DAILY RANT: ‘Pro-Skinny’ Blogger Gets Serious Hate After Trashing Kate Upton’s Body

Friday, 13th July 2012
Posted in Blog Archive, Pop Culture
Tags: anonymous, anorexia, backlash, body, comments, forums, hate, kate upton, skinnygossip, skinnygurl

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Remember those goddamn gorgeous pics of a not-nearly-nude-enough Kate Upton we posted about a month ago? You may have heard that the anonymous, pro-thin blogger known as Skinny Gurl recently talked smack about Upton’s Sports Illustrated layout on her SkinnyGossip site, calling the model a ‘piggie’ and saying that Upton looked like she was “confidently lumbering up the runway like there’s a buffet at the end of it.”

While some of us might find such comments insaneĀ  look back at Upton’s boobs just to make sure, and maybe move on to another site, the post sparked some serious fights on the SG forums…others viewed it as supportive of a hateful, pro-anorexia agenda. According to ABC News, SkinnyGurl ended up getting into a lot of trouble over the whole thing.

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