To say that I think Kate Middleton looks like she has an eating disorder?

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Umm skinny's not the word. Possibly and probably a size zero? Not natural/down to fast metabolism either as she used to be 'bigger'. That waist is thinner than my thigh by a long shot. Even DH said about it this morning and he's generally not interested in that sort of thing.

Don't understand why it hasn't even been mentioned in the press? I'm confident that any other celeb/person in the public eye would be questioned/accused of being anorexic.

I wonder what her BMI is? I would suggest dangerously low, NOT a good example IMO. However, gorgeous teal dress :)

many people on this thread posting about her not having an eating disorder probably have eating disorders themselves and are in denial.

Good grief, it was so long ago I can't remember, Avenger, but it certainly was of the lunch, main meal (no breakfast, I haven't taken breakfast for nearly 40 years), copious amounts of sugary coffee and cola, snacks whenever I fancied them (and do did I ever!) variety of lifestyle - just a diet of normal foods but with no restrictions. Do I have to admit to my extremely sweet tooth here?

Yes, good point Aitch.

I am overweight, but still can empathise with those who are naturally slim and get fed up reading (and hearing) "oooooooooooooh, you have to EAT something, you are far too skinny".

Conventions of polite society frowns upon a statement such as, "You are putting the beef on, been eating too many pies?" but it is ok to say, "Look how skinny you are, go have cake".

Too aid your confusion, Nor is absolutely everyone who think she may be verging on the 'too slim' side.

Aitch, I didn't like the sandals either!

theinets - "many people on this thread posting about her not having an eating disorder probably have eating disorders themselves and are in denial"

What to you is normal food, portion sizes, type of food, how is it cooked.

You see to each person a snack or loads of snacks means different things, normal is not the same to everyone, that is why I am interested in when you say you ate loads, I asked what you ate.

again, i just don't think that's true, Mme. the entire DM rh col is about ooooohing when a celeb puts on weight then aaaahing when they take it off again. and look at the sheer disgust that people extend to very overweight people on here...

Yes, but the snide anonymous disgust at an overweight or the pseudo-concern at an underweight sleb on the DM is not RL.

I am talking about going up to a RL friend and saying these statements to their face.

Not that it doesn't happen, but it is seen as being rude to comment on someone getting fat.

Oh gawd! Avengerrrr! My memory hurts!

Portions of huge not exactly un-large size, cooked in all manner of ways from roasted, to fried, to baked, to steamed, a meat free but protein rich diet, and a hell of a lot of cola and chocolate. :)

I want to know something. How the hell do we know what weight Kate is anyway? Has any MNer actually weighed her or are we all going by what the Daily Mail press says?

Let's hope she doesn't read MN as threads like this would make anyone paranoid enough to develop an eating disorder. Poor girl, let's drive her half mad like the media did her MIL shall we?

Women are supposed to support each other and work to stop appearance based judgement ffs

I would love love LOVE to be slim, but not thin like Kate. I think she does look too thin, actually. She has the body of a catwalk model which is extremely rare when it occurs naturally (of course I know that some people are like that, obviously, including some posters on this thread) but she is now 30 and I cannot believe she can remain that slim without exercising a lot of control. Especially given that the camera really does add 10lb, I think she now looks unhealthily thin and am concerned for her.

(Many people with bullimia are overweight btw).

I think she looks stunning.

I think she looks like a stunning woman who constantly has a the media and everyone else bitching about how she looks.

Id like to point out , as well while im here i am medically underweight , BMI of about 16.8 and ive been told by my Dr that there is nothing whatsoever wrong with me and as long as i continue to eat a healthy diet (which i do in case anyones wondering.) everyone else can take a running jump. Or words to that effect.

Graham, sorry love.

I have had to make this point to my dd, who is over weight. That not everyone who says they eat loads eats the same amount. It look a long time for her to see her very underweight friend who seemed to eat loads was not actually eating very much at all.

So I dd would eat a bowl of cornflakes that would be about three or four of those variety box size one's for breakfast.

Dd would then have sandwiches and fruit for lunch.

At home dd would have another bowl the same size of cornflakes at some point. behind my back

A dinner which was never enough, so she would go back for seconds and finish all of it seconds was behind my back taking the cold rice I had put in the fridge. Say a dinner as an example was boiled rice, green beans and chicken curry.

Now on top of that dd would complain like mad that this other girl ate more than her, and it was so unfair that I didn't let her have chocolate cake and the like.

Well that was through year 7 at school. I explained to dd that everyone's idea of huge amounts of food was not the same, it fell on deaf ears. This girl at school would go on and on and on about all the food she ate telling dd how mean I was not giving dd any chocolate cake etc when dd complained about me, and how her Mum gives her loads of food.

Roll on dd being invited after school to the friends house, friend ate two fork fulls of her dinner, Mum was pushing food on friend all night, friend ate nothing. Friend had a two bread standwich at school, fruit at school and chocolate cake at school and ate it all there.

Another time dd had a sleep over at friends house, friend had no dinner again a couple of nibbles of her dinner, and no snacks in the evening, she left things given to her by her Mum lying around, dd found it shocking friend could leave food lying around, friend ate no breakfast in the morning. So the friend was only eating a lunch each day, and gave off the look to others she was eating loads and had the opinion she was eating loads, when in reality she was undereating and it is my opinion she had an eating disorder.

My dd looked sheepish at me from them on when I pointed out that dd was wrong that I was not mean and that the girl had funny idea's about food, and that dd was eating far too much as she thought that everyone else could eat more than her at school that they were eating loads at home too etc...

was quite interesting when DH was trying to GAIN weight and I was trying to loose it

he seemed to eat a lot and eat all the time, eventually he used myfitnesspal to GAIN weight and it worked really quickly, turns out he was eating high quantites of deceptively low cal food, and low quantities of the high cal foods

and I was "eating really healthily" but gaining weight in ways I couldn't work out till I wrote it down, 3 glasses of fruit juice with a healthy lunch make a huge difference (and things like that!)

yup, one persons "eating loads" is not anothers, my DH was eating way less cals over the coarse of a day to me, even though we had the same breakfast and dinner and thought we ate pretty much the same

There's nothing to apologise to me about, Avenger, apart from you're testing the memory of an old woman! And yes, I do see the point your making but if anything I was of the eating habits of your DD rather than her friend.

To be fair, stress maybe plays a big part. Kate is newly married into the Windsor family and in the spotlight, I was recently bereaved when I was her size and age although I'd always been very slim, even as a child. I'm still not overweight now but a 10-12, still eat like a horse very well.

Argh, you're, not "your", sorry.

Avenger, that was such an interesting post. It's amazing how much perception has to do with fixing ideas in somebody's head.

"I think we are becoming conditioned to think of being overweight [or at least heavier] as normal."

I think that it´s the other way tbh & we are thinking that skinny is "normal" & anything above that is overweight.

no way diddl, the "fat" threshold has moved way up, along with average waistlines

I think my dd has a better idea now of what is a normal portion and normal eating habbits, it is now a case of putting it into practice.

I am having a gastric band put in quite soon, due to my eating disorder, and my portions are going to be very small. I think seeing me having my potion size and seeing that I am able to survive and function well on that much food will have a big effect on dd. The psychologists who run the bariatric clinic assure me that everyone in the family's eating adjusts when one person has had surgery for the better, which brings me hope for dd for the future.