This is Katie Hopkins. Katie Hopkins has a revolutionary idea: you can lose weight through diet and exercise. Hot damn, get this woman a TV special.
Well, bastions of taste and televised excellence TLC have done just that. Because Hopkins put her hypothesis to the test by gaining 43 pounds just for the purpose of losing it and proving, once and for all, that fat people are lazy.
Hopkins started out at 124 pounds before ingesting more than 504,000 calories to gain the weight, which is a head start one can reasonably assume those she is out to shame did not have. She gained the weight over the course of three months and then lost it over the course of another three months, which is some Christian Bale sh*t.
Hopkins may not be well known in the States, but in the UK, she beat out Simon Cowell as most unpopular celebrity, because she says things like “If you are obese, you look lazy” as a reason why she would never hire an overweight person. Luckily, her harrowing experience becoming monstrously, hideously overw — oh, wait, nevermind, she only hit 167 which actually isn’t that bad. Really kind of average. Anyway, assuredly, it made her more sensitive to the experiences of those who are obese and overweight. JK everyone; no, not really.
Hopkins has also not budged on her more controversial opinions, including that parents should be held responsible for having fat children and her opposition to people being allowed to get weight-loss surgery through the UK’s government-provided health coverage. And she still won’t hire someone who is overweight.
“While some of me has softened because of this emotional journey, and some of me understands being fat a whole lot better than I did,” she says, “also some of me has toughened behind some of my opinions and stands by them.”
Hopkins is now down to 130 pounds and worthy of human kindness again. The Post has her sample weight-gain diet which mostly consists of drinking chocolate milk and eating a can of Pringles per day. You can follow Hopkins absolutely dramatic and harrowing story (the movie based on her life will star Meryl Streep and be sponsored by Pringles and bring tears to your eyes and chocolate milk to your mouth) when Fat and Back airs on TLC Sunday at 10 p.m. eastern.
Source: NY Post
