Yes, yes, Moss's motto is all over the news. When asked by a magazine what her motto in life was, she said the above quote.
Before we jump down her throat, though, I have to ask: why do "millions of girls aspire to be like Kate Moss," as Katie Green pointed out? Sure, she's attractive. So what? Nobody chooses to have great bone structure, or flawless skin--if you could choose, everyone would choose it. Does that really make her a role model?
As I've discussed elsewhere , the "ugly business of beautiful women" is really nothing to snort at. The subconscious and unconscious effect of seeing glossy beauties, airbrushed within an inch of their life, is socially corrosive. We really do not need more "thinspiration" in the media.
This comes hot on the heels of Ralph Lauren's photoshop fiasco. Enough! When will young women put down the Cosmo and pick up a (veggie)burger? It's time to say "Fuck you!" to Anna Wintour, don't you think?
Moss may or may not be intelligent, I neither know nor care. But at some level, she must realize that young women aspire to be like her. It saddens me that she truly believes that her motto is something to be emulated.
Now that that's over with--"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"? Maybe Elie Wiesel would have an opinion on that.
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The only thing I don't understand and never will understand with items like this is why Kate Moss is a role model.
I sure don't want my daughter to look up to people like her. I don't and never did. She is completely irrelevant to my life. I hope others can learn to see that models and celebrities are not role models. They never asked to be a role model and I'm sure most don't want to be. Where this idea that they are a role model came from I will never know. Is anyone who has a public life automatically a role model??? Does that include criminals and the like on TV? I sure hope not. We can do better then that.
Now that that's over with--"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"? Maybe Elie Wiesel would have an opinion on that.
Pointing out what's wrong with this whole Kate Moss thing is fair enough. Roping the Holocaust in to prove a point about cultural body image standards is REALLY out of bounds, IMO. As an ED sufferer, I can tell you firsthand that this kind of argument is one of the few things as reliably guilt/trigger-cycle inducing as being told you look fat. Beyond that, again, appropriating the Holocaust to talk about why you don't like Kate Moss' aesthetics?
I was with you until the Elie Wiesel comment. I'm really trying not to take that out of context, so maybe you can explain what you meant by that.
While I was sick, I was told by many people that what I was doing was selfish and wrong because there are people in the world who are really starving.
She also said that's HER motto. She did not say it's something other people should have as THEIR motto.
you've written all the intelligent comments, so i'd just like to add, plenty of things taste better than skinny feels. and skinny doesn't feel good everyone either.