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.

Perhaps it would have been more helpful if this was not started in the first place.

Indeed. Or if mumsnet would have some decent moderation and zap it. It’s nasty and it’s serving no purpose.

Well you’re criticising me then - I posted a few photos upthread, all this year and from different agencies, and I really can’t see anything wrong with her weight. To me she looks slim, fit and remarkably well considering what she’s been through in the last few years - slagged off publicly by her BIL and SIL, announced as a racist, illness, surgery that required a 2 week hospital stay, cancer diagnosis, chemotherapy. All with the press chattering away and the usual morons making their shitty remarks. I’m amazed she looks so fit and well really. Anyone with eyes can see she’s definitely not skeletal or emaciated anyway.

Please quote where in my post I said Catherine is encouraging eating disorders.

I think you'll find if you re-read my post slowly and carefully, that's precisely what I didn't say. You have missed my point entirely.

I have repeatedly said I know why she's underweight and that she can't help it. I have not said anywhere that she's deliberately losing weight to be aspirational.

My problem is with the posters on this thread - and there are plenty of them - insisting that she isn't.

That is what is unhealthy.

Indeed!

Your thinly veiled digs and faux concern aren’t fooling anyone!

Here, have a pretzel 🥨

I don't think she looks fit and well at all.

The attached screenshot from this week shows an absolutely tiny waist and hardly any body mass.

Yes tailoring can make you look slimmer etc etc, but come on.

Of course we all have different standards, so if this is what you think is a healthy body shape, then I'm not going to argue the point with you. To me, it's very evident that she's underweight.

Again, please quote where I said Catherine is encouraging eating disorders.

Oh - that's right - you can't, can you?

I'm not trying to fool anyone about anything. I've been perfectly clear on my views.

@EnidSpyton
perhaps the posters on this thread that you have a problem with, are more annoyed at having to defend a woman who has always been slim and has now suffered from a serious illness from insulting comments about her body and appearance?
and perhaps you are missing the nuance between saying someone looks haggard , skeletal, aged and saying that she looks healthier and better than is being implied here!
and let’s be honest even if she was suffering from an eating disorder and not cancer, talking about it and her is still not right ! , nothing sets someone back who suffers from an ED than focusing on their appearance.

I mean I’ve literally quoted your whole post. What’s the problem? Forgotten what you poser or can’t you read? 🤷🏼‍♀️

@jeffgoldblum

I haven't said Catherine has an eating disorder. That's all you.

I don't think anyone has been particularly insulting. They've just pointed out the reality that she looks very thin and frail.

I am not bothered by Catherine's body in any way. I know she's ill, I can see she's ill, and my point is simply that I don't think it's right that the body of a woman who has been through a serious illness is being held up by some on this thread as normal and healthy.

Again, please quote the actual sentence I've written that states Catherine is encouraging eating disorders.

You can't, because I didn't write it.

Your reading comprehension is the issue here, not mine.

I mean yes she has a slim waist and this outfit accentuates that - she also has a bust, cheeks, a normal looking neck, you can see the shape of her normal looking quads. In the full length version of that photo you can see her perfectly normal calves. I really don’t see this as problematic. What do you think of the photos I posted earlier this morning, do you think she looks underweight in those too?

Woman has cancer, has told the world she still has difficult days, and some people think it’s ok to comment on her weight, her tiny waist and her body mass. I don’t know if it’s people who dislike the RF (although I’m not a supporter myself and find this topic disgusting) or if it’s just people who lack empathy or something else but it’s really not appropriate. Humans disappoint me quite a lot in recent years.

If someone genuinely wants to discuss their concerns of women being pressured into seeing underweight as something to aspire to, then start a thread and don’t bring Kate or other women into. Lots of people here will have concerns about their weight, may have food issues, be worried about their teens eating enough and the social pressure on them regarding weight, but making a thread like this, or commenting on Kate’s being underweight isn’t a good way to express your concerns.

No sorry, no deflection from you , I obviously have not said she has an eating disorder!
perhaps you should have read my post more slowly.
my point is and has always been that there should be no comments about her body at all , but you clearly want to keep mentioning just how thin and frail she looks constantly, so I guess you carry on but obviously people are going to carry on judging your posts.

Totally agree.

Since when did thin people have to make fat people feel better about themselves? How come it never works the other way round?

These sorts of comments are just as unhelpful. 🙄

It’s literally the whole post 🤣🫣

You seem a little confused darling, hope you’re alright 😵‍💫

Well this was obviously going to be the end result of threads like this!
many slim women are fed up of being insulted 🤷‍♀️

You say this in your post at 9.54:

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.

Please provide meaning to these words of yours:

They look at these images and want to emulate them.

You are not saying, "They listen to a load of women on Mumsnet or style editors of tabloid newspapers praising her." You are saying, "They are looking at images of Catherine. And want to emulate them" Why would they want to emulate her? She's had cancer. Do you think that these impressionable young women want to get cancer too? Or are you saying images of Catherine make them want to slim down - ie, that she is encouraging eating disorders in order to be as slim as her?

Why would that be? Because she's not being shat on from all angles in the media and being told that she looks horrible? Is that what you want? For her to be told, as a cancer recoverer, that she looks awful. Do you want her to not come out in public and not wear nice clothes and not work? Will you be defending her against the many critics who call her lazy and told her to get back to work, illness be damned, because other women have to work through cancer?

What exactly is it that you want from her, and by extension, other women with cancer? Do you want them to hide away? Never make an effort to look nice? Do you want them to never receive compliments on their appearance?

I know. People need to grow up and act appropriately on topics like this though. I give up on humanity when people think it’s ok to comment on a woman being thin when she’s had cancer, and then see it as an opportunity to make it into a thin vs fat thread. What the fuck is wrong with people?

Another lie.

It becomes a thin v fat thread when comments are made about someone’s weight that suggests that thin = unhealthy. It’s rude, disparaging and untrue, but people persist. The posts commenting negatively about Catherine’s weight lean heavily on that assumption.

The point I’m making is that it’s much more common for people to make comments directly to a thin person about their weight and eating habits than a fat person. And there is a culture of resentment about slimness, exemplified by some of the comments on this thread.

So understandably, when someone posts at length about the negative example Catherine is setting to young women just by being slim, it is somewhat triggering!

It is quite clear this is part of an orchestrated PR attack on The Princess of Wales across social media platforms. Some posts are from real people but it is mostly bots amplifying PR talking points to drive a negative message.

Catherine in 2015 had certain attributes. Her hair was complimented. Her figure was admired. Her fashion sense was complimented. Her birthday photographs of her children were admired, and she was known to be a keen amateur photographer. She was a bee-keeper. She gardened with her children. She cooked and baked. She was an athlete with records at her school and active participation in sporting engagements.

Then Single. White. Female.

The relentless attacks started via proxies beginning with LaineyGossip and the "Catherine didn't give me a ride" even before that person was married either on the candle date or three days before. Recollections vary on this matter.

For example, Catherine's weight is being attacked as part of the overall strategy to degrade Catherine in the public eye. The extreme language "emaciated" and "frail" is meant to evoke images of Diana. It is a well-worn playbook simultaneously attacking both Catherine and her marriage to William.

We see you. And we know exactly what you are.