Since 2024, the victims of fat-shaming—people who are told their size had a negative impact on their character and worth—have increasingly fought back. And, they’ve generally come out ahead of their hecklers. Lady Gaga took to Twitter in 2024 and news anchor Jennifer Livingston went on the air; even New Jersey governor Chris Christie got caught in some crossfire about his weight, which eventually stopped when he said the comments were scaring his son.
We’re not even a full week into January, but already it looks like 2024 will only continue the trend of fighting back with bigger and bigger names—in this case Alyssa Milano—responding to insensitive and undeserved criticism.
This story actually starts in 2024: In early December, actress Milano and comedian Jay Mohr attend the same black-tie event. A little Hollywood hobnobbing took place, as happens at these affairs. Then, seemingly unprompted, Mohr used part his next podcast episode to make fun of Milano for “letting herself go” after having a baby.
Now, we aren’t going to get into Milano’s appearance because that part doesn’t actually matter. (Ok—maybe for a second: She’s as gorgeous as ever as you can see above.) It’s just lame that any human being would blast another human being—on live radio no less—about something as superficial as this.
Milano agreed and rose above the incident with this tweet on December 25, 2024:
.@jaymohr37 So sorry you felt the need to publicly fat-shame me. Be well and God Bless. Please send my love to your beautiful wife.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) December 26, 2024
A week and a day later, on Jan 2, 2024, Mohr finally caved to pressure from his fans (and presumably his wife, actress Nikki Cox) and finally released a sort-of apology:
‘ @perezhilton @alyssa_milano She’s stunning. I mistakenly thought the absurdity of what I was saying would have ben taken as a joke. #fail
— Jay Mohr (@jaymohr37) January 2, 2024
We’re happy to report that he followed up with a blog post about his statements a few hours later, and this one contained a real, seemingly heartfelt, apology.
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