This is the reason a woman's contract wasn't renewed on morning television:
[Barbara] Walters didn't discuss on the air why Reynolds, an original cast member who's been on the show for nine years, wasn't being asked back. She said in an interview Tuesday that research showed audience members were turned off by [Star Jones] Reynolds' dramatic weight loss and glitzy wedding to banker Al Reynolds in 2004.Now, Starr Jones occasionally gets on my nerves. But firing a woman because the audience didn't like the fact that she lost weight? When she used to, frankly, be enormously obese. And this is a problem. Geez.
As this is a show geared towards women, I guess I'd have thought they'd be less weirded out by someone's weight (let alone the idea that someone was obese and now is a healthy weight). Anyone want to fill me in on what's going on here?
