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fat benefits bridezilla in DM is a fake story right

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medona · 16/04/2015 11:20

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3041516/Unemployed-bridezilla-benefits-fat-work-plans-dream-10-000-wedding-horse-drawn-carriage-Mexico-honeymoon-funded-taxpayer-claims-s-human-right.html#article-3041516

They've really over egged it by saying he proposed outside primak. Lol

Surely this is just something made up and the DM gave them a bit of money to use their image? Is this how newspapers work?

I feel quite sorry for her

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Dawndonnaagain · 16/04/2015 13:39

Well, the DLA amounts in the article don't add up for a start.
Oh, and how do we know whether or not she's on something like mirtazapine for her depression, known for causing significant weight gain. How do we know what caused the weight gain in the first place? Nice to know that people with disabilities aren't allowed the odd night out, too.
Judgemental nasties.

Dawndonnaagain · 16/04/2015 13:40

26.2 Do you know why she overeats? No.

expatinscotland · 16/04/2015 13:41

It's bullshit.

wheezeontoast · 16/04/2015 13:48

I worked for magazines and tabloids years ago - regarding the payments that someone asked about, with 'women's' mags, the hacks would be offered a fee; it was then up to them how much they offered the person they were writing about. If they could get away with not giving them anything, that was seen as fine. They would also then try to sell it to other outlets, or, if it was picked up by DM, sell more stories directly to them.

DM wasn't quite so bad back then but there were still angles you had to take. The fees were much, much higher than anywhere else - up to ten times what I'd been paid at some broadsheets. The DM also tended to buy up lots of stories even if they didn't use them, so no one else could run with them. You could make more money having stuff not printed by the DM than having a full time job at other papers.

wheezeontoast · 16/04/2015 13:49

And sometimes even the journalist who did the story doesn't recognise it once printed Sad.

lucycant · 16/04/2015 13:50

When people are very obese, I think it is the opposite end of the scale of anorexia. It is an eating disorder. And there is no real help for that kind of eating disorder. Telling someone to lose weight, is as much help as telling someone anorexic to simply eat more.
I feel sorry for her too. She has been totally stitched up, and her life will be made worse by this.

IggyStrop · 16/04/2015 13:58

Amen, MrsToddsShortcut. I feel very sad for this woman, it's a proper hatchet job. And people swallow this shit! Unbelievable.

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medona · 16/04/2015 14:29

Thanks for that toast I wondered how it worked.

Would the woman in question get any more now the hack has sold it to the DM? I'm kinda aussing not as she's probably signed away all rights. Its very exploitative.

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geekymommy · 16/04/2015 14:33

It's the Daily Fail. The chances are that this is sensationalized to push their agenda.

wheezeontoast · 16/04/2015 14:47

She might have got nothing at any point medona - she could have been sold it along the lines of, 'oh, you'll probably get people donating then we'll do a follow-up' Sad. If she did get a fee for the magazine one, then you're right - she probably did sign it all away. It's out there forever now - I don't think people always consider just what they're giving away.

26Point2Miles · 16/04/2015 14:52

Er dawndonna could not give a damn why this woman overeats but do wonder why someone who is epileptic doesn't also appear to get DLA, merely income support.

HelenaDove · 16/04/2015 14:56

Last week some trashy mag called OMG took a photo of an overweight woman off an American blog and made up a story about her saying she was from Romford Essex and that she was on benefits saying she was too overweight to work.

When she and others on Twitter called them on it OMG disappeared from Facebook and Twitter.

lucycant · 16/04/2015 15:07

Simply having a condition like epilepsy, does not entitle you to DLA or PIP. The key is how it affects you. If it is controlled and you very rarely have a fit, you won't get DLA. If it is very uncontrolled and you are having very frequent fits, you will get it.

CapnMurica · 16/04/2015 15:11

Dawndonna I think 26.2 was making the point that it doesn't add up that a person with epilepsy won't get DLA but an obese person will. And that all adds up to the Hmm spin that the paper has put on it.

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 16/04/2015 15:20

Have the DM got nothing more important to write about than people on benefits. You can't pick up the paper with out them criminalising the unemployed, oh and I don't see what Her size has to do with anything would tax payers be okay paying for this wedding if she were a size 0Hmm
Also this couple are doing nothing wrong as people can spend their benefits money on what they like.

26Point2Miles · 16/04/2015 17:04

lucy he's on income support, that made me think why is that all he's getting? You can't just choose to stay on IS unless there's a reason.

tresfatigue · 16/04/2015 17:18

She said "I'd rather not get married than have a cheap do - it'd only make me unhappy". Well don't get married then Hmm

Imogenj · 16/04/2015 17:33

The woman's been done up like a Kipper with predictable results in the DM comments section. In my work I deal with loads of people on Benefits and I've yet to meet one who is happy to remain that way or put themselves there deliberately. Most I meet have been ticking along in work but then some crisis (Ill health, redundancy) has tipped them over into needing Benefits, and it's a tricky place to get out of once you're there. It could happen to any of us. If the government want to save a few quid they could scrutinise the organisations they've brought in to assess incapacity and need (Atos et al) because they're charging a fortune for their services and barely doing their job. They're definitely costing more than people like this woman. I'm not defending her but I wish the DM readers would see the manipulation going on and even if it's all true then understand she's not representative of those receiving financial help. Depressing.

WhiteConverseSkinnyJeans · 16/04/2015 17:49

I read this exact same story in closer mag rag

was vile

closer is the DM disguised as a sleb mag

ljwales · 16/04/2015 17:59

I do sometimes look at people like them with envy. I know their life is shit and they probably feel shit but I'm such a creative person I'd love all that free time and no stress with just enough money to get by OK on. I would write, paint, learn new instruments and languages.

However as I've bothered to save and buy my own house I would get just 70 quid a week for everything!

dodgydoggy · 16/04/2015 18:18

Ljwales,

You sound like I right ignorant tool.

LisaD1 · 16/04/2015 18:30

What I don't understand, taking the daily fail shite out of the equation, is why so much money has been spent on benefits for this lady and it would appear that not a penny has been spent on actually trying to help her? What is being done for her depression? Has she been offered free gym membership? access to a dietitian, anything that will help resolve the situation she is in? We as a country are so damn quick to judge but not to help.

ItsAllKickingOffPru · 16/04/2015 18:36

Grin ljwales. You are funny!

Dawndonnaagain · 16/04/2015 18:38

ljwales I know thinking must be really hard for you, but for my sixtyfive quid a week I work an 18 hour day. I'm really creative, was a good lecturer and am highly skilled in my field (as other mumsnetters will vouch). I also own my house, bothered to save etc. You haven't a bloody clue, love.

derxa · 16/04/2015 18:43

She looks very proud of herself.