Lawd, look at her arms.
It looks like a slow roasted piece of pork, just ready fall right off the bone and served with some barbeque sauce.


Is this recent? I mean, she's always been a big woman, which is fine--big is when it comes to some delicious junk in the trunk--but lawd, 'ol girl is gonna need a fat cart to drag her ass to the local fat burger now. I don't recall her being quite THIS big?!?!?


It's strange how some rock & roll icons age nicely (Tina Turner is still as fine as she ever was) and some go south like this (Madonna looks like a demonic barbie doll with a slight tranny look).

wow. wrong forum

Imago said:

you musta been a little to excited

Imago said:

Who's she voting for?

noimageatall said:

You know she's in the tank for the Boston Tea Party.

nice one, dan.

Geez Dan wrong forum! - Moving to Music: non-prince.

Aretha looks fine to me and healthy too. She rox.

she shouldn't show her arms.

graecophilos said:

or her tits

horatio said:

You must be jealous. You could get lost in those

She is a beautiful woman

luv4u said:

Or die internally.

She has a lot of love to give. I'm not mad. I worry about her health though on a serious note.

This shit aint funny! Aretha Franklin is a musical genius!

NMusiqNSoul said:

I hope she is still trying to cut down like she says she was a year ago.

Timmy84 said:

Yeah seriously Tim. Hope so too.

NMusiqNSoul said:

And as private as she is, I'm surprised we haven't heard rumors that she may have diabetes or anything like that, because to me it seems she's diabetic.

What in the hell is holding up that dress?

Pearls in the cleavage...
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Isn't that other woman a fitness trainer or instructor? If she's a friend of Aretha's can't she give her free sessions?

I'm not going to down her or make fun of her, I just seriously hope she gets on a diet plan soon to lose that weight. I'm sure she doesn't too feel great with all those pounds packed on her.

JackieBlue said:

Reports have said that she does get trained by her.

Timmy84 said:

Really? That's great but um, maybe they need some extra sessions. I just want her to get it together before something happens. But it gets really hard when you get older to change your habits.

JackieBlue said:

Tru that. And Aretha's nearing 70 now (66).

JackieBlue said:

That's putting it mildly.

JackieBlue said:

That's Tom Joyner's wife, Donna Richardson. Yup she's a fitness trainer.

curioso said:

oh yeah , i forgot she is a musical genius

This is the kind of thing that makes me sick. So many animals dying in KFC like pens so people can get that fat and gross. How many third world kids could be alive just from her food alone?

missfee said:

I thought that she was? I read some time ago that she was on some kind of plan.

Arnotts said:

ok, I REALLY tried not to laugh but, I think I just peed my pants

shorttrini said:

That's what I read too.

I guess what I'm getting at is that this doesn't appear to be a gradual increase in her weight. She wasn't this fat 10 years ago. It seems that she just balooned from out of nowhere.
In the 80's she was curvaceous--I don't think she's every been thin. But she looked good.
Now, she looks like ...well, a leg of lamb.