I want to look like Kirstie Allsopp ....

[fluffyduckie]

Love her clothes and hair and everything!

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But not sure I could pull it off ..... or afford it!!

I am 5'2 and a 16/18 and casper pale with mid length brown hair. I just love the colours she wears and the shapes. I tend to be in black trousers and a boring top all the time.

[SoloXantiaClaws]

[valiumredhead]

You can be as thin as a rake and incredibly unhealthy. You sounds like you have serious issues SS, you talk about her like she's sumo wrestler proportions.

[applecrumbleandcream]

Mumsnet 'sisterhood' at it's worst. SS and all those who have made disparaging remarks apart KA weight I'm just glad your not a friend of mine.

[Ginwitch]

I'm finding this thread hilarious.

Thanks girls

As for KA...meh. Like soooo 2009!

PS Did you know COS is H&M's big sister?

[applecrumbleandcream]

Hilarious?

[Ginwitch]

Yep, it's absolutely hilarious how seriously some people are focusing on a complete strangers size and the level of engagement about it. It was a thread about OP liking someone's style fgs.

Who cares! I bet KA doesn't give one or she would be pulling a 'granddaughter of Mr Dahl' and we would have watched her shrinking before our very eyes. This is speculation of course, maybe she is banging away on the refresh button of this thread thinking omg please don't break my fragile ego any more complete MN stranger, gnashing her teeth and weeping into her crotchet doily at the bitchfest which had ensued. I somehow doubt it though.

How can you not find the vitriol anything but amusing?

In the words of 'the teenagers' (and many of my far from teenage year friends) haters gonna hate.

[YoDiggity]

She has lovely hair, great skin, so I don't understand why she has let her figure go to pot.

Sunday I suspect you are the sort of woman who doesn't understand a great deal about other women.

[dexter73]

Let's face it, women who bang on about overweight people not being healthy don't really give a shit about that person's health, do they?

So true.

[Selks]

This is one of the most depressing threads I've ever read on MN.

So fucking what if she's a (little bit) fat??

[Selks]

Yes, what Wholelottarosie said.

[SundaySimmons]

I am not a diet bore as I've never been on a diet, nor do I drink alcohol very often.

Yes, I am slim, and always have been. Unfortunately this year, I put on half a stone and only had myself to blame as a combination of a relationship break up and my ex pandering to my daughter whilst on holiday, and I stupidly gorged on crap food for a week.

I don't suppose I looked much different but I felt awful until I lost the half stone and with that in mind it makes me wonder why someone like Kirstie who is in the public eye would not maintain her figure.

The thread was about the style of clothing, I googled Kirstie as she is not someone I am overly familiar with and was surprised at her weight as the times I have seen her, she doesn't look that big. Therefore the clothes she wears or the style she dresses are very flattering, and that is what the op of this thread was writing about, her liking of Kirstie's style.

[YoDiggity]

Hahaha honestly, you think it's that simple? You have always been slim, never ever needed to diet, yet you pigged out for a week, put a few pounds on, and lost it the following week by going back to normal?

And that is your proof and your evidence that no woman should ever 'let herself go' and 'allow herself' to get any bigger than you?

ODFOD.

[SundaySimmons]

Actually it took me longer to get the half stone off than it did to put it on!

In order to get overweight, unless there is a medical condition, you have to over eat and/or do little or no exercise.

[fluffyduckie]

I still think that Kirstie is fab. I am going to add in more colour and more feminine clothing to my wardrobe and to try and get over feeling awkward and uncomfortable!

[Ginwitch]

What's an ODFOD?!?

[TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge]

No wonder there are so many anorexics around!

Shame on anyone here who has such set views and thinks there is no excuse for being a certain size,shape or 'flabby'

My niece stopped eating a while back because according to many people size 12 is too big,she's now a size 8 which is apparently ideal.

Well,there is no ideal size.

You can't judge health so easily.KA must be unhealthy right?Really?Where she carries her weight and given her shape she could well be healthier than others who just have weight on their waistline but are slim everywhere else!

What is with all this shit?We all have to be skinny?Curvy means fat?Proper curvy figures 'aren't real' and girls should know that?

The amount of bullshit that women come out with is insane,yet we blame men and the media for views on women and insecurity.Bollocks.Women are their own worst God damn enemies.Fact.

[TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge]

Oh,and being slim doesn't mean you are healthier than someone larger.Can you see inside bodies?No,thought not!

[Bunbaker]

"No wonder there are so many anorexics around!"

I agree, but you could say the opposite is true as well if we insist on accepting that being overweight as the norm.

[GoshAnneGorilla]

Let's ask Mumsnet for a stick emoticon, so we can all beat ourselves as a punishment for daring to find someone attractive, despite them not having a "perfect" BMI.

Because we all know that by despising, insulting and shaming anyone who doesn't have a "perfect" BMI, the whole world will be sooooo much healthier.

[TinselinaBumSquash]

I'm a size 12 I'm 5ft, I'd love to look like KA, she looks so comfortable in her skin, she oozes confidence and femininity, her eyebrows are awesome too, it's refreshing to see a different body shape on tv compared to the everyday female presenters.

[YoungBritishPissArtist]

Hear, hear GoshAnneGorilla

Gin, ODFOD means oh, do fuck off dear. Would be appropriate on many of these posts.

[Ginwitch]

Don't you mean 'oh DO! fuck off dear!'
Brilliant!

[JapaneseMargaret]

Happy to bet my last dollar that if you met Kirstie in person, she would be a lot slimmer than she looks in photos. I absolutely guarantee it.

Not that it matters.

These threads are deluded, really.

I am 5"10' and a size 10. By anybody's standards, I am slim. However, if someone snapped me in my swimsuit coming out of the sea unawares, no doubt my slightly flabby thighs would not look their best, nor would my post-baby, non-washboard stomach, and modest, non-surgeried boobs. I look fine in clothes, but not exactly perfect in a swim suit. Luckily for me, I'm just fine with that.

It's not men who make women feel bad about themselves; it's we women.

I think Kirstie looks great - her biggest asset is her confidence. She is her own person, she oozes solid self-esteem (which is so refreshing) and she isn't a style clone or automaton. Good for her.

Slim women who need to bash women of different sizes and shapes need to take a good look at themselves. If we're happy with our ability to be slim, why should we care about what other women do with their own bloody bodies?!

Dressing it up as concern for someone else's health (especially when they're not even borderline obese) is eye-rollingly ridiculous.

Again, I'm certain that if you met her in real life you'd be very surprised.

[JapaneseMargaret]

And just to add, unless you're a teenager and/or a model whose business it is to have a perfect body, then everyone has 'flaws'.

It's attitudes like some displayed on this thread that cause even slim women to dislike their bodies.

Nobody is perfect, and until we accept that and embrace difference (and that doesn't necessarily mean embracing actual unhealthy sizes), then body-loathing as the default mode for women will never go away.