Daily Fail: Scoffing At Imogen Thomas For “Scoffing Cakes”

Imogen Thomas is a Welsh model and reality TV star who tweets like a teenage girl and is receiving hypnotherapy for cake addiction. And this Daily Mail article on Thomas is the epitome of the Mail Online’s house style—stringing together paparazzi photos and tweets with the most air-headed or offensive pretense of ‘context’ imaginable.

Today, the Mail informs us: Imogen Thomas seeks help for her addiction… and no, it’s not having her picture taken – it’s for scoffing cakes! We know by now the Mail will take any excuse to shame and snark celebrities’ bodies, so this article is only remarkable in that it follows the script so perfectly. This is how it opens:

Perhaps she should try exercising of eating salad like the rest of us.

But alas, Imogen Thomas is seeking the lazy (and expensive) route of undergoing hypnotherapy to cure her cake addiction.

Unlike the good people who read the Mail, Thomas has the audacity to seek hypnotherapy! to cure bad diet habits. This clearly is meant to offend readers sense of propriety, for some reason. The former “Big Brother” contestant (from 2006) is then shown walking down the street in jeggings and a “shapeless brown sweater” to cover up “excess weight.”

For a confusing moment, the Mail drops back in on reality.

However, judging from her ultra slender pins and defined cheekbones, she is hardly in dire need of a strict diet or dropping down a dress size

But that’s short-lived. We’re then treated to Thomas eating cakes, tweeting about cakes (why is a grown woman hashtagging things #2excited and #cakemad x x x?), and walking into a building, with the obligatory nod to Thomas’ past transgressions (becoming “fascinated” with Bikram yoga, “frantically” tweeting pictures of herself “in various states of undress”).

Thomas, by the way, recently told a British tabloid that she’s got “body issues” and has been long stuck in a cycle of “binge eating” and dieting. That sounds like an eating disorder. Maybe hypnosis is a bit of an unconventional way to deal with it, but at least Thomas is trying to get help. But, you know, why can’t she just try exercising and eating salad like the rest of us?

Photo: Sky Living