.K. Rowling goes off on stick-thin celebrities
Posted Apr 6th 2006 2:04PM by Karen Walrond
Filed under: Business, Lifestyle, Media
From People.com: J.K. Rowling, author of the fabulously popular Harry Potter children's series, decided to take a break from fantasies of wizardry and witchcraft to go off on the obsession that many celebrities have with being thin. On her website, in a post entitled "For Girls Only, Probably...", Rowling rants about a magazine model who was so thin, she was clearly "either seriously ill or suffering from an eating disorder." She goes on: "(The model) can talk about eating absolutely loads, being terribly busy and having the world's fastest metabolism until her tongue drops off, but her concave stomach, protruding ribs and stick-like arms tell a different story."
Rowling continues by saying that she wrote the post because she didn't want her daughters, currently ages 1 and 12, to grow up in a thin-obsessed world. "I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny a thousand things, before 'thin,'" she said.
Posted Apr 6th 2006 2:04PM by Karen Walrond
Filed under: Business, Lifestyle, Media
From People.com: J.K. Rowling, author of the fabulously popular Harry Potter children's series, decided to take a break from fantasies of wizardry and witchcraft to go off on the obsession that many celebrities have with being thin. On her website, in a post entitled "For Girls Only, Probably...", Rowling rants about a magazine model who was so thin, she was clearly "either seriously ill or suffering from an eating disorder." She goes on: "(The model) can talk about eating absolutely loads, being terribly busy and having the world's fastest metabolism until her tongue drops off, but her concave stomach, protruding ribs and stick-like arms tell a different story."
Rowling continues by saying that she wrote the post because she didn't want her daughters, currently ages 1 and 12, to grow up in a thin-obsessed world. "I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny a thousand things, before 'thin,'" she said.
