Is Anyone Else Kind of Oddly Obsessed with Jared Fogle?
April 7th, 2009 by Evil BeetI totally have a thing for him. Not a crush, I just marvel at him. This is the dude who lost like 200 pounds by eating Subway sandwiches and has managed to ride that thing into a decade-long career. I loved him from the start. My college boyfriend thought it was so strange. We’d walk into a Subway and there would be a huge cardboard cut-out of Jared standing there and I’d be like “Oooh!!! JARED!!!”
So when some random PR chick emailed me and asked me to run this video of Laila Ali and Jared Fogle supporting the National Institute of Health’s We Can! program, which aims to reduce obesity rates among children, I was like “Normally I would ignore a bothersome person like you. But this? This I will run.”
Plus childhood obesity really bugs the crap out of me. Last week, I walked past a morbidly obese child — like eight or nine years old — wearing a T-shirt that said the following:
MY PERFECT DAY:
WAKE UP
PLAY VIDEO GAMES
EAT BREAKFAST
PLAY VIDEO GAMES
EAT LUNCH
PLAY VIDEO GAMES
EAT DINNER
PLAY VIDEO GAMES
SLEEP
I was, quite frankly, horrified. Because not only is there a parent out there who is buying the soda and junk food resulting in this young child being like 100 pounds overweight, but that same parent is shelling out the cash for the XXL T-shirt glamorizing his sedentary lifestyle — the same lifestyle that’s going to reduce his lifespan by a good 30 years, and his quality of life enormously more. These kids don’t have the information or money to make their own decisions regarding food or exercise. That’s a parent’s responsibility. Get the facts, parents!
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Is it just me, or does it look like Jared Fogle has been putting on a bit more weight in his ads talking about eating healthy and living healthy?
I think it’s why the camera only shoots him from the moobs on up.
Well he is getting older. Not to say older men can’t be attractive, god knows there are some silver foxes out there…
Anyway, I never liked Subway to begin with. I always preferred McAlister’s.
Silver Foxes hahahaha that’s the best
there’s actually a lady at my work that wore the same shirt the other day.
Obese children break my heart. It’s not their job to make sure that they are eating healthily; it’s their parents. It is so horrible to teach such damaging eating/lifestyle behaviors at such a young age. That pattern will be almost impossible to overcome.
Hello, diabetes
Fun fact: I actually lived in Jared’s old apartment in Bloomington, Indiana (at Indiana University where we both went) and it was LITERALLY directly above a Subway. It was the apartment with the shortest distance to Subway… and I think he lost the weight because the bathroom and shower were so damn small and he probably couldn’t fit.
lololol
I would have sworn that when Jared first appeared in the media with his weight loss, he was gay and thanked his partner for helping him. But in a later commercial, he had a girlfriend.
It doesn’t/shouldn’t matter either way, I’m just trying to figure out if I imagined this.
Ahahah maybe he’s switching it up
I swear on my life, he is my friend’s mom’s cousin.
I guess he has to be somebody’s.