{"id":19974,"date":"2010-04-16T01:15:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T06:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=19974"},"modified":"2010-07-29T14:27:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T19:27:49","slug":"rubys-mom-may-have-intentionally-overfed-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/rubys-mom-may-have-intentionally-overfed-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby&#8217;s Mom May Have Intentionally Overfed Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major story line in the latest season of <a title=\"ruby gettinger\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/topics\/ruby-gettinger\/\" target=\"_self\">Ruby<\/a> hovers around her suspicion that she may have been molested or abused as a child, and that she has been repressing those memories for all these years.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/rubys-mom-may-have-intentionally-overfed-her\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17230\" title=\"ruby season 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ruby-season-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Ruby&#8217;s discussions with her mother, I just had a feeling that maybe she knew more about what Ruby went through than she was leading onto. Ruby has eluded to a suspicion that a past doctor of hers has that maybe her mother overfed her as a child to protect her from the wondering eyes of men.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ruby told Us Weekly that she was shocked to find out that her mother Anne, 75, barely avoided molestation by a family member.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My childhood physician&#8217;s assistant &#8216;Dr. Dukes&#8217; has a theory she overfed me in order to make me unattractive to men so I would not face the same danger,&#8221; says Ruby.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest Us Weekly the Style Network reality star revealed that she is considering hypnosis to bring back those possible childhood traumas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have nightmares about someone trying to kill me,&#8221; says Ruby. &#8220;I can never see that person&#8217;s face, but something tells me I know who it is. I wake up hardly able to breathe, dreaming someone&#8217;s hands are around my neck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Through all of this, she has still managed to lose 400 pounds, and has faced her own <a title=\"emotional eating\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/the-emotional-eating-solution\/\" target=\"_self\">emotional eating<\/a> head on (she admits to being a <a title=\"food addiction\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/fatty-foods-as-addictive-as-cocaine-study-says\/\" target=\"_self\">food addict<\/a>). Whether or not Ruby&#8217;s childhood mysteries will be revealed, we will have to wait to see on future episodes of her show.<\/p>\n<p>(via: <a title=\"ruby gettinger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebritynews\/news\/ruby-my-mom-may-have-intentionally-overfed-me-as-a-kid-2010154\" target=\"_blank\">Us Weekly<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major story line in the latest season of Ruby hovers around her suspicion that she may have been molested or abused as a child, and that she has been repressing those memories for all these years. In Ruby&#8217;s discussions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/rubys-mom-may-have-intentionally-overfed-her\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[3677,1,29,396,2994],"class_list":["post-19974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-diet-tv","tag-diets-in-review","tag-nutrition","tag-ruby-gettinger","tag-style-network"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19974"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19996,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19974\/revisions\/19996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}