May 31, 2007 • 1 min read

Beth Ditto says Kate Moss is great

Beth Ditto tells NME that Kate Moss impressed her with her views on body image, and says the pressure on women to look a certain way comes from a wider machine.

Beth Ditto has told NME that Kate Moss is great. The singer, who, as we possibly mentioned yesterday, appears naked on the cover of the current issue, told the magazine: "Kate is amazing. I spent one night talking to her and she just said the most amazing things about bodies. At first I didn't think I was going to like her, but she just turned up to one of our shows and said, 'Do you know what I hate Beth? I hate it when people tell my big girlfriends, 'You have a beautiful face...' I mean, that's a really radical concept."

She continues: "You can't hate a person for dieting, and you can't blame a person for feeling shit about themselves. You have to blame the machine that feeds it, the thing that makes people feel like that. There are lots of things that are part of that machine, and it's too easy to lay the blame at the feet of women - men don't know what it feels like to be a woman and be expected to look a particular way all the time. I had those conversations with Kate, and Kate agreed with me about it. She's a smart person".

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