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Dear Oprah ...
Published: 12/10/2008 11:26 AM
Last Modified: 12/10/2008 11:26 AM

I feel ya, Sister. Mind if I call you Sister?

Anyway, I'm sorry to hear about your hitting 200. Better put, I hate to hear you're down about it. You know you're still loved by everybody, their mama and their mama's stylist's lover's pet groomer, right?

Having struggled with my weight since fourth grade (and, consequently, boring readers who, unlike you, might be reading this), I totally get where you're coming from. Anorexia, bulimia, fasting, gorging, been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, had to donate it when I got too big, blah, blah, blah.

This time last year, I weighed 250 pounds and was wearing size-38 jeans. After my October '07 break-up, I trimmed down initially with exercise (thank you, Mistress Leah at Progressive Pilates), coupled with not spending about $300 a month on pizza delivery. Got down to 198 by the time I went to Florida in March. Woohoo, right?

But I returned to Tulsa, didn't return to Pilates and, by June, was back up to 215. Depression set in, which led to more eating. Then, depression led to self-loathing, and now I'm on a diet of Diet Coke, water, light popcorn, crackers and the occasional salad -- except during my weekly Thursday night hang time with E and Lord V (i.e., weekly grazing). Not at all healthy, but I'm vain and stupid enough that I'm more worried about staying thin.

You, being significantly brighter, realize your issue is stress, as you alluded to in a People magazine interview in 1991. To quote you from a People.com article I spied earlier today, "My greatest failure was in believing that the weight issue was just about the weight. It's about not handling stress properly." Amen, O!

So here's my point: Buy me a trainer! Kidding. Just wanted to say I'm on the roller coaster with you -- more than likely white-knuckling the "safety bar" and screaming like a girl. But when you find that secret (preferably one that doesn't cost an arm, leg and black marketable organs) to kick that addiction and handle stress properly, kindly holler, por favor

In the mean time, I and millions of your fans will cheer you on from the side lines, whether you're rockin' size-10 Calvin Kleins while pulling a Radio Flyer of fat -- or you're, well, more than a size 10. And still freakin' fabulous.

Peace, love and trainers (seriously, just kidding) ... xoxo


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elly willy (4 years ago)
that was a really honest peice of writting.
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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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