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Kate Moss in new size zero controversy

By Louise O'Connell on Thursday 19 November 2009

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Kate Moss is in trouble again for igniting the debate on size zero and encouraging anorexia.

Critics have said that Kate's recent comments about how she keeps her figure are dangerous and could encourage young girls to become anorexic or bulimic.

In an interview with Women's Wear Daily Kate, 35, was asked if she lived by any mottos, she said, 'There are loads of mottos. There’s "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels". That’s one of them.'

But then Kate added, 'You try and remember, but it never works.'

Model Katie Green, who launched the Say No To Size Zero campaign, four months ago, said, 'There are 1.1million eating disorders in the UK alone. Kate Moss' comments are likely to cause many more.

She added, 'If you read any of the pro-anorexia websites they go crazy for quotes like these.'

In a recent survey by the Exeter-based Schools Health Education Unit last month, it was revealed that that a majority of teenage girls - and 40 per cent of ten and 11-year-olds - believed they needed to slim but few were actually overweight. And that teenage girls are routinely missing two meals a day because they believe they need to lose weight.

The survey also showed that 26 per cent of 14 and 15-year-olds often don't eat breakfast, 22 per cent skip lunch and 10 per cent regularly go without either.

TV and Radio presenter Denise Van Outen also criticised Kate Moss for her comments, 'Kate Moss is talking out of her size zero backside,' she said.

Denise, 35, who is pregnant with her first child, told The Sun, 'Having been in the industry for so long, she knows the impact her comment will have on vulnerable young women.'

She warned women against starving themselves, 'After I have my baby I'll lose weight through healthy eating and exercise. The sensible way.'

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Thursday 19 November 2009

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From someone is so well respected in the industry, this is just so irrisponsable.
Comment by Steph on November 19 12:10

Kate is a model and has made her career on the way she looks and her figure. Was she a different size she wouldn't be the icon she is today. She's not even a size zero anymore so it's ridiculous to say she's backing size zero. Being a supermodel it is her job to remain small. She always looks fantastic, and if shewas bigger.....not so fantastic.
Comment by Jen on November 19 13:04

Kate Moss is SO boring - she probably made these comments so that exactly this would happen - more people talking about her, more PR, more fuelling her massive ego...Still, it won't last, soon she'll be just a speck on the landscape & out of people's minds. Another waste of space in this media-fuelled would of nothing-people.
Comment by Jax on November 19 14:50

Saying that Kate Moss is just doing her job as a model by saying these things, and therefore it is all okay, is approaching the issue from the wrong angle. All that does is confirm the problem.
How can we say Kate Moss wouldn't look fantastic if she was a bit bigger? Frankly, we don't know, because we never see any bigger models nowadays. And even if we were able to see someone like Kate Moss or new models suddenly being bigger, we might not even know how to value it anymore, because we aren't used to it. In the 40's and 50's, very skinny models had no chance, they looked too unfeminine and unhealthy for the standards of beauty.
Accepting that Kate Moss is just doing her job by saying these things, and therefore it is all understandable, is not going to change anything. Though we do understand the messed up psychology Kate Moss is in, and that therefore we cannot really blame her personally, we cannot afford to be loose on statements like these. If we want anything to change, and young girls to be proud of their bodies again, and women to be healthy and happy, we have to stand up for it. I want to see healthy and sensible role models please!
Comment by fiona on November 19 14:50

omg kate moss has gone to far here. she is the one that made me want to model i am an 18 yr old girl and a size 8 (high street brands) and i have landed modeling jobs because i am not that super size 0. but kate is not helping the fact that alot of people do have eatting problems and having saying that comment is not helping all of them soon to be young ladies fight the weight issues the modeling world puts on us as young and up coming models. kate should be ashamed of herself for even using that as a motto even if it is just for herself.
Comment by jodie lynch on November 19 16:31

I completely disagree with the comments of Kate Moss promoting eating disorders. People don't develop eating disorders because of a misguided quote. To actually suggest that they do is very irresponsible and for some would be deemed very invalidating. I think we need perspective and to a degree some personal responsibility. If young people are susceptible and easily influenced by media people then we need to ask why. It wouldn't be because they are happy and have good self esteem. Ultimately core beliefs about self and others are developed through childhood not a magazine.

If Kate Moss chooses herself to live her life by that motto then so what ? She is not suggesting that the rest of the world adopt this motto.

She also was documented to have had a drug problem but I don't remember her being blamed for global drug addiction.
Comment by anna on November 19 20:04

Since when is being a disgusting fat slob good?
Comment by GÃ¶ran on November 19 23:39

What did she say that was so wrong?
I cannot believe everyone when we have kids that are so fat they are being put on lists for gastric bypasses before they are 18, what about parents that can't play with their kids, or die while their kids are still in school.
I am not a fan of Kate Moss but in the media recently we are forever slating the likes of Victoria Beckham, Girls Aloud members and other high profile women for being too skinny because we are too frightened to say when someone is too fat. No one who is fat is happy and they comfort eat and get fatter and we tell them it's ok while shooting healthy size women down for being too skinny. Being overweight, same as being underweight, is un-attractive, unhealthy and causes fertility, diabetes, heart and breathing problems which costs the NHS more than smoking, alcohol and drug related problems. She may not have put it across in the right way, but she is by no means promoting a size zero society, she is being honest and the only one with enough balls to stand up and say that she feels better and confident being slim. I am a size 10-12 because I like being this size and it's a healthy size for me, so what if I don't want to be a size 18. I'd rather be able to have kids and watch them grow up than be infertile and die from weight related problems and leave them.
Comment by Fabienne on November 23 13:43

lol at all the naive comments. of course nothing tastes as good as thin feels. the woman is a model for heavens sake, paid to stay thin, her words perhapes should of been nothing tastes as good as a million pound contract.
thin is the byword by which women are expected to live, we accept the beauty myth and then pretend to be upset when someone acknowledges it.
the only ppl who can truely complain about her words are the ppl who have never tried to lose weight or change their body.
and before you get up in arms and argue kate is just encouraging ed's. i have one and i dont blame her.
Comment by doll on December 05 11:06

me being a young child i think that it is wrong what she said and it did make me feel bad about myself and i think that if that is one of her mottos then she shouldnt be so silly to tell the papps. but if that is what she beleives then that is her choice but that doesnt mean that we shoule think the same :) be happy with the way you are!!
Comment by Angel Jones on April 24 19:13

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