Tallulah Harlech Beth Ditto Obese

We haven’t even had our first green juice of the day yet, and RunwayRiot found that an IMG model is calling Beth Ditto’s “plus-size line” a “bad endorsement.”

Tallulah Harlech, Vogue-endorsed Karl Lagerfeld muse (who other than this questionable sound byte, seems to be a lovely human with excellent taste in pants,) tweeted this a couple of hours ago. (We’ve reached out to Tallulah for the opportunity to clarify her statement.)

Bad endorsement Beth Ditto 'plus size line'. You can be healthy and thin (naturally or with veganism) but you can't be healthy + obese.

— Tallulah Harlech (@TallulahHarlech) February 26, 2016

Did you say, “bad endorsement,” body police? BETH DITTO? Beth your dream wife who might let you borrow her jean jacket Ditto? Beth, singer of Gossip who sang and sang songs like a beautiful crazy night bird with a fever wrenched from deep within her soul? Beth, our interview subject in bed? Just to speak Beth Ditto’s name is breathe life into magic more powerful than the wind in Beyonce’s hair, the magic of all three Hocus Pocus witches combined and 7,540 unretouched feminist statements from young women on the Snapchat. And she’s not a good role model? Always life-affirming to know you can count on the fashion sisterhood to make you feel pleasant each day.

People continue to swoon over Beth’s line and her face. Her void-filling eponymous collection stands out as something that’s actually taking different body types into consideration, AND there’s a shiny jumpsuit. Even more powerful, she is one of the rare women of her shape that designers like Marc Jacobs, Jean Paul Gaultier, and a magazine like LOVE will embrace, which gives her a real platform from which to speak truths on. And somehow, it’s sending the “wrong message” to young girls who will definitely take one look at the line and then close their eyes, pray to Peter Pan, and try really hard to become “obese”?

Why make this about who is eating animal products and who is not? Or who and who can’t possibly be healthy? Who’s to say that any woman — slim or curvier — does not feel the unbridled joy of knowing what “health” feels like? Everyone. Everyone likes to say.

Anyway, assumptions are totally tubular, and we’ll definitely continue getting health lessons from Twitter.

An hour after this was published, Tallulah responded with this: “I am an advocate for health and ’80/10/10′ veganism. Being overweight is self-harm and is not the natural state for a human.”

JerseyCowboy

For every girl that suffers from anorexia or bulimia, over a dozen suffer from obesity, and obesity-related conditions are the cause of a growing number of women’s deaths. Anorexia and bulimia, although troublesome, are much less severe a public health problem than obesity is. Scientists are continuing to prove that although some curves are healthy, there is no such thing as being “healthy fat”.
- Gail
  
  Anorexia, while less common, is still much, much more lethal.
- Stella
  
  What about the girls that are in the middle of these two extremes and are suffering from the mental/emotional problems that are caused by this nonsense of making girls and women feel they aren’t worthy if they don’t meet some idiotic beauty ideal(made more idiotic when “YOUR HEALTH!!!!” is thrown in to try and justify it)? Just because a girl or woman may be a “healthy” size doesn’t mean she actually is healthy. You don’t know what she has or has not eaten to try and maintain that “healthy” size, you don’t know what she’s pushing her body to do and potentially damaging it to maintain that “healthy” size, you don’t know the thoughts rattling around in her head that keep her from enjoying her life and her loved ones. Sure, those problems may not be fatal, but why do they have to be fatal to be taken seriously?
RubioAwakens

Being overweight alone won’t kill you. Being a couch potato and not exercising will. All a balance and don’t let it get out of control.
RAPPER IS CODE FOR UNEMPLOYED

You ALSO can be unhealthy + thin. Being thin does not guarantee health.
wulfy7

Are we expected to believe that anorexic chain smoking models are healthier than plus size models?
Gail

Yes, quit encouraging these women to not starve themselves by providing them with clothes to wear and look good in. What is this designer thinking?!/ sarc
Klein Zack

Tents are comparably accommodating too.
Stella

You know what, who gives a hoot if we’re healthy or not at what ever size we are? Can’t we just feel beautiful no matter what??? If we feel like crap, regardless of our size we won’t do anything to better ourselves, so please STFU with this health shaming horse apples.
anna rampage

You know what else isn’t healthy? Restricting your diet to 600 calories a day so that you can maintain your size zero, and having a bitchy, judgmental attitude that curvy people should not have access to designer clothing….
samuel wilson

Real women have curves!!!
ResCogitans

So says the arrogant ectomorph…
gme11

Being skinny is not healthy either, its just the other side of the spectrum. When she starts getting hip fractures from lack of nutrients, she’ll sing a different song.
DanteLaboy88

“Plus size”= lazy most of the time.
- progressive and proud
  
  Some people are genetically predisposed to carrying extra weight yet are healthy. Extra weight does not = lazy even most of the time.
Joe333

Men do not consume this product.
Fashion models are for other women

As for their argument…both sides are wrong.
Men don’t like skinny or fat
And while we are at it we also don’t understand why all the models are really tall. That’s not a feature men look for at all
- Joe333
  
  Nope
  Men like petite and healthy
  
  Humans are dimorphic. The things people find attractive are those dimorphic differences. No guy in the world wants to date a girl who is taller then them and women don’t want a man who is shorter.
  They might settle for that but it isn’t the same thing
  - Stella
    
    I’ve seen plenty of happy content couples that in no way settled on their partners that completely smash your opinion(and that’s all it is, an opinion, it’s not fact). Just because YOU have particular preferences(and yes, some of your friends too, because we do tend to gravitate towards people that share our own interests more than we gravitate to people who don’t) doesn’t mean that you can speak for everyone out there that shares your gender and state your opinion as fact.
  - Wombat99
    
    Well. There are “typical” preferences, but nothing is universal. There is no one thing that all men like, just like there’s no one thing that all women like. People are different, they like a wide variety of very different things. I’m living proof that not everyone prefers the dimorphic differences; while I can appreciate a variety of “types”, I prefer both men and women who look extremely androgynous. I’ve known guys who preferred tall women (went for them almost exclusively), I’ve known guys who preferred heavy women (went for them almost exclusively). I have a close female friend who is really into rugged guys with beards; we NEVER find the same men attractive (I’m also female, if it matters). Everyone is different, and that’s cool, because it means there’s someone for all of us.
llewellynh

She’s right. I am not healthy because of two diseases and both of them require me to take one medicine for each that says right in the PDR that unwanted weight gain is a side effect.

So I and the many others with chronic illnesses should wear sack cloths according to this dim bulb.

Ashley Hoffman