14 DAY TRIAL // Ever since she first broke on the scene when she was just a teen, Kate Moss has been repeatedly criticized for allegedly encouraging young girls to aspire to be just as thin and frail as she is. Not that she ever said anything specific as regards that, for that matter – until a recent interview, when she revealed one of her mottos in life was that “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels,” as the Telegraph can confirm.
As expected, this particular comment did not fail to get people talking and critics, well, criticizing. As health experts are struggling to make girls see the difference between what they see on television and in magazines and how they should look like in real life, and especially to realize that one doesn’t necessarily have a correspondent in real life, Moss comes in stating exactly the contrary. This coming from the woman who made the “heroine chic” look cool is like delivering a deadly blow to all those impressionable young women out there, they say.
“The 35-year-old shocked campaigners fighting to abolish the cult of stick-thin models with the disclosure to the fashion news website WWD. When asked in an interview if she had any mottos, she replied: ‘There are loads of mottos. There’s “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” That’s one of them.’ She added: ‘You try and remember, but it never works.’ Critics condemned Moss’s comments, saying that, as a role model to millions of girls and young women, they could lead to more instances of eating disorders,” the Telegraph says of the recent controversy.
The problem is, critics say, that, whether she likes it or not, Kate Moss is considered a role model by many women, women who would all do what she does to look as good as she does. This, of course, could also include taking up an unhealthy eating pattern if they believed that would get them Moss’ waif-like figure, which she probably keeps so thin with dieting, alcohol, and cigarettes, as she hinted on several occasions.
“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, says for the British media.