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    Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash

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    Image of tiredfairy tiredfairy
    04:00 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    My biggest issue with this statement, and what it suggests, is that you need to deny yourself to be "skinny"...or that you'll feel better as a person if you match the ideal body type, regardless of whether it's actually healthy for you or not. Maybe being skinny doesn't feel good to people, not because of what they eat, but because that's not healthy for their body.

    Plus, I'm not sure we know how skinny feels in a vacuum. We value and idealize certain body types over others. So psychologically, meeting the beauty ideal may "feel good"...but it might not be achieved in a healthy way, or actually be healthy, or result in actually feeling good so much as feeling like we meet the ideal.
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    02:55 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    Anyone who can say this has dead tastebuds or goes to lousy restaurants.
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    Image of brokenscope brokenscope
    02:36 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    Things that feel better than skinny.

    -Running full out for a very hilly mile.
    -Breaking body weight on a lift for the first time.
    -Back flips.
    -Three minutes non-stop on the heavy bag.
    -1 arm push ups

    I'm lucky someone introduced this stuff to me before I took drastic action trying to lose weight early in college.
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    02:30 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    Clearly she has never eaten at Five Guys.
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    02:32 PM

    @whynotshesaid: I see that the rest of the commenters and I are sharing a train of thought. Brava, commentariat. Brava.
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    Image of Zulkey Zulkey
    02:21 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    were we all looking to Kate as a source of health advice before this quote came out?
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    02:34 PM

    @Zulkey: No, but I can bet solid money that her quote is making her even more of a goddess to the pro-anorexia set.
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    02:35 PM

    @Zulkey: Soooo drinking until I black out isn't a good idea?
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    02:40 PM

    @winner: Don't you bring blackout drinking binges into this! You stay away from My Favorite Things (TM)!
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    03:05 PM

    @winner: I'm still waiting to hear her mantra on getting photographed doing coke because I won't know what to do about that until she advises me!
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    03:09 PM

    @BetteD: Wait wait, calm down. It's fiiiiinnnnne; apparently, that's what the cocaine is for. Smelling salts, Betts, smelling salts.
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    02:21 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    Good food is one of life's greatest pleasures. I, for one, am not willing to give that up in order to be skinnier.

    At the same time, Moss is PROOF that skinny is exalted so much in this culture that is DOES feel good to be skinny (or, to fit perfectly into that narrow physical ideal). It doesn't have to be that way, but Moss' statement is a symptom of our misogynistic body standards, not the cause.
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    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    02:27 PM

    @SarahMC: Agreed. I think that instead of feeling angry toward Moss- who is a woman, who is someone with a mental disorder, who has always been told it was a good thing- we should feel angry at the people that hire her. Or, perhaps, acknowledge that people hire her because skinny does sell, and make an effort to realize the part inside of us that supports the whole fucked up mentality is something that needs to change, too.
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    02:34 PM

    @SarahMC: Well said. The women who fall victim to these ideas are always the scapegoat in these situations.

    It reminds me of how magazines like Star constantly pick on celebrities weight, then turn on them when they are "too thin," saying they promote an unhealthy lifestyle. The patriarchy will never be made to answer for creating and enforcing these paradigms, so we have to have someone to blame.
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    Image of rd2uk rd2uk
    02:20 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    Shes clearly never had my mamas banana bread.
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    02:20 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    You know what tastes better than skinny? Chocolate.
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    Image of burningdinner burningdinner
    02:21 PM

    @girl_talk: Cheese, too.
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    Image of TubOfTaft TubOfTaft
    02:22 PM

    @burningdinner: Chocolate cheesecake!
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    04:15 PM

    @girl_talk: burritos. With sour cream.
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    Image of LucilleMcGillicuddy LucilleMcGillicuddy
    02:19 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    I kind of understand what the person means when she says "skinny sells" but aren't we all supposed to be getting fatter? so I guess it sells us poor self-images? that we're supposed to want to be skinny?
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    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    02:18 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    That is so depressing to me, and so unbelievably warped.
    It is acknowledging that the opinion of others is more important to you than your own personal pleasure.
    Like many commenters, I've struggled with disordered eating. Unlike Kate Moss, however, my own warped mentality was not constantly rewarded. It was cause for concern. Before judging her too harshly, I think everyone should remember that this is a woman whose mental illness has been praised.. maybe not with words, but definitely with actions.
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    Image of HarpMadness HarpMadness
    02:03 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    No, lady, disagreeing and being upset can and does lead to doing things to change stuff. Really. Granted, there seem to be forces out there that do not want us to know this, but seriously, don't give up -- makes it too easy for them.
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    02:29 PM

    @HarpMadness: The whole "we can't do anything about it" attitude is total bs. Show your disdain with your $$. Promote body-positivity in your life and with regards to your spending.

    I'm not disappointed or surprised that Kate Moss made that statement. It's sort of a "No shit!" moment for me. It does piss me off that people think that this paradigm of lionizing thinness is the only way it can be and the only way it has ever been. Actually, it isn't, and it hasn't been. STFU
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    Image of sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit) sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
    02:03 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    I've had a 16-year battle with anorexia and actually belonged to a pro-anorexia group as recently as two years ago. I'm not proud of it, but I was in a really low place. And while I never used that phrase, I saw it used all the time. There were certain slogans/catchphrases that were thrown around as "encouragement" and "congratulations" and I wish I could say I never heard that phrase before Kate Moss. And it does promote -- at the very least -- dysmorphia and disordered eating.
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    Image of katekatekateyeah katekatekateyeah
    02:08 PM

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): it's used by both pro-anorexia groups and groups like Jenny Craig and WW....so you KNOW promotes healthy thinking!
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    02:12 PM

    @katekatekateyeah: Huh, I didn't know it was used by established companies. Knowing that the self-destructive world of pro-anorexia groups use the same slogan as reputable organizations is a bit . . . weird.
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    02:22 PM

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): disturbing, isn't it, how much the diet industry and pro-anorexia movement have in common? ugh, it makes me feel gross just thinking about it.

    (edited because this comment somehow tagged itself in a not so apt fashion.)
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    Edited by katekatekateyeah at 11/20/09 2:23 PM katekatekateyeah was starred katekatekateyeah was unstarred
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    02:02 PM

    In reply to Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash
    The reason I was a bulimic and not an anorexic (which I really tried to become anorexic, I just couldn't do it) is that there are LOTS OF THINGS that taste as good as skinny feels.
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    Image of tiredfairy tiredfairy
    11/13/09

    In reply to Kate Moss's Deep Thoughts; Obama Girls Wear French Fashion
    Ergh. That Kate Moss quote is unfortunate. It sounds like a version of how it feels when you don't really eat..."empty" = skinny. Which is pretty close to how you rationalize avoiding food in an ED.

    Plus, it's just not true. Food has a pleasurable function, as well as being necessary to live. It's okay to eat because you like how it tastes, or it makes you feel good, or because you want to. Those are all component of "normal" eating. It's when anything gets compulsive that there's a problem.

    Also, if your mood is dependent on your size then something is off.
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    Image of Zulkey Zulkey
    11/13/09

    In reply to Kate Moss's Deep Thoughts; Obama Girls Wear French Fashion
    ooh are we all gonna get butthurt about what Kate Moss says as if we all followed her lead to begin with? #katemoss
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    11/13/09

    @Zulkey: you know, I just read the quote in context and it seems like she was being tongue in cheek anyway. #katemoss
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