TVSquad

It looks like the talk show Tyra has officially run out of ideas. Only two months since her show's premiere, Tyra Banks and her producers have decided to play the "put supermodel in a fat suit to see how horrible the world is" card for the November 7 episode. After donning a suit that made her look 350 pounds, Tyra was horrified at how she was being treated by the general public. "I started walking down the street and within ten seconds, a trio of people looked at me, snickered, looked me right in my eye and started pointing and laughing in my face," she told AP Radio. Of course, for all we know it could have been a bad job of making her fat look real, but we won't know that until Monday.

Look, Tyra's trying to be sympathetic, examining what most people think is the last acceptable form of discrimination. But after Gwyneth Paltrow in Shallow Hal, and Melania in the first Average Joe, haven't we had just about enough of the "hot chick in the fat suit" device? It's starting to get a little condescending; after all, they can always take off the suit if it gets to be too much. I'd rather see a real obese person make a movie about how they get treated by society than one of these sideshows.