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J.K. Rowling Objects to 'Skinny' Culture
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J.K. Rowling Objects to 'Skinny' Culture
LONDON Apr 6, 2006 (AP)— Author J.K. Rowling has a bone to pick with the skinny models and celebrities whose "overpriced handbags and rat-sized dogs" grace the glossy pages of celebrity magazines.
On her website, jkrowling.com, the author of the best-selling Harry Potter series criticized an article featuring a young woman whose thin frame indicated she is "either seriously ill or suffering from an eating disorder."
"She can talk about eating absolutely loads, being terribly busy and having the world's fastest metabolism … but her concave stomach, protruding ribs and stick-like arms tell a different story," she wrote Thursday in an entry entitled, "For Girls Only, Probably."
Rowling wrote that a conversation with a young actor on the set of the next Harry Potter film spurred her to reflect on society's obsession with body image. The actor had told her of a female classmate dubbed 'fat' by her peers.
"Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be?" she wrote. "Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I'm not in the business of being judged on my looks."
Rowling said she is particularly worried for her two daughters, Mackenzie Jean, age one, and Jessica, age 12, growing up in a "skinny-obsessed world," and went on to state she doesn't want them to become "empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones."
"Let my girls be Hermiones," she declared, referring to the brainy female character from the Harry Potter novels.
Rowling is currently working on her seventh and final Harry Potter book. She met with a minor emergency Wednesday when she ran out of paper, an account she reflected about on her personal page, part of an elaborate web site.
She said it took forty-five minutes to find "normal, lined paper" in her hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland.
"What is a writer who writes longhand supposed to do when she hits her stride and then realizes to her horror that she has covered every bit of blank paper in her bag?" wrote the 40-year-old who prefers pen and paper over computer.
She said the search made "me feel like something out of the eighteenth century."
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press.
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