Saturday, September 30, 2006

Eat more sugababes

The celebrity weight storm is just getting ridiculous now. At least someone should take Victoria Newton aside and ask her to come up with an opinion, rather than twisting in the wind. Say what you like about Trevor Kavanagh - and we've got some choice phrases - but at least the Sun seems to know politically where it stands, and when it changes, it does so with at least a little decorum. It doesn't flip between Cameron and Brown and Ming from page to page. Bizarre, though, knows no consistency, so a day or two after trying to make Charlotte Church feel like a porker for enjoying eating food, there's cheers for the Sugababes making the ludicrous claim that they enjoy kebabs:

Amelle said: “We went to a premiere the other week and afterwards we were starving. We had the dodgiest kebab ever.

“It was tortilla-style and it wasn’t the best — but we do like a bit of doner.”


It was only after she got home that she realised she meant "dogging".

Keisha raged: “I have a 14-year-old cousin. I asked her if she wanted something to eat and she said ‘No’ because she had to watch her figure. I was never like that at 14. It is really bad.”

Heidi added: “This whole size zero thing really upsets me. I was at a hospital the other week and a lady came over and asked for an autograph for her 13-year-old daughter who was in a clinic with anorexia.

“It is so unrealistic. There are going to be loads of young girls now desperately trying to get to a size zero like all these Hollywood stars. It is so sad. It upsets me.”


Which are sentiments that should be wholeheartedly endorsed. The only trouble is, these are the photos the Sun is using to illustrate the articles: thin, pretty women in skintight pvc minishorts and catsuits.

Now, it's true that the "size zero" concept might be raising false expectations in young girl's minds. But to pretend that you're living on a doner kebab diet and squeezing into these sexy outfits - doesn't that also raise a slew of false expectations, too?


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