One of Marcie's storylines at the time was dealing with the fact that she was overweight and struggling with insecurities about her image, which was why she latched onto Jen and kept comparing herself to her and feeling miserable bc she couldnt be beautiful as her. Frons was speaking about what was going on with the character and I didnt see anything wrong addressing that. The show wasnt pretending that she wasnt fat. It was clearly written into the script and they were trying to tell a message with it, which concluded with Marcie accepting herself as Al fell in love with her and accepted her for who she was, flaws and all

I get what you are saying, and you are saying it far better than Frons. Besides the overweight comment, he outright described an actress in his line-up as ugly, which you don't do, and linked it to her weight. Frons wasn't good at his job for many reasons, and his attempts at PR were horrid. I just can't give him the credit that you do, and I'm surprised that he didn't make an even more crass comment. He shouldn't have been allowed to speak with the press unsupervised.

Edited January 28, 201312 yr by EnglishTea

I'm so glad Frons is no longer the head of ABC Daytime. This cannot be said enough.

No it can't.

He also said something similar in regards to Genie Francis that no one wants to see an overweight middle aged woman on tv

RE: KB There was no need for him to even mention her weight and I disagree she is beautiful

Anyone ever see the comment from Guza where he said he'd write whatever he wanted and didn't want the fans telling him what to write. that whatever people wanted he'd basically write the opposite of

Edited January 28, 201312 yr by dragonflies

Anyone ever see the comment from Guza where he said he'd write whatever he wanted and didn't want the fans telling him what to write. that whatever people wanted he'd basically write the opposite of

Was that before or after his partner in crime proclaimed that no one wanted to see Bobbie Spencer or any other woman over 50 have sexytimes on soaps?

This was like about 10 years ago

I thought it was Wendy Riche who said GF was overweight?

nope Frons said it a few years ago

Was that before or after his partner in crime proclaimed that no one wanted to see Bobbie Spencer or any other woman over 50 have sexytimes on soaps?

Anyone ever see the comment from Guza where he said he'd write whatever he wanted and didn't want the fans telling him what to write. that whatever people wanted he'd basically write the opposite of

I would like to see that article were Guza said that!