Veteran feminist Germaine Greer has spoken out in support of Beth Ditto's previously reported naked appearance on the cover of NME. Ditto has of course spoken out about the fashion for skinniness and recently blamed gay fashion designers for their obsession with size zero models, and for "wanting women as dolls".
Greer wrote in The Guardian: "Ditto knows she can knock 'em dead because hers is the kind of body that is supposed to be kept hidden. Her motives are pretty much the same as mine when, nearly 40 years ago, I got a friend to photograph me stripped to the buff, looking at the lens through my thighs. Her intention is to force acceptance of her body type, 5ft tall and 15 stone, and by this strategy to challenge the conventional imagery of women".