'Too Fat to Fly' No Mo After Southwest Fiasco, Kevin Smith Loses 65 Pounds

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southwest-fiasco-kevin-smith-loses-65-pounds/


One year after getting booted from a Southwest Airlines flight for being
"too fat," actor/writer/producer Kevin Smith has dropped 65 pounds, but
clearly still holds onto his resentment.
Smith, who's best know for his role as Silent Bob in the movie franchise
Jay and Silent Bob, spoke to Joy Behar on her CNN show Wednesday about the
"traumatizing" experience that led him to lose weight — as well as his
penchant for wearing oversized hockey jerseys.

In February 2010, Smith was flying standby on a Southwest flight heading
from Oakland to Burbank, when he was asked by a flight attendant to get
off the plane because of his size. Smith maintains that he was buckled in,
with the armrests down, but the attendants claimed that he violated their
"Customer of Size policy," and that he needed to occupy his originally
purchased two seats to fly Southwest.

(More on TIME.com: See more about Southwest Airlines' plus-size problems)

After disembarking, Smith took to his Twitter to blast the airline for not
giving a real reason as to why he was removed from the flight. The
resulting media frenzy led Southwest to issue an apology on its blog and
field Twitter complaints for weeks.

"At that moment, I was like, you know what? I'll lose the weight, but I'm
not putting on thinner clothes," he told Behar, who complimented Smith by
calling him handsome during the short interview. "Because why? What's the
difference? I'm still the same person I was 65 pounds heavier."

Smith was on Behar's show to promote the release of his new movie, Red
State, which was recently screened at Sundance Film Festival and is slated
for release in October.

Watch a clip of the energetic interview above. (via CNN)

On 11 Feb 2011 19:46:31 GMT, Jimmy Sparkman wrote:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/02/09/...no-more-after-
southwest-fiasco-kevin-smith-loses-65-pounds/


One year after getting booted from a Southwest Airlines flight for being
"too fat," actor/writer/producer Kevin Smith has dropped 65 pounds, but
clearly still holds onto his resentment.
Smith, who's best know for his role as Silent Bob in the movie franchise
Jay and Silent Bob, spoke to Joy Behar on her CNN show Wednesday about the
"traumatizing" experience that led him to lose weight — as well as his
penchant for wearing oversized hockey jerseys.

In February 2010, Smith was flying standby on a Southwest flight heading
from Oakland to Burbank, when he was asked by a flight attendant to get
off the plane because of his size. Smith maintains that he was buckled in,
with the armrests down, but the attendants claimed that he violated their
"Customer of Size policy," and that he needed to occupy his originally
purchased two seats to fly Southwest.

(More on TIME.com: See more about Southwest Airlines' plus-size problems)

After disembarking, Smith took to his Twitter to blast the airline for not
giving a real reason as to why he was removed from the flight. The
resulting media frenzy led Southwest to issue an apology on its blog and
field Twitter complaints for weeks.

"At that moment, I was like, you know what? I'll lose the weight, but I'm
not putting on thinner clothes," he told Behar, who complimented Smith by
calling him handsome during the short interview. "Because why? What's the
difference? I'm still the same person I was 65 pounds heavier."

Smith was on Behar's show to promote the release of his new movie, Red
State, which was recently screened at Sundance Film Festival and is slated
for release in October.

Watch a clip of the energetic interview above. (via CNN)

Expect this posting to be blasted by Lady Veteran. The guy in this
story lost weight and Lady Veteran gets all ticked off when weight
loss occurs. In her mind that is right up there with showing
disrespect for the flag.

Expect her to have one of her psycho blow-outs.
She will most likely claim that he is an Idiot because he lost weight.

Jason