Hi,
I am a size 12 and I was sitting watching GMTV this morning (day off work)
And I am suddenly told I am Fat and apparently 97% of women think so..
Its ok coz I agree, I think Im huge! and Fat!
But still where do they find all these women who are obviously skinny, who are they Interviewing when they say 97%
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A new survey reveals that women want fat friends and Liz Hurley has the perfect body. What do you think?
Now in her early 40s, the super slim and super maintained body of Elizabeth Hurley has been voted the all-time British Body Idol by a poll of 5,000 women throughout the UK - but most women wouldn't want her as a friend.
What do you think? Are you dying for Liz Hurley's skinny body? Or should women be happy with the way they are? Do you judge your friends on their looks? Have your say on our message board.
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Join in the discussionWomen want fat friends
In fact, life can be pretty lonely for the super slim, because women overwhelmingly want girlfriends who are 'fatter than them', according to the British Body Idol Survey 2007, commissioned by NW Magazine and nwdaily.co.uk.
Size 0 is "attractive"
It appears that women just don't want the competition of slimmer friends - especially as a staggering six out of 10 British women now think 'Size 0 is attractive' (59%) and 58% think 'men also find Size 0 women attractive'.
A paltry 3% of women are 'happy to have thinner girlfriends' whereas the vast majority (97%) prefer to 'step out with friends who are fatter than them'. And if you do end up on a night out with your friends, watch out - more than three-quarters of women admit they are 'jealous of slimmer friends' (76%).
"I feel fat"
Nearly all women say they have 'felt fat before a night out' (94%) and half 'go without food all day' and one in 10 say they 'make themselves sick so they can fit in a dress' - and the last thing they want is to be surrounded by thinner, slinkier girlfriends.
Six out of 10 women also say their so-called 'friends' have 'criticised' their body shape and size and four out of 10 say 'even their mother urges them to lose weight'. A fifth of women say they 'can't sit at their office desk without their work colleagues suggesting they slim down'.
No wonder 84% of all women say they would 'feel happier' if they could lose weight and two-thirds of women say they have 'tried to diet in the last month' alone (65%).
Helen Johnston, Editor of NW Magazine, says: "We all understand the anxiety of going out with a drop-dead gorgeous skinny mate who gets all the attention and leaves us feeling like her fat invisible friend. And there's nothing worse than knowing whatever you wear your slimmer friend is always going to look better than you do."
Skinny celebrities
Survey respondents point to celebrities like Victoria Beckham who even manages to make her new best friend Katie Holmes 'look like a gangly giant' and Coleen McLoughlin who 'frequently steps out surrounded by a posse of fatter friends'.
http://www.gm.tv/index.cfm?articleid=10925
2007-03-29
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