Feeling the Heat
Last week, Kate Moss was feeling the heat from the press for revealing - in response to a question from a fashion website - that one of her mottos is "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."
The media has taken issue with this, suggesting Moss should be held responsible for an increase in eating disorders among young girls.
It is interesting that the media is up in arms about a saying that is as commonplace as "a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips." And you only need to be in an office at lunchtime to see that plenty of women don't need any help from Kate Moss to make themselves feel bad for eating more than a few lettuce leaves.
Furthermore, the media is hardly innocent. Walk into any newsagent and there a dozens of magazines aimed at women, with tips on losing weight, looking slimmer, and all wrapped up in a glossy cover with an airbrushed image of a skinny woman.
Ironically, in what was a rare interview - Moss is notoriously quiet, and you can see why - the website she was talking to was a niche fashion websitethat, without the media hysteria, would have run the interview without anyone much knowing or caring.
So if anyone is to blame in all this, it certainly isn't Kate Moss.
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