Nothing we can do about bulimia, says veteran British actress

Felicity Kendal has branded the campaign against so-called ‘size zero models’ a waste of time.

The 61-year-old actress said women have been doing all they can to get thin for centuries and that politicians should focus on more important issues.

Bulimia, insisted Kendal - famous for her role in hit sitcom The Good Life – was inevitable.

“This desire to be thin has been going on for centuries,” she said in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph.

“Get real. That is what women do. Why did women wear corsets and keep fainting? We do it because we think it looks great. That is what we are like.

“To pretend it’s because of magazines is forgetting history. People used to bleach their hair or their faces because that was the image they believed was modern.

“The modern image now is to stick your fingers down your throat. I don’t think politicians should get involved in the debate on size zero in fashion.

“They should get the hospitals and education right and just leave all that other rubbish to the mothers of the children.”

Source: Daily Telegraph