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 :)

Like I said, her choices are her business. My issue is with certain sections of our media, which have, despite her choices, chosen to single her out as someone worthy of imitation, for reasons which are profoundly regressive.

Not to mention it all smacks of a complete lack of understanding of Eating Disorders are and how there is a perception creeping into society now that Thin = ED by trying to create a stigma about them or to use as stick to beat people with.

Not good.

She is too thin and looks ill and gaunt. Not necessarily an eating disorder though will never know. I don't get why everyone is having a go at op it's just a discussion not bitchy and km does have a lot of influence. I think its very sad the effect fame has had on her make her feel so self conscious about her natural body shape that she has to do this to her body and become frail.

I think it's cruel to speculate about eating disorders like that. I also think that William would spot signs of any ED long before MNers, and leave no stone unturned in getting her treatment.

Oh, and I don't doubt that the press are carefully selecting pictures of our new Duchess to suit the angle of story they want to run in future. You can do funky stuff with photoshop angles.

Certain papers are carefully building it up, in my view, picture by picture. Then, when they can say, "everyone was saying it already" they will hit her with "Kate battling" headlines.

They will probably do a Kate versus Pippa montage, comparing the two. They've been making Pippa's body a huge thing for ages, and I think they're going to use that against Kate, when the mood is right.

Don't know if she has an ED but frankly wouldn't be surprised..and no I am not overweight and embittered ( I am slim and athletic but strong, don't look like a gust of wind would blow me over). Would be fine if she had always be this way - a tiny tiny portion of people are naturally this thin, but it's on record that she and her family embraced fad dieting before 'the' wedding and there are before photos of her looking much healthier imo. Frankly, she needs a burger (at this point I would like to write something erudite about societal/ media pressures on women to confirm to a physical type - pressures which are much worse than a couple of decades ago....but I can't be arsed).

There's a simple way of preventing that happening, Jessie.
we could all pay attention to something more interesting instead, and stop celebrating non-entities.
It won't happen.

reactionaryfish every man I know thinks she is hot and high up their in their dreams lists.

I didn't realise adult males had "dream lists", Novack. Generally that kind of thing is abandoned around the age of 20, IME.

AS ARE FLIPPANT COMEBACKS But it appears not

It isn't her natural weight because she drastically dieted for her wedding. Up until 2011 she looked about 2 stone heavier and in a healthy weight range. It does significantly age her being so thin. It's not relevant how she looks but the influence she has over other ppl and that fact that sexist societal pressures have made her feel the need to be so thin.

It's not flippant. I've genuinely not come across a post-adolescent male who spent time fantasising about women he hasn't met and is never likely to.

Damn right it won't happen!

Let the woman be, Britain!

Also "hot". Who the fuck actually talks about women being "hot"?
I think maybe I'm just getting old. I'm inclined to think that's not such a bad thing, on current evidence, however.

Guys If she is gonna live in the lap of luxury doing sweet fa on the tax payer I think we can say what we like! She's moving the feminist movement backwards already, she could try and be a good role model.

On many threads tonight posters are saying let the person be, be supportive, bullying is a terrible thing...

Kate, I think you look great. You are coming over really well and many people I know ranging 4-80 love you.

In your head please rehearse the phrase "did you mean to be that rude" regarding negative comments about your weight in future.

RF you're male friends are clearly under 40 and aren't going to admit to a major crush on Debbie Harry

So we're paying for her so we can say what we like about her, krumbum?
Frankly I think that's a bit sick too.
Pity NOT paying for her isn't an option ....

Hoh yesh, criticising other women's dress sizes is advancing feminism!

Why is she responsible for moving the feminist movement back?! Er what. She made a free choice for herself to marry the man she loved and take the shit responsibilities she knew would come with that.

She wasn't forced. She wasn't groomed to marry William. She's doing what Prince Phillip does. Royal duties or marrying into the royal family don't seem to be too gendered.

Your issue is with how she is being represented in the press. Not with what SHE does.

That's exactly my point. What does the determination of the media to ram the woman down our throats as the greatest role model available say about our culture? nothing good.
"Responsibilities", btw? do you want to re-think that choice of word, at all?

I don;t think we are paying for her.

William had 20 million in the bank after his mother died from her estate and that was 10 years ago so should have grown somewhat.

Most of William and Harry's expenses come out of Charle's pocket which is directly derived from his own lands. Which is why all that nice Dutchy's Originals stuff in the supermarkets.

Oh yes, and they earned it all by the sweat of their brows, bless 'em.
This is getting silly so I'm off to bed.

Weird sense of deja-vue here. Am old enough to remember KM's MIL as (as seen in the media) before, during and after her wedding. She went from being a healthy size 12 at 5'10 when she got engaged, to a gaunt and ill-looking young teenager by her wedding day. She dropped a least 3 dress sizes.

I don't care how "iconographic" her look is regarded as nowadays, or how "fairytale" her wedding dress was - she looked like a train-wreck by the time she got married. And the press was FULL of speculation about her dramatic weight loss during her engagement. She even stopped wearing her engagement ring because it became much too big for her.

This isn't spiteful DM-style speculation either, she did develop an eating disorder during her engagement, which she battled for the rest of her life.

Why is this still happening? Whay are women still supposed to behave liike this 30 years on?

I feel little pity for someone with so much privilege when most of society is suffering. I don't think it's a positive thing to judge a woman based on how she fits into what society deems attractive and sexy but talking about the health of someone who is shoved down our throats whats wrong with that? Thats not a negative thing. The way km lives her life along with rest of the ruling class oppresses all the women within our society.