Katie Hopkins mocks fat

Columnist is the most hated woman in Britain through TV experiment

08/01/2015

British columnist Katie Hopkins is currently bringing arguments and discussions across the UK. The reason: The pugnacious Briton had made a questionable self-experiment to prove that fat people are responsible for their overweight themselves. By sentences like „You can not be fat and happy“ It had taken thousands of people against it and brought it to the title of the "most hated woman in Britain".

20 kilos increase in just three months
„Obese people bankrupt our healthcare system. " „Fat people are supposed to pay for being so fat. "With phrases like this, columnist Katie Hopkins has made herself unpopular with thousands of Britons and made it to „The background: Hopkins had done a daring experiment in her TV documentary "My Fat Story", in which she gained a lot in the shortest possible time, then getting rid of the extra pounds in the same period The 39-year-old woman had initially increased her weight by 20 kilograms - equivalent to 30 percent of her original weight - in just three months „eating orgies“, where she ate fast food, sweets, cakes and chips. So instead of the normal 2000 she came to 6500 calories a day - but without moving anymore, instead she spent the day primarily sitting down.

Thickness only need „Kick in the butt“
In the second part of their self-experiment Hopkins took the 20 kilos in the same period off again - with a questionable goal: Because as she explained in an interview with the CNN channel, she wanted to show that thickens are responsible for their overweight themselves. „We've been tolerating the excuses of why people are fat far too long“, so the opinion of the columnist. „The institutions constantly offer excuses, but what fat people need is a kick in the A ... ", the Briton continues opposite „The Telegraph“. A daring thesis that enrages many minds - and splits the camps. Regardless of one's own opinion, Hopkins always addresses a controversial topic in her home country with her self-experimentation, because one in four is regarded as obese in the UK.

Obesity can have many reasons
Like Hopkins in „My Fat Story, "she allegedly lost the excess 20 pounds again without a personal trainer or gym, but instead only moved more and ate less, while for the Briton, weight loss was one „child's play“ was, made this point among the critics for heated discussions. For what the controversial woman did not consider was that overweight can have many reasons, such as metabolic or hormonal disorders, stress or a previous pregnancy. Accordingly, not always the simple formal „eat less = less weight“ immediately lead to acceptance success. For Hopkins, however, no reason to change her mind: „I say the things that people think but do not say“, so the Briton opposite the „telegraph“. (No)