Hey guys -- I'm not sure if you've seen this yet, but it's the most ridiculous thing that I've seen in a long time (http://www.kimkinsdangers.com).

This obese lady who was hiding behind fake "after" photos (of a Russian mail-order bride!!!) was basically selling memberships to her site for $60 a pop, and encouraging members to eat only 500 calories per day, take lots of laxatives, and be in a constant state of nausea to prevent hunger, all with no exercise.

The videos at the link I posted have the news reports from LA about her story -- apparently Woman's World or one of those supermarket checkout magazines put her story on the cover without checking it out., and apparently she made several million bucks from the deal. It's fun to watch the news reporter confronting her and watching her run away because she knows she's caught.

It really makes me glad that there's a community like this. I only hope that now that the New Year's rush to lose weight is upon us that more people will find sites like this and be inspired by the success stories, and less will find the sites making ridiculous, unsubstantiated claims.

Happy New Year, everyone! :)

I'd make her work hard labor for the rest of her life to pay back all the money she jilted out of innocent people. Sick.

Stupid.

But not surprising that a lot of people fell for it.

Lots of idiots out there who want the quick fix.

Odd how that page is set up as an advertisement. Does Tom Venuto pay for that site?

The "weight loss" focus in women's magazines is quite disturbing. They're usually filed under "Health and Fitness", yet the editors spend very little energy on explaining the health benefits you can attain from selected diets, only the promise of "Lose X pounds in Y weeks."

She's obviously a really good marketer; if she hadn't resorted to false pictures, she'd still be going strong. As it is, she's still online, and has put her true progress pictures on the home page of her site and added a page to explain where she messed up.
http://www.kimkins.com/content/view/1079/142/

The interesting thing is, that what she did is really not very different from what many other diet or supplement companies have been doing for years. I'm thinking of a popular ad that runs in a magazine I occasionally browse, which I'm pretty sure takes most of it's "before" pictures from fitness models just who have very recently given birth, then follows their progress onward back to near competition shape.

Rules for before pictures.


Piss off the model.
No make up or hair.
Worst possible angle.
Worst clothes possible.



After photos? The exact opposite. I swear in some of the before photos the people getting a beating before hand :lol:

Why is the site still up? Shouldn't she be in jail?

Why is the site still up? Shouldn't she be in jail?

Supposedly they've frozen her PayPal accounts, but I'm not sure why the site is still up and running. Hopefully the media attention has caused her business to grind to a halt. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in those user forums. :)

I'd say the people that signed up to her site aren't mch different from juicers. Just normal people looking for the easy way out. I'd hardly call them innocent victims of fraud.

I'd say the people that signed up to her site aren't mch different from juicers. Just normal people looking for the easy way out. I'd hardly call them innocent victims of fraud.

I think calling them juicers is a little excessive, dont you think? And no matter how you look at it, nobody deserves to be cheated out of their money like that.

I'd say the people that signed up to her site aren't mch different from juicers. Just normal people looking for the easy way out. I'd hardly call them innocent victims of fraud.

500 calories of low carb veggies and lean meats every day doesn't seem all that easy to me ??:blank:??