Oversized pop singer Beth Ditto has hit out and designers and celebrities for making women fell under pressure to be skinny.
The outspoken star said:" If there's anyone to blame for size zero, it's not women. Blame gay men who work in the fashion industry and want these women as dolls."
"Men don't know what it feels like to be a woman and be expected to look a particular way. The Beckhams are part of the machine; Paris Hilton is part of the machine."
She told NME in an interview:" There's that thing Paris Hilton said about Lindsay Lohan, 'You're poor, ugly and fat.' It's always women who are victims."
However Ditto, who weighs around 15 stones, insisted that her friend Kate Moss understands what it's like for women to be persecuted for being large, and is not to blame for the alarming skinny trend.
Patricia Johnson
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