Kate Moss Apologizes for Pro-Anorexia Comment

Back in the ‘90s, Kate Moss was considered representative for the emerging “heroin chic” look. Today, she comes under serious fire with health organizations and concerned groups for saying that there is no taste as good as the feeling of being skinny. The comment, once out in the press, was immediately adopted by pro-anorexia websites that were quick to name Moss the hottest “thinspiration” of the moment.

The problem is, her rep says in a statement cited by the Boston Herald, that Moss neither intended nor actually did something specific for things to come out this way. Her words were completely taken out of context and then twisted around to sound like something entirely different than what she had said, the spokesperson explains. The model does not actually encourage or promote starving oneself to look good.

“This was part of a longer answer Kate gave during a wider-ranging interview, which has unfortunately been taken out of context and completely misrepresented. For the record, Kate does not support this as a lifestyle choice,” a statement from Storm, the model’s agency, reads. As such, Moss is devastated that she’s taking so much heat for something she did not even say, not to mention how hurt she feels that some her fans could actually believe she might have said something like that.

As we also reported the other day, all hell broke loose when Moss, asked about her motto in life, said she had more than she could enumerate, but chose to refer only to one as illustrative for her career. “There are loads of mottos. There’s ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.’ That’s one of them. You try and remember, but it never works,” Kate said during a recent interview. From that to health organizations and groups campaigning to raise awareness on eating disorders was just a small step.

“There are 1.1 million eating disorders in the UK alone. Kate Moss’s comments are likely to cause many more. If you read any of the pro-anorexia websites, they go crazy for quotes like this. Millions of girls aspire to be like Kate Moss. These comments are shocking and irresponsible,” Katie Green, a former Ultimo model and founder of the Say No To Size Zero campaign, said shortly after Moss’ comment was printed in the media, as we also told you at the time.