Bethany Rutter

[queenamber]

I can predict the next book now: fat girl loses a significant amount of weight and is shocked by how society treats her differently.

 

[leoparddolly]

How on earth can Bethany still claim to be a size 20+. The constant mentioning of her dress size is wearing thin. Pardon the pun. Methinks she doth protest too much

 

[Imainlylurk]

Stumbled here from the Jack Monroe multiverse, hello Fraus — I love the content of the WPAYO podcast, have had several top recommendations from it, but I cannot bear the delivery. I love Alice, but Bethany’s awful speech patterns are totally distracting. I know I’m “old” (‘yeah, ok boomer’ muttered my 13 year old at me last week when I asked her to do something) so I may be missing something, but all the LIKES, the clipped tones, the sighing, the bangers, the upwards inflection — it makes her sound really unintelligent when she’s clearly not.

I would be delighted if my 7 year old had made me those earrings, from a parental pride point of view, but I am totally embarrassed for her that she values them at £14 — at her age, with her exposure to properly arty people. Cringe

I think I'm about the same age as Bethany and find her speech patterns really cringeworthy. She sounds like someone who's just way too online- referencing memes, shorthand and a bit of appropriation of AAVE as well- toe curling. I don't remember this from the podcast before so I wonder if this is a side effect of lockdown and being too online?! I do agree the podcast is good content wise.

 

[Iwantyoutoknow22]

I haven’t listened to her book podcast for a while but was interested about the new Sally Rooney book, but five mins in I cannot take her faux bants. Refers to herself in the third person and keeps rolling her R’s… I don’t know if I can carry on listening. Also makes me puke that each episodes is called ‘the lads do…’ etc. You’re private schooled painfully middle class, stop

 

[Angiedunnit]

How long has she been running for? It seems bonkers that she's lost sooo much weight so quickly by doing some running and not very much else.

It's virtually impossible to outtrain a bad diet so she is definitely engaging in intentional weight loss, but she's painted herself into a corner now because woe betide anyone from the bopo circle who admits that actually, life is better when you're not fat anymore (and not just because of "fatphobia", your body is literally under less strain and feels better!)

 

[Greenlentils]

It must be hard to get handed publishing deals from major companies. Poor Bethany. View attachment 594187

Oh Jesus Christ.
Nobody is forcing you to take these book deals Bert. It must be so hard for you. Boo fucking hoo.

 

[nurseren]

If you can consider being in the right place, right time, having a rich family/immense privilege and being very jammy a career, then yes.

100% this. Bethany is incredibly privileged. Can you imagine her working in a care home while grafting to get her debut book noticed?

 

[lucrecia]

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Urgh. I mean, I have to admit that I love Buford Brown eggs for the same reason, they have lovely golden yolks and they taste great. However, I don't feel the need to tell instagram about my egg preferences! I do think that London people can get quite one-uppy and aspirational: I was at UCL and I know what the West London set are like.

 

[Freesportswearformeplease]

No fucking way! I am dying of cringe and cramps from laughing at the same time.

 

[Greenlentils]

There are so many reasons she could use for personal weight loss whilst still standing by her 'Live Fat Die Yum' mentality, whether it be health reasons (she has spoken about excessive hair growth before) so maybe as an attempt to control hormonal imbalances or conditions like PCOS, or it could be because some treatments (fertility etc) still operate within BMI scales whether we agree with them or not. But it is sososo strange that she is clearly doing it intentionally but just not mentioning anything and actively over-compensating and trying to cover her back? Makes me more uncomfortable than her just admitting it.

I believe that she won't admit it as it will mean she is resigning from the only niche of her mediocre writing and book deals etc

 

[ShadieSadie]

She used to basically gang up and bully anyone in the fat community who dared to lose weight, that’s the only reason I’m pissed off with her silence surrounding it.

She went OFF on a friend of mine who was really close to her for losing weight after starting more exercise. The friend was about the size Bethany is now actually and apparently there had been some tension that she did not ‘support’ fat bodies by getting bigger. We aren’t friends anymore but she was really upset that as someone more pear shaped and the ‘largest’ of the people Bert knew who wore non plus sizes she was ‘picked out’ to be a bopo follower. Basically ‘babes, you’re on the cusp so less of a project.’

Friend was having a lot of pain and possibly had fibro. So took up exercise (under advice) and turned out she had cancer. Had to have her lymph nodes removed in one arm, chemo, radiotherapy and a bunch of steroid treatments and went up from a UK14 to 20 and Bethany told her your body knows the size it wants to be. I saw that text. She may have meant it like ‘don’t diet right now, keep healing’ not ‘got ya fat pal!’ but it landed as well as you’d expect to a woman in her mid 20s with cancer.

I was not there for the claim she said maybe exercise caused it and no one who was someone I’d trust outside the Old Bailey and a Bible but at the same time it wasn’t the only claim I heard about her ‘you don’t owe anyone health’ and some very weird views about health and chronic illness and weight.

 

[Greenlentils]

Yet more references to ‘having enough clothes that fit her now’ and getting an item tailored to fit her correctly again in the past week. Why is she dropping these little crumbs that allude to her very obvious weight loss.

Did anyone see the tortilla wrap meal she made an bit ago? Looked nice but it screams chronically-online, Tik-tok dietician, Hormone Healing™️, Gut Health™️ vibes to me. Plus the babybell give me diet culture vibes (but that might just be me or anyone who has ever had the misfortune of being on slimming world at any point in their lives).

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

I still don't understand who is buying these. You can get better and cheaper comparable earrings from so many places.

People that want to be noticed by her, RTed and maybe even followed. Exchanging her rich girl social currency for ££.

It’s bizarre as you’ve said there’s far more better earring makers out there charging way less...

 

[HarderFaster]

Sorry to be mean but those earrings she's making look like flaccid penises in profile.

She's seriously annoying me retweeting nonsense about anti-trafficking organisations. I know that for BR's crowd making lots of noise about how they Totally Support Sex Work is the ultimate priority, but I personally prioritise the welfare of vulnerable women and children who are enslaved by organised criminals over more privileged SW's right to work unimpeded by hotel staff. It's such extreme and misguided virtue signalling.

 

[Jumpindesia]

She's taking the pizz...wonky as f

 

[AdoraDelano]

In my country, you are considered severely obese with a BMI of 35. I'm wondering why it is 40 in the UK?
There would be too much people maybe?

Ooh the shade!

 

[Romy]

Sorry but this post is absolutely insufferably. Yes I wish I could just wander round London shopping and lazing by the lido but some of us are key workers. I’m bitter, I want to be bankrolled by my parents and have book deals land in my lap

I would never identify her with the "joie de vivre"
She looks haughty and stuck up in her false self acceptance.

 

[Falseidols]

I haven’t followed Bethany for years as I find her smug so I’ve only just seen the change in her appearance. She gave Georgina ( fuller figure fuller bust ) so much shit for trying to lose weight for her wedding. Can’t bear her.

 

[Mel Donte]

I searched her tweets to see some of her shit takes about weight loss and nothing came up. But when I just searched bethanyrutter and weight a whole load of replies to her now deleted tweets came up.

 

[Greenlentils]

I have heard good things about that series but the tin lads thing is lost on me. Sounds like weird, middle class, cliquey bullshit! It's not funny or clever.

I'd 100% recommend any of the roasting tin books but not because of Bethany or any of her boring pals