Kate Middleton in pre-wedding black Issa: lovely or bony?

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These are new photos of Kate Middleton, supporting England’s economy by shopping and shopping and shopping. She made a tour of some of the shops in London yesterday, and she got pap’d like a pro. This is one of incidentally one of the first dresses she’s ever worn that I’ve thought “Ooooh, I want that!” I love a cleverly designed wrap dress- this one is by one of her favorite designers, Issa. She has worn a lot of Issa throughout the years, and famously chose the blue-purple, long-sleeved, silk jersey Issa dress for her engagement announcement and interview.

I also like that even though royal ladies aren’t supposed to wear black unless someone died, Kate did it anyway, in a very chic and simple way. My biggest complaint: the shoes. I enjoy a good kitten heel, but these shoes are very “Come and celebrate the Queen Mum’s 101st birthday!” Beige. Gold buckle. Meh.

By the way, I know whenever I let my hate-on for Waity rage, I upset some people. Look, I don’t think the girl is malevolent or vicious, and I get that she’s “safe” and therefore I shouldn’t really have a problem with her. That’s why I have a problem with her. She is an unimaginative girl, an uninspired choice, and she’s simply… bland. I guess, but maybe that’s not even the right word. What’s the word for “simply hanging around forever, being at a prince’s beck and call and completely subjugating herself for years, all to have it white-washed into a ‘fairy tale’”? Maybe she’ll change and she’ll end up a great princess (or a great Lady Biscuits, or Duchess of Crumpets, or whatever her title will be). Maybe she won’t. People will like her when she starts having babies, and I suspect she will be very stable for the monarchy… but the girl just bugs me, okay? And I don’t think she should get a free pass on being Waity for nine years, and I don’t think we should participate in the whitewashing of Waity.

By the way, in a recent poll of English ladies, the overwhelming majority of women polled said that they didn’t or don’t envy Kate Middleton, and they wouldn’t want to trade places with her. The exact number was 86% – the percentage of women who think Kate’s life is going to suck from here on out. Well, it’s what she wanted. She waited long enough to get it, and it seems more and more like she was simply the only girl who wanted the job. Is that a fairy tale?

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  1. Anne says:

    She has lost a lot of weight. I’ve seen this film before.

  2. Tanya says:

    Cute dress, H. A. T. E. the shoes. I’ve never been a fan of mixing brown/beige with black.

    Also, I deffo don’t envy her. Would NOT want the attention, scrutiny, and suffocation that goes along with her position…

  3. Heather says:

    Looking frail..stress might be getting to her.

  4. Kaye1 says:

    The dress is pretty, but seems a little baggy on her, making her look thinner. I have nothing against her. The job of future Queen needs to be filled, heirs need to be born and she seems like a fine person to do it.

  5. Genevieve says:

    I think she’s pretty…but way too bony. Hopefully she gains a good 15-20 before they try to put an heir in the oven

  6. brin says:

    She’s thin but not skeletal, the dress is classic and suits her.

  7. Jules says:

    Boring and bland……like the Royal family in general. The only spark they had was Diana, and she cannot be reinvented no matter how much the media wants to shove this down our throats.

  8. Diane says:

    Yikes, has she totally stopped eating?

  9. David says:

    She is pretty but to thin

  10. JulieM says:

    Kaiser, I am totally with you on this. This girl is a zero, and I’m not going to let some of the fairy tale believing commenters here change my mind. She irks me too.

    And yes, she does look like she has a eating disorder. I don’t know how anyone can look at those pictures of her and not see it. The Diana pattern is being rewoven again. That actually makes me sad.

  11. sorrento says:

    the word ‘cadaver’ comes to mind

  12. mel says:

    She does looks anorexic. I dont envy her at all and having to appease the Queen all the time makes me sick to my stomach.

  13. OtherChris says:

    That dress is adorable but she needs to put on a few pounds. It’s sad given that Diana had an eating disorder–don’t want to see another one descending into that.

  14. Jackson says:

    The dress is ok but she looks gristly.

  15. e says:

    I don’t hate thin. I think most people, including myself, carry around too much weight and it is terrible on their internal organs (if you want to lose a few read this, it will gross you out http://www.holistichealtharticles.com/Artz/6961/346/Why-is-it-Critical-to-Reduce-Your-Abdominal-Fat.html)

    HOWEVER, Kate is getting to be too thin, even by my standards. She needs to go down a size in that dress. Like someone said above, the bagginess is not flattering. The worst part though is that the weight loss has not been kind to her face. It ages her.

    I know you are stressed out lady but do yourself a favor and lay off the eyeliner and put on about five pounds.

  16. LisaMarie says:

    Love the dress but those shoes need to be tossed in the back of the closet and never spoken of again. They look like someone took a kitten heel and super-glued it to an orthopedic shoe. Ugh.

    And yeah, no envy here. Hopefully she enjoyed her life of not having a job to the fullest because she’s signed on to a crap job for life now.

  17. Mrs. Darcy says:

    Bony and boring, girl needs to learn to put some jewellery on. The dress is nice but needs something to liven it up/hide the chest bones. The brown accessories are summery but don’t work with a plain black dress imo. I do think she has just gone too far with the wedding diet, not convinced it’s an eating disorder as yet.

  18. Angie says:

    I feel bad for her with the constant comparisons to Diana…that woman irked the crap outta’ me! As a naive 10 year old I thought she was a fairy princess, then I grew up and saw that she was a troubled woman with lots of flaws! She made a lot of mistakes…some WHOPPERS! I am so tired of people saying she was the best thing to happen to the royal family. Good luck to Kate, I hope she can survive the craziness!

  19. poof says:

    Love the dress. She looks fantastic.

  20. TXCinderella says:

    Every bride-to-be loses weight before the big day. I’m sure she is also stressed and has alot to do to prepare for the wedding day.

  21. Darlene says:

    I love her. I think she’s classy and relatively demure and lovely.

  22. heb says:

    yeah she looks really thin, she also looks tired

  23. Hollowdoll says:

    Yes, it is sad that they are recreating history to make this epic saga of love and foreverness. While the whole time William was having all the tea and strumpets he wanted. Why bother. They are only fooling themselves.

  24. Stephy2585 says:

    NO ONE would envy such a position…
    Constant scrutiny just because you’re MARRYING a certain person?? Crazyness.

    I think it’s inevitable that marriage comes up as a topic of conversation in a long term relationship…I’m SURE she (Kate) and he (Prince William) discussed the possibility of marraige before the actual proposal…He even openly said he waited for so long before officilly proposing because he wanted to be sure she could handle this life/was ready for it/really, truly wanted it….If I were dating a PRINCE I’d wait before marriage was a real option for me too!

    Sounds to me like an ultra-modern ‘fairy tale’..You know, where the women don’t automatically give in to a man because of some horribly archaic tradition…They actually consider their options and see if that’s the life they want..

    They obviously really love each other
    and I just don’t the animosity/name calling (ie: Waity)
    Haters gonna hate, I guess.

  25. CooCooCatchoo says:

    Love the dress, she’s pretty, and she’s been dieting and working out like every bride to be I’ve ever known. She’s under the microscope in ways we can’t even imagine. Cut her some slack – she will gain some weight back once she’s married like everyone else. Shes pretty.

  26. WhiteNoise says:

    I like her, I think she’s perfect for the job. She’s not going into it all starry eyed and humble, she’s rightly sees herself as on a par with Will and seems, in addition to wanting to marry him, be really good mates with him. She’s taking to the job like a duck to water and this is great for the House of Windsor, a much needed asset, considering the line-up of duds and dimwits they have to their family credit.

    Quite like the dress. Couldn’t care less about this wedding but Go Kate.

  27. Gabrielle says:

    I feel bad that everyone is saying she has an eating disorder. There have been many times in my life that I’ve lost a lot of weight due to stress. Sometimes it’s not that easy to put it back on even if you’re trying. I think she’s just stressed and lost her appetite. That’s not an eating disorder.

  28. kazoo says:

    I like Issa a lot— clothes are sophisticated & simple. Reminds me a bit of DVF.

    And based on the gossip over the years, it really does seem that Kate is the only one who wanted the job. I think that during their break-ups Wil looked for someone better, but the “better” women didn’t want him. Hence, back to Waity.

  29. feebee says:

    Just because she wanted it doesn’t mean she’s not finding the reality of joining the firm one week out isn’t daunting and highly stressful. However, no excuse to lose that much weight and not have someone grab you by the shoulders and sort you out. If we can all see history threatening to repeat itself why can’t they?

    But Kaiser, why must she be anything other than “safe” at least publicly? Why deride her for being boringly normal? You don’t want their history whitewashed, but you don’t need to tar and feather them. It’s just as misleading to categorically state he was screwing around indiscriminately throughout the whole of their dating life and that she’s a doormat who’d put up with anything as it is for them to say she’s a job for any substantial amount of time or he didn’t dump her before deciding she was the best option.

  30. mln76 says:

    Kaiser I get why you dislike her but I think her comeuppance is fated. I actually have come to pity the poor thing. She is marrying into a hellish family that already has destroyed the last two young and fresh things that married into it in such a public and ugly manner.

  31. Isabel says:

    I don’t know. Why am I starting to care about this? WHY?? It is against my better judgement to care! NO!

    Princess Di was partly such a tremendously hot topic because she was a young bride to a big frigging dork. I know that’s oversimplifying it, but it’s not like Prince Charles was considered some big catch. William and Harry, on the other hand, have grown up in the spotlight, done many intriguing things…so perhaps we expect someone more dynamic? It’s better for everyone in the royal family, however, to keep it simple. They’re trying not to be the joke that they’ve been for the last 20-30 years. Kate is the perfect solution to that.

    That being said…she is looking awfully skinny. I’m sure she’s stressed. I do think she’s quite classically beautiful. And I do dig the dress. My hips would look disgusting in it.

  32. Amy says:

    @Gabrielle: Same here. I’m thin to begin with but I lost weight this past year due to stress and not eating well. Add the fact I’m a million miles from home on a completely different continent in a country where it is not my native language–oh and currently getting a master’s. So yeah… But I am NOT anorexic. Throwing out those terms so casually is not funny–honestly I think in Kate’s case, it’s definitely stress.

  33. guesty says:

    Way too frail!!! Who wears heels while shopping? Maybe she just ran into a store to pick something up real quick.

  34. Laura says:

    You can see her bones through her dress! And she looks haggard. Probably stress?

  35. lrm says:

    Okay, but who hasn’t had a young love, that was just too young to commit to?

    Many times, the couple parts for several years to sow their oats, and end up back together…you know, early college, 21 yrs old, not ready for committment…
    other times, ppl wonder whatever happened to that love of their life, after they have moved on, being too young and all..

    sure, you hear stories of ppl who married that young, have been together forever, etc.

    but all 3 of these situations exist quite regularly. these two just fit into one of the common scenarios. he left to sow oats [maybe she did too?]…

    marriage is a contract and a job; theirs will just have a more priveleged and high profile list of duties. but really, it’s very pragmatic-marriage-so why criticize her for being pragmatic?

    that said, being in her position sounds horrid.
    plus, since diana’s time, decades ago, the royals have lost some importance in society. times have changed, and not just due to diana’s fall out with them.
    ppl don’t quite need their kings and queens the way the used to. so there’s really no way to compare her to diana or the past royals. IMO

    as for the dress, it’s cute, and every bride is ridiculously stresed several days before the wedding. i mean, i got married in hawaii with less than a dozen guests, and i was stressed like that. lol

  36. HappyMom says:

    I know-kind of off topic. But am I the ONLY woman who gained weight prior to the wedding from stress?! I hate looking at our wedding photos because I look so huge. I lost 25 lbs in the months after our honeymoon.

    Anyway-pretty girl, way too thin. And who could envy her the scrutiny she will have to endure? I do think they love each other-and I think criticism about her being “boring” is just silly. William seems like a pretty quiet, low key guy-so he’s marrying someone similar.

  37. DeeVine says:

    Yes, thin. Probably pre-wedding weightloss from stress. She is still very pretty.

  38. Ellie says:

    I don’t get how everyone is saying she’s a fashion icon. She wears dresses and suits. Nothing fancy or daring. 85% of the population wears those everyday clothes. I agree she is very pretty and always looks put together; however fashion icon doesn’t fit. Sorry!

  39. imho says:

    bony, dry & old looking as well.

  40. Jennifer says:

    She is really beautiful in the face in these photos, but her body is way way way too skinny. Probably just pre-wedding jitters.

  41. snappyfish says:

    As regular posters here know, I adore this girl….she looks amazing..love the dress. Who didn’t lose a few pounds in the nearing days of their wedding and most, if not all of us, didn’t marry before the entire WORLD.

    So excited about this wedding…Hosting a party for my daughter and her roomies at their college house next Friday…

  42. Ur Favorite Bartender says:

    To tie the word “fairy-tale” in any way, shape or form to this wedding is not only ignorant, its massively delusional. There’s nothing charming about this ‘love’ story. I agree with Kaiser 😀 and ew. Kate is taking a page out of the Nicole Richie ‘show your skeleton and saggy, non-existent boobs’ book. She looked so healthy before!

  43. TG says:

    I think she is falling into the trap that many brides do that they have to lose weight. She looked great before but now she looks unattractively thin and that is making her face look haggard.

    I wouldn’t want her job because I wouldn’t want other people controlling me but after 9 years of nothing but exotic vacations she might finally be ready to settle down and actually work.

  44. LadyBert62 says:

    Love the dress – shoes are OK. I like her and dont like William – I think she knows what she is getting into and that she better have a baby real soon (like during the first year of marriage) – I truly hope she is happy now and during the marriage and I hope that William treats her well.

  45. TG says:

    @DeeVine – Stress from what? She does absolutely nothing.

  46. Thirties says:

    I will admit that when I was younger I didn’t really ever think you could be too skinny. I never managed to get as thin as I wanted but I sure tried and I would have looked at these pictures and been jealous. However, I am in my 30s now and I have realized that there really is a thing as too thin! If you are skinnier than your body type as you get into your 30s (which this chick pretty much is), it affects your face and you look older. She is really pretty but she is too skinny. She used to be much more beautiful when she had a more athletic, healthy look and her face was more full.

  47. Mia says:

    Well said, Jules.

  48. Ron says:

    The dress is great, not a fan of the shoes and bag. And, every woman I have ever met in my entire life diets her ass off, literally, before thier wedding. My sister dropped from a 6 to a 2 for her wedding.

  49. Heather says:

    Neither the dress or the shoes are particularly stylish or daring, but the shoes are very matronly and bring down the dress. I realize that she probably has to walk quite a bit, but why can’t she wear more stylish shoes? You can buy really stylin’ flats or low heels that look better than these Naturalizer granny shoes.

  50. Johnny Depp's Girl says:

    Katy.. EAT SOMETHING!

  51. Diane says:

    Happy Mom: Me too! I gained about 7 lbs.
    Really showed in my face. Then I dropped it all on our honeymoon. Go figure.

  52. Jane says:

    I don’t think the nine year thing is all that unusual considering they met so young. I think William not only wanted to be able to have fun during his twenties, but he also had obligations that would take up a lot of his time. I am sure she knew that and it was her choice to move on or not. Neither one of them seems to be impulsive about big decisions, so maybe they are meant for each other.

    I had a relative who was engaged for nine years before the actual marriage. There was a reason for the wait, which I won’t go into, and it was a reason I would not have tolerated. But, that is me. That marriage turned out to be one of the two best marriages I ever witnessed in my circle of personal friends and relatives.

  53. melinda says:

    I like the dress but those heels are wrong. I just love shoes. She could wear any fabulous shoe that she wants, why those? She looks lovely other wise but could stand to gain 5 pounds.

  54. tomas says:

    The dress is great although she’d look better in color. She needs 10 pounds back, I really think the weight loss is just wedding stress since she’s been in the public eye for many years now and hasn’t gotten this thin.

  55. tomas says:

    #45– Stress from millions of people watching you walk down the aisle on live tv perhaps? Give the girl a break already…

  56. honeyv says:

    she’s an ambulant skeleton. and she looks like she’s got older very fast

  57. N says:

    Omg. Look at her showing that ring off to the paps – disgusting. I cannot stand this girl.

  58. boo says:

    Maybe Kate waited so long because she loves Prince William.

  59. Mary says:

    I don’t get the sense that they are madly or truely in love but its a marriage of convenience and pressured for Prince William to married and have heirs. Personally I don’t see her as a replacement for Princess Diana or if she can ever fit into her shoes. The “Royal Mafia” hated what Princess Diana was and turn to be. A Princess with a mind of her own and she spoke up and refuse to follow archiac rules and manners. She was lovely and free sprited and love her children enough to show them real life things and to meet real people. Prince William is stuck. Heir to the british throne and I’m sure he would have liked to have a couple of more years being a bachelor, enjoying life, doing more personal charities that his mum would had liked. Sow his wild oats so more. I feel sad for him. The pressure and the resposilbities and dealing with an old regime that has a heavy control over him and now the future wife Kate. I hope, maybe once there’re married things will change for the better and surprise us all. But from what I’ve read about Kate there really isn’t much she inspires or has a visionary thought or ideals. She is there for the haul. Within a year a new heir. Maybe maturity will set in for Kate and she’ll see the world differently and that can use the attention of a Princess. She may also advance to charities of real importants issues.(Hope) Anyway, Good Luck Prince William and Kate
    Prince Harry, now he’s a keeper and hottie and I’m sure he’ll won’t waist time in being single for a long while.

  60. Jane says:

    In a past issue of Newsweek there is an article about Kate and William. It says one of the reasons he waited so long to pop the question was because he wanted to make sure Kate could take the life of a royal, for her sake as much as his own. He had witnessed what it had done to his mother and he didn’t want that to happen to Kate.

    It says they also are both aware that once they are married, they can’t divorce because of the damage it would do to the monarchy (which I don’t quite understand but then I am not British). So, it wasn’t a question of the marriage lasting, it would, but if they felt sure they would be happy in the marriage that would not end until one or the other is dead.

    There was also the question of loyalty and trust for William to feel comfortable with. He had that trust shaken by his own mother when she gave a TV interview where she talked about Camilla and how there were three in her marriage. Diana had assured William there wouldn’t be anything in the interview that would be embarrassing and he watched it with friends at school. He was deeply upset and angry at his mother when she talked about Camilla. That, and I am sure other things no one knows about left a marked on him.

  61. sharylmj says:

    She definately looks stressed out and too skinny!! I think she’s very pretty and they make a handsome looking couple. I’m gonna believe this fairytale for now. I think they love each other a lot.. and I admire them for taking their time getting married.

  62. wunderkindt says:

    Love that dress and would wear that in a heartbeat. Would pair it with Louboutins.

    Kate probably looks bone thin because-like most brides-she’s slimming down for the big day. She’ll be in front of thousands of cameras, and the wedding images will last forever.

    But she’s not destined to be happy. It’s not possible if you’re married to the Royals. Wearing Diana’s sapphire ring is not going to help much. It’s a sad reminder of what the Royal life really is.

    She probably has constant nervous diarreha!

  63. gobo says:

    Jesus. Diana de ja vu. That girl needs to eat something, stat. And I will not buy any stress crap, that girls got a food problem. Which does not bode well for her considering the kinds of pressure she will be put under for the rest of her life.

  64. Denver Danni says:

    I think she’s beautiful, but the pre-wedding cleanse or diet has taken too much. We shouldn’t be able to SEE your heart beat, sweetheart.

  65. Dingles says:

    If I had to get married knowing that millions of people around the world were watching me, scrutinizing every move I made and every pound on my body, you can be damn sure I’d be dropping some weight too.

  66. Aurelia says:

    Omg, yes I second Jule’s comment. Lightening only strikes once! Diana was a superstar with the x-factor. Nobody could take their eyes off her. Even when she was a dumpy 19 year old at her official engagement media call. That demure pussy bow shirt and blue suit was so amazing. And Kate M wears a blu suit and pumps last week that made her look like a freaking air hostie! She has a long way to go. I don’t doubt she will be moulded into something half way decent if she learns to accept fashion advice and not think she knows everything like her entitled fiancee. Man, Im in New Zealand and our channel 3 weather girl looks exactly the same as katie. She could relocate to the U.K and be an official look alikey. Hey, but then 1000,s of other everyday chicks could too. Nuff said.

  67. really says:

    she looks great!

  68. Hmmm says:

    Once they’re married, instead of pix of charity work, I bet we see a lot of pix of Waity shopping.

    Every time I see a jersey dress it reminds me of the disco era. The horror, the horror!

  69. Andie says:

    Hey, I would be stressed if I was about to walk down the aisle with 2 billion people watching me. I would be stressed if Prince Charles was going to be my father-in-law. Weddings are stressful. As soon as they are married she will put on some weight. She needs to. They are a cute couple and I hope they have a great day.

  70. bluhare says:

    I’ll tell you what I’m jealous of: London’s weather!! I’m in the Pacific NW and we had nothing but rain (and we are very stoic about rain. Umbrella? Bah.). I would dance the happy dance if we got over 60 degrees and London was 72 yesterday.

    OK, Kate looks too thin and, unlike everyone else, I like her shoes. I wouldn’t wear camel with a black dress, but they’re a nice professional work shoe.

    But Kaiser, you need to start looking at Kate’s mother. I gave the social climbing stories the shank eye until I read that after the proposal she had William’s picture on her cell phone. WILLIAM????? That says to me that it’s more about the catch than anything else. Her press is getting less chummy too. So now I think there might be something to the social climbing and campaign for Kate to get William.

  71. Freya says:

    Perfect figure, in my opinion. Better a little thin than a little ‘not thin!’

    Not crazy about the dress, and it looks more dark grey/charcoal than black to me.
    I prefer a darker (bitter chocolate) brown pair of shoes.

  72. zesty says:

    I’m with bluhare on the Mom Middleton social-climbing. The 20/20 special that was on last week mentioned how she encouraged Kate to go to the same college as William. It also mentioned how William really wanted to hook up with some heiress when he and Kate broke up, but the woman would have nothing to do with him. Then he went back to Kate.

    Edit: I used to think she was pretty, but wow, her face gets more unattractive every time I see it. Let’s hope she can chalk that up to wedding stress or she’s not going to age well.

  73. John Kim says:

    She needs to eat more ribs to fill out those ribs.

  74. Yasmine says:

    Kaiser, I’m totally with you on this one. If anything, it’s more infuriating being Canadian and paying taxes to those jokers. If we pay taxes into the CommonWealth, the least we are owed is a bit of entertainment from that family of turds. But she’s just so damn boring and UNINSPIRED, that I can’t figure out how to like her.
    So if anyone else likes the royals, fine, go with it, and buy some memorable china with Miss Waity’s bony face on it. But allow the rest of us to complain about her biscuit-highness to-be. My family (on my mother’s side) were Irish Loyalists, served in the army, and one aunt was even a consort to the Queen on her visit to Canada, all of which I really despise. But this is beyond the politics, this is plain boredom and disappointment with Miss Waity of the century. Can you imagine how far you would have gone with her opportunities and degree (which she doesn’t even use ughh)?
    End of rant — thank you.

  75. Stephanie says:

    I like the dress and think she looks great. Good luck next week girl!

  76. Kim says:

    I know she wants to look great on her big day but i hope after the wedding she puts on a few pds. She is to thin.

  77. Alex says:

    I’m with you, Kaiser! Don’t whitewash Waity Katie like the rest.

  78. Christine says:

    I miss Diana.

  79. cprincess says:

    She’s anything but bland -shes going to be great….
    If I hear one more comparison to Diana I will scream..
    Diana was incredibly photogenic, had an amazing rapport with people and was damaged and NOT by the royal family….she knew what she was getting into-the Spencer’s were always around the royals-her sister is married to an equerry of the queen..
    When you see kate up close with people-her eyes sparkle,she’s got dimples and she’s great with people…
    Im tired of hearing how Diana was a saint and Prince Charles is the uncaring evil one….they were both to blame.

  80. Amanda says:

    This is the first set of pics where I REALLY see the weight loss that everyone is talking about.

  81. Just Me says:

    She’s beautiful and has an amazing body. I really dislike the black eyeliner, shoes and bag though.

  82. Janna says:

    People who are slender already it’s more noticeable dropping a few pounds before the wedding due to stress. But she is marrying Prince William, so I can just imagine the stress. She’ll be fine afterwards, and I’m sure she will be stunning her wedding day all dolled up. Her arms are still solid and not like sticks, so she’s fine.

  83. hellen says:

    She looks old and hard – she could pass for a partied-out 39.

    And I don’t know what that handbag is, but the handles have discolored and desperately need to be refurbished. Come on, girl, you’re gonna be Queen of England someday – start classing it up.

  84. crazydaiy says:

    I heard she was doing the Dukan Diet, which starts out with a couple weeks of exclusively meat and offal. no veggies, nothing else. well, yogurt. they call it the “attack phase”. ew!

    ROTFL @ Isabel’s comment: “Princess Di was partly such a tremendously hot topic because she was a young bride to a big frigging dork.” 🙂

  85. eternalcanadian says:

    Whoa! That first picture was shocking! Catherine is way too skinny and does not look healthy at all. She’s got those “Angelina veins” where you’re so skinny the veins in your inner arms pop out. Look at that bony neckline and her breasts have disappeared! That must not make William happy hugging nothing but skin and bones. Take a look at the picture of her steering the dragon boat for her rowing team (back in 2007 when she split up with William). Now that was a healthy and slim Catherine with a nice rack on her chest. She’s on the road to anorexia if she doesn’t stop losing weight.

    And I was distracted in the last picture by that huge camel toe on the woman behind Catherine. Geez, people need to wear less tight trousers. 😛

  86. LuckyLilGem says:

    Kate must be under a lot of stress with all the press and excitement of the royal wedding. Marriage is a sure fire way to pack on the pounds.

  87. Ja says:

    I’ve said this before and I won’t stop: gimme Zara Phillips over this puppet anytime!

  88. Estella says:

    The dress is dull and boring. Kate’s figure is fantastic. She obviously has been exercising hardcore for the wedding. The stress of “the whole world watching” probably has helped her shed a few pounds too. i think she will fill back out a bit once she settles into married and public life. But she’s a lovely woman.

  89. hellcat says:

    Kaiser, you’re acting like she needs to be punished for just waiting around for him to marry her without ever considering that maybe *she* didn’t care. I met my husband when we were seniors in high school and we were together for nine years before we got married – not because I was hanging around, pining and slipping “please marry me” notes into his briefcase, but because *neither* of us thought it was that big of a deal. We loved each other and we wanted to be together forever, and we did *want* to get married, but the timing of it didn’t matter too much to either of us. It grossed me out when people would assume that because I was a woman, I must be unhappy with this state of affairs – and because he was a man, he must be the one that was holding up this marriage. Don’t discount the idea that maybe they were happy just being together.

  90. Kate Lve says:

    She is attractive; but needs to gain back about 15 pounds. I wonder why she felt she wasn’t ok before she felt she neede to go on a diet.

  91. Ashley says:

    Oh please Kaiser screw the haters. This girl is bland. She’s worse than vanilla, she’s tapioca.

    She sat around being William’s doormat for 9 years! He dated all these other women and when they dumped him he always went back to her and she let him! She’s a terrible role model. She’s a waster who did nothing with her degree. The only reason she went to St. Andrews was to nab a Prince, she got it. It’s a shame someone who actually needed that degree didn’t get in.

    I don’t feel sorry for her and it’s no surprise 86% of British women said they weren’t envious of her. The 14% that were envious of her were envious of the money! Only like 2% were envious she was marrying a Prince.

  92. Ashley says:

    hellcat – that may be true of you but in Waity’s case he dumped her numerous times. He may have even cheated on her. One time he dumped her (the most recent) he jumped on to a table and yelled “I’m Free!”. Yeah that sounds like a man who’s in love *eye roll*

    It was even stated that he wanted Isabella Calthrope (Charles wanted him to marry her too) but she dumped him so she could act. She has her own title (her family are Dukes) and money.

    Every other woman William wanted all had titles and or money. All except Waity who needed this since her parents were going broke keeping up the facade of horsey shows and sending her on monthly vacations to be with him. Not to mention their business has greatly benefited from their daughter being linked to him. If “Party Pieces” wasn’t splashed all over the papers I’m sure most Brits would go to their local party stores instead on mail ordering her family’s tat.

  93. Ashley says:

    zesty – Her family reminds me of the Boleyns. With Momma Carole being Thomas Boelyn (oddly we never hear anything about Waity’s father). She even reminds me of Natalie (from the Tudors) except Natalie’s 10x more beautiful and younger looking than Waity.

    Jane – oh please I don’t buy that. Diana was William’s world when he was a kid. I doubt he got mad at his mother for expressing her feelings. She had a right to be upset that her marriage was invaded by Camilla.

    As for “eating disorder”, I don’t think she has one. By all accounts she seems like an excercise-aholic. She even had a gym put in Clarence House. By all account she always stress exercises and that’s why her weights fluctuated so much over the years. There’s also rumblings that she doesn’t eat enough but I don’t think she’s anorexic or bulimic, she just needs to get over her obsessive need to work out.

  94. trollydolly says:

    I wish her the very best of luck. I feel sorry for her, the unwarranted attacks on her personality, family, lineage are so unfair.

  95. MoMo says:

    Yeah I can see why no women in Britain are envious of her marrying into that family. Just look what a happy bunch they are on vacation together:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1300096/What-pictures-say-Royals.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

    Apparently that’s them on vacation- and not leaving a funeral. Easy mistake to make though.

  96. Newbie says:

    Wow. Bony. Pretty bad, actually. She’s probably so stressed/strained under the pressure of the very public wedding, and she’s working out too much and eating too little. I feel bad for her.

  97. Sunshine says:

    I think everyone should stop judging other people. These couple have enough stress being under a microscope by the whole world. I personally wish them good luck.

  98. isabel says:

    MOST OF YOU GUYS ARE VERY ENVY ABOUT KATE,SHE IS BEAUTIFUL, SOPHISTICATED, SIMPLE,A NORMAL PERSON, BUT CLASSY, IAM NOT BRITISH, BUT,UNFURTUNATELY BRITISH PEOPLE NORMALY DONT KNOW HOW TO DRESS UP, SHE DOES IN A SIMPLE WAY. THE DRESS IS LOVELY, IVE GOT ONE MYSELF, WELL DONE KATE, YOU WERE BORN TO BE A PRINCESS.

  99. isabel says:

    THE DRESS IN LOVELY AND SOPHISTICATED, SO KATE, DEFINITELY, SHE IS NOT ANOREXIC, SHE IS JUST LIKE A MODEL, LIKE GISELE BUNCHEN.WELL DONE KATE, YOU WERE BORN TO BE A PRINCESS.