Actress Catherine Tyldesley has had to defend herself on social media after sharing a video of her son shouting “Fat Cath!”
On Instagram, the former Coronation Street star posted a clip to show fans an old cardboard cut-out of herself from before she lost lots of weight.
What happens in Cath’s video?
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In the video, shared on Thursday (June 10), Cath’s husband Tom Pitfield says from behind the camera, “What’s this?” and she holds up the cut-out.
At the sight of it, Tom jokingly says, “Jesus! Wow” and their son, five-year-old Alfie, bursts out, “Fat Cath!”
The actress preempted negative comments in the caption of the video, where she wrote: “When you find your old self hiding in the garage… #fatcath
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“To anyone about to jump on a high horse – I’m calling myself ‘fat’ because I was. I was greedy. I ate junk. I was unhealthy. Curves are beautiful… I love mine.
“But there’s no skirting around the fact that at this point in MY life, I considered myself ‘fat’. Ffs.”
However, that didn’t stop the comments.
How did people react?
One wrote: “Thinking it’s okay to let a child laugh at fat people. Gosh, you’re unbelievable.”
Cath responded: “He’s not laughing at ‘fat people’. He’s got a great sense of humour and is old enough to recognise that mummy is taking the mick out of herself.
He’s not laughing at ‘fat people’.
“He’s also aware that the country is in an obesity crisis and looks up to the fact that mummy has been helping complete strangers lose weight free of charge for seven years.”
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