Beth Ditto 'tired of defending shape'

Beth Ditto has admitted that she finds it "tiring" to constantly defend her lifestyle.

In an interview with Fearne Cotton on Radio 1, the Gossip singer insisted that she eats well despite being overweight and slammed the media for assuming thin women are automatically healthier.

"I'm not an unhealthy person and I feel like one of the most tiring parts of being fat and being proud of it is... you do a lot of proving yourself all the time," she explained.

"It's really interesting to me that people will look at a thin person and go, 'That's a healthy person'. I want to go, 'Come open my refrigerator and look and then let's talk about what you think is so bad'."

She added: "To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes... some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That's crazy. But that's 'okay' because you look healthier."