Know your enemy #2: fashion magazines

No, not because they offer a false view of the perfect woman and cause us all to be anorexic, but because they persistently lie about the size of fat celebrities and cause people who are an actual size 16 to think they are also the same size and look hideous.

Case #1: Fern Britton.



Who hasn't seen the famous pictures of fern Britton running round the beach in a bikini with a wobbly belly. I say to her Good on you, love. Let it all hang out. I say to Heat magazine Do NOT try to convince us this is a "generous size 16" because we know better.

Case #2: Michelle McManus

Popular fattie Michelle McManus has done an amazing job of losing the weight. Once again, good on you love! Heat Magazine claimed that in this picture she was a size 16. Compare and contrast:



Michelle McManus: Size 16



Me: Size 20 (pre losing 14lbs)

Not an awful lot of difference is there?

While fashion magazines claim porky celebs are a size 16 to spare their blushes all they are doing is causing people who genuinely take a size 16 to think they look like THAT. So come on Heat, when a portly star claims they are size 16 don't take their word for it, get that tape measure out and check!

posted at 6:32 AM