Kate Moss getting flack–for no good reason

Kate Moss did an interview recently with WWD.com where she stated that one of her mottoes is “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”.  And now everyone is up in arms about the “pro-anorexia” statement. 

We have anti-eating disorder advocates shaking their fingers at Miss Moss for saying such an insensitive thing.  Let’s be real here.  If this statement were made by Kate Winslet (whose weight has caused about as much interest as Moss’s has during her career) it would be giggled at and shrugged off.

This is what we know about Moss: She is a very petite woman with small bones, she parties very hard, and is in an industry that employs very thin women; it is an industry mired in controversy about weight and health.   She’s also not an Oxford grad. 

What I’m trying to say here is that of course Moss thinks about her weight, it’s kind of an enormous part of her job.  She follows up the statement by saying that the mantra never works.  She isn’t talking like an anorexic, she’s talking like a Winslet…but because she is so thin, she is lampooned.

One could argue, of course, that Moss is supposed to be some kind of role model, but really should we expect this from her?  This is a woman with a young child who was caught (not so long ago) using cocaine one night like it was 1994 (‘84…’74…), which is a good segue to my point about her not being an Oxford grad.  She’s not calculating her image, she’s saying what’s on her mind.   Furthermore, Moss is not a Hollywood starlet pursuing an “acting” career.  She didn’t chase her fame.  An interview with her, while more common these days, has been rare.

Not to mention that an eating disorder is centered around a loss of control.  It is a serious psychological condition that isn’t likely to be created because an ageing supermodel says she tries not too eat to much–but fails.

Tags: Anorexia, Eating Disorder, health, Kate Moss, Kate Winslet, weight, WWD, wwd.com

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