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In the controversial article, Dara-Lynn talked about her struggles with controlling Betty s weight, and how she halved the portions of her daughter s meals, banned desserts and cut out certain bad foods from her diet. Sometimes Bea’s after-school snack was a slice of pizza or a gyro from the snack vendor. Other days I forced her to choose a low-fat vegetable soup or a single hard-boiled egg, she writes in the article. Occasionally I’d give in to her pleas for a square of coffee cake, mainly because I wanted to eat half of it. When she was given access to cupcakes at a party, I alternated between saying, Let’s not eat that, it’s not good for you ; Okay, fine, go ahead, but just one ; and Bea, you have to stop eating crap like that, you’re getting too heavy, depending on my mood. Then I’d secretly eat two when she wasn’t looking.
Constant struggle : Daughter put on restrictive diet at age 7 speaks out
5 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Betty Kovy-Weiss in the Shape issue of Vogue in 2012. Screenshot / YouTube
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By: Phoebe Loomes
A teenager whose mother wrote a viral article about putting her on a diet at age 7 has spoken out, saying her confidence is a constant struggle .
Betty Kovy-Weiss, now 17, was flung into internet fame after her mother, Dara-Lynn Weiss, wrote a feature for US Vogue about putting her then 8-year-old daughter on a restrictive diet the previous year, she told the Telegraph in a new interview.
The article sparked immediate and fierce backlash from other parents who called her a narcissist and accused her of embarrassing her child by taking food from her in public.
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