So Victoria Beckham is pregnant again (allegedly)

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here , official anouncement later today it says.

hey i didn't even say anything bad about skinny people! I'm skinny myself underneath my fat! And I'm not offended by the slagging of vb.

Come off it!!! How many women would give their right arm to be called skinny?? Most women want to be slim. It's not considered an insult to call someone skinny because "skinny" is much more desirable then fat. Actuall I'm not sure they will be many people who actually WANT to be fat.

I bet you everytime Vb sees her self refered to a skinny she has a big internal grin. She has chosen not to eat enough food so that she is skinny. Actually it's probably no longer a choice for her because she most probably has an eating disorder which by their very nature are not easily controlled.

I really wish I had stayed away and for sure after this I will.

Kittywits I simply can't get my head around how you can slag off VB, state categorically that she is infertile and then come back to announce you are 7.5st and obviously not infertile. Can you not see the hypocrisy in your statements?

I am happy for you that you can handle your body image and not find comments insulting.

I on the other hand cannot. I was bullied and beaten at school because I was thin. I have been bullied as an adult because I am thin. I have had nearly 40 bloody years of crap because I am thin. I can't do FA about being thin!

My DH has even received insults (on this very board) because apparently it is wierd to find my body size/shape attractive and therefore there must be something wrong with him!

It is no more desirable to be 'skinny' (HATE that term) than it is to be 'fat' (hate that too, what's wrong with underweight/overweight?). The majority of people would like a bog standard 'average' weight body.

I have really had to restrain myself from typing fuck in every one of the above sentences, so I'm going now.

saintgeorge being bullied is a whole other story and really awfull. i was bullied too because i didn't know how to say fuck as a child. bullying is not about being thin or shy. people are bullied for every excuse under the sun. and it is hard to get over it. but humour is a great therapy. though if you are angry its better out than in!

I also was a painfully thin child despite eating more than my parents.
I was hassled at school, told not to do PE as I could not afford to squander my calories (WTF) I rode ponies competitively nationally FFS
My nickname as a teen was TOASTY acronym for Tits On A STick
I was very slim (under 8 stone and 5ft 6 with ) when I fell pregnant with ds.
Gp was surprised I had conceived as she thought I was too thin.
Stand her sideways and mark her absent - this was from teachers.
My mother was always supportive, she knew I was perfectly healthy
That said I am happy now that I am a stone heavier, I have far less issues about my body.
To say skinny is not an insult is a little short sighted I was very self conscious as a child because of it - it caused me much misery and I was powerless to change it.

saintgeorge I am not thin though. I am small but I am not bony and I am not vb's size. It is very clear that VB is not naturally that size. You ARE naturally thin, she is not. As a spice girl she was not thin, that much is a truth now she is thin that much is also a truth . To say someone is too thin and is most likely infertile bacause of it is certainly NOT slagging someone off. If I really wanted to slag her off I would say very different things.

I was always pretty skinny most of the time and I would get slagged for being totally flat chested so you are lucky you had tits piffle. I didn't feel bullied by that though. I was always pleased to be called skinny and I would like to be called it again once I've finished having all the babies. It is probably a narrow line we tread. vb does get constantly slated and I don't think charlotte church or fern britton get so much stick. we do seem very obsessed with weight in our society.

pleased that I had tits
You have to be joking
As soon as my last child has finished breastfeeding I'm getting them chopped
F cups on an 8 stone frame = nice?
Nope

yes I would rather be flat than have such an ample bosom. But lots of people pay lots of money for just your figure. Horses for courses. This world would be very dull if everyone was average and similar shapes and sizes!

Yes and pay a fortune for osteopathy and chirpractor appointments. I have chronic back and shulder problems
My boobs weigh 3/4 of a stone.
If people choose implants their boobs are much lighter so it's not the same at all.
I find it impossible to shop for dresses/swimwear
I'm 12 weeks pregnant now, so who knows what my shape will be after a 3rd child
I'm dreaming that my boobs will miraculously downsize
Horses for courses indeed...

Anecdotal evidence, but my 5ft 9 mother lost half a stone after each child. She had 4. She has been seeing the doctor to find ways to gain weight. Size 6 at 5ft 9, to her, is not attractive. She has done nothing to assist her losing weight. Nothing. She wants to gain it. She hates that her stomach is "hollow", and that she has no bum to fill trousers.

I dont see how you think its acceptable to slate someone for being skinny, or make assumptions as to why that might be. None of us know for sure, and i think its unhealthy to be so cynical about it, and to think people should be grateful for what they have because its something that someone else aspires to.

Kittywits - I don't so much have an issue that you are "slagging her off" rather than it's just ridiculous for you to make a pronouncement that she must have fertility problems because you don't know her, you're assuming it from some photos you've seen. That's what bugs me.

Piff will you really have a boob job? I feel the same way.

BTW, when i met you I didn't think of you are skinny, You have great body

Didn't know you were preg btw, cngrats

Beety thanks. YES to boob job, not even for vanity, but for me, the aches the lack of clothes etc... Dp says he loves them but is supportive of my wishes - he's appalled that I am totally prepared to forgo nipple sensitivity LOL

I put on two stone after having dd 4 years ago. that makes the boobs less noticeable but I have got good at dressing them down but am SICK of it!
I then lost a stone as did not feel or look right. I'm happy weight wise, but the shape never changes - I expected my boobs to at least drop a size or two when I lost the weight but NOPE!
Anyway this is hideously self obsessive and indulgent... apologies

is she pg or not

VVV - that happened to me after I had ds (not with my first child though oddly).

It is really hard to put weight on for some people.

COD - DB is denying the preg.

Piffle - congratulations

cod she says she is 12 weeks

piffle not VB btw

Cod she's not pregnant, apparently she is totally infertile...

hope thats the first and last time I ever get mixed up with VB

there is a difference between being naturally thin like Piff and ST G and being thin because you don't eat enough. VB, seems to fall into that category as she was not always so very very thin. A size 6 is thin but she is a size 00.

Apparently not cod.

When exh used to work at Manchester children's hospital the DB was still at Man U and both DB and VB would make visits to the hospital with the strict stipulation that no press be called. They used to sit and chat to children and always used to bring presents/ souveniers.

Every since him working there and coming home with tales about them I have always wanted to jump to their defence when people start calling them.

Don't think anyone would deny that she isn't
a) thin
b) thin as a result of dieting
but it doesn;t necessarily follow that she has fertility problems