Duchess of Cambridge

She is thin ,but then so was my DD whilst breast feeding ( she continued until DGD was 3)! I must say I was very worried about her but got a sharp rebuke when expressing my concerns and was told when I suggested she stopped feeding, that I had probably damaged her pyscologically by weaning her at one year- that was when I shut up ! DD is now pregnant again ,and I will keep quiet this time .

Re her weight at university, I believe it's quite normal for young women to put on weight at university,due to drinking and eating not- so - healthy food. It must be easier to maintain a perfect figure if there are staff to provide healthy food , a personal trainer and easy access to a pool and a gym.Most women of Katherine's age would love to have a figure like hers , and would not consider her too thin.

To quote one of my very favourite celebrities
"I'm not overweight, I'm just under tall"
Who said that?
Garfield

Diana never struck me as being particularly skinny, but that's probably because she was bigger-boned than Kate, who is really quite slight, so any weight loss is more obvious.

She has a beautiful face but far too skinny. Diana was the same, a beauty but again to thin. Must be anxiety that causes it.

The answer is YES

Oh sorry Ana, I don't usually confuse you with Anya but you're right, I must have. In that case, your weight is very impressive.

Iam64, have to put you right there - I am not and never have been on the low carb diet! You're probably confusing me with Anya (which has happened before...)

I wish I was as thin as Kate, Amal and Angelina! They look effortlessly sophisticated, whether casual or formal. And as they are grown women, I don't think there's any cause for concern.

Yes, very similar here Ana 11 stone 4 r 6 at my heaviest (other than pregnancies) I've been around 10 stone 10 - 12 for the 15 years I've been weighed at the rheumatology department either every 3 or 6 months. Evidently my BMI is good as well.

Your 9 stone must be due to your commitment to the low carb diet. It is interesting how many people feel it's within their right to tell us we're too thin isn't it.

I really feel sorry for the Dof Cambridge having everyone, including Gransnet, talking about her. Her weight will be commented on whatever she does.
Does no one remember the stress princess Diana was put under by all this intrusive comment on her appearance and her size. No wonder she had eating problems. For heaven sake let's leave the comments on her weight etc to the tabloid press.

The D of Cornwall is of a different generation where body image was not such an issue as it is now for younger "celebrity" women. She is a mature woman who looks totally confident with her appearance.

We can change our fashion sense, it can be improved quite easily but generally we are stuck with our body size, shape and features.

We would not comment on the size of other Gnrs why should we do this to "celebrities".

Same here, Iam64, although I'm only 5'7". The heaviest I've ever been was 11 stone 4lb in my twenties (apart from when I was pregnant), and even then I didn't actually look overweight.

Now I'm just over 9 stone people often seem to think I'm too thin, even if they only refer to it in a roundabout way... I am actually a perfectly healthy weight for my height, thank you!

Yes rose quartz, Im sure my height means people think I'm thin when I'm not

I would love to be 5' 8 1/2"

I should be really, then I would look slim!

Venus - I'm 5' 8 1/2 and was a size 10 until I was 30. I'm now a size 14 and some people still feel they have the right to tell me I'm too thin. I have never heard anyone feel they had the right to tell overweight people they're too fat.

I think the phrase 'stick insect size' is offensive to Kate, or indeed to any woman. I've never forgotten a man in the street shouting at me (aged 17) that I looked like a Biafran horror. This was in the midst of the Biafran famine of course. I was very embarrassed and self conscious. I ate a high carb diet then but was a naturally skinny in my teens and twenties.

Thatbags is right in suggesting other difficulties can trigger eating disorders but the youngest girl I worked with who had an eating disorder was aged 7 and was clear that refusing food was the consequence of "friends' at school saying she was fat.

Kate went down to a stick insect size very soon after having her babies. I think she works out with a trainer a lot to get back to such a small size. Also, she must eat very little to maintain that size. I think she'd look a lot better with a bit of meat on her . . . and that's not sour grapes 'cos I'm a size 8 myself!

Yes, mine was about 24" and I thought I was fat compared to some of my friends (who must have been a size 8 or 10)

I don't get the "tiny waist" thing either. I used to be a 24" waist- not all that long ago either-and it was the norm. I wasn't remotely skinny!

There are reports in the press of celebrities having tiny waists - 'and her waist is only 23"' for example as if they are anorexic. A 22" waist was quite normal for young women years ago as far as I remember.

Now a size 12 in, say, Reiss, is 37.5 bust, 30.2 waist and 40.7 hip (where's my nearest branch?). In M&S it's 35.9" x 29.1" x 39" and Top Shop is 36.2" x 29.2" x 38".

I'm afraid a size 14 or 16 for a woman of average height often means they are overweight. Sorry, has to be said.
Yeah, yeah, we know that chatykathy no need to remind us

As a slim person, I do get fed up of people commenting on my weight and wonder if they would do so if I weighed twice as much. I think it is rude to comment on anyone's weight. It isn't anyone else's business and I don't believe the fake concern for ones health either. It often seems that people who are overweight have a lot more health issues than their slimmer counterparts.

The Duchess looks lovely, IMO, and I feel for her the way she is criticized for everything.

How right you are, suzieq. And the retailers have just upped their sizes over the years, so we can kid ourselves we're still slim. At 10 stone, I can still fit into a size 10. Yet that's what I wore when I was under 8 stone!

We have all become too used to seeing chunkier people - including me. I'm always amazed when I see uniformed people at dances during the war, when everyone was slender. I went to a "heritage" event at the weekend, where there were clothes on sale from the forties to the seventies - and all far smaller than most people would be able to wear now.

Zara didn't seem at all bothered about losing her baby weight which was a refreshing change but no doubt she's now working hard to get fit for next year's Olympics.

Well, we did have Fergie for a while, but look at the flak she got about her weight!

Wouldn't it be nice to have a more rubenesque consort for a while - make the more "cuddly" figure fashionable? ??