Apologies if it comes off like I’m attacking your post specifically, I just wanted to make it clear what I’m personally saying. Everything I’ve said about Helen’s body and calories comes from a place of anger at how it’s personally affected me. When I was 16/17 I thought they were just videos, I watched them after doing homework or eating dinner and I went to bed and didn’t think twice about what was said. When I point out her lying and her calories, I feel for her for the shame she might feel, I’ve been there too and I agree it feels horrible. There are people out there who disagree with even making clothing in bigger sizes and things like that that make us feel subhuman sometimes. But I feel for the young people watching her who are getting incorrect information and don’t have the time or the sense yet to research for themselves just as much. Even when I researched I didn’t know what information was correct. I don’t want to know that other young people are sitting at home like I was wondering why they’re gaining weight when they think they’re being healthy and becoming confused about what their body actually looks like.No, it hasn't. Fat acceptance is about peoples right to exist in their current body without being attacked for it. Not everyone who has a body society doesn't deem as acceptable wants to diet or be thin and that ok. It's also ok if you DO want to lose weight, your body your choice. But not everyone feels the same.
I do find the discussions around other peoples bodies and diets unnecessary, maybe because I am someone who is bigger than Helen and has battled with a bad relationship to food my whole adult life. I've always been told I'm too big, even when I've lost loads of weight, eaten too low calories or even lost weight from being ill. I've always felt my body isn't good enough, I've felt guilt and shame around it. Counting calories makes me obsessive and miserable. I'm trying to accept my body as it is and not hate it for getting bigger. But it's hard and the world is fat phobic.
Yes, Helen would have more respect off me if she stopped lying about her dress size. But I understand the feelings of shame surrounding admitting you've gained weight because of the judgement you'll face.
And a big old vibe sesh with a therapist wouldn’t go a missThat caption is so poorly written. Helen girl you should be vibing with a dictionary and a thesaurus.
This. The faces, the mannerisms, the voices. She replicates other people's voices, accents, hobbies, personalities. It's all a facsimile of what she thinks is cool. Even she herself has no idea who she actually is (alcohol, exotic animals, flamingos, tattoos and sausage dogs aren't a personality, Helen).I watched the vlog and, not for the first time, my overwhelming sense is that there’s something ’off’ with her and the way she behaves but I can never quite capture what it is. She is very odd.
The constant daft voices, singing sentences and changing accent is incredibly irritating and I don’t know how anyone puts up with it. It’s constant, she can’t seem to speak normally ever. My husband would just tell me to stop it if I started speaking in stupid voices, it would really piss him off.
I still maintain that Phil is just a normal guy (I refuse to form any hard judgements about him based on Helga’s videos) and she makes him look bad on purpose. She done it with all her boyfriends and several friends, she likes to portray people in a negative light and is a professional victim. Who is the common denominator in all those relationships though? Helen. Which leads me to think that most of the time, the problem is actually her.