Writer JK Rowling has revealed she is worried about her daughters growing up to be obsessed with being thin.Writing on her website, the Harry Potter author has "a rant" about the "skinny-obsessed world".
She praises Pink's latest single Stupid Girls which pokes fun at image-obsessed models who think only about being thin.
JK says she is concerned that Mackenzie, who's one and Jessica, 12, will become "empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones".
On the site, it says her outburst was sparked by photos of a painfully thin model in a magazine which she was looking through on her way to a recent visit to Leavesden Studios, where the Potter films are made.
The author, who is currently writing the final Potter book, welcomed a new single by pop star Pink which takes the mickey out of "talking toothpick" role models.
She said about her daughters: "I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny, a thousand things, before `thin'."
And it ends: "Let my girls be Hermiones rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls."
Weighty matters
JK joined Pink in bashing celebrities "whose greatest achievement is unchipped nail polish, whose only aspiration seems to be getting photographed in a different outfit nine times a day, whose only function in the world appears to be supporting the trade in overpriced handbags and rat-sized dogs".
(SOURCE: CBBC NEWSROUND)
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