Does Jamelia not know the first rule of Fat Club?

The first rule of Fat Club is: don’t talk about Fat Club unless you are yourself ‘big and beautiful’, or what most of us would call ‘grossly overweight’. Or just plain ‘fat’. Otherwise it’s as much of a no-go zone as the salad bar at a Weight Watchers’ meeting. So it didn’t come as much of a surprise when Jamelia, the former pop star and Loose Women panellist, came under sustained attack this week for talking about fat people. As a beautiful and effortlessly slim young woman, Jamelia is, of course, not allowed to talk about fat people. Those are the rules. So what outrageous hate-crime did Jamelia commit? Did she call for fat people to be exiled from our shores? Did she demand they be branded with a large F on their foreheads so we all know exactly who they are, even when they’re hiding behind a desk? Did she support public floggings of obese people caught with super-sized Subway sandwiches? No, Jamelia simply suggested that high street shops should stop selling fashionable clothes in plus-sizes because it normalises obesity and makes the problem worse.