I was a fat kid. It wasn't what my parents fed me but what I bought with my pocket money and ate outside. My parents had nothing to do with my weight issues tbf. My mother thought it was hormones....it was actually junk food. Fact.

By 15 I was normal weight as vanity kicked in. My parents were not to blame whatsoever.

If your child is overweight, and you still over feed them, and allow them to gorge on junk food, then yes....you are to blame.

How long was she in the Big Brother house? And then she went off on holiday as soon as she got out forgetting to take her child with her.

Who now thinks she has the right to pass judgement on others

Who is paid to give an opinion. It is her job.

So it's all about the ££££££

So is whoring and judging by her writing, I would guess she is better at that.

Just keeping it "Hopkins real"...

I think her honestly and actually being 'real' is partly why the public found her so endearing and eventually voted for her to win the show.

Rufus, have you told your 'cousin' you 'champion' her on DS?

I asked her ( via twitter ) and she was confused

I don't champion anyone. I simply give an opinion on a variety of housemates past and present. I'm just a normal Big Brother fan the same as anyone else.

Can you please provide evidence of this?

God it's like Groundhog Day in here....

When people see a chubby kid, they assume it's the parents, and due to vocal badly written pieces by the likes of Hopkins and Helen, it has meant more and more prejudice towards people.

What's next? When we batter enough people down to make them have anorexia, are we going to then start on those people, because the media is?

When does it stop? Everyone has an opinion, and bend over because everyone has an arsehole too. If we were all living the healthy lifestyle that apparently the likes of Hopkins and Wood so solemly swear by, will they turn on themselves just for a paycheck?

Evidence of what?

That I asked Helen if she had her cousin letting DS know all about how she's doing?!

I think it's unlikely that any significant number of people blame parents because of such articles. There are many reasons why many people believe that most people who are overweight are overweight because of things (principally diet and exercise) that are largely under their own or their parents' control. And some of those people may blame parents when their children are far, because common sense or their own experience tells them that parents have control over most of what children eat.

Rather than those views developing because of such articles, the articles speak to what many people already believe. And if they do change minds, it can be more against such views. Badly written, simplistic, or over-harsh articles can turn people against the views they express; and they may provide an opportunity for people to refute any false or misleading claims they contain.


I think it's unfortunate that anorexia is so often used to try to shut down discussions of obesity as if anything that treats obesity as a problem that many people can and should do something about will cause anorexia.

Remind us . . what do you do for a living?

Don't like to add to a thread without reading it all usually but I'm sure we had her Facebook link up here during the summer and her own son was a little stoutly, apologies if I'm wrong but there was a picture available to public on her wall of him in a car with her.


Edit: Also Helen's friend Michelle put Helen's son on a strict diet whilst she was in the house and said he would be expecting his cheeseburgers again when she came out.


So....is Helen admitting she has abused her own son?

Why is that relevant?

i'm taken a back, what an original opinion.

good to know her son won't get bullied for being fat.
just that when her son and his pals are trying to get someone to buy them their booze at the corner shop, his mum will be on the corner with her leg pointed out showing her Asda George sussies.



aye, she takes it up the arse a few times in December for some christmas presents for her kid.


thats because if she didn't **** them, shed be selling them outside the Phoenix Club

ah, i can't help myself.
shoot your shot and all that.

I love this Rufus guy, purely for the comedy. Is he actually serious?

Brilliant

I'm guessing you don't work and all your time is spent adoring HW and, for whatever very weird reason, promoting her as something she ain't.

Perhaps you're also a 'journalist'?

How would Helen Wood know what her child eats she's to busy partying in Ibiza every other week with OPEN IT Steven and Co

The time to judge Helen has been and gone. We have already had the opportunity to judge Helen and we crowned her winner.

I'm actually not promoting anything. I simply post the articles and then it's up to the reader to come to their own conclusion. All opinions are welcome -- good and bad.

I really hope you will at least read the article and then let us know what you think. I think it's a really interesting read and I hope you do too if you give it a chance.

That's a slight exaggeration. She has spent one week with Steven and co, which she is perfectly entitled to do. I can assure you Helen's child is always very well looked after. She is an amazing mother.

You're a fan (possibly her nan). WE GET IT!