AMY FREEZE BUTT PROFESSIONAL

“We’re not perfect, but our goal is to live a rich family life and a life with balance,” she explains.Īnd that, she believes, is plenty to cheer about. In 1999 she and Gary won the couples division in the national Body for Life fitness contest. This is a great dry rub for brisket, dont put too much on and over. She runs marathons, does strength training, and follows Bill Phillips’ Body for Life program, a family exercise, eating, and wellness approach. I’m supposed to be here.”ĭespite her other obligations, Freeze finds time to stay fit. My goal is to be the most accurate meteorologist in Chicago.”įreeze sees destiny at play in her Chicago assignment: “I was hired at age 32 channel 32, and 32 is the freezing point. “The station doesn’t pay someone to give me the forecast,” she says. Far less common than conventional Doppler radar systems, it “sees through” storms better by sending out microwaves in two pulses-rather than one.

Her education and knowledge of new technology prepared her to work on Fox’s sophisticated dual-polarity radar unit. “They are almost twice my age and have been in the market a long time, so I have to work extra hard to learn the science and be aware of the geography.”īut Freeze is hardly outclassed. The changing nature of Chicago’s weather makes it an important weather center.” But she notes the tough competition she faces from the meteorologists on the other Chicago stations.

“I love Chicago,” says Freeze, who grew up in the Midwest. Denver and Philadelphia has led to two regional Emmy awards for best weathercaster and outstanding host, she is acutely aware of the challenges and opportunities she faces in her current job as chief meteorologist for Fox News Chicago. Along the way, she has become one of few women to receive the American Meteorological Society’s Certified Broadcast Meteorologist accreditation. Turns out, she loved being “it.” She went on to earn a degree in meteorology from Mississippi State University and is currently finishing her master’s degree in environmental science with an emphasis in storm-water management from the University of Pennsylvania.

But when a manager at the Portland, Ore., station where she worked after graduation needed a weather person, he said, “Freeze sounds like weather, so you’re it.”

AMY FREEZE BUTT PROFESSIONAL

Now married to Gary, Amy finds plenty to cheer about as the mother of three young Arbuckles, but her professional reputation has come from being a Freeze.Īs a broadcast journalism major, she thought her work might include politics or international relations. (BS ’95), one of the school’s Cosmo mascots, and enjoyed a courtship when he became a yell leader to spend time with her. More athlete than dancer, she was the cheerleader others tossed in the air.

The condition can be caused by being born with a flat butt, not exercising your flat butt, sitting too much on your flat butt, or, if you’re me, all of the above.įor many flat-butt sufferers, it will come as a relief to know that you can shut down those who mock your flat butt with the iron-clad retort, “Actually, I have a medical condition.” Just don’t tell them it’s called “Dead Butt Syndrome.Amy Freeze Arbuckle (BA ’95) spent a considerable part of her life, including her years at BYU, as a die-hard cheerleader. Otherwise known as “dead butt syndrome,” the condition appears in people with “under-active glutes,” whose infirm rears force other muscles in the back, knees, and hips to overcompensate. “Aches and pains? You could have ‘Dormant Butt Syndrome’” exclaims an article from CBS News you couldn’t pay me not to click on. Today, I learned that flat butts are actually a medical condition, and I no longer need to suffer alone in silence. I no longer feel guilty watching Snap stories of Khloe Kardashian doing squats instead of doing squats myself. But today I would like to announce that I have finally been freed from my flat-butt insecurities. For many years I have ignorantly assumed that the flatness of my butt was my fault: I was simply born genetically unblessed, destined for every cookie I consumed to travel straight to my ab (I have one).

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