Video of the day: TV Viewer Calls out Overweight Anchor Woman, She Responds Back on the Air

Mrs. Livingston! What a graceful, inspiring and thought provoking reply to an ignorant and critical email! I watched your reply and applaud you for your response and also to take this beyond yourself but to relate it to our youth. There are so many challenges that they face on a daily basis that I dont know how they endure. But with beautiful and inspiring role models like you, they stand a chance! Keep doing you!

Good for her! Don’t let anyone tell who you are when they don’t know you and the best way they can show their ignorance is by email.

Good for her! BTW is it just me or is their on air look identical to CBS4?

not sure why people look to local news people as role models. they are visible… but you have to wonder, is she was the daytime news editor for the local paper, would she hear word one about her weight?

Poor thing has a thyroid condition so her weight is not really something she can control.

What really got me though was this was a private e-mail to her. Yes, I’m sure it stung her ego but it was not posted in a public forum until her husband did that. How many of us in television get mean e-mails? Most of us! Does that mean we rush in front of a camera to publicly rebuke a single e-mail? If so we’d have a never ending line of hurt anchors responding to one loony viewer while so many others watching probably don’t agree with that individual jerk! I guess she was just in the mood for some public sympathy.

That being said, we all know her odds of ever being hired as an anchor at another station anywhere are pretty much zero. I write that not to be mean. But we all know it’s true. Anchors are part of the station image. Part of the packaging of the product. I’m sure she does a great job but it is television and an attractive, appealing image for those on the anchor desk is what counts most. Not simply behind-the-camera job skills. I’m glad she and her husband have found jobs together in their small market. Her goals are probably not the same as many others looking to move up to bigger places with better salaries and more interesting news to cover. There’s nothing wrong with the choices she’s made. But her choices have also limited her career.

Are you kidding me – this woman is beautiful and her weight shouldn’t matter. If all the slu*&s and wh&%es in this world would stop showing off their boidies on every commercia, show, magazine we wouldn’t have these ignorant people making these comments to such an apparent wonderful person!!!!

LOL Boy, some people just don’t want to admit reality.

She’s a fine person but she’s too big. An unhealthy big.

You’re right. If we didn’t see all of the better looking bodies we’d think she was fine. But truthfully, she is dangerously overweight.

I cannot believe someone has such nerve to send such a terrible e-mail. Hasn’t any heard the expression “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say it”? Jennifer’s discussion on bullying brought back bad memories I had when I moved from Massachusetts to Florida. I’ll never forget my new school at that time, nor will I understand why they never gave up. Today, some twenty years later, here I am telling my tale.

Mazel Tov to Jennifer for breaking her silence.

She’s dead on right. The internet has done some amazing things for our lives but it also brings up a shield of secrecy to hurt and insult other people and get away with it like that moron who insulted Miss Livingston. I’ve seen it here too many times from other people, and being a victim of bullying even to my adult years, I too have been one and I regret it.

Jennifer thank you for showing class to standing up to this @$$!

I believe Jennifer Livingston did the right thing, by having the gumption to tackle the subject of “bullying”. We’ve all seen heart-breaking stories over the years of bullying. All too often, this is a subject that gets swept under the rug, and is otherwise considered “taboo” for discussion. I’m familiar with the classic song “What The World Needs Now (Is Love Sweet Love)”… which we need more of in the world. The only person that is allowed to judge is the Good Lord upstairs.

His problem is that he never heard of tact. You can make a point without insulting and degrading people and leave a positive comment. What I have read about him I beleive he was trying to motivate her but went about it in the wrong way. We all, as adults, are responsible for being positive role models just as our society expects.