Let's Talk T.V. Shall We?

It's no secret that I love tv.  I really love reality tv.  Kris and I have our favorite shows, we have something for every night of the week.  We are very bummed out when our "show" is not on for some reason.  As the finale of Grey's Anatomy draws near, I am getting sad.  I don't like the idea of weeks on end of repeats.  At least with reality shows when they are over for the season there is no cliff-hanger, it's just done until a new cast starts.  I should make it clear I am NOT a Dancing With The Stars fan unless someone I love is on it like Apolo Anton Ohno - then I will watch it.  I much rather watch Amazing Race, Biggest Loser and Big Brother. 

Back to Grey's for a moment shall we?  Chandra Wilson, who plays Dr. Bailey, talked to ET not long ago {I'm sketchy on the day because I saw it in passing and don't remember when it was} about the season finale of Grey's Anatomy.  She said that "anything that can happen, will happen" and hinted that even someone would die on the finale.  Then when we saw the preview for it after last nights episode we see that in fact, anything can and will be happening!

It appears that Meridith is pregnant, Christina breaks up with Owen and that someone is holding back Derek and Mer is screaming "NO".  They also said something about a shooter in the building.  I'm just putting it out there, my prediction is that Lexie will give Mark another shot, I know she left with Alex this week and told Mark she had moved on, but you see, I think Mark gets hurt.  I think he gets hurt and it makes Lexie realize she loves him still too.  Who dies?  Umm, this I am not sure about, it would be a HUGE twist if Derek is killed and Meridith is left heartbroken and pregnant.  I'm going to stick with that prediction for now, but my second suggestion would be someone insignificant like that new little red head tart.  Last year Izzy and George left, I doubt they would kill off main characters 2 years in a row!  Oh but way, what is Alex died?  Then Lexie would be comforted by Mark - hmm, I clearly am way to invested in this show...

Let's move on now to my reality show favorites.  Amazing Race.  Oh how we love our Amazing Race around here.  I feel like it's the only really great show on tv anymore.  I mean there isn't as much slutty drama like on shows where everyone lives together.  No season is ever the same, and they seem to really pick a good diverse group of contestants.  They need to spend time in the Philippines though!  I was rooting for The Cowboys the entire season.  I'm very sad that they came in 2nd place.  They never really were about game play, they were honest people who took their time and enjoyed the countries they were in.  I liked that about them.  Also I just want to mention that I was very disappointed in Carol and Brandy for their outburst on the finale.  It was the wrong time and was inappropriate, way to ruin the brother's thunder. 

Bachelorette Ali is on soon.  A couple more weeks actually, not long at all.  You can expect a Bachelorette talk Tuesday right here like I do for The Bachelor.  Perhaps others will join in.  :)  I am excited to pick my top 5, last year Tenley and Ali were both in my first night top 5 picks!

Lastly I am very excited for Big Brother to start up again.  It is a summer only show which I think really keeps the appeal up.  At least it does for me.  I haven't found the official start date with CBS yet but I know they started casting in April.  Anyone else excited for Big Brother to return?

What are your favorite shows to watch?  Do you enjoy reality shows?  Please tell me I am not alone in my sad, sad passion for crappy drama. 

Jillian Michaels on weight and pregnancy....

All I can say is wow.  Kris told me "Jillian is going to adopt" and I said "oh yeah, where did you read that" and he told me to go to yahoo.com.  So I did and started reading the article.... you can find it for yourself HERE.

Now, I hope you all took a minute to look at that, but if not I will sum it up for you.  Let me first remind you who Jillian is... she is the well known personal trainer on The Biggest Loser.  She is someone who often makes contestants get in touch with their real problems, they usually cry around her - because of a breakthrough emotionally or because she scares them is up for interpretation - and she often works people to the point of vomiting.  She even has said she likes to make people cry and throw up.  Now, I believe she does this with tough love in mind.  She wants the person to push harder than before to really see what they can accomplish.  I do think she gets some pleasure out of making people cry though.  She seems like a controller to me.

Okay so back to that article above.  She is quoted as saying "I'm going to adopt. I can't handle doing that to my body" - now this article doesn't say if she elaborated on that or not, but I have some major issues with that statement.  I sure hope it was taken out of context, for her sake.  If she prides herself with being able to get people in shape and to eat healthy, shouldn't she be okay with her own body image?  I would hope that she has enough will power to gain a reasonable about of weight and to keep herself active during pregnancy.  Many women get pregnant and gain little weight and stay fit right up until birth.  Then they snap back into shape easily.  I was not one of these women, but I would hope that she would see getting pregnant as an opportunity to be a role model.  As a public figure known for her healthy diet and her trim body she could show women how to be fit during pregnancy, she could write another book about it, or heck even make more workout dvds for expecting mothers.

Her next sentence was "Also, when you rescue something, it's like rescuing a part of yourself."  It's one thing to say you want to adopt for a reason like that.  There are a lot of children in need of a good home, I fully support adoption.  I don't support a public health figure saying that pregnancy is bad for the body and that is why she wants to adopt.  It's nature, it's how things happen.  I just hope that when she does adopt she teaches her child better self esteem and that you should love your body no matter what - especially when you are growing god's gift in it. 

I hope I am making sense here.  Hopefully I didn't offend anyone.  I know most my readers are mom's and I just feel that her quote really makes women feel like being pregnant is a bad thing for you, when in reality rearing children is what our body was intended to do.  I guess it just really hit a nerve in me.  I instantly felt I needed to share this and to vent about how it made me feel.  What do you think?  Do you think she was taken out of context?