Radio One DJ Fearne Cotton Talks Anorexia, Vegetarian Diet
Written by Vegetarian Star on April 9th, 2009 in Radio Hosts, TV Hosts.
Radio One DJ Fearne Cotton recently featured a documentary about websites encouraging girls and women to starve themselves.
According to the UK Sun, during the documentary, The Truth About Online Anorexia, Fearne met a woman whose daughter had died of the disease as well as an anorexic woman who runs a “pro-ana” website which encourages girls with eating disorders by printing diet tips and pictures of bone-thin models.
Fearne thinks many celebrities who blab about their latest diet should keep quiet because of the negative impact they could have on young girls.
“I think that is irresponsible. If you are doing a diet and you are a role model, don’t go splashing it about, because kids might just take hold of it and start doing it too.”
“When I was a kid I would always look up to people like Zoe Ball and Denise Van Outen and, whether they liked it or not, I would be influenced by what they said. So, as someone who is on TV now, I feel I have to take some kind of stance as a role model. I would hate to put out any kind of unhealthy advice.”
Fearne has no problem sharing the secret to maintaining her figure by following a vegetarian diet and lots of exercise. And giving chocolate the thumbs up, too.
“I eat a healthy diet but my social life revolves around eating out and I love baking more than anything in the world, and eating chocolate.”
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April 10th, 2009 at 6:52 am
Having watched the programme The Truth About Online Anorexia last night, I noticed that Fearne said that she had eaten a tuna steak salad for her dinner. How can she claim to be a vegetarian if this is true!!?
April 10th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I thought her programme was excellent. It opened my eyes to the sick things that are available on the Internet. Why are we not stopping this sort of thing? Surely more could be done!! I know that if people have this illness they have to be ready to get well but the programme showed how it encourages young girls to become sicker. This is like a suicide pack! after watching it it makes me want to do something to help stop them being available. Not sure how though.
April 11th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Funny how the program doesn’t talk about why ana exists.
Ana is so common is this world because girls are not taught proper nutrition. The are told eat dairy for calcium, eat eggs and meat for protein and then they start gaining weight and think starving themselves is the only way.