Whitney Port has been getting attention lately for her dramatic weight loss. There’s been speculation that it’s due to an eating disorder. A lot of people have been concern-trolling her on social media, which isn’t helpful whether someone has disordered eating or not. When she first addressed her weight loss, she framed it as a problem with finding food that was appealing enough, and lacking motivation to prepare food for herself. The way she described it was very judgmental, calling herself “lazy” and “picky.” But she also said that her ambivalence toward food might be a form of disordered eating in itself. She said she was going to work with an eating disorder specialist. (“Disordered eating” is when there are abnormal eating patterns that don’t meet the criteria for a clinical diagnosis.) On the latest episode of her With Whit podcast she talked with her husband Tim Rosenman about her health and her weight. He said that he “personally prefer[s her] with another 10 to 15 pounds … from a looks point of view.” He’s not concerned about her health, but aesthetically, he doesn’t think she looks good. I’ll take “Missing the Point” for 1200, please.
Whitney Port’s husband is setting the “set the record straight” on his concern over her weight.
Tim Rosenman clarified in Tuesday’s episode of the “With Whit” podcast that he found the “Hills” star “too thin from an aesthetic point of view” and believed she could “be hotter.”
After acknowledging that his reasoning might “open [him] up to being an a–hole,” the producer told his wife that he “personally prefer[s her] with another 10 to 15 pounds … from a looks point of view.”
Later in the conversation, Rosenman, 46, reiterated, “I was concerned that you could be hotter with 10 or 15 more pounds, and maybe that’s f–ked up.”
Port, 38, agreed that she “aesthetically” does not like how she looks, blaming her weight on previously being under the weather.
“It all stemmed from when I ripped up my esophagus and lost all that weight from when I got sick. Since then, I think I have just not put it back on,” the “City” alum said while calling her social media followers’ worries “blown out of proportion.”
The online commentary began in July when Port wrote via her Instagram Stories that her partner had been “worried” about her weight.
She has since shared her plans to build strength and see a nutritionist, noting that she does not believe she is suffering from an eating disorder as much as “disordered eating.”
Rosenman blamed himself for backlash in Tuesday’s podcast episode since “people took what [he] said and gave [her] an eating disorder.”
He claimed, “That is not the case. … I am not worried about your health because I have intimate knowledge of your organ function, your cholesterol levels, I know them all. Whitney is in the 99th percentile of all this stuff. Whitney is healthy.”
While he “was not concerned with her health,” Rosenman did wonder whether his wife had a “strained relationship with food, with appearance [and] with being in the public eye.”
Yeah, this is an a–hole thing for him to say. I don’t think it’s supportive to tell someone with disordered eating habits that they look less attractive when they are thinner. Look, when I had disordered eating, I got very thin. And it gave me a feeling of great pride whenever someone told me that I looked too skinny. It didn’t matter that it was negative feedback, it only reinforced my behavior. It might have even reinforced it more than people telling me I looked good! Motivations behind disordered eating and eating disorders are complicated–but what if Whitney had experienced a similar response to her husband’s comments that she was “too thin”? What if it only reinforced her behaviors? It would be far better if Tim didn’t say anything about how he “prefers” her body to look. His preference is not the point here, and for the record I would feel just as strongly about this if Whitney was in a larger body and he made a comment about preferring her to be smaller. I thought, back in July, that when Whitney said Tim was “worried” for her it was genuine worry and concern for her well-being. Not “worry” about her being less attractive to him (!!!). In the podcast episode, Tim says that people took his “worry” out of proportion and he wants to reassure people that Whitney’s healthy. But health isn’t just about cholesterol levels and organ function, it’s also about her mental and emotional state. I really hope the specialist she’s seeing is able to support her and address the underlying causes of her disordered eating.
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