JK Rowling blasts the culture of skinny models and celebrities

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has hit out at the culture of thinness, saying she hopes her own two daughters will resist the pressure to be skinny.

Speaking in a post on her official website, Rowling blasts the trend for celebrities to be 'talking toothpicks' and welcomes pop star Pink's efforts to take the mickey out of such behaviour. 'her latest song Stupid Girls is the antidote-anthem for everything I had been thinking about women and thinness,' says Rowling. 'Stupid Girls satirises those girls.whose only function in the world appears to be supporting the trade in overpriced handbags and rat-sized dogs.'

'Maybe all of this seems funny or trivial, but it's really not. It's about what girls want to be, what they're told they should be, and how they feel about who they are.'

'I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things before 'thin'. And frankly I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do.

'Let my girls be Hermiones rather than Pansy Parkinsons,' the author concludes. 'Let them never be Stupid Girls. Rant over.'

• Scary Potter
  
• What Our Members Are Discussing Today
  
• This Week's News