Angel, I totally agree

I think that over-weight people usual bs about how they're so comfortable in their own body and they aren't ashamed of their size or aren't even a bit embarrassed about how much they weigh. Lets face it. Lying to each other isn't going to do any one any good. I'm not discriminating. I believe that most overweight people are responsible for their weight unless they have a sickness that caused them to reach that level of being obese. But I think its ridiculous how alicia wouldn't take a "magic pill that can shrink her size to a hundred pounds" if there was one. I believe that she would take it in a heartbeat and wouldn't think twice. Being slim is better for your health and your self-esteem and your confidence. Being able to fit into any size there is, and being social, and getting attention. Who wouldn't want that? I think overweight people are able to do something about their weight they just don't have the will power to do it so they put a front on about how they love their body and the skin they're in and all that. No one would want to be overweight if it was up to them.

Tyra Banks is a DOUCHE BAG!!

In response to amie:
This was BREAKFAST! All she was missing according to your formula was vegetables. Look at the alternative meal!!!

This show sickened me. Tyra is where she is because she was underweight! She looks great and even better now, but not VS material. Get real.

In response to Jaime, toast and a handful of nuts is healthy and is necessary to maintain healthy weight loss?? I'd be interested to know where you received your degree in nutrition. A well balanced diet of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and protein is what is necessary for healthy weight loss. The only thing you got right is that portion control is a must.

i agree with tyra that girls/women should be confident...
but that doesn't mean that people should just give up on eating healthy and exercising and just say oh, i'm proud of my "curves", they're sexy, when their bmi actually shows that they are overweight or obese! that bmi was created by doctors/health experts for a reason. i agree with angelica. she looks pretty normal (not really even that thin).
alicia was eating way too much just for breakfast! that can't be good for your body. and she mentioned that the doctors said she had no health problems. maybe not yet! when she gets to be older, there will be many complications because she didn't pay attention to it when she was young and body was working well.
the "flaunt your curves" thing is so dumb to me! people whose weight is considered healthy but closer to overweight do have some curves, like hips, thighs, etc. that's what flaunt your curves should be for. not for people who are overweight and obese. then it's just flaunt your rolls! america is really not healthy compared to other countries and that's really shameful. other people would say those stupid, fat americans! this is not good!!!!!!
there needs to be change!

first of all...yes Tyra is AwEsOmE, but she's not perfect. When she attacked angelica for saying that she thought big and skinny people are discriminated the same that was WRONG of her. And Anais you need to calm your A*s down. Sorry i just needed to say that!
SKINNY AND THICK PEOPLE ARE TREATED THE SAME DAMN WAY!!!

First of all tyra let me start off by saying I love your show and watch it everyday, but I must say OOO you pissed off with this show! When angelica said towards the end that she was happy she went through this experience because now she knows how it feels to get negative remarks from both side. You hushed her and told it that it wasnt true because the media tells us its ok to be thin. Well tyra we are not in the medias eye we are in the real world where theres real women who are the average size 7 and up and those of us who are actually thin by nature are shunned and pick on constantly for how thin we are. I'm 23 yrs old and a mother of two and I weigh 93pds. I would pray my heart out to the lord everyday to one day make me thicker. I wanted to be like everyone else and be accepted!!! I got teased my entire life kids threw rocks at me told me i could hoola hoop through a cheerio all kinds of mean things. I know kids can be cruel but it didnt end when i became an adult. When i was 18 working at a clothing store I would still get rude remarks from grown women I mean tyra they would dry heave like they were going to throw up and say OMG that is sooo gross. You are tooo skinny. There is nothing i can do to gain weight I eat out atleast 3x a weeks now but before i was married w/kids i would eat out every single day and eat til i was miserable. My mother said she was thin like me and after i had kids i would start to gain weight because that when she started to gain weight. So since i was 15 I started to try to have a baby just so i can gain the weight. Well i got preg. at 15 but lost it. I was soo depressed all i wanted was to be normal!! After marrying my hubby we had our first child I was big but only because i was preg. but i had high hopes i would keep most of the weight. Nope i was wrong.. i did gain a lil more i went to 103 but i was still in a size0. So i got preg right after the first one which was probably a bad idea because after her i went back down to 93 =(. I stopped breast feeding because I was told that it makes u lose ur weight. The only thing pregnancy did to me was stretch my skin and my once inner belly button is now a deformed outy and my abs muscles have completely splitted causing a huge gap down my stomach since the babies were so big.Nothing works i guess this is how im suppose to be and I have come to accept it now. I see a therpist to help me with all these things I went through. I still get the horrible and disgusted looks til this day. Not all us thin girls are starving ourself or throwing our food up. I find it disturbing that any girl would want to be thin I dont think being this thin is pretty or attractive. Atleast thats what I've been taught through out my years. I hope I have proved to you and others that skinny girls do get smashed on if anything maybe worse!! IN THE REAL WORLD!!!! YOU KNOW US NON-CELEBRITIES!!!

hi tyra i saw the show and im glad angelica is happy that she is skinny. i gets me so upset that everybody who looks at a skinny girl thinks she is not healthy. i am a skinny girl i weight 103 pounds and im 5'6 i am healthy this is just my body frame it runs in my family my mom was also a skinny girl at my age as well as my sister shes 20 and we are both a size 0 but we have curves so its not ugly skinny. i just think people should consider our case before judging us.

Dear Tyra,

I watched your show "Discriminating on Social Networks". I honestly found it appalling. You were okay with the heavier girl, Alicia, as if her attitude was appropriate, because she was "confident". I love the fact that she is comfortable in her own skin, but she was just as vicious and narrow-minded as Angelica. Her diet was NOT okay.

The two females are equally unhealthy and yes, thin females and males are picked on relentlessly. At first they enjoy the attention, then the comments become unnerving and the thin person/anorexic/bulimic starts to hide away beneath baggy clothing or by simply not socializing. They become ashamed. Is that really ok with you?

Today I got a comment when walking with my mother and sister in law on how thin my thighs were. I felt the familiar sting of pain, reminding me of the lonely place I was in just six months ago.

However, I was mostly disturbed by the fact that you didn't confront Angelica about her unhealthy obsession. Her website contains "Thinspiration", which is a staple of pro-ana/mia websites (I saw a glimpse of the website on your show, and Thispiration was on the front page!). I know, I was a part of them not so long ago. I am in recovery from SEVERE anorexia. Those websites are truly sick. It's the constant comparing, the self-degradation, and the unhealthy feeling of reward by watching the scale drop. Their views and ideas are extremely askew. It is NOT about health, it is about vanity, control, and attention.

I have always been underweight, which I was praised for at a young age because of MODELING! You should know better. At 22, I was put on medication that made me gain weight, the heaviest I had ever been. I felt I didn't know myself, and although people told me I looked great, there were deep-seeded thoughts of disgust. I lost weight and was healthy, but it soon became all-consuming. I am happy to say I am still health-conscious, but realized I have to eat enough to function, to have energy, to allow my brain to work, to interact with others, and to be happy. I've gained 18 pounds.

Angelica displayed classic signs of an anorexic, or someone quickly falling into an eating disorder. By the time she is in deep, she will be helpless and not even know the magnitude of her "health" choices. Why was nothing said? It made my stomach turn. Talking about being thin, basing your life around being thin, and actively encouraging underweight people to continue unhealthy habits is horrifying. WHY was she not given help or at least confronted on her obvious illness? Come on! I would love to visit her website and kindly write to her, but I can't seem to find it. I don't think anyone should be beat up about their weight, especially when it becomes such a serious, unhealthy part of their lives, but I would love to let Angelica know what she is doing to herself, and others. Maybe she is aware and my words would probably result in me being called a "bitter jealous fatty", but she is committing slow suicide. Her metabolism will be messed up, her heart will start to malfunction, she'll have fainting spells, and her brain will start to eat itself, resulting in irrational, even crazy, thoughts.

PLEASE realize we all come in different shapes and sizes and many people are predisposed to being large or small, but there is a point where both ends of the spectrum are seriously putting their lives at risk. Please help both the girls. By having them on your show, you have a responsibility to recognize and aid them in any way possible.

~Someone Who Knows

I love watching the tyra show, its entertaining.
I think its funny that people compare her to Oprah
because they do BOTH interrupt theire guests alot. I just hope tyra doesnt get to be JUST LIKE Oprah. ya, I know she does ALOT of wonderful things for alot of people, but shes just so full of herself, you can really tell that she really loves herself in a seemingly egotistical way. (which she shows by constantly talking over her guests)
hope tyra doesent get JUST like that.

I completely disagreed with what Tyra said to Angelica about skinny girls not being discriminated against. Angelica actually seemed like she learned a lot from the experiment and when she was explaining it Tyra completely cut her off. It's very annoying when she does that. I would like to hear what the guests have to say about issues not what Tyra thinks about everything. But there does seem to be discrimination against both plus size and skinny girls. My friend who is naturally skinny gets made fun of a lot. She actually tries to gain weight so people will stop making fun of her but she's naturally skinny so it's extremely hard for her to do that. She even got sent to the counselor's office at school because a teacher assumed she was anorexic. It seems like discrimination against plus size women is more behind the back sort of talk but if you're getting made fun of for being skinny it's likely going to be right to your face. I have a skinny friend and I have a plus size friend but I've never seen anyone make fun of my plus size friend or make a nasty face at her. I've witnessed people make fun of my skinny friend though. Yes, this is a limited view and I'm not saying it isn't out there. I'm just saying it's what I've seen after spending a lot of time with each of them. But there is discrimination out there against plus size women but there definitely has to be awareness that it goes both ways. Oh and I'm not complaining about Tyra because I don't have a life, I'm complaining about her behavior because I like to stand up for what I believe in. I understand that Tyra does this (or overdoes this) same action but she's a TV show host not a psychologist and she's never going to fill Oprah's shoes if she doesn't figure out how to effectively interview someone.

i guess I didnt read close enough, whos complaining about tyra?
Why on earth would anyone want to waste theire time to get on a tyra website just to complin about tyra?
If they do then I guess they are real lonely and bored and need to find a hobbie.....
it sure does seem like a heated debate on whats healthy and whats not, though.

can you guys stop cmpolaning bout tyra she tries her best to help people...how about instead of sittin on your lazy asses and complain go make a talk show...until you do tht then you cant critisize like tht...im sure most of you wouldnt even be close to as good as tyra is so shut the F*CK up

I am 5'4 weigh 110 lbs and Ive gotto agree, toast isnt much of a brektfast for anyone.
but then again youve gotto wonder what type of person is on the net at 4am?
maybe someone thats on that dope diet that melody mentioned earlier.
ive gotto also say that charisma seemed smart,mentioning that she was happy and not willing to be mean to herself about it but yes, for her overall health she needed to lose a few.
why do women have to be soo mean?
I think it should be us against the men,not eachother. actually i agree with jon lennon -
could you imagine?

xxoo madison

I am 5'4 weigh 110 lbs and Ive gotto agree, toast isnt much of a brektfast for anyone.
but then again youve gotto wonder what type of person is on the net at 4am?
maybe someone thats on that dope diet that melody mentioned earlier.
ive gotto also say that charisma seemed smart,mentioning that she was happy and not willing to be mean to herself about it but yes, for her overall health she needed to lose a few.
why do women have to be soo mean?
I think it should be us against the men,not eachother. actually i agree with jon lennon -
could you imagine?

xxoo madison

I agree none of the talk show hosts have degrees in psychology and they are giving advice out! .. how do they know if they are right?

I think its sooo funny what some people consider healthy and ok...
brittney (feb19)(commented2:53pm) isnt smart about the beer drinking with dinner - but at least shes aware of it.
I really dont understand why jaime(feb 20)(4:04pm) felt the need to attack with the rude remarks, however. No wonder why alicia would come up with her website...it must be true. Oh BY THE WAY - jaime, my aunt is a nutritionist/dietician and NO MATTER what size you are, skinny OR big, a piece of toast and a handfull of nuts ARE NOT a good breaktfast. YOU are the uneducated one. Try a glass of juice (using a juicer at home is even better) and some eggs (egg-whites for the "skinny version) to go with your lonely piece of toast. (if your REAL darring you might even eat some REAL fruit!!)(oh the horror of all that (HEALTHY) food!)

I would love to know about Tyrashow.batter...I really Like it so much .Today is the first day i see it on Tv

Tyra, I do think you attacked Angelica. You treat people that you disagree with like children and I would never even talk down to my children that way! Of all people you should know that SOME skinny people get picked on (or whatever you want to call it) just as much as overweight people. I have been both and personally was treated worse when I was thin. Women are jealous by nature and that's why so many thin women are treated badly. I'm heavy now and haven't had any girl treat me like a threat or enemy since I've been heavy. It is SO important to teach healthy eating and lifestyle PERIOD. Shame on you for constantly deviding your audience, putting women against eachother and making women think that's it's OK to be unhealthy as long as your "fierce". I'm not a fan of your show but I do think you're a nice person and probably don't mean to come off the way you do. I just think that talk show hosts like yourself need a degree in psychology before they start trying to send messages out.

The Tyra Banks Show inspires many lives, including mine. I am around 6'2, 362lbs and to see someone change their appearance is amazing. Ive struggled with this weight condition my entire life. Being teased and picked at is nothing to me. I have BIG dreams in life & I refuse to give into unsucess. I have goals set that I want give up on, no matter how hard things may get.

Tyra and Ladies! I also watched this particular episode of Tyra. The only thing I had a problem with is the horrible way they made up Alicia's face and Angelica's fat suit was way too unproportioned. We all are aware that we live in a very discriminative society but that doesn't give us a reason to call names. It starts with your upbringing and your parents. If you're taught to see people as they are those are morals you'll abide by. If you're taught that fat people stink, or will eat up all the food then those are the morals that they'll grow up with and even pass on to their children. What needs to happen is skinny women and fat women need to come together and show the world that we are diverse, adverse, and hell we are here! I am a 33 year old black woman and I wear a size 30. Although I am overweight, and obese I am a beautiful black woman. I don't think anyone should pass judgement on anyone. Because you're skinny doesn't make you more beautiful or more healthier. It just makes you a smaller member of society. And if being skinny or smaller makes you feel better than a heavier person, I think small would describe your brain and wits. Holla at yo girl Tyra so I can show them how the big girls get down!!!

hey wats up i am a plus-size teenager and that's ok with me but not ok with the rest of the world and in my opinoion all skinny women are evil and i know that some times being big can be un healthy but basicly right now i don't care so i would join yhe big girlz club

Hey, The other day, I watched your show about those two girls who went undercover as each other. I was wanting to know if you could help me get Angelica's weight loss schedual, please.
Thank you,
Starr

Brittney, you are so clearly uneducated about health and fitness. A piece of toast and handful of nuts is actually a very filling breakfast for someone of Angelica's size. As you lose weight and your body size continues to go down, you must reduce your portions in order to keep up the healthy weight loss. That breakfast is probably part of an incredibly healthy diet. Angelica is not "stupid" as you say - she is actually quite smart and nutritionally-informed. In fact, Alicia is the one who is stuffing her body with complete junk and using her body as a garbage can (and you do too evidently).
The fact is you ARE young - and this is the best time to start. The longer you put it off, the harder it will be. I am 23 and I feel so blessed to live in a generation that is so nutritionally and fitness-advanced. I take advantage of all this knowledge so I can live a long and healthy life. Please, do not call people "stupid" and "dum dum" for having the GUTS and the BRAINS to have respect for their bodies!