Bulging brides

I watched a show about brides who weigh about 10 pounds too much to get into their wedding gowns. They all look fine to me. At the beginning of the show, they seem cheerful and bright, but by the time the trainer and nutritionist have humilated and shamed them (the brides' friend are encouraged to call and rat on her if they see her taking a bite of pizza), the gleam is gone from their eyes, and they are convinced they are fat and hopeless.

I wish one of them would talk back to the experts sometime and say, "I think I look fine. Stop trying to make me feel bad."

Here's one of the 'bulging brides' being made to feel inadequate by the show's cast. She looks great, don't you think?


Bulging Brides is a Canadian television series produced by Slice, and shown on Slice and Discovery Health Channel in Canada and the WE: Women's Entertainment network in the US.

Here comes the bride, all dressed and…wide? After months of stressful planning and bank-breaking expenses, the real test of a bride’s nerves is the stroll down the aisle in her wedding dress. She knows that all eyes are trained on her, examining every inch of her body in that revealing, ultra-fem gown. No woman wants to be a bulging bride!(except those women who are confident in themselves, and believe the marriage ceremony is not about looking like a pretty princess, but instead about two people joining their lives together) Bulging Brides is a fast-paced, action-packed television series that exposes a bride’s desperate struggle to drop unwanted inches so that she can look picture perfect on her wedding day. The series is co-hosted by The Last 10 Pounds Boot camp’s “Dream Team”: personal trainer Tommy Europe and nutrition specialist Nadeen Boman. Each half-hour episode features the story of one bride-to-be in the high-anxiety period less than two months before the Big Day. The bride has her wedding dress, but it doesn’t fit. Racked by tension from the bridal arrangements and petrified by the thought of not feeling her best on her big day, the bride-to-be has turned to the Dream Team as a last resort to lose her excess weight and look breathtaking in her gown.