RestingBunchFace

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Can we all PLEASE take a minute to think of poor Laura, who has had the most STRESSFUL week and CRIED so much because she and her husband started installing a pond and a shed in the garden without the new build company's permission.

I do a lot of eye rolling at her mopey attitude, but honestly, her latest story has tipped me over the edge. Everywhere you look there are stories of real hardship - fighting in Ukraine and Gaza, devastating apartment fires in China and Spain, knife crimes, transphobic violence, families on the poverty line from the cost of living crisis - and she's losing her shit over a shed in her million pound house that she affords by uploading videos of herself trying on clothes and flogging a book promoting values that she doesn't really believe in. Fuck me. What an absolute spoilt, entitled, deluded and miserable cow. Get a fucking grip.

I don't know what world that woman lives in but it's not reality...
 
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RestingBunchFace

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I listened to this week's podcast and she talked about looking at "a website" (clearly Tattle) and not being able to get out of bed for 3 days afterwards. I do feel sympathy for her because nobody deserves to be fat-shamed, and reading comments about her personal choices (e.g. not trying to lose weight for IVF) must be difficult.

My issues with her have nothing to do with what she looks like or how she chooses to live her life, but with the way she is when she talks about her real feelings versus how she talks when she's trying to make money.

Don't write a body positive book when you're not truly body positive. Don't say you shop sustainably and then collaborate with a fast fashion brand. Don't rave about a brand's plus size clothing and then post a reel where you've got 3 toes hanging out the side of the sandal.

It's so half-arsed and un-genuine and it makes me feel like she thinks her followers are idiots and will just swallow everything she says so she can make herself a few more quid for her new house.
 
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Snazzycat

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Serious question😬why do fat people often wear baggy oversized dresses, blouses hoodies etc they really are very unflattering and looks silly🤷‍♀️Either that or a jacket that nowhere nearly meets they seem to struggle with styling🤔
Same reason thin people wear them, because they're comfortable and practical.
 
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TravellingPants

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To be fair, as a person in a bigger body myself I thought she put those points across well and it’s a shame that she’s not got the level of media training and confidence to come up with that response in the moment when it mattered. The fat shaming on this thread gets pretty full on for me a lot of the time, and I think that the point that people deserve dignity and respect regardless of size is important. Nobody owes someone else information about their health, and health does not equal morality. Plenty of people are ‘not healthy’ in lots of different ways, both self inflicted and not, and don’t get beaten with it as some sort of personal failure.

I still think she’s ungrateful and shady AF, before anyone accuses me of trying to make this a rave thread 😂
 
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Serious question😬why do fat people often wear baggy oversized dresses, blouses hoodies etc they really are very unflattering and looks silly🤷‍♀️Either that or a jacket that nowhere nearly meets they seem to struggle with styling🤔
Does anyone of any size wear hoodies because they're flattering? I certainly don't. Shall we just stop assuming that women should always dress to flatter rather than just be comfy. Imagine criticising a man for wearing a hoodie because it wasn't 'flattering' 😅. just wouldn't happen 💁‍♀️
 
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Instatwat

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Nah, I think that’s really shit and in her shoes I’d have named and shamed too. It’s such a stupid, stupid error and something that would be so upsetting to receive when you have literally *just* posted about how infertility has been hard for you.
They deserve a public slap on the wrist for their terrible marketing skills.
 
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MarjoryStewartBaxter

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The brand 100% needed called out publicly, are you joking? 😂 They have targeted people who have written pregnant without researching any context behind it. It would have taken them 2 minutes of their time to read her most recent post rather can copy and paste a bullshit message they'll send to everyone and just changing the name. Honestly, would you be the saying the same if it was you or a family member the brand had upset, or is it just because it's an influencer they've messaged?

If I owned a small business I'd sure as hell do at least the smallest bit of research before I sent someone a DM instead of just searching 'Daily Mail Pregnant' and firing out a message off the back of it. And if I was called out publicly with a bit of damage done to my business, that's on me. If your business meant that much to you you wouldn't be so incredibly stupid as they've been
 
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TaurusWithLove

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The fact she was able to swan off to a hotel for the night at the drop of a hat shows she has no self-awareness whatsoever. Plus, judging her buyers for not being able to pack and move within 3 weeks shows she doesn't live in the real world. I imagine the buyers wouldn't have much energy to pack once they get home from work. And that's without taking into consideration that they may have kids! Laura is at home most of the time and probably doesn't get up to much, so it's easy for her to get packed straightaway! Privileged twat.
 
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RestingBunchFace

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I actually think it’s a surprisingly positive move bringing Laura into a cervical cancer awareness campaign. Fat people often avoid going to the doctor for fear of their weight being commented on, which sadly means they skip things like smear tests for fear of being fat shamed, and then problems don’t get picked up until they become too serious to ignore. So regardless of what people think of Laura’s size, representation is important in this case.
 
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PaulineMole

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Listen no fat person needs to be told by anyone that they are fat , they are well aware of that fact believe me .I'm obese and if someone told me that they were worried about me due to my weight or that I need to lose weight it would actually do more harm than good. Do you not think we can see ourselves in the mirror?! We KNOW it's extremely unhealthy, we KNOW what we need to do to lose weight but it's not always as easy as that unfortunately. I have massive issues with binge eating and emotional eating as well as various medical issues . I was a size 8 for years and always thought fat people were lazy , now that I am on the other side I see how naive and uneducated that opinion was.
 
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LadyB65

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Her latest ‘hot take’ on Barbie, is absolute bullshit 😂 even the other one on the podcast looks bored with her. As a fat person, who played with Barbie, I never thought about her body size or proportions once, because it was clear to me that it was a fucking doll 😂😂 I liked that she could have lots of different jobs, and nice clothes and shoes, and that you could do her hair. She’s absolutely grasping at straws yet again. I’m sure any doll would look very strange if the proportions were applied to a human 🤦🏼‍♀️
Her narrative around this is so fucking boring, why couldn’t she just accept the movie for what it was, a bit of light hearted fun, with an empowering message for all woman of all shapes and sizes. She has to suck the life out of everything!
She also looks terrible there, getting out of breath whilst sitting still, just talking 😳
 
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bracrumbs

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I was thinking about this all last night. Unlike a lot of you, I have no problem with Laura being larger. That’s her choice and it’s not for me to tell her all the ways that might be dangerous, I’m sure she knows. I saw a video of her taken by Lottie where she’s talking to Lottie’s husband and she seems lovely and funny. I bet she’s great in real life but she seems to be really struggling.

The problem is her influencing. She set herself up as a plus size influencer, showing you how you can still dress on the high street etc when she was a bit smaller. Now she’s grown out of that but she’s clinging on to it for various reasons. So she’s putting on the smaller clothes and it’s probably making her feel worse which is making her miserable and she’s finding it harder to convince herself let alone us about her outfit. Weight and mental health are so intrinsically linked and when your livelihood is attached, it must become all the more overwhelming.

I think she’s got a couple of options because I suspect if she keeps down this path, she’s just gonna get more and more miserable.

(1) embrace it. Go proper larger plus size influencer. She’s probably not keen on this because bell curves gonna bell curve and there’s more size 20 women than there are 28/30 but she’d probably feel nicer in the outfits.

(2) do some sort of fitness challenge. Lean into health not being about size, do some active wear reviews, be clear it’s not about losing weight etc. I suspect this might be tricky because she doesn’t strike me as an overly motIvated person but she would tone up and probably come down a dress size or two, solving the unflattering outfit problem

(3) go back to some baking content. The ‘what are you wearing’ was only asked as a side note to her baking and she always seemed to enjoy it. It’s a real shame she gave it up.

(4) try and drop a few dress sizes through diet. I know, I know, she’s anti-diet but even if she got herself to a 22, she’d widen her market and feel way better in her clothes.

I want to take her in, give her a cup of tea and talk honestly to her. I hope someone is.
 
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RestingBunchFace

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Laura’s post today about finding an old photo and realising there was nothing wrong with her body and that she wished she’d not been made to feel like it was somehow wrong really resonated with me. When she’s honest and authentic like that I can relate to her and empathise with her. I wish we had more of that content and less of the fake bo-po.
 
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Tamara

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How is that a little black dress though?
If it was little it wouldn’t fit her.
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A bit tight is bustling at the seems. If you sat down it I’m sure it would rip. Look how tight it is across the stomach as well. It’s pleated but the pleats are so stretched it’s not hanging right. Size up so it’s fits or if that’s the biggest size then don’t wear stuff you’re bursting out of. Clothes that are too small just makes her look even bigger.
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This dress is £150 from Monsoon. As you can see it has pleats in it. This is how it’s supposed to look so she is trying to squeeze into a size 24 when she says she is a 26. It’s too small she can’t size up as 24 is their cut off point. She says she has linked it on SB simply be as they have 20% off at the moment.
If you read here Laura buy clothes that fit your body not ones that will rip as soon as you sit down in them.
 
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As a long time follower and supporter of Laura, I’ve followed these threads purely out of curiosity of other people’s opinions of her. But I have to say, her recent content is just ridiculous. She’s more than happy to slag off brands who don’t have extended sizing but will happily squeeze herself into too small dresses as long as she’s getting those affiliate link clicks 🙄🙄

I initially followed her because I loved her on Bake off and I was pleased to see a fellow plus size gal wearing and advertising fashion that I could picture myself wearing but enough is enough now. Laura love, you look an absolute twat because they simply don’t fit you! She’s lost all credibility as an influencer in my opinion.
 
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emisixo

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I agree that the " just lose weight" stance really isn't helpful, however in Laura's case she is highly likely 20-25 stone which is simply not healthy . She is morbidly obese and needs to lose weight to avoid severe health problems .
I am between 20-25 stone and I can assure everyone, if it was as easy as people think it is to just drop the weight simply because I’m heavier, (I’ll just not put milk in my coffee, I’ll do my 10k steps and surprisingly it doesn’t fall off etc.) I’d bloody well do it.
It was easier at 13 stone to drop a stone, than it is at my current size. Not everyone is just making excuses and there are real psychological factors at play. Binge eating can be a serious mental health condition. Sometimes the thought of the battle to drop the weight makes me feel useless and can make me dangerously depressed. Sometimes it would be nice to just exist in the body I have, exercising and being happy that I’m having a normal day.
Sorry for the rant but I get the judgement. I give out the judgement, slightly hypocritical in that sense however I’m on this thread and a few others and I normally reserve my judgement for the bigger arsehole influencers, I don’t think Laura is at all and I do relate to her in that sense. Sometimes it’s nice to have a think and pause.
 
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