Physical Signs of Lying During Tania's Interviews?

Beyond her weight, her story wasn't that over the top considering the circumstances of 9/11. There have been plenty of wild stories that occurred during the attack that happened to be true. It's easy to get fooled. Even the bald who had suspicions earlier on, changed his mind because she had such a charismatic and persuasive personality.

I thought the same thing when I first saw this movie (that she was a bit heavy for one, probably already exhausted, firefighter to carry her out of the building alone) but in the book, it's said that she showed a photo of her and Dave on the beach in Maui and in this photo she was much thinner. She attributed her weight gain to her PTSD and grief. The book never explained the photo but I am guessing it was photo shopped because, as you can see from the movie, she was never thin. So, it couldn't have been an old photo of her and someone else.

I think she is being punished. She had all this attention and admiration, and it seems to me, after reading the book, that most of the people in the group (especially Linda) were afraid of her. So, she got pretty much anything she wanted or needed from the group and officials. In the book it speaks of Tania asking Linda to come to her apartment at 2 and 3am to comfort her, and Linda always went. Members of the group were always ready to drop their lives for her, but she never gave back to them in return. And she wasn't even very nice, especially to Linda. Her reputation is now forever ruined. In the last chapter of the book, the filmmaker goes to her apartment to find out if she was, in fact, a fraud and to get some answers. She blamed the media for being out to get her and she made no apologies to anyone. This is what prompted the filmmaker's visit to her hometown in Spain and where the truth comes out. Now she is an outcast from the same group that loved and feared her for six years. People aren't listening to her anymore, or even talking to her. Survivors and others no longer see her as the face of 9/11 but instead a fraud and a liar. I feel she is getting what she deserves.

You might be surprised. She has a very round face that includes a substantial double chin, but her body is not actually as big as one might expect from her face. Also, she's apple-shaped, so you see a lot of her weight when she's filmed from the mid-ribcage up. When you see her in shorts, her hips and legs are much smaller than you'd expect. Unless she has a fair bit of muscle mass, she could easily be under 250. Speaking as one fat girl about another, I can say that there's a wide range of actual weight numbers that could result in her size and shape.

I agree with your assessment 100 percent. Hindsight is def 20/20. It's easy to say she looked like a liar now. That's actually a huge pet peeve of mine. I hear people all the time on political or sports radio say they knew that was gonna happen.

No you didn't.

BTW, I keep laughing at Oxbloods post where he called that guy, "the bald." Hahahahahahahaha!!!

I don't know. The clip where she talks about bringing the little taxi cab to place at the memorial it seemed off to me. Not necessarily that she seemed like she was "Lying" but more that she seemed weird. She looks at the cab with a happy smile of fantasy rather than a rueful sadness. It seemed like she was making it up as a story then.

The other thing that never made sense to me was her story about how they met over a cab. One of them gets in the cab and off they go. So when did they exchange information to meet up again?