Baltimore Ravens Cheerleader Benched for Gaining Weight?
This crazy, thin, and beauty obsessed world has claimed another victim. Baltimore Ravens cheerleader Courtney Lenz. It seems she didn’t make the cut to cheer at the Super Bowl because she gained too much weight. Here’s what she said. “I’d been benched earlier in the season for a little bit of a weight gain. We do get weighed every week during the season, and you can’t fluctuate at all. I gained, I think it was 1.8 pounds.”
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| Courtney Lenz Baltimore Ravens Cheerleader |
It is reported that she was benched for weighing 125.4 pounds after weighing 124 for most of the season and that the organization wanted her to get down to 120 pounds. No one would confirm it was the cause of her being left out of the SB XLVII, but it sure sounds like the weigh gain may have played a role. There was even a petition drive on Facebook to try and save her spot for the big game, but no luck. The good news is the petition got nearly 25,000 signers in just a few short days.
I just don’t know what else to say? Really? 1.8 pounds? What kind of crazy is that.
Do you think that she should have been benched? Or is this too high a standard to uphold? How does news like this effect the female population at large? Are women in America judging themselves this harshly? What about all the little girls across America that are cheerleaders? How much do they worry about getting “fat”? (Like gaining nearly 2 pounds is getting fat!)
This story speaks to a much bigger issue - how the media, entertainment, and advertising industries have created an epidemic of weight and size obsessed woman (and a growing number of men). I’ll have to write about that soon!
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