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Beth Ditto Slams Size Zero Models

Gossip star hits out...

  • by Jason Gregory
  • Wednesday, September 12, 2007
  • Photo by: Shirlaine Forrest
  • filed in: Rock
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Beth Ditto wants the fashion industry to change its labelling format so that there is no longer a ‘size zero.’

The Gossip singer hopes that by removing the term women will feel less pressured to look like catwalk models.

She told Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac: "It’s so obvious but so deep about our culture and what (it) says about women and their worth in their world (that) to be a size zero... is your ultimate goal.

"The biggest thing in your world is to be a nothing. That is so intense… how about getting rid of zero at all and putting a number onto it instead, even if it’s a small number?"

Ditto has always been publicly outspoken with regards to physical appearance. Earlier this year she turned town an invitation to perform for the clothing store, Topshop, because they didn’t make clothes for the larger woman.
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  • Yeah, being morbidly obese is preferable to being unhealthily underweight. Boom fatty boom boom.

    ~ by doyouthinkhesawus 9/12/2007

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  • actually she doesnt say ge rid of the size, she says get rid of the LABEL. if you read the article properly (an if you listen to the show this sunday on radio 1) then you’ll hear she says that yeah, some people are naturally small, but she doesnt think it’s right that they should be labelled a ’zero’

    ~ by --- 9/12/2007

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