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Uma Thurman, this is the captain speaking: Please sit down
We've all seen those exercise-obsessed air passengers who spend most of the flight walking up and down the aisle, doing deep knee bends and other movements designed to keep the blood flowing. Hell, on long haul flights I make a point of getting up a few times and doing some laps around the cabin.Uma Thurman, of "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill" fame, seems to take this to extremes, however.
Fametastic, a UK tabloid, reports that Thurman, heading to the Sundance Film Festival, recently spent a flight from New York to Salt Lake City doing yoga, stretching and dance moves up and down the aisle. She also reportedly used the plane's back galley as her own private ballet studio, stretching and performing pliés for 20 minutes.
I can only imagine what Gadling's own resident flight attendant Heather would say about this.
Think what Uma was doing is unusual? Guess what: it's nothing compared to what THESE women were doing! Click the pictures to find out how they were embarrassing themselves.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
DJ Jan 22nd 2009 8:03AM
If they were bothered by her, I'm sure the F/A's would have asked her to get out of their galley. They were most likely in "awe" of her.
Debbra Jan 22nd 2009 11:58PM
I love Gadling..and Heather, and have had the displeasure of sitting behind an annoying chic who couldn't stop getting up to retrieve things from the overhead bin just so she could show off her body. It was a nice body, don't get me wrong, but considering that she was directly in my line of vision for the screen, it became pretty tiresome. I have to admit that although I don't hang out barefoot and talk to FAs or steal their lemons (rude, gross..) I do stand by the bathrooms and the exit and stretch. I don't want to. But the FAs seem ticked when you walk up and down the aisles and they have to work around you. And there's always the carts, people with toddlers. Do you FAs have a suggestion as to what a good passenger should do on a 6 to 10 hour flight? I know you would like us all to sit in our seats all the time, but once you hit 40, it takes a couple of days to recover from the fetal position of a 10 hour flight! Keep up the good stories...
kathy Jan 22nd 2009 12:22PM
You forgot the rest of the story. The reports I read said that after all this, she was seen smoking a cigarette outside the terminal.
robertjungis Jan 22nd 2009 12:32PM
Uma was smoking a cigarette? Outside the terminal? Omigog, the shock! The horror.
What's your point, Kathy?
chumchan Jan 22nd 2009 2:27PM
The point is, if she is so worried about her health, why is she still smoking.
MIMI Jan 22nd 2009 4:44PM
The point is she was exercising, something that is good and healthful for you, smoking is not. Sounds like she isn't all that interested in a healthy body if she is smoking. THAT IS THE POINT. GET IT?
ProPlain Jan 28th 2009 1:45PM
The point is that this health nut who watches everything she eats and drinks, exercises, etc. SMOKES. Get it? She acts like a health freak and then does this to her body, quite a bit, from what I hear. It's like complaining that your girlfriend drinks Diet Coke and then you die of a drug overdose. It's contradictory, Dude.
ash34 Jan 22nd 2009 2:21PM
kathy's point, most likely, is.....
why bother trying to save your life from a deep vein thrombosis death, and replace it with the more prevalent risk of lung cancer, decreased lung capacity, higher risks of numerous cancers, etc...
but, obviously, any individual who doesn't mind bothering people in close quarters and who basically has no consideration for other people wouldn't have a second thought about smoking.
Maryland Jan 22nd 2009 2:50PM
Why not rent a private plane, it's not like she doesn't have the money.
maximum JOE Jan 22nd 2009 2:41PM
I think her face looks like a foot.
Mosie Jan 22nd 2009 4:53PM
That was awesome!!! She is ugly!
Glen Jan 22nd 2009 10:11PM
No kidding. She is one ugly woman. I can't figure out what the hype surrounding her is all about. She can't act either.
Jess Jan 24th 2009 7:00PM
OMG that's probably the funniest description I've ever heard lol
Mary Jan 22nd 2009 2:50PM
This is ONE of our pet peeves as flight attendants.
It is SO annoying when passengers come back to our galleys and think they are either their personal gyms OR offices. THAT is where we work and trust me they are not big enough for all of us.
I often ask passengers who feel they MUST hang out with us what they do for a living. When they answer I say "So if I were to stand right in front of you or in your space would that bother you"...chances are the answer would be "yes" because no one would want someone to stand right in front of them while they were trying to get their job done..
And NO, Uma would not interest us..Her stretching would be a source of galley gossip and joking about how 'entitled' she is behaving..
So yes..Uma..sit down!!
Al Jan 22nd 2009 5:59PM
Well Mary, as a flight attendant it is part of YOUR job to maintain control of the passengers on the plane. Yes, people often misbehave and get in your wave, simply place to the Capt. and have him or her activate the seatbelt sign. You can make people sit down, also remember if anybody interferes with you or your duties, this includes being in YOUR galley you can have them detained for a looong time at the destination airport! It is also up to you as a cabin crew member to keep passengers seated should there be some type of medical emergency where medics have to get to that passenger or move that passenger closer to an exit! To many of your co-workers just take to much for granted and do nothing to maintain any semblance of control over THEIR cabin. I too am in the business.
Marilyn Jan 24th 2009 4:21PM
How come she wasn't arrested as a terrorist?
Johanna Jan 22nd 2009 3:14PM
Not 'in awe' of her, just thinking she is a weirdo, I am sure! LOL Respect the other passengers and the crew, Uma and other zits like her, sit your selfish a** down and save your "moves" for anywhere off the tight quarters of a plane, goofball!!!
lita Jan 22nd 2009 3:18PM
I got a kick out of her alleged "health concerns," given the fact that she's a smoker. I have an acquaintance who would not use an anti-fungal cream for four to six weeks because he said it could adversely effect his liver. I asked him if he would walk me through that logic, given that he is a smoker. Of course, he didn't have an answer. You can't fix stupid.
wylma Jan 22nd 2009 6:09PM
I had a friend how would only drink organic milk because she was worried about the hormones in regualr milk but she smoked a pack a day of marlboros, the irony killed me!
stacie Jan 22nd 2009 3:22PM
Yes, sit your rear end down, please. Get out of our galley and exercise on the ground. If you need to walk the aisle a couple of times, go for it, but don't invade our workspace. It also delays the service to the other 120 people on the plane when we can't get into the galley to set up service items and restock beverage carts. If you look at it that way, it's just plain rude.