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Moss slammed for skinny motto
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BRITISH supermodel Kate Moss was accused on Thursday of giving the wrong message to anorexics and teenage girls when she gave her backing for a slogan encouraging them not to eat.
Interviewed by fashion industry website WWD about her favourite mottos, Moss said: "There's 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'. That's one of them."
Campaigners said Moss, 35, who has a seven-year-old daughter, risked creating eating disorders in girls and young women.
Beat, a British charity for people with eating disorders, said: "It's very unfortunate that someone who is a style icon would make such a comment. We can only think and hope that she wouldn't realise just how dangerous it could be.
"Young people struggling with an eating disorder are fighting a tough enough battle as it is, without thoughtless remarks such as this which can make it even harder."
Katie Green, a former underwear model who has launched a Say No To Size Zero campaign, blasted Moss's remarks as irresponsible.
"I think Kate Moss should really have thought before she spoke like most of us do before giving interviews," she said, quoted by the BBC, noting that the model has a seven-year-old daughter.
"Kate is a mother herself and how would parents with children suffering from eating disorders feel reading something like this?
"We are trying to get the government to put something in place to stamp out size zero models and comments like this aren't doing anything to help that."
The fashion industry has been criticised for using so-called "size zero" models - those who fit a US size zero - particularly after the deaths of two South American women who had suffered from eating disorders.
A British report on the health of models in 2007 resulted in a ban on girls under 16 taking part in London Fashion Week.
However, Britain stopped short of measures taken in Spain and Italy, where models with a body mass index (BMI) below a certain level are barred.
Do you agree with Kate Moss? Is it true that "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"? Leave a comment below.
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Posted by Joe_Smith from Maroochydore, Queensland
20 November 2009 1:23 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
Kate who?
Posted by Zorro from Noosa Heads, Queensland
24 November 2009 9:54 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
I don't have a problem with it. What ever works to motivate one, any individual, towards ones goals. These motivations, themselves, can be very individual. That's what they asked her about - her favourite mottos. Not, "Do you have any advice for fat chicks?".
As someone with a sweet tooth that I have a great deal of trouble controling, and yet I fitness train pretty much every day- I liked it so much that I've actually written it down as "There's nothing that tastes as good as being fit!"
Works for me - and my abs!
Posted by Caretaker from Bellingen, New South Wales
25 November 2009 7:31 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
I believe that it’s the Media that is to blame Using only Good looking (touched up) Skinny People in all their ads. Nothing is real. So some Woman that needs to be liked thinks that it’s better being Skinny. Why can’t we be a little bit more like China? They use real People in their ads and on Telly.
Posted by Zorro from Noosa Heads, Queensland
29 November 2009 11:59 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
I have my suspicions about why this article hasn't had many responses...
It has to do with the fact that most of the population is actively, willingly, taking part in the "EPIDEMIC" of obesity, gluttony, sloth and gross over-indulgence. Anything about thin people gets semi-ignored - blanked out - glossed over.
It's too confronting for them. There is a social stigma, a shame attached to being "overweight" or "morbidly obese", let alone "really fat". And then there's OMG!!!
It has become so prevalent - hence the fact that people afflicted with these conditions and syndromes of both body and MIND are now trying to "normalise" it in society. Everyone else is doing it, so let's remove the guilt and call it "normal" to be obese, and have obese children, and live in obese families and societies and so on...
There's a real "herd" mentality to it (and humans). I hesitate to use the word "cows"...
Note too - that, in the article, they've tried to say that she's saying the wrong thing to anorexics. Well, by extension that means she must be saying the RIGHT thing to overweight women and girls! Right? Must be.
And no - i'm not saying stick-thin models are good - and neither is she.
But I am saying, "Nothing tastes as good as fit feels!"
(I was in the pool this morning and on my bike yesterday).