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"It was like Nixon going to China." Commentary by guest & media/gender scholar Wendy Burns-Ardolino;  Season 4 of Designing Women. Delta Burke's weight gain, tabloid harrassment. Rumors of Burke being "difficult to work with" Linda Bloodworth Thomason writes "They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?" & Burke sends TV's first direct message about bodyshaming to the America.   Resources: Delta Burke's 1998 Delta Style: Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I Wendy Burns-Ardolino's (2015) TV Female Foursomes and Their Fans: Featuring the Golden Girls, Designing Women, Living Single, Sex and the City, Girlfriends, Cashmere Mafia and Hot in Cleveland