Moss retreats from ‘skinny is good’ quotes a decade on
SUPERMODEL Kate Moss has distanced herself from her controversial comment that “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”.
Nearly a decade after she drew criticism for the quote, the model, now 44, has been speaking about her motivation for saying it.
In the 2009 interview, Miss Moss was asked if she had any mantras and said: “There are loads of mottos. There’s ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’.
That’s one of them.”
When the comment was published on women’s fashion website WWD, the quote sparked a backlash.
Critics condemned her comments, saying that, as a role model to millions of girls and young women, they could encourage more instances of eating disorders.
Speaking on NBC in the United States, she said it was just a “jingle”.
The mother-of-one said: “My friend used to say it. Because you know, we were all living together, and we’d go for the biscuits and go, ‘Oh, nothing tastes as g . . . ‘ It’s a little jingle.”
Miss Moss added that she believes the modelling industry today has changed for the better.
“There’s so much more diversity now, I think it’s right,” she said. “There’s so many different sizes and colours and heights. Why would you just be a one-size model and being represented for all of these people?”
She also said that her partying days are in the past, adding: “I take care of myself now.”