Thanks, Jamelia, for your nasty judgment of fat people. We’ve heard it all before | Phoebe-Jane Boyd

Here’s a translation of Jamelia’s supposedly well-meaning rant on Loose Women: ‘I think you’re unacceptable as you are, and I don’t like it’

It’s so tiring getting angry about people in the public eye passing their judgment down on us lessers, but here we are again, having to put that work in. Seven months after the last outbreak of misjudged wittering from Loose Women that was Judy Finnigan on sexual assault, we’ve been gifted more gold-standard insensitivity from that magic outrage-creation pit on ITV. This time round it was a discussion on plus-sized clothing for teenage girls. Obesity, women’s body autonomy – who could have predicted that would be such a dangerous topic for four privileged females working in the entertainment industry to wade into?

Sarcasm is about all I can muster whenever the well-meaning healthy decide to pass comment on people of my size

Related: Fat can be healthy, so don’t tell me you’re dieting for health reasons | Bethany Rutter

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