Used to eat for three, now competes for three
The Advocate's latest cover model has a secret.
No, it's not that his "abs" have seen the business end of an airbrush, because, frankly, that's pretty damn obvious.
Triple threat.
The secret, you see, is that he used to weigh 300 pounds! And so it's true what they say: Inside every super-sized oaf is a devastatingly hot Rico Suave struggling to break free.
In his interview, Hector Torres says he was "overweight for most of [his] life" until the age of 20, when he shed 100 pounds. For whatever reason, the article glosses over this stunning admission and instead blabs on about his participation in this year's Gay Games as a triathlete.
I want before-and-afters, people! This is why the gay magazine industry is in the state it's in: Not enough coverage of those who've actually transformed their fat, ugly, undesirable, unvalued, former selves to meet the extortionate body image standards established by the gay magazine industry to begin with!
P.S. What's funny about the Gay Games? Even if you lose, you're still gay! (Ergo, we are all winners! Yay!)
Comments
Gay publications take note: stick to white guys who don't have hard luck pasts or else!
Sheesh.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 28, 2006 03:09 PM
now there's a hot application of spandex if i ever saw it!
Posted by: Ian | February 28, 2006 03:13 PM
I love you, Toby!
Posted by: andy | February 28, 2006 04:05 PM
Yeah, but he probably lost all that weight by taking up a crystal meth habit... which would wouldn't have made for a very positive article.
Posted by: chrisb | February 28, 2006 07:15 PM
If this boy is a tina whore, Toby hasn't given the photoshop guy nearly enough credit...
Posted by: Dan | February 28, 2006 09:31 PM
Wait a mo -- he was overweight until he was TWENTY?
"Most of his life?"
I predict that he'll gain it back by 32.
Posted by: Gene | February 28, 2006 10:32 PM
do you want any before jewish after pagan? though there's really not much difference except for the whole one g-d thing.
Posted by: avi | March 1, 2006 01:07 AM
Are the Gay Games our version of the Special Olympics?
Posted by: Brian | March 1, 2006 08:17 AM
Wait, do I know you? Oh yeah, white trash. How could I forget?
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Posted by: Wannabeleader | March 1, 2006 09:06 PM
Gene, you're SO cruel. ;-)
Cheers,
R-
Posted by: Me is the Ridor | March 8, 2006 12:57 PM