I'm watching season 3 of One Tree Hill and am currently up to the part where everyone finds out that Rachel Gattina was once fat.
Rachel Gattina (played by Daneel Harris) is gorgeous. Skinny, toned, tanned, gorgeous red head, cheerleader, popular and confident. On the outside, you wouldn't be able to find a flaw (the inside is a whole different matter). However, half way through the season, you find out that Rachel used to be 'fat' - though the pictures of her merely showed her as a chubby young girl. She got her stomach stapled, starved her self, got half a dozen cosmetic surgeries... and because the skinny, popular person that we all see.
On the show, Rachel is clear that what she did to her body was extreme, dangerous and not for everyone. But she also admitted that it made her life worthwhile, to shed the fat and become someone that everyone else would accept.
I've always had a bit of a problem with this plotline... first, the character was never really 'fat'. Secondly, it just seems to say 'hey, if you're fat and you try hard enough, you could end up looking like a model'... i don't know, it just seems unfair. Daneel Harris clearly has never been ugly. To give such a plotline to someone so gorgeous, who has probably never come close to feeling what a 'fat' outcase might feel, seems almost like it's making light of the problem. I know that's really not the intention of the show - in fact, i'd assume they're trying to do the opposite; they're clear that the transformation didn't make Rachel happy, even if it made her gorgeous... But realistically there's no way that this girl was ever fat and miserable...
From someone who consideres herself to be the kind of chubby girl that Rachel was before the transformation, i'm just really unsettled by the whole thing. I would kill to look like little Miss Maxim here. I know that i'm never going to turn into someone who looks like the new and improved Rachel, i probably will never have that confidence or style. And surgery probably wouldn't change that.
Ahhhh, i know i'm ranting and not making sense. I don't really know what my problem is. It's just got my hackles up. You shoudn't be suprised - you all know i'm crazy by now.
Rachel Gattina (played by Daneel Harris) is gorgeous. Skinny, toned, tanned, gorgeous red head, cheerleader, popular and confident. On the outside, you wouldn't be able to find a flaw (the inside is a whole different matter). However, half way through the season, you find out that Rachel used to be 'fat' - though the pictures of her merely showed her as a chubby young girl. She got her stomach stapled, starved her self, got half a dozen cosmetic surgeries... and because the skinny, popular person that we all see.
On the show, Rachel is clear that what she did to her body was extreme, dangerous and not for everyone. But she also admitted that it made her life worthwhile, to shed the fat and become someone that everyone else would accept.
I've always had a bit of a problem with this plotline... first, the character was never really 'fat'. Secondly, it just seems to say 'hey, if you're fat and you try hard enough, you could end up looking like a model'... i don't know, it just seems unfair. Daneel Harris clearly has never been ugly. To give such a plotline to someone so gorgeous, who has probably never come close to feeling what a 'fat' outcase might feel, seems almost like it's making light of the problem. I know that's really not the intention of the show - in fact, i'd assume they're trying to do the opposite; they're clear that the transformation didn't make Rachel happy, even if it made her gorgeous... But realistically there's no way that this girl was ever fat and miserable...
From someone who consideres herself to be the kind of chubby girl that Rachel was before the transformation, i'm just really unsettled by the whole thing. I would kill to look like little Miss Maxim here. I know that i'm never going to turn into someone who looks like the new and improved Rachel, i probably will never have that confidence or style. And surgery probably wouldn't change that.
Ahhhh, i know i'm ranting and not making sense. I don't really know what my problem is. It's just got my hackles up. You shoudn't be suprised - you all know i'm crazy by now.
1 comment:
I get your meaning, although I didn't know who Danneel Harris was until just now. Definitely a gorgeous girl with no cause for complaints. I agree that if they're going to make characters flawed in any way, they should at least TRY to find actors who are genuinely believable as being flawed.
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