Rachel Ray has blown up

Sloppy drunk.

And maybe pills too.

She's clearly under the influence on all her new videos.

*BELCH*

Doesn’t she have some sort of ailment that requires painkillers?

There's something very medically off. She looks like she's on prednisone for a long time and also her mouth seems post-stroke or at least Bell's Palsy. The puffiness seems to be from a medical condition.

Agree with R4, something medical. It’s not just weight gain that’s altered her appearance. Her Tuscan life seems wonderful.

r4 Great minds think alike! Moon face from corticosteroids.

This is exactly what happens when you marry a bartender.

Rachael Ray has talked about her health issues.

She picked the wrong husband. They're complete oddities. Can't believe she is limping around longer than Anne Burrell

Her name is RACHAEL, not Rachel.

She has a new "Meals in Minutes" show on FYI; you can stream it on Hulu. Quite different from her original 30-minute meal concept, but still into shortcuts. Sort of fun to watch, except her husband is on too often.

About the new show.

Yea, she's gotten big, but my Calico loves Rachaels wet cat food.

By comparison she's not quite as big as Honey Boo Boo - before & after image at link. View at your own risk.

Rachael Ray is very successful but not quite so telegenic. Even before this bloated, slurring form we see today, she has always had an odd sounding voice, loud and unrefined. Sara Moulton quietly shuffles around and thinks aloud about ingredients. She was the original food media presence who was displaced by Rachael Ray, but she seems ok with that now. She speaks pretty openly about her experiences in food media, including her discouragement at times. Moulton seems like a very nice lady, very tiny.

r13 Moulton is a petite kitchen wizard. When she picks up a salad fork, it looks like a pitchfork.

There is a pic floating arounof midget Sarah posing with Julia Child. It's quite amusing.

There's something Lecy Goranson-ish about Sarah.

Actually she’s one of those girls who looks cute when she’s plump. But I’m sorry to read it’s due to a medical condition.

Instead of Tuscany, she should have moved to a place with bad food. Like Iceland.

Was she blowed up real good?

That must have made quite a mess.

The husband looks like he wipes once a year, and that's being generous...

She and her husband are both creepy.

Her voice has always been annoying and now she looks as off-putting as she sounds.

Her poor aunt froze to death outside her house while she was house-sitting and got locked out. Rach didn't even go to the funeral, had to work.

Her husband is nasty looking - does he bathe regularly?

I’m gonna chop up shit and throw it into a pan! It’s what I call a stoop! 🤡

Meals in Minutes, but eats for hours...

This thread has me HORNY AS HELL!!!!

Fast forward before she croaks...she made some yummy dishes back in the 30 Minutes era. Broccoli rabe with white beans soup comes to mind. Black bean chili too. She taught me stuff too.. simple stuff, like Anne

I remember commenting the same thing on a Rachael Ray thread on DL years ago R27. When she started out, she made simple Italian or Italian American dishes, but then somewhere along the way she went as trashy as possible. And Im not sure why.

I always laughed at her "adaptations" of a trashy concept like Buffalo Wings. She was inspired to do stuff like Buffalo Wings pasta, Buffalo Wings burgers, etc.

If those bedspreads could talk ....

I remember reading an interview with Rachel Ray in which she seemed like a complete dumbbell. She mentioned that she NEVER uses mayonnaise. "I mean, what's IN that stuff?" she asked. How can you be any sort of food professional and be mystified by mayonnaise, the ingredients of which are fairly simple. It's okay not to like it, but to talk about it as though it's some weird chemical concoction made her sound like an idiot.

I just came across this recent article about fan concerns about her after a recent outing. She may just be sunburned, but the redness across the nose and cheeks look like the butterfly redness or rash associated with lupus. The primary treatment is corticosteroids.

It also affects speech, hence the slurring.

[QUOTE]Yes, lupus can affect speech. Lupus, an autoimmune disease, can cause inflammation and muscle weakness that impact the vocal cords and surrounding muscles, leading to various voice and speech difficulties.

[quote] And maybe pills too.

Not as many as Anne!

My God she looks like a Bertinelli clone. They should team up.

R17 is right, she looked good with a few extra pounds, but not to this extent.

She has no neck. Thats always been her problem thin or fat. She's a no necker .

Didn't she burn down her home during a bender?

[quote]She has no neck. That's always been her problem thin or fat. She's a no necker .

R36 = Maggie the Cat

R36 bitch stole my look!

I've never read anything good about this woman.

r32 you're thinking of rosacea.

R41 I noticed rosacea myself. I saw a very recent video of her and she looks slightly less bloated without the rosacea. It seemed like the beginning of the year she looked worse.

Rachael Ray still has it apparently.

In some photos she looks good and some she looks ghastly, bloated, and insane.

Is she on a steroid?

Besides that, she seems like a NICE person-but nuts. Am I crazy?

r41 I'm not r32, but lupus has a characteristic red, butterfly-like rash that spreads across the bridge of the nose and on both cheeks.

However, lupus is most often diagnosed in young women, not women her age. If she has it, she's had it for awhile now and we'd probably have known sooner than now that she has it.

Rosacea is quite common to develop in women her age. However, with her strange gait, slurred speech and odd behavior, one wonders if it's possible she has MS...?

Either that or she's got a drinking problem. And that's a possibility, too.

She's a known drunk

[Quote] Her husband is nasty looking - does he bathe regularly?

Yes

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I take back the rosacea comment, I said that without seeing photos of her. Rosacea is papular and across the bridge of the nose and cheekbones not a flat violaceous colour on the fleshy area of the cheeks. As for her behaviour only Rachael really knows. Whatever's going on with her, I hope she's getting seeking treatment or medical attention for it. 🤷‍♀️

I've watched her new show - Rachael Ray in Tuscany - which is very light on instructions and methods - more like you're hanging out in her kitchen with her while she cooks and chats with you. Quick and short at 20 minutes.

She is either on some kind of medicine, or she seems drunk in every episode. But would an entire production crew stand for that? Or be silent about it?

It seems so obvious that I'm surprised the show survives.

(Last night she made Osso Bucco and talked about how she made it for Tony Bennett when he ate at her house. Why was Tony Bennett eating at Rachael Ray's house? Kind of incongruous, I thought.)