Before we even start talking about Beth Ditto, let us just point something out to everyone – there is no correct size to be if you’re a human being. Okay? People who make an issue out of their, or anyone else’s weight, is an unrelenting dick. Okay? Okay.
Unrelenting dick, Beth Ditto, continues to see herself as some kind of political activist for people who aren’t thin, hitting out at imagined critics who she assumes are sniggering under their breath at her, taunting her and calling her a big fat twat.
With the spotlight well and truly taken off her band, The Gossip, and now glued into place on stomach, Ditto has howled in anguish about people who assume thin women are automatically healthier.
Most people listen to music and basically decide whether they like it or not. People love Mama Cass’ voice without worrying about her weight or deadness. Same goes for Elvis and Demis Roussos… although, with the latter, only mental people like his music.
And so, our pop stars assume that they need to be more than just performing monkeys, available to dance around for us when we stick a coin in the jukebox. Because they don’t have proper jobs, they hole themselves up, imagining what invented detractors might be saying about them, allowing their own fears to come seeping out of their mouth-holes.
Bono feels guilty for being rich, so parps on about charity. Kanye feels bad that he’s so astonishingly vain, and tweets endlessly about Taylor Swift. And so, Beth Ditto rattles around her house filled with celery and stamps her feet at the imagined accusations of those calling her a whale.
What’s this about celery?
Indeed. Ditto has revealed that she eats healthily, despite being overweight, and that she finds constantly defending her lifestyle ‘tiring’.
Speaking to Fearne Cotton on Radio 1 (which must have been even more tiring), she explained:
“I’m not an unhealthy person and I feel like one of the most tiring parts of being fat and being proud of it is you do a lot of proving yourself all the time.”
“It’s really interesting to me that people will look at a thin person and go, ‘That’s a healthy person’. I want to go, ‘Come open my refrigerator and look and then let’s talk about what you think is so bad’.”
See? Is there honestly a human on Earth who would go up to one of their friends and point at a thin person to discuss how healthy they are? In our experience, womenfolk are more prone to slagging someone off for their dress-sense or for having a partner that is deemed too attractive for them.
She added:
“To be thin and to stay really thin, some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That’s crazy. But that’s ‘okay’ because you look healthier.”
Some thin people do coke to stay thin and some fat people eat nothing but shite to stay fat… blah blah blah… yadda yadda yadda.
Do us a favour Beth? Stick to making records. If someone asks you about your weight, punch them in the mouth – especially if it happens to be Fearne Cotton. She’ll still call you ‘legendary’ either way.
Gilbert Wham says
To be fair, I’d call anyone who lamped Fearne Cotton in the mush legendary.
John Samer says
whoever is writing this sounds like they have some issues to discuss.
and anyway, studies have shown that the amount of fat someone has is meant to be in proportion to their muscle mass. This means that more dainty narrow boned people may be under 10 stone (sorry I’m British) but more broad shouldered and/or broad hipped people could have a healthy weight between 20 and 30 stone on average.
Health itself generally is not even about weight but about diet and exercise and provided you get enough of those two things you can be massively obese if you want and it still wont effect your health. Although obviously the less of this you do the more likely you are to put on weight and vica-versa but its not a golden rule.
Sumo wrestlers are indeed very fat but they also have a lot of muscle and are very physically fit. You’d be surprised but a sumo wrestler can outrun an average man very easily and without even being out of breath.
There are many things that can affect weight like disease, genes, allergies, drugs and even just certain vitamins and this can make you fat but perfectly healthy. Studies have shown that many people who are clinically ideal weight are actually dehydrated and this is more unhealthy than being fat in the first place.
I know I’ve talked to much but as a general rule. If you can see their bones or their veins that means that they are dangerously underweight. Models often die this way because their bodies do not have enough fat to sustain themselves.
Live healthy, be happy and have everything in moderation ~Grand Master Zen
mika says
i may be an unrelenting dick, but there is definitely such a thing as being overweight. and if there is such a thing, there is a limit to how your body will look if you are trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle. this writer must be blind or deaf to think that ordinary people don’t judge overweight people and assuming things about the healthiness about their lifestyle. the average overweight person feels this pressure, so there’s no way you can criticize Beth for feeling this too. it doesn’t mean that people are correct about their assumptions, but they do judge. constantly.
Beth should obviously focus on her music, but she has every right to be outspoken about how she sees and values herself, because believe me, there are some outspoken people talking about her and her size.
C says
I don’t care whether she claims she is healthy, and I certainly do not agree with ridiculing and discriminating against overweight people.
But, if Miss Ditto was to go to her doctor, and get tests done, I’m fairly certain that she would be at risk of a variety of obesity-related diseases. There is no way she could maintain her weight eating the right balance of fruit and vegetables, and doing the recommended amount of exercise per week.
I recall reading in a magazine about all the ‘real woman’ hype. That the average sized woman in Australia is a 14. The editor of the magazine, who was of an average height, and a size 14, took a number of tests and found that she was at risk of a number of overweight related diseases. Now I’m not saying that all size 14’s are overweight and unhealthy, that’s ridiculous. There are women out there who are tall, big boned, etc., and are a perfectly healthy and fit size 14. I’m just saying that it’s one thing to celebrate and enjoy being overweight, but it’s wrong to proclaim yourself as healthy.
On the other hand, replacing meals with cigarettes and coke is unhealthy too – duh.
Eating a diet high in nutrients while low in saturated fats and refined carbohydrates, and keeping active is healthy. No one who does that should be overweight.
Aleks says
That’s not true at all. You’ve got a textbook knowledge of weight, weight loss and its relation to health, which is sad because you’re commenting like you’re some type of expert on it. There are plenty of reasons you can eat right and exercise and still be overweight. There are people who eat total junk and are underweight. There are people underweight who are just as likely to develop “overweight related diseases” (or can we call them “fat people diseases” lol which is basically what you said) as someone who is overweight. I think it’s just as “wrong” to proclaim you’re informed when you aren’t, as when you proclaim you’re healthy when you aren’t. Most things printed in magazines are ridiculous and quoting them like fact doesn’t make you look smart. There are so many variables in that “study” that people in the scientific community would laugh, spit and probably pee on it.