Mad Men: Lets join the debate … Fat Betty

BETTY (DRAPER) FRANCIS

Since Betty‘s series 5 debut it seems all that the bloggersphere and twitter have been talking about has been Betty’s sudden weight gain.  Even ‘Fat Betty’ themed Twitter accounts have appeared along with what seems to be an awful amount of hate for the character. 
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The story line was prompted by January Jones’ real life pregnancy and so to get around building that into the story line they have whacked her in a fat suit and ‘fat Betty’ was born. In my opinion she is still stunning. And a quick note on the makeup other than a few dodgy scenes Betty’s ‘fat’ makeup was immaculate. A big thumbs up to the prosthetics team!

At the start of the episode we see her struggling to get into one of her many beautiful dresses. She then crawls into bed and feigns illness to get out of going out to dinner her husband. Cut to megan effortlessly getting dressed to go out with Don.

We then see Betty sitting on the sofa, in her dressing gown, munching her way though a box of ‘Bugles’. She’s depressed.

She even goes to the doctors to get a diet pill and has a brief thyroid tumor scare, which is found to be benign and then swiftly goes back to the eating. 

I get it, I really do. We all feel down occasionally and often turn to a bar of chocolate or a tub of icecream to get us through and then realise that we’ve pilled on few too many pounds and then struggle to get it off again. So shouldn’t we all be feeling a little bit of sympathy towards her and willing her on? 

But unfortunately for Betty, as the series’ have gone on, her character has got less and less likable all she seems to do is to get stressed, shout and moan and this hasn’t changed. Now she’s stressy, shouty, moany AND keeps blathering on about how depressed she is that she’s fat. Would we be friends with a real life Betty? No, probably not and that’s not because she’s got fat, its because that’s all she’d talk about.

LETS KEEP THE DEBATE GOING. LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS BELOW … 

 

PEGGY OLSON

Now on to the other characters and my favourite quote of the episode, Peggy, in a an amazing pixie like outfit, is in a meeting with Roger and Don about a new client, Mohawk Airlines. Peggy volunteers to take on the work but …

Don:  “You’re plate is full and frankly Mohawk is going to insist on a regular copy writer…”

Roger:  “… someone with a penis”

Peggy:  “I’ll work on that”

Just showing women are still not completely accepted in the work place and how hard Peggy has had to work to get where she has.

 

MEGAN DRAPER

And last but not least Megan is turning out to be the style icon of the series. Her ever changing outfits, hair and makeup are showcasing the cutting edge trends of the period. I’m not sure she’s always puling them off though … you decide …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Megan at a work dinner date with Don and Heinz beans. High hair and monochrome eyes and nude, matte lips.  

 

Watch out for this weeks tutorial were I’ll show you how to get Megan’s cool monochrome eyes.



2 thoughts on “Mad Men: Lets join the debate … Fat Betty

  1. I love the show, and I agree Betty is very unlikable. At the beginning of the series when she was married to Don, I felt so bad for her when he’d always cheat on her because she’s so pretty. But as the shows continued I saw she isn’t all that nice, and now that she’s fat it’s like great another reason for her to complain about having everything. Megan has become my favoirte so far this season, mostly because of how she dresses.

  2. Thanks for your comment. I totally agree Betty was so much more likeable when we felt sorry for her. Maybe thats what the writers are trying to do again … shame its not working 🙁 as really want to start liking her again.

    Although I think that Joan would get my vote for favourite Mad Men female, love her!

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