Wed. Jul 15, 2009 | 3:10 PM

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Meet guests who struggle with their weight and are tired of being teased by their family and friends. One guest is so humiliated by her size that she refuses to eat in public and feels like an outcast in her own family. Plus, an 87-pound girl is desperate to gain weight so her friends will accept her.

Do you struggle with your weight or do you have an overweight toddler? Tell the "Tyra Show" about your story.


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Hi Tyra My name is Renata I am from Rwanda( africa) Tyra I just wanted to tell you that you are owesome looking woman. Tyla I have no Ideal how can I see you, when and where. hopefully my dream will come true one day I will make it to your show. I have two sons, age 7 and5 they like to watch your show and the call you queen of Africa. I pray that one day we will see you. God bless From Renata. Tyra I am from africa, but I live in VA USA.
Posted by Renata 11/04/09 5:52 PM
 
Yes, I am THAT Kylie. I returned home from school today, which I walk to, and way sitting down to enjoy a nice hot cup of tea before my night classes and low and behold. I was on the damn television. I was traumatized by this experiance. I read the responses here and there are somethings that I want to set straight. First of all I worked out and lost 70 lbs. They cut that from the show. Also when I was pregnant I lost 26 lbs. by being on a low carb diet for gestational diabete. Quinton does not go to the gym. The majority of the things said in the show were staged. I don't eat like that. I actually hardly ever eat fast food, can't eat beef, and all of the places I went and recorded on the diary were other people dinners not mine. Of course I eat more than I should or I wouldn't have this problem, but all of those things I did were requested by the producer. Me and my family went there for help and were made in to a spectical. Q and I ended up breaking up because he thought I set him up for humiliation and I didn't, the show did. I just wanted to say my peice because all of you seem so quick to jugde and you have no idea. The show is fake, the girls after me weren't even friends they found the small one on MySpace and the other two pretended to be her friends with her to get on the show. They were from Jersey and they stole my nail polish. The show they taped before that was cast with aspiring actors. The moral is you can say what you want but I have worked
Posted by Kylie 10/13/09 6:51 PM
 
Hey, Fat girl come here are you ticklish.
Posted by kayte 10/13/09 6:25 PM
 
KYLIE: If you are reading this right now, please contact me. californiasgirl26@hotmail.com I am getting ready to go in for gastric bypass surgery and have a blog that i'm keeping to update about how i feel and what's going on. I know a couple people who have had the surgery and are happy. I also, like you, was hearing about gastric bypass surgery from people I didn't want to hear it from. Please email me, i'd love to help motivate you to lose weight healthy and maybe you can help me too. We could be weight loss friends. :) Anyways, my name is Stephanie and I live in California so please, email me. You won't regret it! If anyone else would like to email me to help or just to read my blog, feel free to do so at: www.stephaniel26.blogspot.com Best of luck, Stephanie
Posted by Stephanie 10/13/09 3:31 PM
 
I'm over weight and I'm never hungry, eat hardly anything... yet my friends eat all the time, and they're very skinny. It's not always about how much you eat.
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Posted by haestingas 07/30/09 1:39 PM
 
Tyra, im watching this show (with kylie)right now... im 14 and 92 pounds so im fairly skinny (not extremly skinny) and it sort of buged me when she said noone wants to hang out with her because she was fat, im not fat and i don't have a single real friend, my problem is mostly because most girls are mean like the ones that talk about kylie, its not because shes fat their looking for someone to make-fun of because of their lack of self-confidence. adn even "guy friends" don't work for me (personaly) because every "guy friend" i've ever has come on to me. so it not because kaylie is fat its because people sense she isn't confident. :]
Posted by VICTORIA 07/30/09 8:29 AM
 
In regards to Kylie: If she would stop eating enough food for 4 people in one meal she was start dropping the pounds! She knows it isn't right to eat that much...why else would she feel the need to go through the drive through and eat inside. If she feels so terrible about how she is being treated she needs to do something about it. It is not as though she has some kind of medical issue keeping her this large. SHE needs to make a choice.... before her bad habits and extra weight kills her and leaves her child all alone.
Posted by Amy 07/30/09 8:08 AM
 
I first i want to say i LOVE your show tyra!! I watch it every day! Well i am overweight and it really hangs on me. I dont like being treated different because i cant fit into skinny jeans. i cant share clothes with my friends because i cant fit and i hate going out in public! i used to be skinny but then i gained more and more weight and i dont know what to do! i see pictures of myself and i think wow look at myself!! All of my friends are skinny! What went wrong with me??! i hate the thought of going jean shopping i dont have one pair of jeans that fit me right! so now i am taking charge and i am going to lose this weight and gain self confidence! i dont want to cry in the dressing rooms anymore knowing that im too big to fit into clothes that would be toooo big on my friends!! i m going to lose weight and im going to embrace it! Your show made me realize, not to lose weight, but to feel good about my self! now i love my body and even though i plan to lose weight i still am always going to love myself! overweight or not! Thanks, tyra
Posted by Medina 07/24/09 4:38 PM
 
This is a response to anne and i want to say that skinny people also struggle.Especially those in the black or african american race.There is this believe that black women are suppose to be curvy, and thick..so don't si there and say you a re tired of heiring skinny pepl complain because they struggle the some way fat people struggle
Posted by Genevive 07/21/09 6:04 PM
 
Hi Tyra, i was reading some of these messages and it really makes me sad to see how some people feel. And i know this first hand because my sister who is my best friend has struggled with her weight her whole life. Since she was about eight years old. She is now 26 and is pregnant with her second child. She is almost up to 300lbs. And her self esteem and depression show it. She is in a relationship with a man who just two years ago cheated on her becasue he said she was too fat so he had to go somewhere else. This broke my heart to see my sister feel like that. And she said she was too big so she couldnt find a good guy to love her. I wish you could help her. I think if she was to lose weight she would not be as depressed. She has tried everything as far as dieting. She just recently found out that she has a thiriod problem, and is now on medication for that. I know once she does lose the weight that she will in turn have the lose skin but i hope losing the weight will make her feel better and she will in turn hopefully become healthier. She is now feeling the effects of being 5 '4 and 300lbs. She can not stand too long or her back and feet will hurt, and she also gets out of breathe easy...I just want to be able to help her through this.
Posted by Holly 07/21/09 9:34 AM
 
hi am watching the tyra swow online and in my house.I would like to get the lady who was overweight and make friendship with here coz thats is my area.I love the huge ladies so much and i would like to share my story on this how it happenned when myself am slim guy.So give th contacts of this lady i would like to make hare fill that she is not an outcast in the family when there are guys like me to take care of here and make here lovely. Alex.
Posted by Alex Amayi 07/19/09 8:30 AM
 
I think that calling people fat is not right but also in her case it isnt right how she eats it is rediclous eating and going through the drive thu to eat a second time like she never had food in her life her boyfriend might not of said it in the right way but I think he had no other way to say it because instead of not eating as much she is trying to eat like a pig so she can draw attention to her self because i know some one that weighs 250 pounds from my own experience is not that hungry all the time i mean i had two babys and i gained some weight but i know i cant even eat half of what she eats and to tell you the truth it is pretty nasty the way she eats all that lard and oil and grease in all that food and slow down with the food she eats well all i have to say if she want her marriage to last she need to do something with her weight.
Posted by marisol cardenas 07/17/09 4:22 PM
 
hi im a 13 year old girl and i hate myself well at least the way i look. i hate it. i watch your show whenever i can and i dont want to tell people i weigh 187 but i think u can help me. ABOUT ME... i like a video game called sims 2 and 3 pc.The thing i dont have is a computer so i go to the library or go to my friends house. i dont like myself because how i look is disgusting.i want to ask you if you can help me lose weight.then ican go to skinny people stores.
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