NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- A support group for the overweight is threatening to protest a Vogue editor's claim on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" his boss "does not like fat people."
Editor-at-large Leon Talley made the comment to Winfrey Thursday about the fashion magazine's editor in chief, the New York Daily News said Monday.
"Most of the Vogue girls are so thin, tremendously thin, because Miss Anna (Wintour) don't like fat people," he said. Vogue once made Winfrey lose 30 pounds before she could be on the over of the magazine.
Sandy Schaffer of the New York chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance called the statement shocking and hateful.
"That you can make that statement and not realize it's hateful, in this day in age, is shocking," Schaffer said. "Either he thinks the world hates fat people and that's an okay thing, or he's so self-hating that he didn't see how hurtful this statement is."
Shaffer said she's going ask her group to stage an anti-Vogue demonstration in front of Conde Nast's Times Square headquarters.
Talley -- who admittedly has weight issues of his own -- said what he really meant was: "Anna is very concerned about people's weight because of the health issue," the Daily News said.
