I bet you haven't thought about Susan Powter in over 25 years.

Until you use more than a spray. Per fda regulations, food under 5 calories per serving can be marketed as zero calorie. But if it’s actually 4 calories and you use 30 sprays that’s 120 calories.

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InterestingTry5190@reddit

You just explained why 99% of everyone’s diets failed during that time period. Most people were assuming food that was 0 calories regardless of the amount.

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CertifiedBA@reddit

Yea, it was the 120 calories putting them over the edge.

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I’m serious when I say I had a roommate who would spend like 5 minutes spraying all her food and completely soaking it in spray butter. She definitely used at least 250-300 sprays a day. That’s like 1000+ unaccounted for calories/day. It will absolutely murder your diet.

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Spirited_String_1205@reddit

Well, there is that, but also the fact that so much 'healthy, diet food" was pure refined carbohydrate garbage. Additionally, if people convinced themselves that a spray made of fat was zero calories in any quantity those same people were also probably horrible at counting calories overall.

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milo8275@reddit

Do you remember butter buds? It was a processed, flakes of flake dried butter,looked like yellow fish food my mom used that religiously too, put it on everything

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Dismal-Meringue6778@reddit

Oh God yes! Awful, just awful!

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

Molly mcButter!

Powdered diacetyl

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Cool_Jelly_9402@reddit

My parents did one worse and used squeeze margarine 🤢. I totally believed butter was evil until I moved out on my own. I could never go back to those crazy 90s diet fades of everything being low calorie and low fat. Such a miserable diet to stick to, everyone must have been starving but thankfully two sprays of butter to the rescue

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Annhl8rX@reddit

I don’t think I knew butter existed outside of restaurants until I moved out on my own. Country Crock was always butter to me.

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lacosaknitstra@reddit

The only real butter I got as a kid was Furrs or Luby’s and grabbed extra individually wrapped pats. Ate them like candy.

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Ann_Amalie@reddit

You didn’t roll them in sugar first? Bonus if you had lemon wedges available

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lacosaknitstra@reddit

Nah, just delicious, salty butter.

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aprillikesthings@reddit

hah, I'm so glad to find out I'm not the only one who just....ate butter.

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BEniceBAGECKA@reddit

You drink the half and half too? I still do that.

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Cool_Jelly_9402@reddit

Yea it was parkay or country crock. I can’t believe we used to think that was healthier. The parkay squeeze margarine was neon yellow!

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RoookSkywokkah@reddit

You never knew if the contents of the Country Crock container was margarine or leftovers!

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twistedpiggies@reddit

Country Crock when I was a kid, but I noticed visiting my parents long after I'd moved out, they switched to I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. My parents know that I never eat margarine, but they don't appreciate my commenting on their choices. Fair.

So when I pulled the tub out of the fridge, holding it up with obvious disdain, and said dramatically, "REALLY?" Mom just said "Yeah, so what? I can't believe it's not butter." Says I, shamelessly, "Well, I can."

I can't be the only one whose parents couldn't care less about my judgment of their choices.

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Cool_Jelly_9402@reddit

Our parents generation can certainly be stubborn! My in laws use “I can’t believe it’s not butter”. I tried to use it the last time I was over and just couldn’t. That and the low fat miracle whip 🤢 I’m gonna pass.

My mom still embraces the toxic dieting practices of the 80-90s and often critiques my choices especially if they think I’m eating too much, despite the fact that I’ve always been very petite.

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breadycapybara@reddit

Plus my mom always got excited when the giant tub of Country Crock turned into the leftovers/Tupperware container. She’d patiently wait until the final few tablespoons of Country Crock, interspersed with jam or bread crumbs, was used, then she’d fill that bad boy up with spaghetti sauce or other mystery foods.

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No_Raccoon7539@reddit

I didn’t realize what a blessing it was that my mom insisted on real butter as our family luxury item.

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Coomstress@reddit

That’s all we had at my house, growing up in the Midwest. I’m pretty sure it was just vegetable oil and chemicals.

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katmoney80@reddit

I still use spray butter 🫣

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otherwiseguy@reddit

If you are using it to limit the amount of butter you eat, or because it's convenient to disperse butter evenly, then hey, you do you. If you are using a lot of it, just know you are eating basically normal margerine with the same amount of calories.

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katmoney80@reddit

I don’t use it often. Mostly to spray hamburger buns before I grill them. Otherwise I use regular butter.

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SnacksandViolets@reddit

IIRC serving size actually is one light tap, like a polite honk kind of tap

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

I swear I used to have some cooking oil or PAM type aerosol spray that listed the serving size as something like “1/10 of a second spray”. Like who can accomplish that?

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otherwiseguy@reddit

My mom used to take the cap off of the spray "butter" and pour it because it was "zero-calorie butter." I then showed her that there were 1,150 servings in the container and that the serving was chosen to be under the 5 calorie limit for labeling it 0 calorie. Just read the ingredients! Soybean oil has calories.

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OrdinaryBrilliant650@reddit

I still use the spray when I’m on a cut (like right now) or if I’m approaching my calorie threshold while on a bulk. It’s got its uses.

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Disastrous_Return83@reddit

😂 I used to fucking hose down my toast with that stuff.

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amazing_assassin@reddit

I had a college roommate who used to pour it on her food because it was "zero calorie." I went to a pretty good school, too

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MungoJennie@reddit

SnackWell’s, that’s what they were! Thank you! I was wracking my brain to remember what those hideous cookies were called.

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Awkwardpanda75@reddit

Ah yes, the anal leakage snack trend of the 90’s.

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kodiakjade@reddit

I used it to lose 15 pounds I didn’t need to lose between 6th and 7th grade.

My relationship with food is….better than that now. Not great tho. And fuck spray butter.

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Brave-Panic7934@reddit

Yes, that was my mother’s “diet” plan growing up. Instead of actually eating healthier, we just introduced a million Snackwells low cal prepackaged desserts into our diet

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erinhannon321@reddit

Insane to think my mom subjected me to all of her diet foods including Jenny Craig and weight watchers. She used to have me drink shakes for breakfast and then when she found my dexitrim in middle school, because she always snooped in my room all the time, she freaked out. Also, I was never over weight to begin with I was always a thin child even before she really went crazy with it.

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Slingringer@reddit

I remember all the ads for slim fast. That stuff was huge

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

Same. My mom had me drinking slim fast and I was never over a size 2 until like a year ago. My options for dinner were cereal or slim fast. To this day she insists my sister and I shouldn’t be over 105 lbs. it’s infuriating.

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Elenakalis@reddit

I did dance line in high school, and they only had age/weight charts. If you were between 14-18, your ass was too fat to go on the field if you were an ounce over 110 lbs. I'm 5'9 and could still wear a girl's size 14 when I graduated high school.

I weigh about 145ish lbs now, and objectively, I know it's a good weight for my height. But I was so conditioned to feel bad about myself if I was close to 110 lbs that I just don't keep a scale in the house because it would be hard not to check my weight too often.

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aprillikesthings@reddit

jfc, I was 115lbs at 5'2" my senior year of high school, and I got CONSTANT comments on how thin I was.

when I got on the pill a year later and gained a little weight I was THRILLED.

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

Haven’t weighed myself in like 8 years. It’s freeing.

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M3atpuppet@reddit

Fuckin Snackwells.

Zero fat. Plenty of sugar.

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internetonsetadd@reddit

The zero fat craze was a wild time. I remember two pharmacists I worked trying to one up each other about not using salad dressings. One said he just did a squeeze of lime. The other basically said, "Nah, nothing for me man, I raw dog my salads." He said it like he was the pinnacle of clean living and lime juice was straying from the path of righteousness.

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

Zero satisfaction.

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M3atpuppet@reddit

They were revolting. My mom kept us well stocked.

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i-am-your-god-now@reddit

Is spray butter not still a thing? I mean, I haven’t eaten, but I assumed it was still out there somewhere… lol

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CautiousReputation15@reddit

I just want thin thighs!

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GrandeDameDuMaurier@reddit

Wrong. I think about her all the time.

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StevenLovely@reddit

Clam powter

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Tia_Baggs@reddit

This is how I know I’m old. I remember her infomercials as a kid and thought she was crazy and I hated her hair. But when I saw this pic before it dawned on me who it was I thought “this lady is cute and I like her haircut”.

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perfectlyniceperson@reddit

I saw this pic and thought, “man she was freaking gorgeous!” As a kid I thought she was really unattractive, but it had to have been her hair I was hating on, even though I don’t remember being bothered by it.

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CantCatchTheLady@reddit

I shaved my head in the 90’s hoping for Sinead O’Connor nods, but everyone looked at me and shouted, “Stop the insanity!”

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Tia_Baggs@reddit

Oh dear, I’m sorry. We were so cruel to each other back then.

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Tia_Baggs@reddit

This sub also made me realize that Al from Home Improvement was a hottie 😅

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The_Stolarchos@reddit

The moose knuckle might be a factor.

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Tia_Baggs@reddit

Why I think she’s cute now? 😂

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amayain@reddit

My first thought was wondering if she was a trans woman because she looks like she is packing quite a lot down there.

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bytvity2@reddit

ME TOO!! Literally the same thought progression 😂

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Particulardy@reddit

I had a really crass friend in hs, and she'd always make me howl laughing telling me that this lady had to wrap her cameltoe around her leg and tuck it into her sock...

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yuckysmurf@reddit

OMG Same!!! So cute! When i was a kid I thought she looked so weird.

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Illustrious_Profile6@reddit

Actually she helped me lose a ton of weight, her zero fat diet in the 90s was one of the few that actually worked for me over the years I kept it off for long time too until eventually a friend was like you can have pizza... Just this once...

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TheGoddessWhispers@reddit

She gets a lot of undeserved hate, IMO. She basically figured out that fewer calories means you lose weight, and that fat has more calories than the same amount if carbs. If course it's not that simple, but it basically worked because people consumed fewer calories. She was body positive before that was a thing, and encouraged people to start exercising at whatever level feels realistic, even just a walk down the block. She encouraged modifying exercises sif they were too hard. This was barely after the heyday of highly-choreographed aerobics tapes.

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SoloMotorcycleRider@reddit

I have never heard of this woman. Now I'm off to do some of my own research.......

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honkyhey@reddit

Yeah, because I have no idea who the fuck that is.

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madsci@reddit

Stop the Insanity!

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usr_namechecksout@reddit

She lives in my memory because of this line in cabin boy.

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thisusernameisSFW@reddit

My thighs don't rub together!!!!

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Possible-Salad7169@reddit

There is something going on south of the border there that is intriguing. And a little scary

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Entropy907@reddit

🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪

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watzrox@reddit

I remember this omggggg

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Mediocre-Catch9580@reddit

Factory Air

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sky-lake@reddit

I came across her infomercial on Youtube recently and it's such a hilarious 90s time capsule. She's showing you how to shop for food and everything is centered around "Fat grams". At one point she gets to the pasta aisle and marvels at how low fat all of it is, no one cared about carbs back then!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWWCc7OYhg

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no_dice_grandma@reddit

It was all so backwards.

"Hey, don't eat that peanut butter, it's full of fat and you'll fucking die if you eat it. Here, have these 0 grams of fat 100% synthetic devils food cake bites with 400 grams of sugar each!"

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No_Mention_1760@reddit

The American health system is simply one fad replacing another. Everything we advocate today will be abandoned and laughter at tomorrow.

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sky-lake@reddit

Absolutely! I remember eggs being bad, then good, then bad, etc.

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PicnicLife@reddit

That's because you have to follow her "fat formula" to determine if you are making a good food choice:

Fat grams per serving x 9 (calories per fat gram)= answer # 1 answer # 1 DIVIDED BY the number of calories per serving= % of fat per serving.

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sky-lake@reddit

hahaha I read this in her exact voice, she talks about it in the informercial of course

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AxelShoes@reddit

Fat makes you fat! Say it louder! Fat makes you fat!

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AFetaWorseThanDeath@reddit

LOL

The fat phobia of the 90s, jesus. I'm especially getting a kick out of it now that my partner is doing keto and eating a very fat-heavy diet and is shedding more fat from their body than any other diet or workout plan they've tried lol

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slothbuddy@reddit

I was just thinking we should bring back that slogan, but I forgot this was her

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This_is_the_Janeway@reddit

“Did you know that HAM is fat free?!?!?” Honestly, her ideas weren’t all bad. Snackwells however, were so gross.

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WendisDelivery@reddit

Susan who?

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stlredbird@reddit

Kurt Warner’s wife?

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donny02@reddit

She finally got a good haircut and turned into a smoke show. Lord provides for ol Kurt

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BoyznGirlznBabes@reddit

I was gonna say the same thing

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rememblem@reddit

I must go to the store to get butter and cheese.

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scarlet_hairstreak@reddit

Think about her all the time actually. She is where I learned that you can only lose max 2 pounds a week. It keeps my expectations in check.

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Vanman04@reddit

Who?

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mjh127@reddit

Well I won’t un-google her for the next 25 hours.

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Traditional-Panda365@reddit

Maximum thigh gap.

Lo cal butter substitute.

Where does the time go?

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jaych79@reddit

Man, not sure why, but I could go for some Arby’s right about now.

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Swarley_Marley@reddit

When I was little, my older sister asked me if I wanted a Susan Powter Barbie, I didn't know who that was, but I said yes anyway. Turned out she had just cut the hair off of one of my other Barbie dolls. So that's what I think about when I hear that name.

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HeyYouTurd@reddit

Sounds like something I would’ve done to my lil sis

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Kwards725@reddit

Damn sure didn't til right now. I forgot about her.

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Leading_Attention_78@reddit

Samw

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corpsie666@reddit

Promoting high volume eating. Foods that are volumetrically large but low Calorie, making it difficult to consume excess Calories.

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Leading_Attention_78@reddit

That was it. Thanks.

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Kwards725@reddit

Basically a motivational speaker type.

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Leading_Attention_78@reddit

Yes right. Someone else triggered my memory with “stop the insanity”. I just can’t remember if what she pushed was insanity or not. Lol. She was Irish or something right?

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justtosubscribe@reddit

You may be confusing her with Sinead OConnor.

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--half--and--half--@reddit

Danny Devito ripped up a picture of Lori Petty on MADTV. The Pope taped it back together.

I’m certain of this and my memory I’m fat as an elephant.

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justtosubscribe@reddit

I could have sworn it Sinead and the Pope and so did my husband but I just looked it up and you’re right. Is this a Mandela effect???

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Chocolate-Pie-1978@reddit

She had workout videos, I think?

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Kulban@reddit

I never thought she was attractive because of the haircut. But now that I'm older, I can see she was pretty damn hot.

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BlackZapReply@reddit

Didn't pay much attention to her diet schtick.

As for her as a athletic woman with short hair, that's another story.

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dividingcanaan@reddit

She used to date a member of the band Bitch and Animal in the early 2000s. She would open their shows with a speech of how fucked up the diet industry was and how she was a lesbian feminist. She had crazy dreadlocks, it was kind of awesome.

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WolverineFun6472@reddit

I think about her often. Never forget those infomercials on Saturday morning!

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TelenorTheGNP@reddit

Well, she probably hasn't thought of me.

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ekennedy1635@reddit

She went from platinum to plywood.

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Vfrnut@reddit

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Ed_geins_nephew@reddit

Oh, believe me, I have.

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SnacksandViolets@reddit

Katie Perry’s blonde chop distinctly reminded me of this woman

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RMSQM2@reddit

I'll bet you I've never thought about her

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candycookiecake@reddit

I'm at the exact age where I always thought she and Sinead O'Connor were the same person.

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FiK-SiR@reddit

Funny, I thought she was in Roxette

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4score-7@reddit

Wait…..she wasn’t?

….damn….

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Smoovie32@reddit

…I wish I was your lover? Or is that another 80’s singer?

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Bosley@reddit

You Brita'd that all up.

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Smoovie32@reddit

Thanks? Guessing that was a community reference, a show that I have not seen.

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Bosley@reddit

Yeah, an episode consists of her confusing a Sadie Hawkins dance with a Sophie B. Hawkins dance, hilarity ensues.

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Smoovie32@reddit

Yeah, that tracks with my level of confusion on both of those subjects.

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4score-7@reddit

I think it was the “Don’t want to fall in love” lady. Great song. Susan Powter rocks!!

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CinnabarToast@reddit

"Don't want to fall in love" was Jane Child. "Damn I wish I was your lover" was Sophie B. Hawkins.

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Smoovie32@reddit

So then what did Roxette sing??

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arcxjo@reddit

The Look and Listen To Your Heart

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bytvity2@reddit

Also Joyride and Fading Like A Flower.

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DecoyOctorock@reddit

And Dangerous!

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rantingpacifist@reddit

Well, first of all, Roxette was a whole band not just one singer. And they had a bunch of hits. “It Must Have Been Love” was one.

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yomjoseki@reddit

I prefer "As I Lay Me Down."

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fluffhead77@reddit

I guess she’s got the look

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GuybrushBeeblebrox@reddit

Hahah hello, you fool!

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wait_ichangedmymind@reddit

Dang. Beat me to it

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Particulardy@reddit

I got Roxette song stuck in my head now, thanks....

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XTingleInTheDingleX@reddit

She's got the look.

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deadkate@reddit

Yes!!

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lazyMarthaStewart@reddit

Funny enough, I was just talking about her a couple days ago. Mom and I were reminiscing about bad Christmas gifts and the year she got the susan powter system (a couple years after it was even popular no less) unrequested from my grandmother. It was not appreciated.

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sky-lake@reddit

Oh my God that is such a terrible gift and I love the detail you added "a couple of years after it was even popular" followed by "unrequested from my grandomther" hahaha

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

What was it exactly? Powders or fitness equiptment?

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lazyMarthaStewart@reddit

Neither.... just an exercise regimen that you can even do from a chair! Although I don't think she actually opened it.

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ultradongle@reddit

"I think you look fat, so here is a judgemental gift. It will help you lose weight!" Thanks Gram Gram.

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lazyMarthaStewart@reddit

Yep. That was her. Loved her dearly, miss her greatly, but that was her.

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R0botDreamz@reddit (OP)

I am kind of surprised that there are so many people who haven't heard of her.

You sheltered, summer children. You are only 99.3% Xennial.

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namenumberdate@reddit

I have no idea who this person is, so I’ve technically never thought about her.

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Born-Agency-3922@reddit

Driving for Uber eats to make ends meet. Sucks

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TheCynFamily@reddit

Is she truly? :/

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RepresentativeRun71@reddit

She's on Social Security now:

Then about a year ago, she had a health scare that spurred her to apply for Social Security. And she began receiving a monthly check, which has been a lifeline, she says. "That $1500 check shocked the hell out of me. Whoever said money can't buy happiness lied. Liar. It wasn't happiness. It was bigger than happiness. I took the deepest breath," she says. "And this is not just a 'you used to have millions and now you don't' story. This is a very real thing that many, many women go through."

https://people.com/nineties-fitness-guru-susan-powter-lost-millions-survived-delivering-grubhub-making-comeback-8732139

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TheCynFamily@reddit

Thank you for this!

I'm sorry that's where The System led her. Nobody deserves to be afraid of losing shelter, man. :(

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layze23@reddit

If she used to have millions and now has nothing, that's her own fault. I don't fault people for not being able to make it to the top of the mountain. Very few of us do. But for those that do, if you fall off, you can only look inward.

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thedogdundidit@reddit

That's a great article. I wish her well!

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Thorbertthesniveler@reddit

Yup there was a post about her a while ago. She got screwed over.

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tonybotz@reddit

‘Twas recent! Recent, I tells ya!!

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sweetlee@reddit

An upcoming documentary about her life, Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter, co-produced by actress Jamie Lee Curtis, has been filmed.

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twoworldsin1@reddit

Holy shit 😳 that's rough

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Born-Agency-3922@reddit

Yes, unfortunately

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Critical_Hunter96@reddit

Yep I just read that and this is what she looks like now at 66. She still looks great

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copenhagen_bandit@reddit

for some reason I thought she died like 20 yrs ago lol

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marteautemps@reddit

I seriously remember her dying of breast cancer years ago, wonder who I have her mixed up with

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Mirageswirl@reddit

Suzanne Somers?

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Dismal-Meringue6778@reddit

She did commercials for the Abdominizer and the Thigh Master. Lmao

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marteautemps@reddit

No that's way too recent, plus I know of her well, this would have been someone more on the level of fame as Suzanne Powter.

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AngryTree76@reddit

Sinead O’Connor?

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copenhagen_bandit@reddit

Maybe Suzanne Summers (which I think I am confusing the two as well) she died of breast cancer in '23

But I still swear Powers died ages ago lol

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BEniceBAGECKA@reddit

Yo I did too. Just so you know I thought she was dead till this thread right here, but I thought she had a stroke.

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Slim_Margins1999@reddit

Just her career…

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RepresentativeRun71@reddit

I suggest checking her website https://susanpowter.substack.com/ Without a perfectly staged professional photo session she looks like your average Methany.

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Redheaded_Potter@reddit

Beautiful!! U go girl! I’m 45 & I don’t look that good!!

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classless_classic@reddit

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Paulruswasdead@reddit

I was just going to say there was a Reddit post about her not too long ago about her losing her fortune.

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P00PJU1C3@reddit

never heard of her

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RoiVampire@reddit

You’re wrong because I was fucking in love with this woman and still am

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Signal_Armadillo_722@reddit

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40yoADHDnoob@reddit

Ohh I didn't actually realize it he reason I still use Becel is because '90s

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coffeecatmint@reddit

I have actually. She was represented by a lawyer at the firm my mom worked for. My mom’s name is Rhonda. She walked by and started singing “Help me Rhonda” by The Beach Boys.

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EchoFloodz@reddit

I haven’t thought about her in 42 years.

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Strange-Mouse-8710@reddit

I can honestly say until this moment i had never thought about Susan Powter, in fact until this moment i did not even know she existed.

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SignoreBanana@reddit

Who?

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AshDawgBucket@reddit

I also never heard of her.

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Prossdog@reddit

Nutritionalist and motivational speaker for health and weight loss. My mom was obsessed with her or I’d never know who she was either.

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Peynal@reddit

Finally! I’m 41 and never heard of this person. I was wondering if maybe they were a celebrity in the UK or something… guess I didn’t watch enough infomercials.

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mobster1@reddit

not true, earlier this year adultswim ran a sgc2c marathon on youtube live for a month. the episode susan was on, showed like 40 times a day. i watched it every day for a month.

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manifest_ecstasy@reddit

My mom still has one of her books on her fridge. I see her every time I visit

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hey-girl-hey@reddit

I think about her because in a Rolling Stone article she gave the following legendary quote: "Avoid refined white sugar, refined white flour, and refined white men"

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scruffys-on-break@reddit

I've never thought about this person. I have no clue who this is or what they did to deserve my thoughts

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PuzzledKumquat@reddit

I have no idea who this is.

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marcusdj813@reddit

That's definitely a name that hasn't crossed my mind in a minute.

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Zaphod_Beeblecox@reddit

Joke's on you. I haven't thought of Susan powter, ever.

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peacefinder22@reddit

Wow, what a blast from the past Had to look up where she is now. Not doing so great, but is now working on a documentary of her life backed by Jamie Lee Curtis!

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cmack@reddit

Who?

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PicnicLife@reddit

Even as a tween, I understood that Susan Powter's success was based on her being in her post-divorce revenge body era.

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pieredforlife@reddit

Camel toe is yummy

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Ok_Egg_471@reddit

I grew up in Wisconsin, where aside from beer and cheese, butter is life. So luckily we never did the spray crap or margarine. Just real butter. Fun fact: Wisconsin has a strange old law on the books about margarine. It was illegal for restaurants to serve margarine, claiming it was butter. And that is also why they started changing the color of margarine- so people could tell the difference. Don’t fuck with a Wisconsinite’s butter!!!

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jwoehrle@reddit

Who??

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gogonzogo1005@reddit

So was I and I know clearly who she is, but may I ask,are you a guy or a gal? Might be why I know and you do not.

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jwoehrle@reddit

Guy

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gogonzogo1005@reddit

So since she was a big fitness guru you might jave not been exposed to her due to social expectations about weight. She was definitely more for women and being very thin.

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Paulruswasdead@reddit

I’m a 40 year old guy and I know

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Myfourcats1@reddit

Omg. My mom had her book. And the Spike seasoning (was that its name)?

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HeatInternal8850@reddit

Wrong, saw a special about infomercials on vice

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Ok_Philosopher_5090@reddit

No, I have and you can watch her being crazy at a store on YouTube 😹 she has braids now…so sad

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universe-zen@reddit

Vice has some show about the dark side of infommercials where she was interviewed. She's kind of a bad ass and looks even better now in my opinion.

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philouza_stein@reddit

Whew have you watched her recent vlog clips? She definitely doesn't look good.

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pdx_via_dtw@reddit

stooop omg

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Commercial_Step9966@reddit

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JoesGarage2112@reddit

Bet what

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Runegirl76@reddit

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WendyWilliamsFart@reddit

Powter doesn’t sweat

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cahrens414@reddit

I do. Weekly. Why? Because I always joke about wanting to shave my hair and my husband says "stop the insanity" and we have a good laugh

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dietitianmama@reddit

I have- last week I found an article about how she was financially destitute because a business manager swindled her…

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TeamShonuff@reddit

Did they swindle her or did they consider her an employee while she considered herself a partner?

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dietitianmama@reddit

https://people.com/nineties-fitness-guru-susan-powter-lost-millions-survived-delivering-grubhub-making-comeback-8732139

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Steplgu@reddit

I still have the VHS!!

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Phylace@reddit

Saw her recently on Vice's Dark Side of Infomercials. Quite a difference.

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BlacksmithThink9494@reddit

I googled her last year!

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timoni@reddit

I literally thought about her last Tuesday. So weird.

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LicketyBrindle@reddit

Just thought about her this morning! I was going to make a “stop the insanity!!!” reference, but then read my coworkers were far too young to get it so I stopped.

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oldmacbookforever@reddit

I'm 43 and who the fuck is that?

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loobot3000@reddit

My mom used to threaten to cut our hair and “give us the Susan Powter” when she was mad. This woman is burned into my brain.

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Reason_Choice@reddit

You win that bet.

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tortical@reddit

Anytime I hear “stop the insanity”.. which has been about 5 times in the past 25 years.

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Raff102@reddit

I wish Powder had a sequel.

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Lvanwinkle18@reddit

That woman. I bought into it hook, line, and sinker. Had everything. Was following this religiously. Then my nails started peeling, my hair was falling out, I did not look well. Turns out we all need fat in our diet. Fat was not making me fat. Sure I lost some lbs but at a cost.

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Atomic-Betty@reddit

I have but only because when I can't sleep I watch Sally Jesse Raphael on YT and she'll occasionally come up in my suggestions.

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dudeilovethisshit@reddit

Dear god. There’s SJR somewhere on the internet. Of course there is, but still. This both sparks joy and ruins my evening plans!

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hombre_bu@reddit

I had a low key crush on her

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MsJenX@reddit

No, no. I thought about her last week.

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sysaphiswaits@reddit

You’d be surprised.

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jlenney1@reddit

Who?

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Toc33@reddit

I have. I used to be up very early in the morning as a kid due to my mom's work, and I'd watch stupid infomercials before cartoons came on. I still remember her advice of "eat food as close to its natural state as possible." That's always stuck with me and helped me get healthy again.

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Extra-Affect6020@reddit

Actually, my sister and I were talking about her last week!

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NeverEndingCoralMaze@reddit

I don’t remember who that is.

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kubenzi@reddit

I LOVE Roxette!

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bigpapirick@reddit

I have a whole take on life based on her "stop the insanity" mixed with Daenerys' "break the wheel" line. They work remarkably well when people are "stuck" in their problems and generational issues.

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geomitter@reddit

I met her once. She was radiantly beautiful in person. She had an aura.

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IceSmiley@reddit

Omg I haven't but I recorded her show off PBS and spanked it raw to her 🤤

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Ok_I_Guess_Whatever@reddit

Stop the INSANITY!

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reznxrx@reddit

I have never seen nor thought about this opposite of a camel toe before in my life.

Is that a camel hump?

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Ok_Researcher_9796@reddit

I haven't ever thought of her. Who is she.

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KingFumbles@reddit

You'd be 100% correct

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weedandwrestling1985@reddit

I feel like my wife was just reading that she is a door dash driver or something

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Donkey_Bugs@reddit

Who?

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MascaraInMyEye@reddit

On the contrary, I make her meatloaf monthly!

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NoContextCarl@reddit

Not sure if I remember but my loins are quivering.

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The_scobberlotcher@reddit

I would eat Susan Powter's chowder

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Hot-Sauce-P-Hole@reddit

She's a lot hotter than I remember.

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rguzman2003@reddit

Remember when she guest started on Fresh Prince?!?!

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Yaritzaf@reddit

I was looking for this comment!

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passion4film@reddit

I had to scroll too far for this. lol

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xBobSacamanox@reddit

The only reason I know her lol

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SJSsarah@reddit

No hips, no tits, no ass… no reason to remember whoever that is.

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braywarshawsky@reddit

Who is this? She one of Brittney Spears' backup dancers or something?!

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HollyCalamity@reddit

No shit, just last night I actually jokingly threw out her name during the commercial break during Final Jeopardy after they announced the category as “American Women.”

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Fear_N_Loafing_In_PA@reddit

So damn random of a guess. Hilarious.

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IndependentPuddin702@reddit

Forgiven. I watched for so long that it's easy to hear Alex's voice over Ken's. But no more Wheel of Fortune.

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ethan_prime@reddit

I thought about her last week. I loved that Fresh Prince episode she’s in.

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IfICouldStay@reddit

I remember Kirstie Alley played her in a skit on SNL.

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NuovaFromNowhere@reddit

“Ninety-nine percent fat-free HAAMMMMM???” She’s actually a pretty great public speaker. Also, she’s still cute as hell!

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Much_Zucchini8826@reddit

What happened to her?

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Bors713@reddit

Didn’t remember her, so I Googled her. Still have no idea who she is.

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jackfaire@reddit

I have actually. Found her tapes in my mom's storage

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No_Permission6405@reddit

Who?

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LazarusMundi4242@reddit

If never again slut would be too soon. This lady and her overly hyper false enthusiasm really got on my nerves.

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justtosubscribe@reddit

Same. Didn’t know my thighs weren’t supposed to touch until she told me. Little me didn’t need that.

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GitPushItRealGood@reddit

I did actually. "Suck lemons! Don't suck lemons!" is something she used to shout and I can't unremember it.

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Intelligent-Invite79@reddit

How much is this bet you speak of? Because I play fresh prince a lot and just saw an episode with her like last week lol.

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babyBear83@reddit

While I vaguely remember a “stop the insanity” catch phrase, in no way do I recall this woman whatsoever. I think these informercials that she was on were popular when I was about 10 years old. I was watching cartoons and blissfully ignorant to adult health problems. So yeah, no clue who this person is.

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Autumn_Forest_Mist@reddit

How is she doing?

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

Not well apparently.

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boulevardofdef@reddit

You lose.

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Littlemisskittn@reddit

My grandmother was OBSESSED with this lady. Had all her books, cassettes, VHS, all that.

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ipsumdeiamoamasamat@reddit

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AshDenver@reddit

The MAGAs would decry the “crotch bulge” but yeah, you’re right - at least 25 years.

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ODB247@reddit

I somehow ended up on the Stop The Insanity diet when I was a kid. I had the book and the video tapes. Looking back, her advice wasn’t that far off from most other fad diets. Just move more and cut out a major food group.

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dwreckhatesyou@reddit

And you’d be right.

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Kaa_The_Snake@reddit

Oh no, I say to my cat every morning, as she’s howling like a banshee, “STOP THE INSANITY!”

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itssarahw@reddit

I vaguely remember being convinced I only should eat baked potatoes

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Mediocre-Catch9580@reddit

She needs a haircut

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Consistent-Ad-6506@reddit

Idk who this is but

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Sea_Baseball_7410@reddit

Please allow me to reintroduce myself…

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CarrieFitz@reddit

I had a meeting today with my coworker, who has the same hair that she did, so I was just thinking about Susan Powter TODAY.

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idontknowhowaboutyou@reddit

The crazy thing is I thought she was so old back then. She looks about 20.

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TaraJaneDisco@reddit

I weirdly thought about her like three days ago actually. So this is creepy.

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ham_solo@reddit

We had Slim Fasts in our pantry. Snackwells for dessert. Power Bars for snacks.

All 100% sugar

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milo8275@reddit

I was talking about spray better, not spray margarine, and my mother did drown her veggies in the spray butter, you could hear her from our room upstairs spraying it

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dshizknit@reddit

Thought of her today because she was mentioned in an episode of the podcast “This Is Important” that I was listening to on my way home from work!

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aclikeslater@reddit

Trust me, with a slogan like, “Stop the insanity!” It has been FAR less than 25 years since I’ve thought about her.

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GreaterMetro@reddit

I see the whole monkey

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danny_gil@reddit

Who????

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MOSbangtan@reddit

Holy smokkesssss

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cranberries87@reddit

I forgot her name, but she still pops into my head every now and then - I remember her book titled Food - she had a shish kebab with vegetables in her mouth on the cover.

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MrPhuccEverybody@reddit

This is the first time I've ever thought about her

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makeup_mutt@reddit

I thought her name was Powders until just now lol

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rullyrullyrull@reddit

She was a guest judge on an early season of Rupaul’s Drag Race. She did a great job!

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Winter-Ad2052@reddit

Who?

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Individual-Moose-714@reddit

Still fucking hot…

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kayla622@reddit

I never thought I'd miss the celebrity fitness/diet personality commercials; but I do. Today's ads are so repetitive and so irritating, I'd rather hear STOP THE INSANITY or hear from "Fitness Celebrity John Basedow" or even see the Shake Weight ad over and over, than ever hear the Jardiance "Little Pill with a Big Story to Tell" jingle or see that woman pop her boyfriend's zit in the E-Harmony ad again.

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