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Skip to comments.Is Kate Upton Too Fat? Critics Call Her 'Lardy,' 'Squishy,' 'Piggie' [POLL]
Posted on 07/05/2012 8:03:41 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Is Kate Upton too fat? Weigh in on the model's size via our online poll.
Modeling's newest "it" girl has gained a massive following due in large part to her sexy curves, but a group of critics are saying she is the massive one, calling her names like "thick" and "lardy," and saying that she looks "like a squishy brick" and "pregnant."
The most vicious critic of Kate Upton, who landed this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition cover and is on the cover of this month's GQ, so far has been the website SkinnyGossip.com.
A controversial site in its own right, SkinnyGossip has been linked to promoting anorexia, and it features a terrifying list of "Starving Tip[s] of the Day" aimed at helping girls become as skinny as humanly possible. The horrific starving tips, such as "Learn to LOVE that empty feeling in your stomach. Trust me, you'll feel disgusting when it starts filling up again," and "If you must eat, ONLY eat when people are watching you. All other calories are eaten in vain," are accompanied by photographs of super-thin girls' legs, ostensibly to show what girls should aspire to look like.
And the site is now turning its eyes to Kate Upton, who it calls "well-marbled" in a headline, comparing her to a cow, and lambasting her a "cannibal" for eating a beef hamburger in an advertisement for fast food giant Carl's Jr.:
"I thought cannibalism was illegal?!? If that's not a very different species of cow, Kate could be in legal trouble!"
The article, which does not list an author's name, goes on to lay into Kate Upton..."
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...
She looks damned good to me.
I would buy her a burger and a milk shake any day.
What? That GAY men in the design biz should dictate how much she should weight (because they HATE women) and that she should resemble a 12-year-old boy for their 'pleasure'?
She looks like a real woman, not one of those skeletons that predominate among models.
Is 'thick' the new slang for super hot?
Queers dominating the fashion industry are definitely a problem. I doubt most people know that a size 6 woman is considered "plus size" in the modeling profession.
Nothing wrong with this gal at all--more believeable than the photoshopped (used to say airbrushed!) SI cover.
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
Anyone who would call Miss Upton "fat" or any of the other pejoratives mentioned is profoundly mentally ill and needs to seek professional help as soon as possible.
These homos must faint from the vapors when they see a picture of Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield or Rita Hayworth, much less a Sophia Loren or Raquel Welch. Heck, Marilyn made Kate Upton look anorexic, and she's only the greatest sex symbol of all time.
Big Media: How Dare Kate Upton not live up to our image of a sex object.
Big Media: How dare men treat women as sex objects.
Oh, baby, how sexy.
Like a home run off Babe Ruth's bat. ;^)
I worked in the 'rag trade' for many years. It is dominated by homosexuals, narcissists, and those with borderline personality disorder. If you are not 'perfect' in their eyes.....you are 'worthless'. And they are VICIOUS if you're not. Which fits quite nicely with the eugenics realm.
I 'woke up' a few years ago to all of their crap.
Quite funny....since MOST of these @sstards LOVE MONEY and BEAUTIFUL THINGS AND ANTIQUES!) And LOVE 'the rich'! But promote socialism at every breath. They have this SICK notion that THEY will, somehow, will be 'spared' by the ruling government (like a 'muse').
Don't think anorexic models are attractive at all, but Kate is a bit too chunky for that particular bikini.
Sure...if looking like a modern Marilyn Monroe makes a girl "fat."
She looks like a woman. Just 'cause the fashion gossips say she is fat does not make it so. They would prefer that women look like boys.
You're killing me here !
You hit the nail on the head.
I went and found pix on Google.... her size is JUST RIGHT.
What are those skinnybloggers smoking???!!!???
Too squishy? Looks pretty good to me. She could even put on a few lbs and still be fine.
I like squishy.
Not into fluffy, but squishy is nice.
Just hit it.
The poll, I mean.
What do you think of Kate Upton's body?
Selection Votes
She looks like a pregnant cow. 17% 43
She's fat, but not ridiculously so. 16% 40
She's got great curves, but is a little heavy for my taste. 10% 25
She has the perfect body. 51% 125
She could use a little more weight, actually. 6% 14
She's way too skinny. 0% 0
247 votes total
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Will somebody tell Kate to stop calling my house? I'm married for goodness sake. It's not going to happen, Kate! Sorry!
If you think she looks "chunky" in that bikini, I would shudder at what you would have thought of Raquel Welch in her prime.
Too young, blonde and thin for me, thanks.
Nope, perfect body. Only the faggots that run the modeling industry like that deathly skinny 11-year-old boy look in women. Real men like curves. Many women don't understand this because they think we like the anorexic model look and lie saying we don't. The fags can have that look. Give me curves any day.
Preach it, brother!
What did you do in the trade.
Whoa! My sensibilities have been offended, and I only watched for 20 minutes or so...
Well marbled? I'd play marbles with her any day.
Selection Votes
She looks like a pregnant cow. 17% 43
Shes fat, but not ridiculously so. 16% 40
Shes got great curves, but is a little heavy for my taste. 10% 25
She has the perfect body. 51% 125
She could use a little more weight, actually. 6% 14
Shes way too skinny. 0% 0
43 just failed the homosexual test.
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
No, she's what heterosexual men like, not coifed faggots trying to make anorexic women look like teenage hairless boys.
Worked for a 'high-end' boutique as a floor seller and was promoted manager....then buyer after a few years. Was flown to Atlanta and NYC for 'market' to buy the lines for the store. We were a clothier for 'bridge' career wear, wedding, and ball attire.
Sold Cole Haan, Klein, Pinkerton, McKlintock, Joan Vass, Ghurka Luggage, Max Mara, etc.
This was a few years ago, mind.
That is very painful to look at. And very sad as well.
Heck yeah! I'm only 30, and even I know Ms Welch was a great looking lady. (Don't know much more than that about her though.)
Looks a little heavyset to me.
But worse than her weight is that repulsive mole above the right corner of her mouth. Ugh!
I'm sure you would.
What mole?
LOL, I know, in a day or two it could do some serious damage. Someone should put a stop to it... eventually...
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