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she black!

lol!

am I second?

Third!

I thought she was hispanic??…I saw this yesterday, and I was almost moved to tears as she was speaking of her painful experience with dealing with Anorexia… She even mentioned how people were talking about her big ears….After that, I felt bad for talking about her ears and calling her Dumbo…

Oh,so let me get this straight-Rocsi’s scared of eating but she’s not scared to sleep with someone’s husband?Ho sit down!!!

Like that was a big suprise; gotta stay in shape to steal other woman’s Husbands!!!! Hoe sit down and eat a ham sandwich while you @ it!!!!!!!!

She’s NOT BLACK!!!!!!!!

I did not know Rocsi was black.

co-sign with cat eyes.

Oh,so let me get this straight-Rocsi’s scared of eating but she’s not scared to sleep with someone’s husband?Ho sit down!!!
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@CAT EYES

Big Sis is cracking jokes!!!

Good one!!!

A study that came out months ago found that Black girls in the US suffer from Bulimia at a higher rate than any other group. Anorexia is also on the rise in Black girls and women, so the topic needs to be discussed; otherwise the issue will explode just like HIV/AIDS did. I remember back in the day people were trying to say THAT was only a “White disease” and look how it blew up in our faces.

@ slide

dont know who gives the best comments you or Glok9n , but yall be on point. rocsi just wanted to be felt sorry for. she takes backshots in the back of range rovers.

Rosci is Honduran…

and

Julissa is Dominican…

@ Slide
But come on-does it make sense to you-you’re scared of eating chicken but you’re not scared a wife is gonna pour acid on you-she got it twisted

she takes backshots in the back of range rovers
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@wash ya ass

Thanks Fam, I appreciate that…

Glok9n is my boy he be cracking me up…

You be writing some funny stuff too – I’ve peeped it!!!

By the way that Range she USED to have got taken back by the Dallas Cowboys Player she used to date… He was on some show talkin’about it and it wound up on the internet via that beef she had with 50 Cent and you know how he does = exposing people…

I dont think the black community suffers from this in any significant way. Just like I dont think the latino community does or the pacific islander community (samoans). Culturally, we have no problem with carrying more weight. I think the problem with the caucasian community is that they actually LIKE their women to look like pubescent boys with jugs. They just like to look like a skeleton so you have to kill yourself (thru anorexia/bulimia) to do it.

@ abeille

There are also hondurians in Honduras…guess which one Rocsi is. Hint: the chic aint black.

still i’d tugboat them ears and put her on game if she was down…

Rocsi is HONDURAN!!!

think all races have problems with eating disorders,Guess this show is trying to change by adding social issues as topics now,still don’t care for this show,bet has changed

still i’d tugboat them ears and put her on game if she was down
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@ Mr.broke in DC
LMAO! yeah,them ears is serious!!!!!!

@ Drenk

Melting pot of people? head out to Annapolis, better yet, go to Salt Lake and see how many of those mormon mofo’s wanna put you in their pot.

you’re scared of eating chicken but you’re not scared a wife is gonna pour acid on you-she got it twisted
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@CAT EYES

SMH & LMAO @ you Big Sis…

Yeah, I don’t understand how and why these women do that = mess with people that they KNOW are married???

And the messed up thing about it, is that SHE IS GORGEOUS!!! Look at her!!! She should have NO PROBLEMS getting a man… SMH

I don’t know or understand what these people be thinking = if the person cheated on somebody just right before y’all became official = what does that say about their character and not to mention the couple is starting the relationship off with “bad karma”…

One time I made a joke about an eating disorder to a girl and she told me that it wasn’t funny because she used to have an eating disorder in high school as well = that was the last time I made a joke or “off color” comment about eating disorders because you don’t know who might of had one in the past…

@ cat, them ears so damn big she prolly Heard the comment you just read out loud… but hell that just save me money on blindfolds, just need some earmuffs so she dont go deaf from her own screams.

….i don’t wanna transform up in here……it might get legendary………

@Mr. broke in DC, found a white girl

I dont associate with a CULT or its followers

…..out……..

And FYI- Hispanic is not a race, Latina is not a race, it’s an ethnicity. You can be a black Latina or a white Latina. Read a book people

There is one topic up for discussion okay… I thought she was brave and I was moved by her story.
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@toonmili

Ok then…

So have you had any friends or family that had an eating disorder and do they still have an eating disorder?

Have you ever considered throwing up after you ate something or starved yourself before?

Rocsi is a sweet heart!

Um. I doubt too many black folk got this problem. I think some of them are “immune” to anorexia/bulemia. IMO.

When did Rocsi become black but anyway all black people do is eat.All my friends are heavy set.They coplain about losing weight all day everyday.They go walking everyday then walk to the soul food resturant or the rice house.So I don’t think it’s a issue in the black community.and Rocsi aint black

However, I would like to take you out for some Popeye’s and Corvossier if you don’t mind sweetness.

It was moving that she told her story, but anorexia and bulimia are not necessarily the biggest problems as far as african-american eating habits. certainly, obesity and the problems associated with that are bigger issues for blacks. seems to me that most black women with eating issues have body dysmorphia in the opposite way – being overweight, thinking they look good, and squeezing into outfits inappropriate for their size.

I think it’s disrespect to a person to call them black and their not.How do we know Rocsi,Mariah Carey,Halley Berry ect wants to be called black.When I see a mixed up person I don’t see black it is what it is.

I read a study that young black girls in comparison to young white girl have better body image.

It was said because the women in magazine and TV generally don’t look like them and aren’t black, they don’t relate themselves to those women and don’t try as hard to live up to that standard.
And for years black people weren’t seen on magazine and TV.

White girls on the other hand and their white mothers see women in Magazine and TV as their standard. So they do relate themselves to this image. And more often have body image problems that were not only attained thru media, but passed down from their mom.

Now that black people are on TV and Magazine more than in the past, this will become more of an issue for us well.

She’s Not Black You a** Dont Put Blacks In Her Biz We Love To Eat And Once Again She Aint Black

she not black so what does that pertain to the black community.

Anorexia doesn’t exist in the black community…. But obesity does.
Black women don’t want to disappear, they want to show they’re here…

We need to exercise though. And stop eating so much fried chicken, and potato salad and chips and chocolate ho ho’s and stuffing, and grits, and pancakes, and you know, we just need to slow down a little bit.

Fried foods and lack of exercise is going to be the death of our race!

Of course these issues exist in the black community but not as prevalent as in the white community! Rosci most have been a predominantly majority school not at a black one because our cheerleadears were thick honey!

Why do some black people have to be so damn ignorant ALL the damn time? That is the question that needs to be asked. To all the people that keep saying, ‘I have friends that like to eat,”My friends are all fat,’you do realize a couple of your friends do not speak for or represent the entire black community? Anorexia/Bulimia will be just like AIDS/HIV(you know, the ‘gay white man’s disease.’*eye roll*), it will be completely ignored until it starts running rapid through the black community.

I don’t think this is AS BIG of a problem as it is in the white community, but the fact that most people think it’s a white thing probably makes it hard for anyone who struggles with it and IS black to admit it…AND, this tendency also keeps family and friends from figuring out they suffer from it.

@Vivienne,

THANK YOU!

Also thanks to Nikki, Abielle, and Toonmilli

If you are going to address an issue that may or may not affect the African American community at least have someone that represents the community as well. Furthermore, the issue of obesity is much more prevalent in the African American community. Over thirty percent of all African Americans are obese in the United States more than any other group of people.

@Girlz Just Wanna Eat

We need to exercise though. And stop eating so much fried chicken, and potato salad and chips and chocolate ho ho’s and stuffing, and grits, and pancakes, and you know, we just need to slow down a little bit.
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I agree. White women were conditioned to automatically think everything is wrong with their body.

Black women have built ourselves up and our confidence up to protect ourselves from racism and the white standard that people try to hold us too. And this was and still is necessary.
But we need to condition ourselves to diet and excersize, too.
But I don’t want us to stop being confident about ourselves.

Rocsi cant even keep it real even now I think she is still anorexic an using the cheerleading crap as an excuse, Terrence said he has known her for years why bring it up now, her voice is often raspy which is a sign of bulimia, plus she admitted its hard meaning she is still suffering from some form of disorder this is yet another media ploy for us to feel sorry for celebs because bet is losing ratings afeter the Chris Brown fiasco bring back Free an AJ ever since BET was taken over by white folks ity has not been the same that include Rocsi with her ghetto self how can you be hosting an sleeping with the celebs at the same time didn’t Fifty call her out for the same thing lets also no forget the bust up with Rocsi an Terrence who called her a stinking breath hoe an she walked of the set this was around the time she was to have had links with Lisa Ray husband,fighting in public with Quenn Penn how unprofessional

Honestly, you guys amaze me sometimes. Of course I knew people with eating disorders. I had a friend who was cutter and starved herself. and she was black. Starving is just as much a cry for help as over eating is. Black people like to deny these body issues and that’s why the results of the doll test is always the same. Instead of trying to address the problem they sweep it under the rug and act like it’s not there. Whatever… you can’t enlighten people who want to remain ignorant. I beg you guys again: Read a book… improve your self. Pick up a dictionary so you can find other words to use other than the F word.

I’m truly embarrassed!

Let’s hate on her for something of substance like the eating disorder, but let’s leave race out of it.

If your bi-racial you are not black!!!!!! tell that to a whiter man who has a right to call you black because compared to him you are only that….. black

Its an issue in all races and by the way rocsi is not black,she is Hispanic

@BlackBritishChick

Its an issue in all races and by the way rocsi is not black,she is Hispanic
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There are black hispanic…..
And she would be considered a black hispanic.

@Divine,

I think you’re the one that didn’t read my message. I was piggybagging off of what you said….

This wasn’t about the BLACK community, please buy yourself a clue. This is about people of color (i.e. non-whites, aka blacks, latinos, asians, etc), but it’s being addressed in the black community on that particularly episode of 106&Park.

piggybacking*

oops!

@Divine

And NOW the face of HIV/AIDS is your 18-25 yr old homegirl, Shaquana. NOW is when black folks want to believe that it affects our community; when it becomes a story of “too little, too late”. We never learn. History always repeats itself.

I feel like Black folks are in that 3rd grade mentality, where they need pictures to tell them how important these issues are. And if the pictures don’t look like us, we don’t care. But tell me, how can we produce those pictures when the boys and girls that are suffering from these eating disorders are afraid to bring it to our attention because of the social stigma?

I disconnected myself from white folks long ago, i’m rastafarian so that’s how much i have disconnected from them i have locks an wear Traditonal African clothing and none of them dare step to me in no way i speak my mind morally, spiritually im their worst nightmare

If you tell Rocsi,Halley Berry,Mariah Carey,Cassie their black they gon be looking like no I am not.So quit claming people who don’t want to be claimed.None of the people stated above are black or white so why call them that.I know they hate people calling them black.

Thats to 6;24

Thank God you guys don’t represent the entire black community…

’cause then i’d be so ashamed right about now….

Never heard of him now what and i’m serious as hell

shesss homewrecker

Halley Berry so loved being black she married a white man.Thats how much she loves being black.

messing with married men is also a growing problem with women..she needs to speak on that also.

its also a lot of women messing around with married men cuz they think the man will treat them better..she could be a poster child for that.

1st Who said she was a sellout 2nd who cares about her past I don’t.3rd I don’t need to get the facts straight I don’t give a damn.You said she loves being black I was going off that.I can’t see a person so loving being black marry a white man thats all i’m saying

@Pam,

If you envision that the only man you are capable of attaining is a baller then the whole warped perception of ballers dating outside their race would affect you.

This just reiterates my entire post on black people losing sight of the “take-away message” here regarding eating disorders.

Bat Girl

Black folks are the most racist people that you ever want to meet.
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How are we the most racist? Just asking. Are you talking about intra-racial racism?

JUST BECAUSE ROCSI SHARED HER STORY DOESN’T MAKES HER A BAD PERSON SOMETIMES WE SHARE WHAT WE BEEN THREW IN LIFE WITH OTHERS BECAUSE IT COULD HELP SAVE ANOTHER LIFE I APPLAUD U ROCSI BECAUSE IT TAKES A REAL PERSON TO STAND UP.MAYBE IF WE HAD A FEW MORE REAL PEOPLE OUT THERE THIS WORLD WOULD BE IN A BETTER PLACE

@WordtotheWise,

I think since the post in titled “is the Black Community affected by anorexia and bulimia”, you know, that kind of tip-off.

Still, we fail to see the bigger picture.

hellonursenancy>>>No, you aren’t understanding my point. Since Rocsi is the host of a show on BET (that does mean Black Entertainment Television), she would be the one to open up the dialogue in the black community which BET is “supposed” to represent. Do you understand now? How am I failing to see the big picture?

Nobody feels sorry for Rocsi.She should be adressing the issue on homewrecking.Thats a problem tearing up our communities.Anorexia is something you bring on YPURSELF what about all the innocent kids.In the communities i’m pretty sure homewrecking is more of a problem than anorexia.Talk about all our kids in broken homes.Thats the main problem in America

@WordtotheWise,

My apologies, the last part of my comment wasn’t directed at you, darling. I should have clarified. I meant that we as a whole, judging from the comments I’ve been reading here, fail to see the bigger picture. Instead, we are focusing on whether Rocsi is black enough…

@ Tell Em Rosci Tay: oh please, Halle married black first, lest we forget Eric Benet and David Justice!

Dominicans have African blood … read ignorant fools’

Wow a lot of ignorant people on this site or just acting that way.
It is a problem in all communities and as long as the media keeps going in the direction that they are already in it will continue to be a problem. Thanks to those of u that realize that and had something educated to say.

First they say we need to lose weight b/c being thick aint healthy now all of a sudden we are the ones with anorexia/bulimia? This is not a problem in our community they just need something to talk about!

It is a problem but not with us like they are making it out to be. It should have been a show for all women struggling with that disease not just blacks or hispanics especially when they are the least effected by it.

ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA ARE HUGE ISSUES IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY! READ ON, FROM A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE:

In a 2003 study, for example, published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Ruth Striegel-Moore, professor and chairwoman of psychology at Wesleyan University, found that young black women were as likely as white women to report binge eating. In an earlier study, published in 2000 in Archives of Family Medicine, she found that black women were as likely as white women to report binge eating or vomiting and were more likely to report fasting and the abuse of laxatives or diuretics than their white peers.

One reason experts do not know how many minorities suffer from the disorders, Dr. Striegel-Moore said, is that minority women are less likely to seek treatment.

In her research, she found that of the 76 women who ever had an eating disorder, 16, or 28 percent, of the white women and 1, or 5 percent, of the black women reported having received treatment for an eating disorder.

NIK,

You can’t tell people fat meat is greasy. . .no pun intended.

When I lived in Chicago, every day I would see several Black girls who were obviously starving themselves. I’m talking about shoulder blades poking out and pencil thin arms and legs. So, no one can tell me that bulimia and anorexia doesn’t effect Black communities.

I have to disagree with the study on one thing. I don’t think Black women are less likely to seek treatment because they don’t want to. . .I think they can’t AFFORD to seek treatment.

As I said before, we are going to keep ignoring this until it blows up like HIV/AIDS did. It’s just a sad state of affairs. . .

Only from the brain stem up.

Honestly people!! This is a huge issue. Black woman definitely have issues with their bodies. Especially if there in the entertainment and fashion industry. I am a black woman who works for Gucci and let me tell you if I even gain an extra 5 pounds I cannot wear any of my Gucci suits or any other high end fashion designer for that matter. Now imagine celebrities like Rhianna, Amerie, Keri Hilson etc. I’m sorry but if your over a certain size you cannot pull off wearing the Dolce and Gabbanas, the Gucci’s and the Valentino’s etc. And that’s what every accomplished celebrity wants to wear. And let’s face it skinny jeans only look chic and cute if your skinny. Anyways I’m telling you it’s more of a problem than not. I know a lot of black girls who live in the hood are not going to agree with me b/c being a little heavy in the hood is actually a good thing. But the minute you step out into high society you will want to look sleek and elegant and not plump and thick.

Oh,so let me get this straight-Rocsi’s scared of eating but she’s not scared to sleep with someone’s husband?Ho sit down!!!
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LMAO! Hahhahahahhahhaa

Anorexics and Bulimics are not always skinny. What classifies you as suffering from these conditions is your behavior, not appearance. There are some anorexics and bulimics who are overweight or maybe obese. I’ve heard stories of women who eat so much then vomit then eat again. Thats bulimia, and yes it can develop in anyone.

@nene
Judgmental. Judgy is not a word.

Girl you still need to write so people can understand what the hell you’re talking about. Making up words is not cute.

sorry. I dont feel Rosci’s pain. She said she starved herself to be a flyer on the cheerleader team…she was already 75 pounds…and thats when I became non sympethic. Come onnnn are you serious? Everybody saying she so brave for telling her story..how bout being brave enough to EAT and love yourself the way you are? She need a McRib in her life.

Wow there are die hard haters on this site.

OF course rocsi’s not black… how else do you think she got cast as the female lead on a BLACK tv show? and why she have to bring up them two big girls on the stage like that, embarrasing herself? she the whitest smallest one and she up there begging for everybodys attention. talking about “i just wanted to be skinny” lol ho, u r.

Wow, some people are just ridiculous. It doesn’t matter if she is black or not. She hosts a predominately black tv show and I am sure black girls look up to her so, the title for this blog is good enough. My heart goes out to Rocsi. What she says at the end is on point. Don’t judge people just on how they look…you never know what they are going through…life is hard.

Rocsi must have went to a predominantly White school b/c most of the Black cheerleaders at my predominantly Black HS were thick (not fat).

oooh Bdot, you lost me at “ain’t never had no”.

Try: Black men have never had….etc and proceed with your BullSh*t comment that is incorrect on so many levels (content, grammar, etc).

Thanks!

@Bdot,

That’s another problem here. You believe that black women shouldn’t care about being skinny because their fellow black male partners don’t want them that way. As if black women, or WOMEN in general are passive agents in their own lives, incapable of making their own decisions regarding weight and a healthy lifestyle.

I was bulimic during 2004-2005. It took some introspection in order for me to tell myself to stop with the binging and purging and to realize what it was doing to my body. I don’t think you ever fully recover from these types of illnesses. There are days where I look at myself in the mirror, and think “God, i’m so not liking my body today”. I am really curvy, like those women you see in black men’s magazines, but I really used to hate my body something awful. People always say to me, “oh my god, i’d kill to have your legs, tummy, hips, butt, boobs, etc”; it never phases me. I had an old coworker that I adored because she was heavyset, but nobody could tell her anything about going to the beach in a two-piece, when she didn’t have a two-piece type body. It took me a while to get there, some days are much more of a struggle than others. I still always feel like i’m bloated, even when i’m not.

Body Dysmorphia is real.

Rocsi is Honduran and not black.

Rocsi is Honduran,not African American.

Well that sure is not the problem on the east coast in the south. There are a lot of BIG BIG BIG HAFA’S down here. You ask me there need to be a massive diet plan put in place in the south.

first off rocsi is not black

and those diseases affects alot of people no matter the race

@Minority Report,

Thank you for sharing that with us. It helps when more people give a voice to these eating disorders that so many of our counterparts feel we are immune to. Obesity is definitely a bigger issue, but I wish more people would become more sensitized to the fact that ana/mia doesn’t only affect whites.

Take care of yourself, doll. I hope you can eventually overcome this struggle and conquer it for good.

she looks very insecure with herself to me…but i tap that so good she would come to her senses..

I know an Asian Latino. Latinos are black, indian, white. I’ve known people with African Ancestry closer up the line than my ancestry and they say they’re not black because they are Hispanic. Black people are European, American, South American, African, Carribean… we are so many nationalities and ethnicies. We are a beautiful people.

This was hard to do but will get easier over time. She will save lives with this. Every woman has had self esteem issues b/c of society. (Thicker, skinnier, curvier, larger breasts, smaller breasts, firmer breasts, smaller nose, bigger lips, smaller lips, straighter hair, silkier hair, longer hair, flatter stomach, smaller hips, bigger butt, smaller butt, the list never ends)Women have so much more pressure to look desireable for their partners, peers, and profession. Men can look like Biggie and get girls as long as they have money. People diss Tyra and she can get a little played out but who else was showing what they look like without makeup, a bra, or wig? She encourages women to embrace their flaws and that is needed. You’ll never see Beyonce without a wig and pads to make her hips look curvier. She doesn’t have to do that either. She’s a singer and her looks are 70% of her sales so I understand. But I applaud celebrities that are willing to be encouraging and show girls and women that they are not perfect and have teams to help them get glammed.

It don’t matter what color you are. People need to start taking that seriously. I just had a friend past away from anorexia. No one knew about it all cause she wanted to be small to dress a certain way. Some people to get the way the look is a big cost.

She’s NOT Black

People are IGNORANT… DAMN!

1st. She may be from Honduras, or whatever but she is of the black race, okay…? Honduras is just a place of origin, not a race… geez.

2nd. As a student working on her Dr. of Psychology degree, I can atest to the fact that yes, eating disorders are a big proble in the black community. Just because u & all ur friends/family/neighbors are heavy set andloveto eat, doesn’t mean the rest of the black community is like you. Black women in the media are portrayed as skinnier than the average black woman, and that does cause a lot of insecurites amongst us all. I could go on forever on this… but seriously… people like you all are the reson the world is filled with so much hate. Do you really feel the need to hate on others in order for you to feel good about yourself? WHAT A SHAME!

rocsi is not the face of black america. granted, eating disorders may be a problem, but let’s get some real black men & women on the air talking about our own issues. i want to see us call out and work on our own problems. it is BLACK entertainment television. or at least it was.

i’d like to hear a black woman talk about how black men are so focused on us having long hair & a big butt. Hello! it’s not cool to be a stick in my black community, i’m over here trying to GAIN weight.

How Boring.