Look out! It’s addictive! Ruby is absolutely charming and you’ll find yourself rooting for her all the way. After watching the first one, I have been astounded by a couple of things.
Her nephew is living with her because his parents got a cat and he’s extremely allergic to cats. WTF kind of parent purposely buys an animal that their son is so allergic to that he has to move out? I was outraged!
Her stupid bitch ass “friend” Gloria, just kept saying how she wanted to help her and would do her best, all while making her the most fat and calorie laden food she possibly could, saying things like, “well, I’m Southern and this is how we roll.” Then she brought Ruby a brownie and a piece of cheesecake. Good God, I’ve never seen such a bunch of ignorant enablers. “We know Ruby needs to eat better, but it’s just so hard to say no to her.” CHEESE AND RICE! You’ll wish you had found a way when her weight kills her you whiny ass “friend!”
Anyway, I can’t look away and hope that Ruby ultimately succeeds!
Yeah, I caught this the other morning. (Rerun, I guess.)
She is extremely likeable, and I believe she is ready for the lifestyle change, as long as someone is helping her. I like the water aerobics for her - it seems it has been years since she’s been in a pool!
I caught the second half-hour. I like Ruby. It puzzles me that ordinary people can be so comfortable in front of a camera. Nothing she did seemed to be done (or not done) because people would be watching – she’s very natural.
But I fear for her if she can’t make progress. She has so much support – two doctors, a psychologist, a trainer, a nutritionist (who prepares her food!) – if she fails with all that help, I think it’ll be devastating for her.
The only other reality TV I watch is Real Housewives of Atlanta. Ruby is so refreshing compared to those venal, shallow women. (Except for NeNe, she’s cool.)
I’m already in love with Ruby. I want to hang out with her and gossip.
I had the same reaction to her nephew’s plight, and until I heard his age (19, I think), I honestly thought he was in high school and his parents ought to be up on charges. And, yes, Gloria needs to be smacked. Makes me think she’s doing her best to keep Ruby fat so she looks skinny in comparison.
But I loved the friend that flew out from the west coast to help her out. I love her best friend/housemate.
I wonder what it took to set all this up. Who got the ball rolling? Of the few reality shows I’ve watched, there’s usually a host/referee/narrator person onsite the whole time, and that doesn’t seem the case here. I like it. It makes me feel much closer to what’s going on.
According to a poster at TWOP, she’s Brittany Daniels. She was in Sweet Valley High. ? That’s one I’ve never heard of. Maybe Brittany has some connections that helped Ruby get the show.
I like the lack of a narrator too. Ruby’s articulate enough about what’s going on that we don’t need one. And so are her doctors, etc.
Anyone else surprised that the chairs in the obesity specialist’s office weren’t functional for obese people?
Tell me more. I keep picturing a show about a madcap Dallas nightclub owner with mob ties who irasibly keeps putting bullets into Presidential assassins, cutup that he is.
mobo85, yeah, she’s very large. At the start of the series, Ruby weighs almost 500 pounds, down from 700. Her goal is to lose another 200-250 pounds.
She’s an attractive redhead, funny and personable. The most interesting thing about her (so far) is that she says she can’t remember anything of her childhood, before age 12.
I don’t get the Style Network- I was just flippantly responding to pseudotriton ruber ruber’s joke about Jack Ruby with an appropriate quote from The Silence of the Lambs. I was aware that Ruby was an overweight woman, whereas Jack Ruby was not, so “No, wait…was she a great big fat person?” would be an appropriate response to whether or not the show was about an assassin of an assassin. (Of course, Jack Ruby wasn’t a woman.)