Why are there so many ugly and fat people in commercials now?

Relatability? They're average people. I wouldn't call unpleasant.

She looks kind of like Stacey Abrams. haha.

and yes, I agree, no one wants to see uggos or fatsos.

I think it's weird there are now obese (no, they are not "plus-sized" or "thick") women in lingerie/pad/tampon commercials. 10 years ago, it would be unthinkable.. But here we are!

For the same reason beauty magazine editors feel compelled to put grotesques like Lizzo, Lens and Kim Kardashian on their covers - pressure to pretend to find fat women attractive.

We're living in the Age of Mediocrity, OP. Salieri would hit it big if he were alive right now.

R4, I'd have no issue if they put thicker women--with actual boobs and an ass--on these magazines. But it's like these editors have skipped that altogether and just went to the obesity ward or something and said "hey you! You TOO can be a model!!".

^^ Do you have examples of what’s traumatized you?

Really interesting. I guess this is the new way. Attractive people in commercials will seem old fashioned soon.

Bite your tongue, R8. "New way," no way.

JFC. I have a better question.

Why aren’t people wearing masks and why are they flying when they’ve been begged not to?

There are lots of beautiful overweight women. It just seems they are never the models who they want us to deem beautiful. Plain girls with lots of make-up does not equal model, let alone supermodel. .

[Quote] Why are there so many ugly and fat people in commercials now?

She's far from ugly, but the Pine Sol lady has been around since '93 representing the "average woman." She's a sweetheart, too.

There's a strange looking woman in ads for some washing machine refresh beads. She's kinda butch, wearing a strange pantsuit. She's not ugly, just a strange choice. I always wonder what the casting director and commercial director were thinking. And i can't remember the product so that didn't work either.

OP, majority of consumers are fat and ugly like most of DLers here

I think it's funny that so many people are discussing the woman in OP's video because I thought he was talking about the chubby and unattractive grocery clerk. I think that is just for realism. When was the last time you saw someone attractive working at a grocery store? Most of them look like C.H.U.Ds.

Get out of here, you’re too fat!

Okay, call me crazy, but I have to wonder what kind of person pays attention to what a woman in a tampon commercial looks like. And who stores so much information about tampon commercial actresses in their brains that they can compare today's tampon actresses to the tampon actresses of yore and realize there is a major discrepancy in their weights?

I’d just [italic]love[/italic] to see op and those complaining about “uggos or fatsos.”

Let me get up out of this bitch before someone gets psychologically damaged.

[QUOTE] When was the last time you saw someone attractive working at a grocery store?

You should try my Wegmans. There’s so many hot young twinks there.

I had the shocking realization one day in line at While Foods there wasn’t one fat person in any line.

The Ample Community has big bucks.

As I flip, I noticed the models on HSN have gotten uncomfortably large. Not full figured. I am not sure if camo tights are the way to go with that particular figure. A full pant in linen or wool seems like it would be more flattering.

^^^ I should have added that the stretch/no zipper pants are so much cheaper to make. I guess HSN and Iman wants her things to come in under a $4 sew cost. Structure looks best on full figured men and women. Hoodies don't fool anyone.

Most people are ugly. Play a game when you're waiting at a stop light and watch people drive past. All fugs. Maybe one-in-20 is even average-attractive.

I like the woman in the commercial OP posted.

R26 - me, too. I've always thought she did a really good job of making all those faces smelling whatever it is. I thought, "I couldn't do that".

Most Americans are ugly and fat (and stupid, hence trump), and you have to communicate with them on their level.

Sadly, they are America.

What's wrong with the woman in the commercial OP posted? She seems OK to me.

I’m always mystified by both the casting and styling in this Wayfair commercial. It reminds me of John Travolta in Hairspray. The lady looks like she’s wearing a fat suit.

Typically, the media is overcompensating to help reshape taste and expectations of the public to make up for their sins of the past. The magazine Vanity Fair is great example. The people at Conde Nast suddenly decided to make up for years of being a magazine that focused on white America. Now any issue primarily features people of color (very few other minorities) throughout the magazine. But, I've never seen any of my AA friends even pick up a copy of VF. They think its a stupid has-been publication catering to old white people. So who thought this was a good idea?

And the typical person may now be a plus size. But, that doesn't make it healthy or attractive.

R14 this one? I always wondered the same thing.

R14 this one? I always wondered the same thing.

[quote] Maybe one-in-20 is even average-attractive.

Failed math.

Yeah, all of you are gorgeous. DL is the worst.......

Fat chicks were always on tv like Facts of Life

R33 - yes! Not ugly. Just bizarre.

R32, your so-called friends in your AA group shouldn't be reading magazines during the meeting, anyway. Very disrespectful.

They look like average people. Not everyone is a beauty queen or an Adonis nor should they be.

R33, it looks like they're going for an Eastern European feel there.

Commercials aren't beauty contests. The goal is to get people to remember the commercial. What's more memorable? Another 23-year-old, 95-pound blonde with the same nose job as everyone else? Or an older or pudgier person? (e.g. Mr. Whipple, Madge, Flo the Progressive insurance lady, the "Where's the Beef" lady). Sure the 35-year-old straight dude is going to remember the young, thin blonde woman, but that guy is not the one who's likely to do the family shopping.

A few months back, a bunch of straight dudes on youtube were pitching a fit because a birth control commercial featured women that didn't give them hard-ons. WTF? Straight dudes don't even buy women's birth control.

And I guess no one complains about all the fat MEN in commercials? Well, no, it's OK for men to be fat.