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On Katie Couric, Kate Middleton, And Body Policing

You have to pity Katie Couric, sort of: she voiced what everyone else has been thinking and now has to defend herself for simply saying it first. Last week after a taping of her new talk show “Katie,” the perk-tastic former newsanchor and morning show host fielded questions from the audience in a Q&A. But a softball question about how Kate Middleton would be her “dream guest” became something else entirely when Couric added off-the cuff, “I think she needs to eat more because she’s so thin.”

That siren you hear? It’s the body police.  Read more

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