Piers Morgan SLAMS Cosmopolitan Editor For Promoting ‘Morbid Obesity’

Cosmopolitan recently featured plus-size model Tess Holliday on its cover. Here it is:

Say hiya to our amazing cover star – @tessholliday! The October issue is out 31 August. Hit the link in our bio to read our exclusive interview with Tess.

A post shared by Cosmopolitan UK (@cosmopolitanuk) on Aug 28, 2018 at 11:37pm PDT

Some people’s stories and strength of spirit are too important to ignore. Tess Holiday’s story is about so much more than her body. Please read it, pass it onto women you know and realise that the secret to surviving in a tough world is by being even tougher pic.twitter.com/w0KqouoBnI

— Farrah Storr (@Farrah_Storr) August 30, 2018

Piers Morgan went right for it, slamming the magazine’s editor, Farrah Storr, for promoting “morbid obesity.”

As Britain battles an ever-worsening obesity crisis, this is the new cover of Cosmo. Apparently we’re supposed to view it as a ‘huge step forward for body positivity.’ What a load of old baloney. This cover is just as dangerous & misguided as celebrating size zero models.

A post shared by Piers Morgan (@thepiersmorgan) on Aug 30, 2018 at 6:16am PDT

Sorry, but 5ft 3in & 300lbs is NOT a ‘positive body image’ to celebrate on the front cover of a magazine as Britain suffers from an ever-worsening obesity crisis. ⁦@GMB⁩ pic.twitter.com/CwvOQtsOrA

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 3, 2018

“My view, as with the size zero issue, is that it is dangerous,” Morgan said on “Good Morning Britain.” “We should not be aspiring to be an unhealthy weight, be it far too skinny or far too fat, and the same goes for both women and men.”

“For Cosmo to put this on their cover as something to aspire to is dangerous, wrong, and frankly misguided,” he continued.

Storr shot back and called out Morgan for posting a picture of a tasty pastry type of thing on Instagram last week (really lady? that’s your retort?) and he was all, “But I’m not 300 pounds.”

“That’s such black and white thinking Piers. I don’t ask my cover stars to do a blood analysis,” Storr said. “What else is dangerous is we have a crisis about mental health and body image. It is one cover in a world that has venerated thinness.”

“I’ve see her run around with her children, she works 14 to 15 hours a day,” she continued.

Morgan wouldn’t concede and said, “You are celebrating morbid obesity.”

“Am I saying that this is OK to look like? Yes I am. The reason she is on my cover is to show that there is a different way to look,” she said.

“We live in a culture that venerates being thin. Someone will see and think ‘I’m going to feel good about looking like this,'” she continued.

Everyone knows that magazine covers are airbrushed beyond belief. We look at their covers and either ignore them or make a mental note that we aspire to look like “that.” I can’t say that’s true with this cover. I don’t look at that and go, “Goals.” I also don’t look at creepishly thin cover models and go “goals.” It’s all about balance.

Like it or not, Piers has a point– obesity is actually a far more dangerous epidemic than bulimia or anorexia.

This might’ve been my favorite exchange between the two. Storr was all, “we don’t pass judgment,” and Morgan shot back, “You do pass judgment, Cosmo do that literally on every page.”

PREACH IT.

“She’s making tons of money out of being this weight,” he said. “That doesn’t mean publishers should be encouraging this image, it means she is likely to die quite early.”

“You won’t find a doctor in the world that agrees that this is healthy,” he added.

He has a point there. Again– it’s about balance. The body positivity movement has gone too far.

Here’s the whole interview:

Thoughts?

h/t Daily Mail