Often lauded for her womanly curves, celebrity cookbook author and TV host Nigella Lawson is getting grief from those who say she’s too fat, according to an article in the London Times. Commenters on the BBC website have been “expressing horror at her perceived weight gain during the filming of the current, gloriously gluttonous television series, Nigella Express. Comments have ranged from ‘She’s a porker’ to ‘What sort of an example is she setting with her weight and her appetite for high-calorie sweets and cream?’”
Nigella, voted as one of the “most beautiful women” in the world just two years ago, speaks out about the allegations.
‘I think it is a fear of flesh,’ says Nigella, ‘maybe of vulnerability and softness.’ Is that ultimately a fear of sex? ‘I don’t know. But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.’
Nigella feels the fear of weight is a female thing. “In my experience,” she says, “the weight thing is an almost totally female problem. I never feel bad about my weight around men, only women. Women act like it is somehow a moral failing to have hips.”
In the end, it’s probably Nigella who gets the last word. “[I]n real life,” she points out, “this is normal size.”
BRAVO DARLING!
I think she a the sexiest, most deliciously gorgeous femme fatale!
Bravo to her!
Enough with these skinny, miserable, sexless, adrogenous, women-children!
I never trust a skinny chef…..so hurray for Nigella !
I have no problems with her size. It’s the fact that she looks like she hasn’t bathed recently that bugs me.
man i have had fantasies about her naked with certain food items etc…. yummo
I would much rather watch Nigella lick her frosting fingers than Giada take a nibble of her grilled romaine.
Nigella is captivating and atomic!
Back when Calvin Klein started using Kate Moss as a model I said to a friend: “Only a gay man would think that she looks like a woman! She looks like a 13 year old boy!” Real women have curves, and Nigella’s curves are sexy!
I think she’s absolutely gorgeous. I would be crushed if she took the comments to heart and lost her curves, but I suspect she’s far too smart and self-assured for that. And what business is it of anybody’s if she’s overweight? It’s her body, and a very fine one at that.
I like her no non-sense approach to cooking and have tried some of her recipies. She is classy and talented. Does size matter?? She’s not affraid to hide her size from the camera and raid the refridge at the end of her shows.
I met Nigella in person last month. She is FAR from fat. Her gorgeous hourglass figure may make her seem bigger on screen, but she’s just as average as all the rest of us. I’d love to know how she enjoys her cooking while keeping that trim waist. Her clothes fit her perfectly, and that’s the secret to ANYONE looking good!
as they say the camera adds a couple of pounds big deal
WHAT??!! When you look at the epidemic of so many people (not everyone, mind you) who are in the limelight who are so skinny and the obsession with weight that the media puts on celebrities (especially women) of course they’re going to say she is fat! Nigella is a gorgeous, curvacious, healthy, confident woman who loves to eat and is happy with her body. That’s pretty damn sexy if you ask me!
Nigella is gorgeous. Hands down. I adore her approach to cooking and, truly, loving food. Loving life. Bravo, Nigella!
Woah, let’s ease up on the skinny girl bashing Samersova! Not all of us are miserable or sexless and feel the urge to shove a finger down the throat after a meal.
We can’t help it that we look like 12 year old boys or that our metabolism has gone spastic!
That said, I think Nigella looks like a goddess. Eat on girl!
Nigella is gorgeous! Why are some people threatened by a woman who eats? When I read about what some women celebrities put themselves through to be thin, I am so grateful for a woman like Nigella who is supremely confident in who she is. She loves being alive. I want to be just like her!
A gamine myself, I think Nigella is gloriously figured with a healthy heart and mind to boot.