Slimmer Of The Year Leanne Needham Heeds The Fat Haters
LEANNE Needham, from Sheffield, holds up a cardboard cut-out of her as a size 22 fatty/NHS pariah/ victim as she becomes Slimming World’s ‘Young Slimmer of the Year 2009′ at The Ritz in central London.
Leanne is delighted at now being acceptable - a media hero - and looks fit to burst, much like her old jeans she is seen wearing and now carrying about her like a totem.
Leanne went from 17st 10lbs in June 2007 to her current weight of 10st 7lbs.
She was probably morbidly obese, a neat modern term that reminds fatties that they are a deadly danger to the public at large, should they fall on them or eat all the world’s protein and milkshakes.
Says she:
“By the age of 17 I weighed more than my age - and more than my dad. I’d been bullied since the age of 10 because of my size - a classmate once told me it was time I went to a ‘fat club’.
“I couldn’t fit comfortably into the seats at uni so I began to skip lectures and my grades began to suffer. When my doctor said that losing weight could help me overcome these problems I knew I had to make a change.”
Yeah, the bullying worked, especially when it was coordinated with some NHS tagteam bullying.
Thanks to Leanne we now have a new reason to fear fatness, it being a gateway to acute graduation failure.
The fat - fear them!
Posted: 20th, August 2009 | In: Media Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 21st, 2009 at 9:23 pm
BabyJane, thanks for the comment, but my brain is fine, I just don’t find this ironic..I find it down right insulting. Irony and insults are two different things.
Go back to bed, baby.
August 21st, 2009 at 9:34 am
When the famine comes the skinnies will go first! Unless of course they eat the fatties? Hmmmmmm now there will be a dilemma…
August 21st, 2009 at 9:12 am
The grave yards are full of skinny people - they do say after you have been dead 3 weeks you are the perfect weight, until then I shall remain underheight
August 21st, 2009 at 9:06 am
Calm down, calm down. Here have a biccie
August 21st, 2009 at 8:18 am
Too Fat!
Too Thin!
Binge Eater!
Anorexic!
Bulimic!
Cellulite!
Jelly Belly!
Skinny Ribs!
and so go the headlines every single day feeding our inadequacies. ‘Sliimmers of the Year’ inevitably put it back on, even the rich and famous struggle to keep it off. Kirstie Ally, Sharon Osbourne being just two.
Why can’t we just live and let live? why is it such an issue? and I speak as a diet obsessive who has tried them all and probably lost / gained / lost / gained a grand total of around 20 stone over my adult years! (not all at once you understand!)
August 21st, 2009 at 8:11 am
Amy, my sister in law, the poor thing, doesn’t understand satire or irony, either. I think it’s like some sort of brain handicap.
August 20th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Oh dear
August 20th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
What the hell is up with this article?? It’s just making fun at fat people and being purely sarcastic. This woman has achieved something remarkable, after being tormented most of her life, and you whilst telling her story, also poke fun at over weight people.
You should be disgraced.