Fergie Lashes Out At Weight Critics Of Princess Beatrice

By Access HollywoodMay 20, 2008, 12:15 pm PDT

LONDON, England -- Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson has lashed out at the media, claiming they are giving her daughter, Princess Beatrice, a weight complex.

Fergie told the BBC her daughter, Beatrice, 19, is a healthy size 10 (an 8 in U.S. measurements) in a new interview. She made the comments after her daughter's weight was referenced in the tabloids, which caught the princess on vacation in the Caribbean wearing a bikini.

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"The press has been absolutely outrageous, calling her such horrible names," Fergie told the BBC. " I just think they ought to take more responsibility."

Fergie, who is a spokesperson for WeightWatchers, spent years struggling with her own issues with weight, like the late Princess of Wales, Diana Spencer. Ferguson, who is now promoting a UK television special where she helps a low-income family become healthier, previously told Larry King in 2000, she had turned to food to cope with problems.

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"In my particular case… I used food as my escapism. It could have been drugs, or alcohol or anything else, but that was my escape route and my form of addiction," she said on "Larry King Live." "And it really is so punishing, because it's so mood altering and it really changes your everyday - and I think food is so easy to get hold of."

In the recent interview by the BBC, Fergie, who has two daughters by Prince Andrew, whom she divorced in 1996, said Beatrice was very upset over the attention on her frame.

"Her comment was 'Will they be happy if I get anorexia because then they would write about that?'" Fergie said.

Fergie insisted her daughter is a healthy weight.

"The thing is she is a regular size 10. She's very fit and well and healthy," she said. "I understand freedom of the press but what I don't understand is when it takes a regular, very healthy girl and tries to completely obliterate her confidence."

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  • bluealiendevil
    The paparazzi is the most ugliest group on the streets. The writers and reporters on these shows like TMX, the Insider and others need to look in the mirror, they are all overweight by their own standards and would break mirrors. Men have beer guts, flabby sides, models are walking bones, so who is the media judging women other than themselves. EAT! A size 10, Perfect Princess!!
    report abuseposted July 13, 2008, 2:01 pm PDT
  • Helen B
    The average or so-called "normal " amercian woman is a size 14. Oh to be a 10 again, to the young princess I say GO GET UM GIRL Lv to Fergie and her girls
    report abuseposted July 13, 2008, 1:31 pm PDT
  • Twilight~Edward
    1 ting i gotta say: ITS NOT THEIR BIZNESS! THEY NEED 2 GET LIVES!!!(not Fergie, the tabloids)
    report abuseposted May 26, 2008, 1:56 pm PDT
  • karen
    Why does the press attack children and young women. Good for Princess Beatrice for having a normal weight and dress size she is a good example for girls and young women everywhere.
    report abuseposted May 21, 2008, 2:36 pm PDT
  • Angela F
    you know what i don't understand? I hear the media say that scarlette johanssen has curves and that lindsay lohan has curves. i don't see anything curvey about either one of them! Jennifer hudson has curves, beyonce, and others like that. you can't be 112 lbs. and have curves... you need meat on your bones and food in your stomach!!
    report abuseposted May 21, 2008, 11:06 am PDT
  • MissPriss
    People who are obcessed with their weight don't have a life. Get one. Who cares what your dress size is. Men need to get skinny, say a size 28 waist! Now we're talking Ewwwwwww Let 's get real people.
    report abuseposted May 20, 2008, 4:12 pm PDT
  • Delwilliams
    Me want anorexics and women are stupid enough to try to accommadate the request. Funny, how men don't try to look great for women. Hmm
    report abuseposted May 20, 2008, 3:33 pm PDT
  • Hummingbird
    society has created this image of the "perfect" woman...that being some anorexic looking 95 lb soaking wet waif...ya know what's funny though? back in the 50's when Marilyn Monroe was the "it" girl of the time...it was ok to be a size 12...that was considered sexy...what happened?
    report abuseposted May 20, 2008, 2:43 pm PDT
  • Sarah C
    Media says that anyone who is bigger than a 2 is fat....knowing they are just a bunch of shallow morons....people need to learn to ignore it because they[the media] won't stop judging everyone by 'Barbie' standards any time soon. I feel for the princess but as someone who is going to be in the spotlight her whole life,needs to toughen up a bit and don't let that b.s
    report abuseposted May 20, 2008, 12:58 pm PDT
  • CC
    I agree w/ Fergie on this one- a healthy woman is called fat and a thin one is berated and called anorexic. It would suck to be a famous woman- cuz you can't win on this issue.
    report abuseposted May 20, 2008, 12:58 pm PDT
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