To Ask Edwina Currie to Stop Defining Women by Their Size?

[AuntyMary]

She's attacking women's size and shape again saying that a model (Ashley Graham) is obese and that plus-size women are unhealthy and thus should be removed from public view. Ashley Graham appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.

Read the Independent article here

I feel it is the opposite to what pp said. Previously normal weight people are now considered overweight or obese.

Industries, the diet and big pharma need us to be obsessed with our weight and bodies. It creates an unhealthy attitude to food and eating. Plus it gives bullies a great excuse to ridicule people they see as unacceptable to them.

Still, I would certainly choose Edwina as a sexual partner before that model.

Previously normal weight people are now considered overweight or obese.

By whom? And what does 'previously normal weight' actually mean?

Everyone should stop defining women by their appearance.

Really, if I have to read another article on how celebrity X looked so awful in that dress, I will likely throw up.

Apart from being sexist and nasty and all that, it is so boring.

If you hate how a woman looks, do me the favour and DO NOT TELL ME, nor write an article on it somewhere I might accidentally read it.

I don't need to know. I really, really neither want nor need to know.

Edwina Currie is a renowned arse.

gothgirl edwina currie is a panto!

I can´t believe she is still being invited to give her opinions.

Edwina is a complete Arse. I saw that model on tv at the oscars. Va va voom. Though I couldn't stop staring at her epic boobs (jealous face)

Edwina Currie has no right to comment on anyone else appearance with a face like hers and such deeply, offensive eyebrows. Silly cow.

The model is a US size 14, not a UK size 14. In other words, size 18 UK.

The paper that reported this got it wrong - sloppy sub-editing.

I agree that fat shaming is wrong though. Surely the point is that her job is to advertise clothes. Clothes are something that fat people need just as much as thin people. All that has happened here is that certain clothes makers are using her to advertise their products to people of a similar size. Nobody is saying that size is healthy, unhealthy or anything else. they are simply saying that it exists as a size that needs to buy clothes.

Isn't she a model? they get judged on appearances for a living and will always be too skinny or too fat, highly pointless to argue about body shaming in an industry that feeds on it. As for sports illustrated, hardly high brow journalism - she's there for the target audience to drool over, it's not her personality that's being advertised.

I don't think she is UK size 14 - I think she is US14. She looks very well covered to me too
I thought Edwina was answering in a fairly normal way
I think that everyone is entitled to their opinion. I see no issue with discussing the size of a model. We have been discussing the lack of weight for years. Why is their a problem with discussing their excess weight

YABU

aha - American sizes. While dress sizes are not standard, I'm a UK 14 and I'm not as chunky as that. The girl is indeed a bit fat but hardly in the fork lift truck category implied by 'obese'.

shagger Edwina should do her homework about sizes.

Im a UK size 14 I used to be a UK size 28 Its taken a supreme effort to get where i am after a loss of ten stone. Im an hourglass and my bra back size is only a 32. Im extremely fucking pleased with what ive achieved. So Edwina can fuck off.

That aside im beginning to notice a pattern with this. Edwina Currie and Cheryl Tiegs have both criticized Ashley.

My ex boss sometimes tells me when she sees me that i should try to lose more. Cos some ppl are never satisfied.

What do Edwina Cheryl and my ex boss have in common? They are all much older women criticizing younger women.

If Edwina wants to judge me for being fat, then I am sure going to judge her for being an adulteress.

On the one hand its my body and my size affects no one.

on the other hand sleeping with someone elses husband is pretty disgusting.

would you sooner have a fat friend or an adulteress for a friend?

EC is just a mildly less offensive rent a gob than Katie Hopkins - I ignore her - it's not hard to do

She's 5ft 9 and weighs 14st 5lbs. She is in the overweight BMI range rather than obese.

Dress size means sod all nowadays.

She looks amazing, more power to her.

The model can always slim down, but EC will always be a minger and a slapper!

Why is Edwina Curry even bleating still? I thought she'd long ago crawled under a rock or something. Nothing she says could ever interest me. Now this has reminded me how I wanted to heave at the thought of her & John Major doing the do. FFS

She got a book to sell or something?

Obese at a size 14 depends on height and build though.

I am not tall: 5ft 3ins. I wear a size 12 and tip into almost the overweight category on the BMI scale.

If I was to put on weight to the extent that I filled a UK size 14 comfortably at this height, I would undoubtedly be obese on the BMI scale. So I would be a size 14 and obese because of my height.

Edwina was buddies was Saville. I think that's all you need to know about her really.

Given she's a model, I think we can assume she's not 5'3! (No offence to those of smaller stature intended ofc)

I was intrigued to read somewhere this week (Sunday Times or Guardian maybe?) about the travails of being a plus-sized model - it's OK to have big boobs and bum, but you must never have a fat face or arms. So weird situations of padding/photoshopping to get images then sold as 'real women'. Sigh. We can't win, can we.

Good God, why are people so desperate to judge women's bodies? It's so, so maddening. For the record though, I don't see anything at all attractive about a very slim person, I much prefer curvier bodies.

What like people mock eric pickles or the fashion sense or corbyn?ian duncan smith got the piss taken out of him for wearing a hat.

She is not bashing women but one woman. The reason you see more women getting stick is because women love to bash other women and here you are, bashing a woman. At least it's for something she said rather than the cheryl cole,amal clooney jealously Bitching.

Edwina Currie is awful. Shes an attention seeker trying to stay relevant.
Models should be of all shapes and sizes even if some of them could be deemed unhealthy. People should be proud of and love their bodies. That is a healthy attitude and will lead to a healthy weight. Hating your body will not lead to a healthy weight for anyone it will just lead to disordered eating. Not everyone who looks obese is unhealthy and not everyone who looks extremely thin is unhealthy. People come in all shapes and sizes and really kids should be taught that actually how you look isn't an indicator of health at all. Things like your cholesterol levels and blood pressure etc are far more important