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I love the British, but this article in the Daily Mail is tasteless and cruel.  Apparently, a finalist for the title of Ms. England is a size 16.  I don’t know how that translates in American sizes, but this girl–and she is just 17–is spoken of as though she were some sort of colossal, Fat Bastard-esque monster.  I admit that she doesn’t look like the typical pageant queen, but that can’t be anything but a good, since most contestants now just look like middle-aged strippers.

Still, more shocking than Chloe Marshall’s weight are the things this newspaper says about her.  I cannot imagine any serious publication in the United States calling a child “fat,” “lazy,” and a “terrible role model.”  I also cannot imagine a serious American publication allowing so many single sentence paragraphs.  That’s what’s really lazy.

Filed under: Current Events, Health on April 4th, 2008