To think if gran really cared she wouldn't be exploiting her Gdaughter in this article??

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www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2176432/Scottish-Laura-Pettit-loses-6-stone-4-dress-sizes-thanks-nagging-grandmother.html

I know its the DM but I wonder if anyone at any point thinks how exploitative these articles look before printing.

How nasty that they've put her surname in " " in the headline. I bloody hate the DM.

how do you know that the grandmother was the one who took it to the dm and not the granddaughter? does it say who it was who approached them? The granddaughter is 27, so perhaps it was her?

and yes, these articles are always exploitative. But there will always be people who let their desire for their 15 minutes blind them to what is really going on.

She has quite possibly saved her grand daughters life!'

She's a 27yr old woman whose gran is very proud of her

How do you know anyone exploited her?

How is the grandmother exploiting her? She's only in a picture with her, the interview is with a 27 year old woman who is more than capable of making her own decisions. She'd be more media savvy and less exploitable than an old lady.

Her grandmother saved her life by talking sense and supporting her.

What Hecate said - I'd say it was more likely to be the granddaughter who went to the DM.

Lol come on op!!! Explain how she is 'exploited'?

Her grandmother should have stepped in though , shes old enough to know better, her granddaughter has done fantastically but has now been made a laughing stock.

its sad really.

yeah the whole surname in " thing just maddening.

Stepped in.... Why ? How?

I don't see a laughing stock!

I see a life saved .... I see a caring gran...,, I see a fit healthy happy young woman

Rather than complaining about a DM article being exploitative, wouldn't it be better not to read it in the first place? If nobody read these crap articles on the DM website they wouldn't write them! And every link from here to the DM brings more traffic (and advertising revenue) to the DM website.

Everyone knows these types of articles are highly exploitative. had that been my child/granchild I would have said something to protect.

this is not the only one its one of many.

Where is the child in this story??

Stepped in? The granddaughter is nearly thirty years old

I had 2 children and my own business by then! Are you seriously suggesting a woman of nearly thirty years of age needs someone to tell them what to do because they aren't capable of understanding their own choices? Really? Nearly thirty? I know that people are younger for their age these days than they used to be, iyswim, but I would hope a woman hurtling towards thirty would be a fully functioning, independent adult.

True Veracious slaps wrist

the thing is people will be reading that sneering, (or a lot of people will) even reading the article the person who wrote it seems to be sneering, not very dignified.

But yes, they are exploitative. They are the 'point and laugh' type articles. Come look at the freak/judge the unworthy. That's the daily mail's M.O.

But that doesn't mean that a woman of nearly 30 years needs to be guided. (assuming no SN of a nature that makes her vulnerable)

People are responsible for their own choices, including the choice to appear in a paper / crappy magazine/tv show, showing the world their terrible scars/incestuous relationship/genitals...

For once (it being a DM article) i don't see anything wrong with it.
Good on her for the weightloss - and having lost 4st last year i know how hard it is.
Perhaps the money she gets for the article is paying for new wardrobe.

If she was younger, then i might agree.

What they have done is make themselves a bit of holiday money, you will probably see them in Closer etc.

Everyone who knows her, obviously knows about the weight loss and she is getting to an age were peer gossip is unimportant, so, she had nothing to loose.

It might keepher weight loss on track.

How on earth is it exploitative? The woman has sold her story to the paper, not the grandmother. They both look happy enough to be featured.

YABU.

Nobody has forced either of them to be in the paper.

I am sure the woman got far more nasty comments when she was grossly overweight than she does now.

Is the surname not just in "" because Pettit is a bit like Petite?

I read it as her being proud of her weight loss achievement(actually,the both of them are ) and she has made a few quid on a slow news day.I really don't see what the problem is?

Ridiculous how they've put pettit in quotations. The absolute idiots.

The grandma might want to address her own weight too.

The grandma probably knows how the negative aspects of being overweight have affected her life, and didnt want her grandaughter to carry on the same way.

Do you not see how it is exploitative? even if she is thirty.

I thought that too Ghost ship.

I was BU to assume it was the grandma who went to the DM I suppose.

I just want to know how it's news