yes often we see these commercials i mean right if you're somebody who wants to go to like jenny craig or to bally's total fitness of gym and whatnot they offer you a program in the way they try to get you to come to their program is they show you a bunch of people with really hot bodies that you want to look like. they only took my dad because i make time to the valley that you can't turn work not to remember don't put down by. all right not so much there's a thing called body exchange and they build themselves as kev this only fit camp and adventure company and they cater exclusively to plus size women and so they actually have a thing where you know if they think that you are too skinny too slight then they tell you to go find other alternatives because they want to be like a safe haven for everyone to feel comfortable but everyone has problems with their body so what is too skinny so that's why it's kind of like how the are you guys going to decide exactly so i don't like that like slippery slope i'm not saying i'm like the thinnest person in the world but i wouldn't be like i woul

then when you exchange the vows, jenny craig, 20 pounds and that thing is barely on you and no i'm pribt. every business trip is a trip of fun. >> you know what i would do? i would say i was recently widowed. >> you would all of the ladies. >> that's all i have is sympathy. >> i guess i deserved that. >> you are an awful person. i don't want to see your gig real. i don't care what is on your gig real. >> can i go to sleep now? >> no. >> we have five more blocks. >>> a story so shocking you would say, that is some parents. >> and should texting be allowed at movie theaters? no. i to be care of that story. >>> should theaters bend to those who hit send? they admit they can be more flexible when it comes to teens who are textable. the topic at a recent event was the zero tolerance policy most cinemas have on cell phones. explains one imax bigwig, quote, we want them to pay $12 to $14 to come into an auditorium and watch a movie. but they have become accustomed to their own existence. banning cell phone use would make them feel handcuffed. and another chain said they will mail out teen frien

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you can't call someone fat and then look at yourself and you kind of need jenny craig. said you should donate your body to science because blue whales are rare. and the boy's mother spoke to a tampa station. >> i don't care who you are. if you are an adult you do not put your hands on a child. i wish they would have tried to contact us because then it would have been easier to not have this blow up into this big, huge thing. >> reporter: john schriffen, abc news, new york. >> what do you think, mama bird? >> well, go to our facebook page and let us know how you would react. how you would step in if your child was being bullied. i had my kids mildly bullied at the playground. i get upset. i tell my daughter, i say, listen. don't ever go up and instigate anything but if someone comes up to you and pushes you, push them back. bullies look for weakness. i don't want my kids to be weak. and then the bullies will go on to somebody else. >> we live in a tough age where that bullying can have awful results. i understand where a mother is protecting her child. was it the most re

you can't do that and need a jenny craig.aid you should donate krur body to science because blue whales are rare. >> reporter: the teen boy's mother spoke to tampa station. >> if you're an adult, you do not put your hands on a child. i wish they would have somehow contacted us. it would have been easier to not have this ploe up into this big, huge thing. >> reporter: for "good morning america," john schriffen, abc news new york. >> and debbie and mckenna join us now. that must be hard to see the details do by again. you say your emotions got the best of you here. >> they did. it's my daughter. it's the nasty things he was saying about her. there's things i can't even -- say on tv. because they're so vulgar. it really got to me. what really really did it was she was so upset about it, she just -- she didn't want to -- she wanted to hurt herself. that, to me, as a pirnarent, seg my daughter like that, it angered me. >> what happened in that moment? >> in the moment at the mall, when i -- you know, said -- you know, stop saying

i'm getting older, so -- >> i'm on jenny craig. how did you do it?> that will do it every time. >> that's the hardest part. >> push away g to the gym will do it every time. >> that's all i did, yes. >> do you work aull the time? >> i work a lot, yes. >> it seems to me you are totally in demand and i go from one role to the other. >> yeah, which is good. it's good. and i like to work. i'm a bit of a workaholic. i like to work. i don't like to be idle. >> you're heading back to the stage. so you went -- you grew up in new haven. you're going to yale and doing ham let. >> yes, next year. >> does every actor want to? >> i -- it never occurred to me to do ham let. i mean, another shakespeare thing i thought i would do before ever doing hamlet. >> how did this occur? >> they came to me and said, do you want to play hamlet? it never occurred to me. >> how do you feel? >> i'm terrified. >> are you? >> completely terrified. i haven't done shakespeare in a long time. >> would you watch the great -- >> i don't want to watch anything about it because i don't wan

you can't call someone fat and you need to look at yourself and you need jenny craig.joining me now mercedes colwin and mark eiglarsh. we are all parents. we can all relate to the urge to protect your child. and i can only imagine having your child bullied to the point where according to this moth sheer he was thinking about hurting herself. and the mother says it's this boy's fault. does that mitigate her behavior? >> under the law perhaps, but with a jury i think so. if there was a case of jury nullification and the jury says i'm going to rule from my heart, this is this case. here is this boy who seems so and tides. but you look what he posted on facebook. he says she was so fat blipping ugly he wouldn't even rape her. and other disgusting things he said. the encounter in the mall. that mother confronted the 14-year-old and said there's nothing you can do about it. if all the facts laid out before the jury, i think the jury would say i would do the exact same thing. megyn: the reason the cops arrested her is the alleged bully's mother saw red marks on his neck. she

now, did you use any weight loss program like a jennie craig or something like that?lthy and normal. >> mike: so, in other words, the motivation, instead of some outside company, it was to serve your country. >> yes, sir. >> mike: wow. and so, you started with biking, that led to running. and have you inspired the rest of your family? i know that you say a couple members of your family could maybe follow in your footsteps? >> yes, sir, my-- i come from a family that is pretty overweight, so, when i went home, and looked normal to be overweight and i started inspiring them to start dropping weight, too. my grandparents i started preparing meals for them and then my mom, too. >> mike: great. good tore you. when you went to the recruiting office, they looked at you, at 300 pounds did they laugh you out of the office or say i didn't think it would work. >> the current recruiting office isn't the branch i'm currently in and yes, the fooling i did get was that they took me as a joke, sir, but when i went into the air force, recruiters office when i was a little bit lighter,