Seemingly harmless DM article about Princess Beatrice

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Starts off harmlessly enough, comparing various mothers and daughters, then WHAM. In with the venom. Wtf is ""Beatrice does not have to carry the sins of the mother on her thighs. She has a wonderful and privileged life ahead of her, but unless she gets her body under control, she'll have a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and pitiful self-esteem. Just ask Fergie. Which does make you rather wonder where her mother is in all this. "" all about?

and ""But all is not lost. I'm sure Weight-Watchers would snap up a royal mother and daughter deal. At least Beatrice has now got the "before" pictures.""

I hate that paper so much!

Yet in another article she says:

"And as most women know in their heart of hearts, there is no real need to be ashamed of our bodies."

and,

"Let me come clean. I?m now aged 48, and weigh ten and a half stone. Sure, I?d love to be an effortless size 10. But I also know - from bitter experience - how much pure misery that takes.

When I look back at the ups and downs of my life and dress sizes, from a size 8 to 16 and everything in between, my thinnest years have also been my most miserable."

She really does need to make up her mind, silly woman.

I am bored shitless with all these articles about diets and thighs and age creams

ffs, who cares if a celebrity has cellulite or eats cakes? join the fucking club

god who CARES what she thinks

she sounds utterly self absorbed

[pats self on back AGAIN for not getting a newspaper]

I am sick of all of it

even gok wan

its all pathetic

she sint morbidly obese

the meeja breaks us down

then builds us up again (while flogging us stuff) - see gok wan

yes, I am bored with Gok too

there is nothing wrong with any of the women on his programme that a bit of self esteem and a ban on womens mags wouldn't sort out

yes agree oo

its a sad day when it takes a camp old fucker like gok wan to make us feel better about oursleves

was more interested in the link on the right about "fat camp" for obese dc...

morbidly obese
pmsl

and last night they were testing lip plumpers!

what in gods holy name is a feckin lip plumper?

they see us coming from a mile down the road these advertising men, dh laughed like a drain saying "lip plumpers? you are all mad hahahahahahaahahahahaha"

and quite right too

you can also get heated eyelash curlers I read the other day

[foams at the mouth]

You know what it is articles like this that make me glad that I havnt had a girl.

They have to grow up in a society that is just so............ fucked up

I am a mother of 2 girls and that is why I will never go on a diet or moan about my body

they are like little sponges and will take it all in

I have a great relationship with food and I think this is all down to my mum, never on a diet, but not skinny either, wore bikinis etc

never once heared her moan

now Fergie is a Weightwatchers figure is she not? is this a good role model do you think?

yes as a mother of two daughters these articles make me incan-fecking-descent with rage
there is a whole industry of witless stupid women journalists churning out this stuff
and the DM has this massive loyal female readership
it makes me want to weep

heard

have to go now and do some work and I am quite cross, I may do some debt chasing and work it all out!

I diet but never mention it

no low fat food here

and NO absoluytely NO celeb mags

My cousin ahs a 9 year old girl who now won't eat pasta, rice, bread or breakfast cereal, becasue she was told, or read that those foods can make you fat, and she saw this picture and comments that Britney was fat, and now she won't eat them.
I know Briteny has her problems but she's anything but fat in that picture!

I am doing my best to bring my boys up to be gentlemen, they have a really good role model in their father. He is not concious of my body at all, ot if he is he doesnt mention it. He tells me I look wonderful, but he also is honost enough to say when something is not flattering.

I think it is a fine line we walk on. I want my boys to grow up to respect woman and we can only do this if other women start respecting other women and this means journolists too

I try to diet, and in my defence I do try to exercise, but with my health I find it hard.
Anyway, DS1 said yesterday "we have been doing healthy eating at school, and fats are bad for you"
I was just about to say "well yes they are if you eat a lot of them", and he said "so does that include butter, milk, yoghurts? Maybe we shouldn't eat those"

"I am doing my best to bring my boys up to be gentlemen"

swoon

how lovely