Motherhood: Can't Kerry Katona shut the Special K up?

I was going to write about something totally different today until I passed a copy of OK magazine where Kerry Katona, the self-declared UK version of Britney Spears (to be fair to Britney she has a talent so this is harsh of Kerry) proclaiming "I've lost two stone in a week eating Special K!"

Now four things sprung to mind when I read this:

1) What did she have? Dysentery?
2) Are Special K that desperate?
3) Well that's put me right off Special K which to be fair I wasn't in danger of eating as I don't like brands that try to flog your self-esteem to flog their product - Can you pinch more than an inch?
4) Kerry Katona, OK magazine, and Special K are irresponsible f*ckwits.

As a woman and a mother, I am bored of having to read Yet Another Tale of Unbelievable Weightloss from Yet Another Desperado Celebrity eager to sell their weightless soul.

These people are idiots. There are people out there that will actually read these stories and check out their 'svelte' figures and commit themselves to some form of dangerous dieting. Even if they don't quite get to a diet, it's yet another false image eating into their conscious and distorting their body image beliefs.

What does Kerry do? Have a shag and work out how much its worth? Does every controlled movement in this oddly manufactured hell hole that is her life have a price?

Don't OK, Special K, and Kerry Katona think that there is something more than a little ridiculous in claiming that someone has dropped two stone in a week?

I suppose next weeks headline will say "My weight gain hell. How I put on three stone in a week with a dead weight at my side..."

For me, Special K has lost all credibility because any cereal that sounds like it must be a boxed and crispy form of dysentery, or at the very least a flesh eating disease that attacks just the right body parts, is one to be avoided.

It is a crying shame that the media and companies targeting women with their products and services, still love their tried and tested formula of sending dubious messages by targeting body image and their self-esteem. It's so ridiculous that we have now reached a point where it is the done thing for celebrities (and I say that word loosely) to sell their take on health and weightloss. It doesn't matter that their various diet claims are often unhealthy and half baked, with them resorting to all sorts of sneaky means behind the scenes to lose weight. Feeling a bit short on attention, column inches, and talent? Diet your body into submission or get a sneaky bit of lipo behind the scenes and then go to your PR and sell your story to the nearest women's magazine.

What really bugs me is that there was a time when it was understood that having a baby meant gaining some weight and over time losing it. Now, because of these ridiculous stories and headlines, women get fed the recurring message that when you have a baby, you should shed the weight asap. The pressure is so immense and it's not just self-induced; its seriously propelled by constant messages that tap into the insecurity.

These muppets bore me and I hope to God they bore plenty of other women too because more of us need to start being bored with this crap and stop feeding the monster.

I know that OK will sell plenty of magazines this week (they should just change the title to 'Kerry' or 'Jordan') but I won't be buying into this rubbish and I certainly won't be dashing out to buy my Special K.

Now, I'm off to have an éclair and then I'll hop on the Wii Fit... Next week's headline "How Natalie lost FOUR stone on the Wii Fit!" Un-frickin-likely!

Natalie Lue has recently entered self-employeddom to be around her bambino and can definitely pinch more than an inch...