JK insists she’s fat friendly but critic asks ‘Why isn’t Harry portly?’

HARRY Potter creator JK Rowling has hit back at critics who accused her of hypocrisy for attacking skinny models.

JK insists she’s fat friendly but critic asks ‘Why isn’t Harry portly?’

Last month the best-selling author revealed that she feared her two daughters would grow up to be “empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones” in a world where waif-life women make the covers of fashion magazines.

In response, one journalist pointed out that in her books, Dudley Dursley, a bully who makes Harry’s life a misery, is fat, while her hero is “slim and attractive”.

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