Guy Carlier’s very decided opinion on obese people: “I do not believe in the brotherhood of the big happy”: Femme Actuelle Le MAG


At the controls of the show Good Morning Weekend, broadcast on the channel Non Stop People, the journalist Mickaël Dorian received Guy Carlier on his set on May 1, 2021. During their interview, the host asked his guest in particular about the program entitled Operation Renaissance, which had been broadcast on the antenna of M6 in January 2021. The former TV and radio columnist, who lost 120 kilos in 10 years, explained that he would have accepted to be “followed by television cameras,” to reveal his daily bulimic if it had been offered to him. “I wouldn’t have bothered, but then it would have been very trashy, “ outbid the father of the famous YouTuber known under the pseudonym Carlito.

“I think if you do that, it is as if you were making a program to show the dangers of, for example, heroin or alcoholism. You follow the guy and he goes to the end of his delirium, like he does every night. It’s very hard, but you have to go there, ” added Guy Carlier, before dismantling the stereotype of “big happy”. “It does not exist, it is not true! The obese patient with overweight and compulsive addiction to food, like the alcoholic, like the drug addict, it is a permanent suffering and a loneliness. So me, I do not believe in the brotherhood of the big happy, that’s not true, ” said the one who decided to lose weight after undergoing “too much humiliation”.

Guy Carlier: “Qhen you are losing control (…). It’s a drama and you are alone

Having weighed up to 250 kilos himself in the past, Guy Carlier knows perfectly well the problems linked to obesity. He had also returned to this period of his life in his book entitled Minus 125: Monster love, published in 2019. Marc-Olivier Fogiel’s former sidekick in the show We can’t please everyone, which was broadcast on France 3, once again confided in his former eating disorders vis-à-vis Mickaël Dorian. “The problem of obesity, in my case, it was due to an addiction. Just like a drug addict or an alcoholic. There are people, it is not the case, it is because there is a metabolic problem… There are several causes for that. But when you are losing control, that is to say you get up at night to empty the fridge, etc. It’s a drama and you are alone, ” Guy Carlier explained.

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