Kate weight loss

[Fraudornot]

Her recent appearance at Anna Freud Centre in the check dress she looks so thin - sorry can’t link as on phone.

Any image can be easily altered these days.

Can anyone link to another thread on MN that’s been allowed to stand discussing the body, hair and demeanour of another woman being treated for/surviving a serious surgery and cancer? Where she’s being told she looks terrible and shouldn’t be dressing in nice clothes.

The only one I remember is another one about the PoW - IS SHE WEARING A WIG - that soon descended into emaciated, skeletal, eating disorder territory. Same old moronic posters. It’s really stomach churning.

Even if there are other threads like you say, that’s not the point you were making and you know it.

There are some really evil and malevolent posters lurking on this topic, they feign interest and criticise others for posting but they hang around like a bad smell.

Best ignored.

What are the SS stans?

Thats totally untrue and you know that.

People who put themselves in the public eye can have their words, actions and behaviours discussed and challenged. Not their body.

Mumsnet let people do this though, not just to Kate, but to other famous people. Victoria Beckham, Michelle Keegan, Ariana Grande and of course Meghan gets it too. Why the fuck do they allow it? They talk about posts being ‘in the spirit’ but how can negatively talking about a woman’s weight or ears or stomach or nose etc be ‘in the spirit?

Yes, but they have been badly altered.

They have been altered by the media to show that she’s not as skeletal as she actually is.

The originals are up on Getty images that have not been altered.

Why would they explode?

When William becomes King then Kate becomes Queen. I’m confident that anyone that follows the monarchy would know that.

It is a bit telling though that we are reading an awful lot about when William becomes king and what he’s going to do or not do (his plans are purposefully kept vague I think) but constantly in the media. Charles could live many more years. His parents lived to very old ages and he’s lived a healthy lifestyle from what I’ve read.

I totally agree.

Added: there’s not much ‘in the spirit’ left on Mumsnet I think.

Since when was it 'evil' and 'malevolent' to point out reality?

Catherine is not reading mumsnet in her jammies on a Sunday morning. She's not going to be crying into her coffee that some anonymous women on Mumsnet thinks she looks frail and thin. This discussion is not going to affect her in the slightest, so let's stop all the ridiculous hand-wringing.

The people who are affected by this sort of sycophancy and denial of reality are plenty of real women and young girls who do spend their lives on the internet and are fed photos of a real life princess (and in our patriarchal world, becoming a princess by marrying your Prince Charming is still, depressingly, a life goal for many) who is demonstrably considerably underweight and yet praised for her figure and style. They look at these images and want to emulate them.

By not being honest about the fact that Catherine is underweight, by praising her for being so, and using words like 'fit' and 'healthy' to describe someone who is medically underweight, we perpetuate the narrative that being unhealthily thin is desirable, and we encourage vulnerable women and girls to attempt to achieve the same appearance, triggering eating disorders.

None of this is Catherine's fault and I'm not saying that it is - but the reality remains that she is underweight, it is obvious, and I don't agree that we should all be expected to not mention it in the cause of female solidarity, because there are many other women who are harmed in the process of pretending that her body shape is healthy.

SS is Sussex squad. I’m not sure what the stans bit is but basically supporters of Meghan and Harry.

I just don’t see the same ‘reality’ as those who say she is skeletal and emaciated, dangerously underweight etc. She looks slim and fit, I’m sure she takes care of her diet and obviously works out but that’s no surprise. I know we’re all used to size 16 being average and all that, but she looks well to me, especially considering what she’s been through 🤷‍♀️
Pics to come from a random google of “Kate 2025”

Getty Images webpage under the search "2025 Kate Middleton". What are you on about?

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/search/2/image?phrase=kate+middleton+2025&tracked_gsrp_landing=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gettyimages.co.uk%2Fphotos%2Fkate-middleton-2025

Don't the papers use Getty images?.

You seem to be coming from the wrong angle there!
The press or posters on here are NOT posting " wow Catherine looks the picture of health" thereby creating a clapback like this sad post started. Reasonable people KNOW she is very slim and has had health problems and may still have. If it is a digestive problem then she has the added stress of having to turn out to public engagements where she can't be dashing off to a toilet every 10 seconds. I say this as someone who suffers from a digestive issue which can make day to day life very difficult never mind being in the public eye. Reasonable people think yes she is slim and slimmer than she was when young but she has had a cancer history and other unknown. I hope she is OK.
Your attempt to link all of this conversation on here to making young women feel bad is stretching more than Stretch Armstrong. Are these young women reading MN? Doubt that - they are digesting media about the Kardashians and other SM types. Don't try to couch this horrible thread as a way to educate these young women ! Ridiculous 🙄

Good points, @meghansturkey

There's always one isn't there?

Agree. It’s a nasty thread intended to get people to say negative things and to speculate on Kate’s health, nothing else. There are some truly awful people around.

...plus people know that she's been very ill, following surgery and chemo. So nasty.

I wonder if these people have any idea what cancer and cancer treatment can do to your body and how difficult it can be to build yourself back up from it. Muscle loss, lack of appetite, lack of energy, nausea and sickness, changes to your taste, sore mouth etc. It’s really fucking hard to just bounce back from, and that’s without the impacts on your emotional state, especially when you’re young and it really is a shock diagnosis. I don’t suppose they think much before they type their nasty posts just casually saying how thin she is.

I have posted this message precisely because of the people on this thread claiming that she looks 'fabulous', 'healthy', 'fit', and that she's 'always' been this slim. There are plenty of them. There are also plenty of media articles saying the same thing.

I didn't start this thread. I have also pointed out several times that I am very aware her weight is down to ill-health and I am not criticising her in any way.

What I am criticising are the posters who insist that she looks the picture of health, is a perfectly normal weight, and saying that anyone who says otherwise is 'nasty' and 'evil'.

Wow!

So Catherine is encouraging eating disorders because she’s lost weight and muscle mass after a very publicly announced abdominal surgery (for something that was clearly a long term health condition), a cancer diagnosis and rounds of chemotherapy? Really?

She’s been very open about still recovering and having difficult days, and anyone paying attention knows her appearance is the result of serious medical treatment, not some aspirational message. Acting like her illness induced weight loss is harmful ‘influence’ is a new low, even for this place.