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    Can a model be too fat? Fashion ed Jess Wood joins the Kate Upton debate

    To any un-ana-biased eye, Upton is toned, healthy and - most strikingly - happy looking. Something I doubt you could say about the author of Skinny Gossip

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    To any un-ana-biased eye, Upton is toned, healthy and - most strikingly - happy looking. Something I doubt you could say about the author of Skinny Gossip

    Not content with slating unsuspecting celebrities daring to expose any visible evidence of – shudder – body fat (I mean, it's not like they need to keep warm with all that LA sunshine, is it?), pro-skinny sites have started to take long, thin stabs at models.

    Skinny Gossip, a thin-spiration site written by an ex-model who takes personal pride in 'keeping myself very thin' (a purposeful life, then) has been causing furious Web waves with a vitriol-filled rant aimed at curvacious Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton.

    Describing Upton's look at a recent runway show as 'thick, vulgar, almost pornographic' and like 'a squishy brick', the rant degenerates further – to include pictures of Upton actually (snigger) eating, and demanding: "Is this what American women are striving for now? The lazy, lardy look?"

    To any un-ana-biased eye, Upton is toned, healthy and - most strikingly - happy looking. Something I doubt you could say about the author of Skinny Gossip (difficult to say for sure though, as strangely, the site is anonymous).

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