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Tuesday, January 06, 2004

Through thick and thin

On GMTV this morning, the editor of a magazine aimed at teenagers was defending her media's use of 'thin' role models and how that encouraged anorexia (she was also sat next to an ex-anorexic, for good measure).

"But we have pictures of Pink and Kelly Osbourne, and they're not thin, by any stretch".

I couldn't decide whether I was more stunned by the back-handed compliment (god help her at the next photo-shoot involving either of those two) or the graphic use of the word "stretch", bearing in mind the skeletal girl sharing the couch with her..

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