Piers Morgan weighed in on the debate about Cosmo’s cover and these responses are all you need
Piers Morgan’s weighed into the debate about the sort of models we put on the front of magazines and if he was expected to get a reaction – of course he was expecting to get a reaction – then he wasn’t disappointed.
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
Here are some of our favourite responses, including his Good Morning Britain co-presenter Susanna Reid and an entertaining exchange with David Baddiel, but we’ll start here because we love ’empathy icon’ so much.
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Empathy icon Piers Morgan thinks shame is the best way to encourage people towards healthy lifestyles. I remember being very heavy as a teenager and society making me feel too embarrassed to go to the gym or go running, and made me look to comfort food because I was so sad. https://t.co/N8xUAnOEJe
— Jameela Jamil (@jameelajamil) September 4, 2018
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All these years, all the 1000s of impossibly skinny women…no word of how THAT ‘ideal’ may contribute to so many starving themselves, puking their throats raw etc etc…ONE fat girl and Piers thinks we’ll all look at her then start injecting donuts into ourselves. https://t.co/aNxFxJ28nR
— Shaparak Khorsandi (@ShappiKhorsandi) September 4, 2018
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So why do we see this then pic.twitter.com/j6rcbm9o1i
— Mikey T BCFC (@Thisismkt) September 3, 2018
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Says the man smoking a cigar in his profile picture https://t.co/dAaTCTdQez
— •lina• (@agirlcalledlina) September 4, 2018
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The uk is suffering from an ever increasing cunt crisis but yet you are celebrated at the front of a breakfast show every morning Piers https://t.co/iL7zmsjlRu
— Tiffany Stevenson (@tiffstevenson) September 3, 2018
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Women come in all shapes & sizes. Sometimes it’s a relief to accept your body rather than constantly fighting yourself. That’s what this cover says to me. Bravo @CosmopolitanUK #effyourbeautystandards pic.twitter.com/XmeCjKdZSb
— Susanna Reid (@susannareid100) September 3, 2018
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I think she's hot.
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) September 4, 2018
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You don't. https://t.co/JBVaTLJX94
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 4, 2018
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I so do. If you knew me at all, Piers, you'd know I never lie, *especially* not about my sexual urges.
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) September 4, 2018
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How hilarious that @JuliaHB1 and @piersmorgan think I'm – me, Old Father Porn – virtue-signalling about fancying the big woman on the cover of Cosmo. Fuck body positivity, she's hot. And I'm prepared if they need it to show them my browsing-history. pic.twitter.com/Y46eZzAyKS
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) September 4, 2018
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Im going to start tweeting Piers every time I find someone attractive, Just to double check whether I do or not. I want to be sure. He knows better apparently
— DABBY P (@DabbyPeace) September 4, 2018
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Hi Piers. Do I find this Jesus attractive? My instinct says no but best check pic.twitter.com/NS9IwFoiTt
— DABBY P (@DabbyPeace) September 4, 2018
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HI Peirs. This woman on a wine cabinet catalogue. Do I find her attractive? I think I do but then again, I like wine, that could be clouding my judgement pic.twitter.com/MXXDKqcKjL
— DABBY P (@DabbyPeace) September 4, 2018
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Hi Peirs. Should I be aroused? pic.twitter.com/mk3X0uYVLN
— DABBY P (@DabbyPeace) September 4, 2018
And in the interests of balance and all that.
https://twitter.com/JonChallis/status/1036987946832941056
Not one to side with Piers Morgan but have to agree with him on this. https://t.co/uY02Lgd5RD
— Andy Grant (@AndyGbootneck) September 4, 2018
He's spot on . https://t.co/wp01nK5AtA
— Ethan Dixon (@E_Dixon9) September 4, 2018
Maybe this should be the final word.
Bores are saying “this cover is terrible because she's fat.” But compare this single cover to around 5,000,000 showing stick-thin models. Those are the images that are messing with the heads of teenage girls, not this one. Nobody anywhere thinks it's good to be obese. pic.twitter.com/jIaDcWeAez
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) September 4, 2018
Or maybe this.
Cosmopolitan front cover debate: ‘Why can’t we accept that women don’t fit one mould’ – @susannareid100 pic.twitter.com/DP5XmD1f6u
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) September 3, 2018
