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Heidi Klum Talks About Childhood Obesity And Eating Disorders
With all the talk about health care and childhood obesity these days, Heidi Klum apparently felt the need to throw her 2 cents into the national debate. Whether or not she gets slammed for speaking out remains to be seen, but according to the supermodel, the responsibility for a child’s eating habits fall directly on the parents… not “Hollywood” or “the media.”
“You can’t look at Hollywood and blame it, you have to make up your own mind whether you want to be fit, or super skinny. You can’t blame other people. It’s your own choice and if you have children, it is up to the parent to educate your children so they are healthy and they don’t go into a direction of anorexia or obesity. It is up to you as a parent, it is hard to feed children right. I deal with it on a daily basis; it is much harder to make sure they eat right.”
It’s funny, while I don’t think what Heidi is saying is controversial at all, I bet a lot of people will want to slam her for saying it. Parents are ultimately responsible for their children’s health, how can you argue with that?
Still, I guess it might rubs some people the wrong way to have a model basically blaming them for their own children’s eating habits. How dare she?
Even other models like Bridget Moynahan are blaming celebrity culture for exacerbating America’s (and the western world’s) eating disorders.
Of course, Heidi will no doubt have an army of personal trainers and dieticians to help her get back in shape. Heidi went on record recently, saying:
“It’s all cute when you’re pregnant, but once you’ve had the baby it’s not so… well, it takes time.”
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Heidi Klum is the New Face of Dannon Light & Fit | Famecrawler commented on Jan 12 10 at 5:33 pmRosana commented on Oct 01 09 at 2:20 pmI am 100% with her and those people that will slam her cannot say she does not know what she is talking about because she has three kids and YES it is hard to get kid eat healthy but not impossible. I am surprised by people that are not sure if their kids are healthy because some people has referred to them as chubby or because some people say they are too skinny. It does not matter what your kid looks like, you know what they eat and you know if it is healthy food or not. Don’t let people be the judge, you be the judge and do not be surprised if your kid only drinks juice and is hyper or chubby.
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