Please stop weighing in on body size, Victoria!

VICTORIA BECKHAM made headlines last week with her comment that wanting to look really thin is now old-fashioned.

To put this into context, she was discussing her new range of VB shapewear. Slip into a piece of VB Body and voila – yours is a flat stomach, a peachy derriere and a streamlined but curvy silhouette.

Victoria herself is extremely slender and maintains a rigorous approach to diet and exercise. She looks great and perfectly healthy. But does she really think that thin is old-fashioned? I doubt it.

I wish that were the case, but it’s not really true and her comment was PR fodder. Victoria would not previously have expressed such a view because it’s only recently that fashion, or at least some fashion, has decided to embrace curves.

Not the fashion of Gucci, Chanel or Louis Vuitton, whose models are still superthin, but the big-bottomed fashion of Kardashianland which is arguably the more influential.

All those years back, in 2009, Kate Moss made news with the phrase ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’, which, it turns out, was a version of the less pithy ‘nothing tastes as good as being thin feels’ from a book by American writer Elizabeth Berg.

Berg did not make headlines but Kate did, because when it comes to body size, celebrity opinions count.

The strange thing is that it’s blindingly obvious that being neither too thin nor too fat is a good idea, but for some reason this never makes the news.

Despite the terrifying obesity figures – last week researchers predicted that by 2030, Britain will have more obese people than those at a healthy weight – there is a whole movement