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Rowling slams 'skinny culture'
07/04/2006 10:09 - (SA)
London - Author JK Rowling has a bone to pick with the skinny models and celebrities whose "overpriced handbags and rat-sized dogs" grace the glossy pages of celebrity magazines.
On her website, jkrowling.com, the author of the best-selling Harry Potter series criticised an article featuring a young woman whose thin frame indicated she is "either seriously ill or suffering from an eating disorder."
"She can talk about eating absolutely loads, being terribly busy and having the world's fastest metabolism ... but her concave stomach, protruding ribs and stick-like arms tell a different story," she wrote on Thursday in an entry entitled, "For Girls Only, Probably."
What's wrong with fat?
Rowling wrote that a conversation with a young actor on the set of the next Harry Potter film spurred her to reflect on society's obsession with body image. The actor had told her of a female classmate dubbed 'fat' by her peers.
"Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be?" she wrote. "Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I'm not in the business of being judged on my looks."
Rowling said she is particularly worried for her two daughters, Mackenzie Jean, age one, and Jessica, age 12, growing up in a "skinny-obsessed world," and went on to state she doesn't want them to become "empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones."
"Let my girls be Hermiones," she declared, referring to the brainy female character from the Harry Potter novels.
- AP
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