making her feel to play a character who is seen a fat and undesirable? Does it impact her at all to play this role where parents are whispering behind her back and trying to trick her into exercising by playing “let’s chase the car.”

How do you explain to a child, “you just got a great acting role as the fat daughter who eats too much cake”?

Am I over reacting? It’s just acting right?

I don’t know because it looks pretty close to how things are in reality to me.

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Yeah, I was a little surprised that they were so harsh about a little girl being overweight… then I realised that I was even more shocked by how big this girl is, and especially for 6-year-old (her real age, I believe).

Some children are heavier and still basically healthy, but if you look at this girl’s face you can see how massively overweight she is. Bad, bad parenting.

On top of it all, the poor thing is the half-sister of the gorgeous and thin Demi Lovato, who is supposed to be like the next next Miley Cyrus: http://evilbeetgossip.film.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/demi_lovato.jpg

i totally agree with you.

I did her about Madison being half-sisters with the teen star Demi Lovato. But there is defenitly a resemblence between the two. When Demi was younger like Madison, she was a childstar in Barney and Friends, if you go on google images, youtube, photobucket, or anywhere… you can see there is a most definetly a simalarity between the two girls.

That girls is nasty fat. She has 5 chins, and rolls of fat everywhere! She needs to lose weight before she gets older and it is much harder. Not only is she FUGLY, she is very unhealthy. I think we should care less about her emotions (which will be crushed anyways once she’s older), and care more about her losing weight. I would chain her to a treadmill for a few hours everyday. I am not being mean, I really think thats the best way to prevent her getting a heart attack at age 30.

yea o guess i felt a little weird about it but i had a big talk about it and we agreed just to be thankful that i could even get a part and that it was a fun part and they are all very ,very nice!:)



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