Claire in Woman Mag

[Truestepper]

Issue date 17th March and shes on the cover.
Its all about her weight battle. And Mark sounds like a total **** - she says that when she hit a size 14 he was disgusted by her size.
I'm uploading it, I'll post it soon.

[Truestepper]

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[shirley chong]

I think it's great she decided to lose weight for herself, and not for a job or for her husband. It's good that she has accepted her responsability on the problem and is determined to be on a healthy size, rather than skinny or fat, neither of which is healthy.
I won;t wish her good luck, I'll wish her success!!

[Steps4Life]

Thanks for uploading that.

[jimmbbo]

Thanks for the upload. I did think she was looking to thin in Steps. I'm glad to see Reece has been so supportive. I wish all the best to her. I'm sure she will be successful.

[Ejump-17]

Thanks 4 the article :)

[jas2406]

At least she keeps on smiling and she looks great, hope she looks how she wants to look on her wedding day

[SeanieB]

Wasn't Michelle McManus a size 20? theres no way Claire's that big

[oliver77447744]

My mom gave me the bit about Claire in it yesturday, and i said to my mom "who's that?" & my mom was like "have a look.." and for a seccond, she looked like the splitting image of my tutor! & then i dawned on me that it was Claire! :lol2:

I'm glad that she feels that she is happy being who she is and how she looks. :]

[hsteps]

Wasn't Michelle McManus a size 20? theres no way Claire's that big

I thought that too but I still reacon Michelle M was WAY bigger than a 20! Depends on her height as well though.

[SeanieB]

thinking about it wasnt Michelle 20 STONE???

she was 20 something.... anyway on a more positive note, I manage to get claire to say 'possibly' to singing again haha

she found my drunken quote about 10% of the world caring about her very funny!

[Steps4Life]

Well amen to that.

[josey]

thanks for posting this mel i,m off to the shop in a mo to buy it
sounds like agood article

[hsteps]

thinking about it wasnt Michelle 20 STONE???

she was 20 something.... anyway on a more positive note, I manage to get claire to say 'possibly' to singing again haha

she found my drunken quote about 10% of the world caring about her very funny!

Thats more like it, 20 stones is far more believable...Till the Pooh doctor got hold of her obv!

[shirley chong]

how much exactly does a stone weight? I'm not from the UK, and I've never heard that messurement before.

[jimmbbo]

how much exactly does a stone weight? I'm not from the UK, and I've never heard that messurement before.

I believe its about 14 pounds

[hsteps]

Thats right, yup. 1 stone is 6.35 kilos.....

[Steps4Life]

That means that Michelle is like 120 kilos.

[Truestepper]

Michelle was betwen 22-23 stone, she 'claimed' to be a size 20, but was actually about a 26.
She app a 16-18 now, but still looks bigger than Claire and Claire is a good 4 inches taller than Michelle.

[hsteps]

Going by the PICTURES of Claire id say she could possibly be a sIze 20 as shes pretty much like me when I was size 20 but everyone knows tv and photos make you look larger than you actually are...

Unless youre Mitch McMannus....She actually LOOKED bigger than she was trying to make out. You could possibly shave a size off but not 3 or 4, people are gonna notice!!

[Water Goblinglitter]

How much is Claire saying she weighs?

[SummerOfLove-x]

15 stone .

[Water Goblinglitter]

Christ. I was gonna say she can't be any bigger size wise than me but clearly she is lol

[josey]

was a nice interview to read
and after the bit i read abbout mark i can honsetly say i never knew he was like that, sayings he looked disgusting @ size 14, he should have loved her no matter what
but the main thing is she,s happy now

[Truestepper]

One of my friends says Mark has always thought he was more importnant then he is.

[Mixmaster]

I think she looks gorgeous
Always has done
No argument

[Water Goblinglitter]

I know men just like him. A friend of mine has a thing for REALLY skinny girls. He was dating this one girl, annabelle, once who I would guess is about a 10-12 and he used to moan to me about how "fat" she was. Mind you you, he does have serious problems in that department in my opnion.

[Mixmaster]

Yeah
The Wife's kinda like that
She complains she's "fat" when she blatantly isn't
I might have to slap her...

[Steps4Life]

I hate it when skinny people say that they're fat when they're not and they just do it so you'll say they aren't, and they feel better.

[Mixmaster]

Yeah
Me too
Although
I do it myself sometimes
Not so people say "No, you're not"
But because I genuinely feel it



You know
If this carries on the way
It'll become an Agony Aunt forum
XS

[Truestepper]

Just thought I'd post this little comment from a reader (and fan?) from this weeks Woman mag's letters page.

http://images36.fotki.com/v1160/photos/3/34522/65598/c-vi.jpg

[Steps4Life]

Awww thanks for that Truestepper.

[Claire4eva]

aww thats nice.

[jimmbbo]

Good to hear(see?) she's really happy

[Truestepper]

Theres a letters special on Claire in this weeks mag. Everyone is very supportive of her. Scan is over on clairerichards.co.uk forum. Claire was also at the Leatherheads premiere last week.

[stepsnut]

I"ve happy if she's happy!!

[Truestepper]

Ive deleted the links on the first page cos someone on g-a-y has used one of my links to slag Claire off. ******* ********!