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Jenny Powell - do any of you find that veiny muscly thick-necked look desirable?

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Jewelsandgems · 21/04/2009 15:05

Honastly, watch her in channel 5 at 1440 (Wordplay programme, on after home and away) and today she has her hair in a side pony tail. God, she looks horrendeous all thick veins.

She also has those awful muscles across her breastbone (they look like thick ridges) I mean PUKE.

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noddyholder · 21/04/2009 15:09

I bet you're perfect

GracieGrace · 21/04/2009 15:37

honestly

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Jewelsandgems · 21/04/2009 20:19

yes honestly! I have had so many people say the same thing to me today (about Jenny Powell)

She used to be so attractive, why all the muscles?

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yappybluedog · 21/04/2009 20:28

who's Jenny Powell?

you need to link, we can't judge properly without a pic

minko · 21/04/2009 20:29

She looks like an alien species these days - I can't look! I can't comprehend that she's the same pretty girl from the telly when I was young!

SuziSeis · 21/04/2009 20:30

i used to love Jenny - need a pic

FigmentOfYourImagination · 21/04/2009 20:31

She is vile. Whenever I see/hear her on telly or accidentally read an interview with her she is universally unlikeable and frankly, odd. Appalling presenter/tv personality too.

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Jewelsandgems · 21/04/2009 20:31

All the pictures on google are when she was lovely looking....they don't have any of her new (alien) self [I know minko it looks nothing like her now!]

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SuziSeis · 21/04/2009 20:33

she was always a shister presenter

wooden is an understatement

izyboy · 21/04/2009 20:35

I thought she had a well known battle with anorexia?????

yappybluedog · 21/04/2009 20:36

oh, remember her now, she's pretty
says on wicki that she is currently pregnant

namechangecosfeelingsad · 21/04/2009 20:38

Woah, harsh comments. If she is working out too much or something, it may possibly have been fuelled by personal comments about her appearance on a website somewhere.

Leave the poor lass alone, she's not hurting anyone with her muscley neck is she?

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Jewelsandgems · 21/04/2009 20:41

Well she could be pregnant, but with all the veins and muscles going on, it is hard for me to notice she has a body beneath her shoulders!

And yes, I heard that too abou. Well she certainly hasn't an eating disorder anymore, looks like her new fixation is bodybuilding.

Why would women do that to themselves? [not get pregnant, the over the top muscle thinkg]

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Lizzylou · 21/04/2009 20:45

When I was a teen, people used to say I looked like her

I wish I did now, big veiny neck or not

Like Suzy, I like her.

minko · 21/04/2009 20:52

Those channel 5 quiz games that appear after Home and Away are dreadful. Poor Jenny Falconer presents it sometimes too (how she has fallen poor girl) and also looks a bit rough, maybe the lighting is a bit harsh in that studio!

Also i always get the impression the producer is shouting through their earpiece, 'sound more excited, more, more!', as they gurn with delight.

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Jewelsandgems · 21/04/2009 20:59

You are prob right minko. And yes about Jenny Faulkner, aparently we was pissed off that she was not offered Fiona Phillips job on GMTV.

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SuziSeis · 21/04/2009 21:41

lizzylou she was every school boys fantasy in her day!

Amandoh · 21/04/2009 21:46

I remember her being so pretty but I haven't seen the Channel 5 programme so can't comment on how she looks now. I don't personally think the "I've doused myself in Cuprinol now give me a truck to lift" look is attractive but some muscle definition looks healthy.

Bulging neck veins can sometimes be a symtom of an underlying health problem so unless she's beefed up all over she may not be in tip top health.

noddyholder · 21/04/2009 21:51

Really unkind and harsh to use the word puke when talking about another woman.

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Jewelsandgems · 21/04/2009 21:56

God that picture is horrendous amandoh.

I think she is beefed up all over. And I know a little muscle defination is healthy, I do yoga and pilates so I am for that. But it is when that goes a step too far IYKWIM.

You see the thing is, it doesn't even look like her at all anymore. Even her face...

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SuziSeis · 21/04/2009 22:02

This is recent - she looks normal to me

Winetimeisfinetime · 21/04/2009 22:09

I have met Jenny Powell in real life { appeared on a TV show with her } and once the cameras stopped rolling she wasn't very nice.

noddyholder · 21/04/2009 22:10

She looks fine

FigmentOfYourImagination · 21/04/2009 22:15

Actually I recall her being painfully thin, lollipop like, 2yrs ago ish. That picture of her in the (deeply unflattering) bikini certainly looks like she has a more healthy bodyshape nowadays.

Lizzylou · 21/04/2009 22:31

I definitely look nothing like her now!
She looks lovely in that picture. Haven't seen her on daytime TV tbh
It was when she had a curly bob and was in some music programme, I had a curly bob at the time as well (pre straighteners). We have different colouring, but a similar nose (hers is far less piggy than mine)
I have to admit I used to be deeply flattered at the time