Former footballer Matty Johns has launched a blistering attack on Magda Szubanski, saying she shouldn’t be “rewarded” for “getting fat again”.
Speaking on Triple M yesterday, Johns criticised Jenny Craig’s decision to pay Magda a rumoured $1.2 million to slim down again after she regained the weight she lost during her 2009 stint as ambassador for the company.
“If you want to pay people to lose weight, I can fully understand that because it’s an example to other people of ‘this is what you can do’,” Johns said.
“But once you’ve lost the weight, and then you put the weight back on, should you be paid money again to get it back off again?
“It sounds to me like it is rewarding people for being fat, and getting fat again. To me, fat appears like an industry itself.”
Triple M’s Gus Worland, Matty Johns and Matt Geyer.
Johns’ co-host Gus Worland, who claimed he himself is 40kg overweight, disagreed, arguing that Magda was a huge inspiration for people struggling with their weight.
Magda showing off the results of her 2009 weight loss.
“The reality is that you do lose the weight and put it back on again,” he said. “It is yo-yo central.
“It’s what everyone else out there is battling to do because you do put the weight back on again so to have someone like her out there doing it is a great example of what you can do.”
