When I saw this segment, I was so angry and outraged, I had to voice my concerns. If this is the type of thinking on the Rachael Ray Show, I don't think I'll be watching in the future. What kind of idiot psychologist was that? Hallie finally lost weight and has become more healthy. She was feeling good about her weight loss and wanted to share her excitement with people she thought she could trust, her mother and friends. But instead of being happy for her and supporting her, her mother and friends didn't want to hear about Hallie's happiness and success. They were jealous and upset because they're fat and Hallie is thin. The mother's behavior is abominable and disgusting. I couldn't believe someone said the mother was beautiful. The mother might be beautiful on the outside, but she is soooooo UGLY, UGLY, UGLY on the inside where it counts the most. I wanted to shake some sense into the mother and that ignorant psychologist. Don't they know that a mother is supposed to be proud of her daughter's accomplishments? When their child is happy, a mother's heart is filled with joy. A mother does not compare her child to herself and turn her daughter's success into some kind of sick competition. Hallie's mother needs to take a deep look inside herself because she is not acting in her daughter's best interests - she is upsetting her daughter and possibly subconsciously sabotaging her daughter's weight loss. What happened to unconditional love - or does the mother only love the overweight Hallie? Instead of being inspired by her daughter to try to lose weight herself, the mother is just a miserable person and wants to drag her daughter down with her. It's a shame that poor Hallie turned to the Rachael Ray show for help only to be told that she is at fault and should apologize to her family and friends - what nonsense!!! I guess Hallie was supposed to have kept her happiness to herself. According to this absurd logic, now that Hallie is getting married, they'd probably like her to pretend not to be too happy about that either because it might upset the people around her that aren't married. This is just ridiculous. A friend is someone who truly loves you and wants you to succeed. I don't blame Hallie one bit for putting up a "shell" around herself, which is another thing they were criticizing her for on the show. I would put up a shell too after being betrayed by my own mother and friends whom I trust and are supposed to love me. Hallie needs to look for new friends and at the very least keep a distance from her immature, selfish mother.

HooRay, for you vigles01 I'm with you 1000% Hallie you are not Wrong! Hallie You Look GR8 and Congrats on your up & coming Wedding & your Gr8 weight loss remember you're suppose to be extremely happy about what you have accomplished I know I'm proud of you and as a mother of 3 and grandmother of 1. If I where like your mother & friends when my grandson (6yrs old) called me tonight he was so extremely happy he had catch 2 huge fish and said NANA you have to have them put on a board for me I knew what he was talking about and I know what he wants and if his huge fish are only 2 inches long I will have it mounted for him b/c he is so proud of what he has done and that is exactly what makes me so proud of my Children and my Grandson what ever makes them Happy always make me Extremely Happy for them no matter how small or large. THAT'S MY JOB As a mother and grandmother and because that's the way I feel I just get OVER JOY-ED for Them and always will. OMG YOUR MOTHER AND Your So CALLED FRIENDS SHOULD BE THAT WAY TO AND FOR U. And please if anyone can spare the money for College could you please donate that money for a great cause we have got to get this Phyco-therapist in school they don't even know half the time what they are talking about and this was one of those times. I hurt so much for you that my heart is broke and I have cried with this broken heart for your pain over your mother. Please remember with friends like those you don't need any enemies you have plenty of them undercover as friends. I'm one of those people that NEVER post a message but this time I have to live with what choice I make as always so this is the better choice. I know it's very heart braking when your own mother puts u down and don't believe in you and it's very hard to live with that and you feel hate toward anyone that talks bad of her b/c U do love your Mother I'm not putting her down I'm just letting you know sometimes even a mother is blinded by her own fault's and has to blame someone I'm just sorry it's you Hallie. Thanks for letting me post and most of all Thank you for letting me into your life Hallie. I'm disappointed in you Rachael Ray for letting a Psychologist and mother say bad things about Hallie and say it's Hallie's FAULT NO WAY! That show was taped before 06/17/2008 you should have had this show edited, I can't watch your show's if this is a sign of shows to come sorry but you made the decision to have such a Horrid Show u Can't be that desperate for a Show Rach.

--- Edited by AnGeddes at 2008-06-18 03:18:18 ---