Stevie's weight?

[Merf]

Originally posted by dissention
Most people were surprised. After the SA tour, she didn't do anything but a few free shows in '96. She DID NOT look good or healthy during these free shows; she looked like she was very sick. Then when the Dance came around, we saw this gorgeous, sexy, focused, and happy Stevie. She was a real sexpot during the Dance, IMO. She looked fit and healthy. The rest is history!

*nod* Dissention, I totally agree-- she became a total sexpot during the Dance! I think 1997 on to now is the best she has ever looked. I don't know what happened in 94-97, but something certainly changed her for the better. She seems happier and healthier now. Go girl

[MacMan]

Merf, I love those banners you're making for Knoxville! Very nice!!

[dissention]

Originally posted by Merf
*nod* Dissention, I totally agree-- she became a total sexpot during the Dance! I think 1997 on to now is the best she has ever looked. I don't know what happened in 94-97, but something certainly changed her for the better. She seems happier and healthier now. Go girl

That's for sure! I think just her confidence and happiness alone is incredibly sexy! She enjoys what she does so much more nowadays and it shows. GDW from The Dance sent shivers up my spine, she could put any 20-year-old bimbo to shame! She exuded raw sexuality...

[gldstwmn]

Originally posted by diamondsnake
Some of this stuff I'm reading is crazy.... Can someone help me connect the dotes?

What I'm confused about is, why would fans be dissapointed when they first saw Stevie?

If you had seen Stevie on TOSOTM tour in '89 and that was your first time seeing her, you were in for a shock. She sang in a strange monotone, due to the klonopin, I'm sure and was very heavy. She stood at the microphone and didn't move. It was only two years earlier that she looked and sounded like her incredible self with Fleetwood Mac. Then, on the next tour, the BTM tour with FM, she was thin, effusive and fine in her performances. Then again, for Timespace she had gained weight but sounded fine. So in essence, post Betty Ford there seemed to be a lot of extremes in Stevie's music, health, performance and appearance after coming off of a 10-15 year drug habit (s). It would take anyone time to sort it out. Then she got hooked on a prescription drug. By the time she got off of that, the industry had changed, she hadn't made a record in a while and what she put out wasn't (she felt) her best work. The record was a commercial failure in comparison to her past work. So she did something very smart. She took a break, put herself back together and reconnected with Lindsey to do a song for a movie soundtrack, Twister. One thing lead to another and they decided to do The Dance.
Hope this answers some of your questions.

[gldstwmn]

Originally posted by strandinthewind
IMO, she lost her lithe dancer's body sometime between The Wild Heart record and Rock a Little. In the Red Rocks video, she appears as a maturer woman with a fuller (not fat) figure.

Yes, between nearing forty and the booze bloat her body changed.

[strandinthewind]

Originally posted by gldstwmn
. . . booze bloat . . . .

I think I've taken that cruise!!!!

[Merf]

Originally posted by MacMan
Merf, I love those banners you're making for Knoxville! Very nice!!

Thanks, MacMan! I made the first one I had up, the one that was mostly black and white with the pic of the band. However, Marissa (GardenStateGirlie) made this one for me!! *hug* thanks girl

[dissention]

Originally posted by strandinthewind
I think I've taken that cruise!!!!

Yeah, you and everyone else that's over thirty years of age!

[gldstwmn]

Originally posted by strandinthewind
I think I've taken that cruise!!!!

Haven't we all?

[dissention]

Originally posted by gldstwmn
Haven't we all?

Cripes, I bloat up like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Turkey float if I eat two slices of bread. If I have ice cream, my ass jiggles for a week. Add to that the fact that I get more wrinkles every day, my cellulite is more apparent than Chuck Woolery's rug, and my stretch marks are so big they could have their own zip code. Ah, aging.

I think Stevie is holding up pretty well.

[gldstwmn]

Originally posted by dissention
my cellulite is more apparent than Chuck Woolery's rug,

LMAO!

[Merf]

Originally posted by dissention
That's for sure! I think just her confidence and happiness alone is incredibly sexy! She enjoys what she does so much more nowadays and it shows. GDW from The Dance sent shivers up my spine, she could put any 20-year-old bimbo to shame! She exuded raw sexuality...

*nod* without a doubt! Britney who?? Her performances of GDW and Silver Springs from the Dance are both incredibly sexy.... MEOW!

[Johnny Stew]

Originally posted by dissention
After the SA tour, she didn't do anything but a few free shows in '96. She DID NOT look good or healthy during these free shows; she looked like she was very sick.

*lol*
Again, you and I have a completely different viewpoint!

I thought Stevie looked FANTASTIC in pics from those free concerts in 1996!

Here are two from the August 24th concert in Columbus, OH.
One on-stage (which is one of my all-time favorite Stevie pics), and one back-stage.

[diamondsnake]

FREE CONCERTS????? Why? Was she so bad she couldn't even get money for a show?

[Sarah]

The only reason I'll ever give a **** about Stevie's weight is because I want her to be healthy. Critics can go to hell, they don't matter anyway- they're just journalists who can't get a real job, so they have to spew their egotistical filth all over everything, as if anyone cares what they have to say in the first place.

End of story.