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photo credit: nowmagazine A British woman, who is known for her fat-shaming beliefs, has decided to take on obesity, and prove that it is "super easy" to lose weight. Super thin Katie Hopkins made a goal to gain 40 to 50 pounds in 12 weeks, and then lose 40 to 50 pounds in the same amount of time. Her journey was captured on camera and is being shown on TLC as a 2-part TV special. Katie Hopkins said this about her weight gain/lost journey: “The reason I'm gaining the weight is to prove how simple it is to lose weight if you really want to, and the only way I can do that is by becoming fat myself. I really believe that fat people’s solution is in their hands. They don’t need to put so much into their face.” Hopkins begins her journey by eating 3,000 calories a day. A few weeks into the experiment, she notices that she is not losing any weight. She bumps up her caloric intake to 6,000 calories a day. During her experiment, she travels to America to see how we ga...

Pretty much everyone has a Facebook these days. You, your siblings, your friends, spouse, significant other, cousin, parent, grandparent, pet, etc. You share pictures and status updates. You can 'like' pages, like and comment on funny memes, and share them with your friends. It's all pretty innocent, right? Well, not exactly. There are some pages that are on Facebook that are just like the "burn book" from "Mean Girls," except, it bashes those who are overweight. The 530 Fatties page was recently in the news after a young woman in Sacramento, CA found an old picture of herself on the page. The picture was from when she was 50 pounds heavier and the pigs who were members of the page were making fun of her. See, what the assholes of the page do is that they go around taking pictures of anyone in the Sacramento area they feel is overweight/obese, put it on their page, and flame them. What 18 year old Jessi Lynn Howell did is call them out on it. Ho...