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April 06, 2006
Weighing on her mind
JK Rowling is fighting for a world where her daughters will not grow up to be "empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones." She is a bit unfair to overpriced handbags and rat-sized dogs but she could not be more right about the important thing. There are a lot of young woman and girls who need help more than they need to be on the cover of a magazine.
"It started in the car on the way to Leavesden film studios. I whiled away part of the journey reading a magazine that featured several glossy photographs of a very young woman who is either seriously ill or suffering from an eating disorder (which is, of course, the same thing); anyway, there is no other explanation for the shape of her body.
"She can talk about eating absolutely loads, being terribly busy and having the world's fastest metabolism until her tongue drops off (hooray! Another couple of ounces gone!), but her concave stomach, protruding ribs and stick-like arms tell a different story.
"She can talk about eating absolutely loads, being terribly busy and having the world's fastest metabolism until her tongue drops off (hooray! Another couple of ounces gone!), but her concave stomach, protruding ribs and stick-like arms tell a different story.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 6, 2006 08:31 AM
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