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Kate Moss stirs up a fury with size zero motto
Updated 10:07am on 19 Nov 2009Kate Moss has been accused of encouraging anorexia in teenagers after telling a fashion website she lives by the maxim "nothing tastes as good as thin feels".
The comments have been seized upon by campaigners calling for an end to "size zero" models.
Katie Green, leading the campaign, said: "There are 1.1 million eating disorders in the UK alone. These comments are likely to cause many more."
Moss's comments were also attacked by Denise Van Outen.
The 35-year-old TV presenter said: "Kate Moss is talking out of her size zero backside.
"Having been in the industry for so long, she knows the impact her comment will have on vulnerable young women," she told The Sun.
Reader views (11)
I believe health and family are the most important things in life. Obvioulsy Kate Moss doesnt have any of those! She is skawny and looks like a skelton and way past her sell by date!
- Elly, London, 20/11/2009 14:01
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Eating = fat? When did this become true? My wife and I eat very tasty food and exercise moderately. I am not fat and nor is my wife. I suggest Kate Moss finds a better chef and the general public should try to be less hysterical. We enjoy being and looking healthy and fit, but I would never want my wife to be as shapeless as KM.
- Dannyp, Egham, 20/11/2009 09:11
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If this ageing harpie wishes to deny herself the pleasure of a chop smothered in gravy so that she can fit into a very small pair of jeans so be it. If the media quote her repeating a tired and somewhat clumsy paean to spindlyness that is another. Neither is going to have any impact on the vast number of seriously obese people in the developed world eating sixteen person's rations a day. If there should be a global food crisis it won't be Kate's fault.
- Squiz, Islington, 19/11/2009 22:25
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Oh come on people, she said 'nothing tastes as good as thin feels' NOT 'nothing tastes as good as being anorexic' Can't you make the distinction? If she'd ever been fat in her life she'd have every right to say that! (I have, and can honestly say 'NOTHING tastes as good as SLIM feels') - sure that's what she meant.
- Liz, London, 19/11/2009 15:40
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I think I know what she meant by her comment - and she is spot on. I've been overweight and can honestly say that 'nothing tastes as good as feeling thin feels!'
- Liz, London, 19/11/2009 15:34
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Hilarious. Kate Moss makes a jokey remark in a magazine no-one here reads, then the Sun puts it on their front page, where everyone reads it, and complains that it is setting a bad example!
- David, london, 19/11/2009 13:56
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It`s about time a few rules were dictated concerning any model used in advertising.
For example;
All must be AVERAGE weight for their HEIGHT (-0 percent, plus 5 percent)
Images that have been digitally airbrushed MUST state so, and list the changes made.
Just these two rules ,if enforced should drag (?) females back to reality of what a REAL person looks like, as opposed to the extremely disturbing view that fashion designers are peddling of "perfection" (i.e their designs only look acceptably "good" on tall skinny coat hanger models) .
We go on about healthy lifestyles - well, for the physical AND mental wellbeing of our young and easily led fashion addicts, this misinterpretation of perfection has to be stopped.
- Darius, London UK, 19/11/2009 13:26
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Kate Moss.
Ugly.
Scrawny.
Talentless.
Please go away.
- Anthony, Esher, Surrey, 19/11/2009 12:55
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I too lived by the motto "nothing tastes as good as thin feels" for many years. I was anorexic, miserable, friendless, cold and led myself to death's door many times. I now live by the motto "eat healthily to live well" and am a very healthy, happy, warm person with a gorgeous husband and lots of wonderful friends.
I look at my life and Kate Moss's (we are the same age) and know exactly who is the happiest. Being thin is not the be all and end all KM. Maybe you will be more fulfilled in life when you recognise that.
- Amanda P, Leatherhead, UK, 19/11/2009 12:24
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Lots of things taste much better than the feeling of knowing that you look like a half-starved, washed-up rat a la Kate Moss.
- Anders, London, UK, 19/11/2009 11:40
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Being healthy and slender is far more attractive that being either too skinny or too fat. We all know a balance of eating healthily and regualar excercise is the way to go.. I personally do not find anything attractive about Kate Moss and think that the only reason she ever had the chance to become a model was the fact that her mother was a friend of her agent. She has been a very fortunate young lady but her lifestyle often leaves a lot to be desired. Testino and others often make most models much more attractive than they are in reality. To my mind KM just doesn't have it as a role model, and as for Philip Green he is just using her to make his own fortune grow. Unfortuately with all the hype and marketing we are all so easily lead. Anyone with half a brain would not get sucked in to all this rubbish. Role model anyone?
- Ashley Smithson, st albans, 19/11/2009 11:25
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