Fox's Ablow Explains He Called Michelle Obama Fat Because She's “Struggled With Her Own Weight”

Later Adds, “Maybe She Didn't Struggle, Maybe She Chose To Be A Larger Woman”

Fox News host Keith Ablow continued his attacks on First Lady Michelle Obama's weight, suggesting the first lady is a hypocrite on nutrition standards because photographs he claims to have seen prove, in Ablow's mind, that Obama has “struggled with her own weight” while in the White House. 

Ablow was widely criticized after he dismissed the first lady's school nutrition efforts on the August 12 edition of Fox's Outnumbered, because he determined “she needs to drop a few” pounds. His comments engendered a widespread backlash, including from his own Fox colleagues. Ablow went on to defend his comments the next day to Politicosaying he was “not taking food advice from an American who dislikes America” and “has not been consistently a picture of fitness.”

On the August 21 edition of Outnumbered, Ablow doubled down on his offensive comments, citing unspecified “images online” as proof of Michelle Obama's personal hypocrisy on fitness: 

ABLOW: Well, listen, first, let's provide some context. The context was to remind people the draconian standards set by the first lady in her school lunch program, such that children are throwing their school lunches away. They're inedible. They won't eat them. And what I was reacting to was the hypocrisy. Let me phrase it slightly differently. For someone who has struggled with her own weight, which I think she would agree with -who has struggled so many of us have -- for someone like that to say we're going to set draconian standards and dial everything so far down thatit's inedible.

FAULKNER: How do you know she struggled with her weight?

ABLOW: Well, okay, because I know from the images online that she has struggled with her weight or chosen -- or chosen to be much heavier than at other points in the administration. Maybe she's chosen it. You're saying how do I know she's struggled. Maybe she didn't struggle. Maybe she chose to be a larger woman for some  --