Honey, you haven’t shrunk a bit

Doctors have been told to be blunt with overweight patients — to save taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds. they have been accused of failing to be frank with obese people whose medical conditions stem mainly from their weight.

I’d hate to be the GP who might have to suggest to Honey ross that she could be, ahem ahem, a little overweight ... perhaps she should go on a diet? tin hats on. Head for the hills.

the 23-year-old daughter of Jonathan ross and his screenwriter wife Jane Goldman is a fat activist, a plus-size influencer, a woman who revels in her size and shape.

‘Fat is not a feeling,’ she says. ‘I don’t feel fat because I am fat; that’s who I am and I like how I look.’

she shamed her parents by saying that they put her on ‘toxic’ diets when she was younger. But surely they were only trying to help?

the family dynamics certainly sound complicated.

Honey believes diets don’t work — well, they haven’t worked for her. But recent spectacular weight losses by

Adele, rebel Wilson and Gemma collins suggest that some diets can and do work.

Honey is happy how she is, good for her. Yet being overweight is nothing to celebrate, as I know.

Honey’s crusade might seem almost glamorous now — it does to her — but what happens five, ten, 20 years down the line?

Being so overweight is just as unhealthy as being underweight, bringing with it years of misery, illfitting clothes and squeezing into plane seats.

I salute body positivism and the plus-size movement but nobody should kid themself that being fat is a plus in itself. It is a barrier to life, not a route to cuddly happiness.