Kate Moss causes outrage with her Size Zero motto: Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels

Posted by lena on Nov 19, 2009 in News | 0 comments

Kate Moss has been accused of encouraging young girls to become anorexic after glorifying a ‘size zero’ slogan.
The supermodel caused outrage by revealing that one of her mottos is the phrase ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’.
The saying is a watchword for millions of anorexics and bulimia sufferers.
Moss made the comments in an interview with fashion website WWD.
Asked if she had any mottos, Miss Moss said: ‘There are loads. There’s “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”. That’s one of them.’
She later tried to qualify the remark, adding: ‘You try and remember, but it never works.’
The saying is believed to have originated from some early WeightWatchers members but is now commonly used on numerous slimming websites and blogs around the world.
One such site, caloriecount.about.com, carries the post: ‘Cuz a donut doesn’t taste as good as skinny feels.’
Last night, model Katie Green – who four months ago launched the Say No To Size Zero campaign – said: ‘There are 1.1million eating disorders in the UK alone. Kate Moss’s comments are likely to cause many more.
‘If you read any of the proanorexia websites they go crazy for quotes like these.’
Miss Moss’s comments were also attacked by Denise Van Outen.
‘Kate Moss is talking out of her size zero backside,’ she said.
The 35-year-old TV presenter, who is pregnant, 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, vowing: ‘After I have my baby I’ll lose weight through healthy eating and exercise. The sensible way.’
Miss Moss’s comment comes after a survey last month revealed that teenage girls are routinely missing two meals a day because they believe they need to lose weight.
It 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.
The study by the Exeter-based Schools Health Education Unit found 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.
source: dailymail.co.uk