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To agree with Katie Hopkins?

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UnacceptableWidge · 02/01/2015 13:32

I know, I know!!
Turned on Radio2, initially had no idea who it was and found myself nodding along to every word.

As a 'fatty' myself I had to agree with all she said. I did this to myself. I like food, especially junk food waaay too much. I hate exercise a lot. Nobody to blame but me.

The horror of agreeing with her may, possibly, finally force me to get off my arse and do something about it though I will never in RL admit that she has made me wake up and realise this is all on me

All I would add, as clearly she cannot be completely right and understanding life in anyone else's shoes, that her circumstance is different to mine.

My weight crept on gradually over the years.
My mindset has never been to actively put weight on with the intention of losing it again, I simply developed bad habits over a long time.

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HelenaDove · 04/01/2015 17:29

" I reckon she sleeps well at nigth tbh"

Hmm I wonder if her children do.

Chocolateteacake · 04/01/2015 22:10

They are just counting the hours until they are old enough to change their names by deed poll and move out.

HelenaDove · 04/01/2015 22:21

And after accessing MANY years of therapy.

Junglen · 05/01/2015 00:24

Well, I'm not British so I won't comment on her Nationalist feelings (or would you say Unionist?). But I think some people are confusing the fact that they really don't like her (which is fair enough) with her having emotional problems! That's a stretch!

Her own children's names are quite nouveau riche sounding to my non-british ear but I could be wrong about that. names are perceived differently in different countries.

MistressDeeCee · 05/01/2015 00:30

It just amazes me that people say things about fat people and are derided for "fat shaming"..OP you'll know we've all heard stuff said before..then suddenly a troll comes along says the same thing and suddenly its "oh, she is right". What for? Spouting regurgitated nonsenses for money & headlines? What makes her views more acceptable than others who said the same thing years ago?

The woman is a walking train wreck I refuse to believe she is actually happy in any shape or form and I can't think of a single thing Id allow her to advise me on. She chats shit and gets paid for it. That is all.

NewYearNewBrie · 05/01/2015 09:26

haven't read the full thread as I get that everyone hates her.
However I was watching My Fat Story last night. I agreed with her until she went over to the womans' house and was very blunt, and very nasty. DP seemed to get very uppity about her. there's some things she says that I do agree with - then she ruins it.

NewYearNewBrie · 05/01/2015 09:30

oh and also - it's alright to say to people put on some weight you look like a sack of bones but as soon as you tell a chub to lose weight, all hell breaks loose.
some people can't gain weight.

Look. there are people that do this to themselves. then there's diabetics, there's people who have underactive thyroids... they can't help it. I have depression and I eat like nobodys buisness but I can't put on weight. I lost all my weight due to it.

rookiemere · 05/01/2015 09:59

Does anyone remember KH in The Apprentice - she genuinely seemed to be a good project manager and could manage people/egos etc. looked like a fairly talented business person who should have been able to command a good salary.

Strange then that a few years down the line and she is reduced to using her body as documentary fodder. Hope she doesn't mind the fact that she'll need to eat a few less calories and/or do a lot of weight work to redress the damage she has done to her metabolism.

Guess she wasn't suited for the corporate life after all.

ppeatfruit · 05/01/2015 10:36

Did she? rookie I remember her being vile on that too.

Ujjayi · 05/01/2015 11:52

Agree with NewYearBrie re: fat shaming = bad but being rude to slim people is fine.

It is not fine. I find it so insulting to be told to "eat a burger" or be referred to as "skinny".

It is interesting that an obese society feels the need to create the term "fat shaming" & cry it at every opportunity yet I have such term to refer to the abuse I receive as a slim woman.

ppeatfruit · 05/01/2015 12:06

Ujjayi It seems to me that if you're the type of unpleasant person who calls people names (and it's not everyone of course) then whatever marks a person out as being different merits an insult.

I don't reckon that the school playground is very far away in a lot of cases. My DM is in a warden assisted flat and the ladies there bitch away all the time Sad

rookiemere · 05/01/2015 12:36

ppeat she did well enough in the Apprentice to be offered a place in the final before she backed out, citing not wantint to uproot her family. She may not have been the most likeable contestant, but I feel she was pretty effective.

ppeatfruit · 05/01/2015 13:03

rookie I must admit I don't remember the details, but I do remember she was unpleasant, a lot of bosses are though, female and male I don't know if it makes them more effective or just the type who the employees are scared of don't want to annoy IFYSWIM?

Junglen · 05/01/2015 13:04

I remember her on the apprentice. she got to the final then put her children first, she had nobody to mind them she said! now, she has another child, so I guess she's doing what works best for her.

I get that what she says is very rude, but hell, she has cornered the market in being rude and she gets paid very well for it I imagine. I wouldn't waste your energy hating her as she just says what some people (but not even herself necessarily) are thinking, she's a pantomime villain and that's her job and if you rile yourself up hating her, you're daft.

kim147 · 05/01/2015 13:09

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ppeatfruit · 05/01/2015 13:18

Poor little children living with her criticising perfectionism.

Junglen · 05/01/2015 13:21

Do you seriously think she tells her children they're fat/ginger/chav/lazy?

wow. don't you get it, she's paid to be a pantomime villain, she's behiiiiiind you

MuddhaOfSuburbia · 05/01/2015 13:22

With the benefit of hindsight, given her (at the time) Shock withdrawal from the show, I think she was always after a telly job and the apprentice was just her way in

I do remember me and OH shouting BOLLOOOOOCKS at the telly when she gave her reasons, because it really didn't stack up

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yumyumpoppycat · 05/01/2015 15:21

OP I don't think you would agree with her if you watched the documentary/ reality show or whatever it was. Her 'experiment' should have been dropped at the beginning when she was unable to gain weight despite stopping moving more/running and eating 4000 calories. At this point it must have been obvious to her that she has something going on with her body that means she can eat excessively without gaining weight and therefore cannot judge the people who eat similarly to her but gain weight. Also she went from 6500 calories to 1700 calories that is a huge drop as a percentage and totally unachievable for the average woman who has gained weight slowly by overeating by maybe 100 - 500 calories a day.

Oh and she didn't even lose all the weight in the end she had 11lbs left to lose in theory and claimed to get back in her jeans but they were blue jeans not the pink ones she tried to get back into earlier in the show!

rookiemere · 05/01/2015 15:27

Good spot on the jeans yumyum ! I thought the slight increase in weight, coupled with the loss of body fat were deliberately not mentioned ( or pretended in the case of the increased weight) that it was something that she wanted all along. Not unintended consequences of putting your body into famine mentality. Oh well proof of the pudding will be in a few years time when she'll find out if her experiment has had a long term impact on her metabolism.

rookiemere · 05/01/2015 15:28

Although having said that I thought her body had a better shape at the end and she did indeed suit a few extra pounds. But then I thought she looked good at the beach when she was complaining about how lumpy she was, so what do I know.

yumyumpoppycat · 05/01/2015 16:10

Rookie I think she did look better with some extra weight, esp on her face, but 11lbs more than her start weight is a fair bit more than the 'couple' of extra lbs she said she would keep on. She seems like the sort of person who like to meet goals so as far as I am concerned she proved that losing a desired amount of weight isn't as easy as simply eating less and moving more ;) .

SoleSource · 05/01/2015 16:42

YABU

Hattie Horserace Hopkins needs a right hard slapping across her HUGE offensive nose.

HelloItsStillMeFell · 05/01/2015 17:47

Actually if it's goals she likes then how about she loses another 14 lbs off her starting weight? After all, if it's all so easily within our grasp and she's prepared to get (grossly in her opinion) fat to show us how easy it is to lose it, then surely she's prepared to get anorexic as well, just to show the skinny people how to put it all back on?

What? Not healthy you say? Well it wasn't healthy to out it on, but that didn't stop you darling. Off you go.

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